To say Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are popular is an understatement.
Behind Mahomes’ fourth-quarter magic and a stalwart defensive effort, the Chiefs claimed a 25-22 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl on Feb. 11 in Las Vegas.
Mahomes passed for 333 yards and rushed for 66 more in helping craft another come-from-behind Super Bowl victory. In his three Super Bowls, Mahomes and the Chiefs have faced deficits of at least 10 points.
With three Super Bowl titles in five years, including a back-to-back performance, Mahomes is not bashful about a quest for a “three-peat.”
“It (would be) legendary. No one’s ever done it,” Mahomes said Monday before celebrating with his family at Disneyworld as the game’s MVP, his third.
“I believe we’re the hardest working team in the NFL, and for all of that hard work to pay off.”
Let’s look back at a historic Super Bowl in Reid Roundup fashion.
Chris Jones was not the Super Bowl MVP, but he made the game’s Most Valuable Play. The defensive tackle’s pressure on 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy on a critical overtime third-down play forced an incompletion. The 49ers kicked a field goal, and KC won by driving 75 yards for a touchdown. After holding out and missing the Chiefs’ first game, Jones signed a one-year deal and will be a free agent. Will the Chiefs pay him big money to stay?…Mecole Hardman left the Chiefs for the New York Jets as a free agent following last season’s Super Bowl win. He caught just one pass over six games and was traded back to Kansas City in October. Hardman will be part of Super Bowl lore forever after catching the game-winning touchdown pass from Mahomes in overtime…The sky was supposedly going to crash in on Mahomes when Tyreek Hill was traded to Miami before the 2022 season…The Chiefs used a draft pick from that deal to acquire cornerback Trent McDuffie, who has become on the NFL’s top defensive backs. Along with smothering receivers, he deflected a pass while blitzing Purdy late in the game, forcing the 49ers to settle for a field goal …Steve Spagnuolo, Chiefs defensive coordinator, posted a 10-38 record as St. Louis Rams coach from 2009-11 before he was fired. He has now become the only coordinator, offensive or defensive, to win four Super Bowls. He won his first with the Giants before joining the Rams. Kansas City ranked first in the NFL in both total defense and scoring defense during the regular season…Had the 49ers won the game, receiver Jauan Jennings should have been MVP. He caught four passes for 42 yards and a touchdown and had a 21-yard touchdown pass to running back Christian McCaffrey…Speaking of McCaffrey, he should have had more carries in the second half. I’m not sure what 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was thinking, especially after Mahomes threw an interception at the beginning of the third quarter…Fred Sweets, a STL American contributing editor, and I have a $1 wager on whether Travis Kelce will be fined by the Chiefs for crashing into head coach Andy Reid while enraged during the first quarter. I say he will. Reporter Ashley Winters points out that the word “passion” is being used to describe Kelce’s action and she doesn’t like it. I think the word “aggression” would be used by many media folks if a Black player had done the same thing. Reid says it is not a big deal…According to Nielsen, Super Bowl LVIII averaged approximately 123.4 million viewers, making it the most watched US television broadcast since the first manned moon landing in July 1969. More than 150 million Americans watched that historic event…Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company over two collectible Kansas City Chiefs World Champion Cokes. Heartland, which has a Lenexa, Kansas HQ and St. Louis facility, is owned by Ulysses “Junior” Bridgeman. He played in the NBA from 1975 until 1987 after starring at Louisville…The 49ers are favored to win next season’s Super Bowl, followed by the Chiefs. Mahomes and his teammates already have some bulletin board material as they seek three titles in a row.
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