One step away from being immortal. The legend of the Kansas City Chiefs and their best player (also the best in the league) Patrick Mahomes is overwhelming and is on his way to breaking all records. They beat the Buffalo Bills (32-29) in the AFC Championship game and will play their third consecutive Super Bowl. They will seek their third consecutive title, something impossible to repeat, in a high-voltage final against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Super Bowl LIX (February 10, 00:30) at Caesars Dome in New Orleans will be a re-run of the 2023 game. And it’s all about Patrick Mahomes, who didn’t let the Bills break their hegemony in the conference final at the volcanic Arrowhead. It was as expected, a duel of favorites decided by details. Although those are the ones that always give Kansas City wings.
The battle between Mahomes and Allen was a game of chess. The Bills recovered from a first half in which Mahomes charged both at the start of the game and just before halftime, when the Chiefs would once again have possession. But Allen, who has yet to try the Super Bowl, took out his laser. In the right place and with the necessary force to prevent a break (21-20).
And he demanded the Chiefs. With a brutal sequence in which he combined runs like James Cook to hand control to Buffalo. The Chiefs’ appearance did not change, nor did Curtis Samuel’s magnificent response in the last quarter that tied the score at 29-29.
Because the other leg of Kansas City’s success returned: working when the talent is not there. In the final four minutes they earned a Field Goal that cost them an infinity, and Harrison Butker, the kicker who has never missed in the last quarters of the Playoffs, put the champions ahead. He returned the ballot to Buffalo, which once again faced its fears: those of being stuck with an impossible pass from its 40. The Chiefs return to the Super Bowl.
And, in front of them, there will be a tune that everyone knows by heart. The one of “you thought I was done” by local rapper Meek Mill. The one of a team that was champion in 2018 with a miracle against Tom Brady. The one that returned in 2023 and was close to the title. It is the Philadelphia Eagles, who got their ticket to the National after destroying (23-54) a Washington Commanders team that still has baby teeth for a game like this.
He will be in the Super Bowl. Against the Chiefs in New Orleans, which will crown a champion in the great American football celebration that has not been experienced since the 2012-13 season when the Ravens won in a final remembered for a power outage in the Caesars Superdome.
