Chiefs overcome magnificent Hurts for Super Bowl win over Eagles
The Hindu
The Kansas City Chiefs won their second Super Bowl in four years with a 38-35 win; it was only the second time in Super Bowl history that both teams scored on their first possession
Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs overcame the inspired Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts to win their second Super Bowl in four years with a 38-35 win in a magnificent contest on February 12.
Hurts produced four touchdowns, three of them rushing, and threw for 304 yards but ended on the losing side with a late field goal from Harrison Butker settling a ding-dong battle in Arizona.
Mahomes threw for three touchdowns and 182 yards but the Chiefs had game-winning displays across the field as they came back from ten points down at half-time to hand head coach Andy Reid a victory over his former team.
"It was just everybody. It didn't come from one person," Mahomes said of the half-time locker-room discussions that sparked the revival.
"Everybody said we had to step our game up. Defence played their ass off in that second half. Our offence, we just found a way. I want to thank everybody on this team. We battled," he said.
Mahomes' trusty target Travis Kelce who put up 81 yards and a touchdown on six receptions said the team had rediscovered themselves after struggling in the first half.
"We were a little uncharacteristic in the beginning. And everybody had that determination, that look in their eye, coming out here in that second half. They were going to pour everything out on that field and that's what you saw," Kelce said.
Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.