The Chiefs are trying to become the first team to win three straight Super Bowls as they face the Eagles.
In New Orleans, the Philadelphia Eagles have been putting up a dominating performance against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 59, effectively thwarting the attempts of star players like Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce in their pursuit of a three-peat.
The 2025 Super Bowl is underway, here are live updates:
SCORE UPDATE: Eagles 27, Chiefs 0
Adding to their lead, Jake Elliott successfully kicked a 29-yard field goal, extending Philadelphia’s lead to 27-0 with just 5:18 remaining in the third quarter.
SCORE UPDATE: Eagles 24, Chiefs 0
Another extra point is good and Philadelphia is up 24-0 with 1:35 left in the first half.
TOUCHDOWN: Hurts throws TD pass to AJ Brown
The Eagles are rolling, with Hurts and AJ Brown connecting on a 12-yard TD pass.
SCORE UPDATE: Eagles 17, Chiefs 0
The kick is good and Philadelphia is up 17-0 with 7:03 left in the first half.
TOUCHDOWN: Cooper DeJean scores on an interception return
Cooper DeJean has given Philadelphia a three-score lead, returning an interception 38 yards for a touchdown.
DeJean became the first player to score a Super Bowl TD on his birthday.
Some bad news, and good news, for Chiefs fans
Well, they’ve been here before.
The Chiefs trail Philadelphia 10-0. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news: This is familiar Super Bowl territory for the AFC champions.
In each of their three Super Bowl wins of the Andy Reid-Patrick Mahomes era, the Chiefs trailed by exactly 10 points before rallying.
The Chiefs have faced deficits before and managed to turn the tide in their favor. For instance, they were down by 10 points against San Francisco before clinching a 31-20 victory on Feb. 2, 2020. They also overcame a 10-point deficit against Philadelphia to win 38-35 on Feb. 12, 2023, and a similar situation against San Francisco, ultimately securing a 25-22 win on Feb. 11, 2024.
There have been only seven rallies from double-digit deficits in Super Bowl history. The Chiefs have three of them. (There’s been only one from more than 10 points down, that being New England erasing a 28-3 deficit to stun the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 on Feb. 5, 2017.)
SCORE UPDATE: Eagles 10, Chiefs 0
A 48-yard field goal from Eagles kicker Jake Elliott has put Philadelphia up 10-0 with 8:38 left in the second quarter.
Chiefs offense gets off to slow start in Super Bowl
Three drives and three punts for Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
That’s only happened three other times with Mahomes as a starter, including a loss to New England in the 2018 AFC title game. Kansas City also did it in a loss to the Raiders on Christmas in 2023 and a Week 2 win over the Chargers in 2020.
Kansas City has tended to start slowly on offense in Super Bowls with the Chiefs scoring only 33 first-half points compared to 70 after halftime in four Super Bowl appearances.
TOUCHDOWN: Hurts opens the scoring at Super Bowl
Philadelphia has struck first in the Super Bowl, with Jalen Hurts — thanks to the Eagles’ famed tush push, where the offensive line just bullies their way into the end zone and Hurts follows the crowd — scoring the game’s first touchdown.
The extra point after was good and Philadelphia leads 7-0 with 6:15 left in the first quarter.
That 1-yard rush by Hurts made him the fifth player with four Super Bowl rushing touchdowns in a career.
Emmitt Smith has the most, with five. Thurman Thomas, Franco Harris, John Elway and now Hurts all have four.
The first big penalty of the game went in Kansas City’s favor.
The Eagles were going for it on fourth-and-2 from midfield and appeared to convert a 30-yard completion. But a flag came out for Brown putting his hand on cornerback Trent McDuffie’s face, leading to the questionable penalty.
A big topic heading into the game was perceived bias for officials in favor of the Chiefs. Commissioner Roger Goodell called it “ridiculous” but those complaints will only grow louder after that first penalty.
Chiefs defer, 15th straight Super Bowl to open that way
For the 15th straight Super Bowl, the team that won the opening coin toss of a Super Bowl chose to defer.
Kansas City won the toss and gave Philadelphia the option to start with the ball. The Chiefs will get the ball to begin the second half.
The only team to choose to start a Super Bowl with the ball after winning the opening toss since the defer option was initiated in the 2008 season was the Saints in Super Bowl 44 against Indianapolis.
The coin toss winner: Tails. (Sorry, Eagles fans.)
