Super Bowl LIX is almost here — and after months of waiting, NFL fans finally know the two teams that will battle it out for the Vince Lombardi Trophy and the right to be called “Super Bowl champions”.
Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and the Kansas City Chiefs are back on football’s biggest stage after they defeated the Buffalo Bills in the AFC title game to return to the Super Bowl for the third year in a row. The Chiefs are trying to become the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Super Bowls, but the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles — led by Saquon Barkley and an explosive running game — stand in the way, and they are hoping to exact revenge for their loss to Kansas City on this stage in February 2023.
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Chiefs have the all-time edge over the Eagles
For two teams that met only three times before the year 2000, the Eagles and the Chiefs sure have made more than a little history together. NFL fans will remember their meeting in Super Bowl LVII at the conclusion of the 2022 season, but the Chiefs have played the Eagles 11 times in all entering their Super Bowl rematch in New Orleans on Feb. 9.
Kansas City has six wins to Philadelphia’s five across those 11 meetings, but the Eagles got the last laugh over the Chiefs in their most recent meeting. In Week 11 of the 2023 season, quarterback Jalen Hurts led Philadelphia back from a 17-7 deficit to win, 21-17, at Arrowhead Stadium. Hurts rushed for two touchdowns in the second half of that game as the Eagles defense shut out the Chiefs offense in the final two quarters. Before this game, Philly‘s previous win over Kansas City took place in 2009, when Chiefs head coach Andy Reid was the Eagles’ head coach, while their last win at Arrowhead occurred in 2005.
That 2023 regular season game was a slice of “revenge” for Super Bowl LVII, contested at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The Eagles jumped out to a 24-14 halftime lead while Mahomes battled through a high ankle sprain and the possibility of losing his second Super Bowl in three seasons. However, Mahomes led a touchdown drive to begin the third quarter, and he threw two more touchdown passes in the fourth quarter as the Philly offense sputtered; with eight seconds to go in regulation, Harrison Butker nailed a 27-yard field goal to deliver the Chiefs their third Super Bowl title in a 38-35 thriller.
The Eagles and Chiefs first played one another in 1972, two years after the NFL and the AFL (American Football League) completed a merger. The Chiefs lost that regular season game at Arrowhead and only played the Eagles twice more before the 2001 season: a 24-17 home win in 1992, and a 24-21 road win in 1998. In all, Philly has outscored Kansas City by only two points, 275-273, across their 11 meetings, which signals that Super Bowl LIX will be another close game with an unforgettable finish.
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