It happened three years later. Since January 30, 2022, an eternity for the NFL (a league that lives in the day-to-day – because otherwise it is impossible in such a destructive sport), it did not happen. On that date they fell, 27-24 to the young and cheeky Bengals, the Kansas City Chiefs for the last time in the playoffs. Three years passed, just one game, the most important, of three seasons. But the Philadelphia Eagles’ title (40-22) breaks with hegemony. There will be no Three-Peat for the Kansas City Chiefs and American sport will lose a historic opportunity at the hands of Patrick Mahomes. He is a legend and will not cease to be so. But there will be a page of “almost”
The New Orleans Dome will no longer be remembered for that blackout in the middle of the Super Bowl. Now it is a punishment point for the Chiefs, who did not imitate what they had achieved in Arizona and Las Vegas (also in Miami). They lost in the big football final, something that only Tom Brady, of course, had managed to avoid with those Buccaneers. The Eagles are once again the Cinderella team that steals the ball from everyone. They are champions.
Because it’s their way of life. They did it in Super Bowl 2018 (LII), where they knocked down Tom Brady’s New England Patriots in a historic final. There, their MVP and quarterback was Nick Foles, a backup for the seriously injured Carson Wentz. And he invented a legendary game that left Brady without another ring. In 2025, however, the story is different. Philadelphia has reached the final again with a great team and their improvement in the squad reached the point that everyone dreamed of. The title.
By the way, of course, there will be no Three-Peat. And it will remain almost impossible. In football it is not seen in the ‘Super Bowl era’ (since 1966) and there are only records of black and white. It was the Packers of another time. Mahomes wanted to compare himself with them, but failed in his attempt. Philadelphia is the one that cuts his dream and prevents Kansas City from reaching what the Lakers of Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal did in the NBA, the Bulls of Jordan achieved on two different occasions and in MLB only Derek Jeter did with the Yankees.Philadelphia is the one that will be in the history books. The one that will sing an anthem. “Wait a minute, did you think I was finished?” sings Meek Mill. He is an iconic rapper from the city, controversial after serving time in prison but perhaps the one who best represents, with verses, what the Eagles and Philadelphia are. They already have their ring.The Chiefs are in the history books, but there will be a negative point that will accompany them. That’s sport. And everything that had smiled on them on other occasions was extinguished with a game in which for almost three quarters they did not get past midfield in the final.