The wait for the Kansas City Chiefs and for
their head coach is finally over. A Half-century after winning their first
Super Bowl, the Chiefs are champions once more, winning Super Bowl LIV in epic
fashion at Hard Rock Stadium. Kansas City, led by Mahomes, overcame a 10-point
deficit to stun the San Francisco 49ers 31-20, making the Chiefs the first team
in NFL history to win three games after trailing by 10 or more points in a
single postseason.
Mahomes, last year's league MVP, is now a Super
Bowl MVP. He joins Ben Roethlisberger and Tom Brady as the only quarterbacks to
hoist a Lombardi Trophy before their 25th birthday. At 24 years and 138 days old on Sunday, Mahomes
is the youngest quarterback to win Super Bowl MVP honors and is the
second-youngest quarterback to win a Super Bowl (Roethlisberger, at 23, is the
youngest).
Mahomes is also now the youngest player to win
both an NFL MVP award and a Super Bowl title, surpassing Pro Football Hall of
Famer Emmitt Smith (24 years, 233 days old on the last day of his MVP 1993
season). Mahomes is the third African American quarterback to win a Super Bowl,
joining Doug Williams (with Washington in Super Bowl XXII in 1988) and Russell
Wilson (Seattle, Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014).
And it's the first title for Andy Reid, 61, who
up until Sunday night had been known as the best head coach to have never won a
Super Bowl or NFL championship. This was his second Super Bowl appearance in
his 21-year head coaching career. Now, with career win No. 222, Reid is a
champion. He broke the record for the most wins (including the playoffs) by a
head coach before at last winning it all, surpassing 2020 Pro Football Hall of
Famer Bill Cowher's 152 wins.
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