Travis Kelce called tails. It never fails, as they say.
The Chiefs won the coin toss, in a bad omen for the Eagles.
In Philly’s past Super Bowl appearances, when the coin toss result was tails, they lost.
The Chiefs (17-2) will try to become the first team to win three straight Super Bowls when they face the Eagles (17-3) on Sunday in the Superdome.
It’s a rematch from two years ago when Hurts nearly led the Eagles to a championship only to watch Mahomes snatch it away by rallying Kansas City to a 38-35 win on Harrison Butker’s 27-yard field goal with 8 seconds left.
Mahomes lifted the Chiefs to an overtime win against San Francisco in another Super Bowl rematch last year. Now, they’re poised for a three-peat, a word coach Andy Reid doesn’t use much.
“I think the only time I’ve heard him say it is to the media whenever y’all ask him about it,” Mahomes said. “He’s very locked in on just, ‘How can we be great with our cadence today at practice?’ so that’s just the stuff that Coach Reid focuses on.”
Reid won more games than any coach in franchise history during his 14 seasons in Philadelphia but couldn’t win the big one, going 1-4 in NFC championship games and losing a Super Bowl to the Patriots. He went right to Kansas City after the Eagles fired him following the 2012 season and has built a dynasty thanks to Mahomes, Kelce, Chris Jones and others.
“You don’t have time to think about all that,” Reid said of the three-peat. “You’re focused in on the job at hand here and that’s playing against a great Eagles team.”
Jones, the three-time All-Pro defensive tackle, echoed his coach’s viewpoint.
“We don’t talk about no three-peat,” Jones said. “I think that’s what we’re here for. We understand that. We understand there’s one more game until the offseason and we can do whatever we want to do. Our main focus is making sure we’re prepared for the Eagles.”
No matter what the Chiefs say, everyone else is talking about it. No team has done it in the Super Bowl era, though the Green Bay Packers won an NFL championship in 1965 and followed by winning the first two Super Bowls. Kelce even started all the three-peat talk on stage last year when he said the team’s goal was to win three.
“This is gonna be our biggest test yet,” Kelce said. “They got a lot of great players but the biggest thing is they play great together. You could see their communication. You could see the accountability they have, especially in the secondary. It’s not gonna make my job any easier.”
These Eagles are different from the group that fell just short against Kansas City in Arizona two years ago.
They have the NFL’s most dynamic player in the backfield. Barkley rushed for 2,447 yards with seven touchdowns of 60-plus yards in the regular season and playoffs.
“The goal has always been to win it, not just to get here,” Barkley said.
Losing to the Chiefs two years ago only motivated Hurts even more. He’s determined to hoist a Lombardi trophy and even had a photo of him walking off the field with Kansas City’s red and yellow confetti falling around him as the background on his phone.
“It’s had a great driving force,” Hurts said of that loss. “It lit a flame, lit a fire in me, and to have this opportunity again is exactly what you work for.”
Hurts, Barkley, A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith and a dominant offensive line present a major challenge for Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo.
The Eagles also have the league’s No. 1-ranked defense, featuring eight new starters from 2022 and defensive coordinator Vic Fangio.
All-Pro linebacker Zack Baun and rookie cornerbacks Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean plus the emergence of defensive tackle Jalen Carter and edge rusher Nolan Smith has transformed a defensive unit that fell apart last season.
“We’re fortunate to have Steve Spagnuolo, but I tell you that Vic is one of those guys,” Reid said. “He’s just one of those really creative defensive minds that survived a long time in this league. He’s been time-tested, and, he has the trust of his players.”
If the Chiefs win, Reid and Mahomes will be one step closer to Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. They’re halfway to the six Belichick and Brady won together in New England and Mahomes is still four away from Brady’s seven rings.
“I’m trying to be the greatest Patrick Mahomes that I can be. That’s obviously a goal of anyone’s — to be the greatest at their profession — but in order to do that, you have to be the greatest that you can be every single day,” Mahomes said.
“Whenever I’m done with football, if I leave everything out there — the way that I feel like I have so far — as far as effort and mentality, I’ll be happy with the results.”
A win for Kansas City also would give Kelce his fourth ring, the same number of Grammy Awards his pop star girlfriend has won for best album. Overall, Kelce has 18 playoff wins and Swift has 14 Grammys.
“She’s up there being the superstar that she is and never taking no for an answer and always working her tail off. I better match that energy for sure,” Kelce said.
