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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs volition spell for a historical three-peat successful the NFL's rubric crippled connected Sunday successful New Orleans, portion the Philadelphia Eagles are the lone remaining squad that tin halt them.
Quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are backmost successful the Super Bowl after beating the Buffalo Bills 32-29 in a thrilling AFC title game. They'll look Philadelphia and prima moving backmost Saquon Barkley, who ran for 3 touchdowns arsenic the Eagles bushed the Washington Commanders 55-23 in the NFC rubric game.
This Super Bowl is simply a rematch of 2 years ago, erstwhile the Chiefs edged the Eagles 38-35 in Glendale, Arizona. Last year, Kansas City beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime successful Las Vegas. No squad has ever won 3 consecutive Super Bowls.
Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce won’t adjacent beryllium connected the tract astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Philadelphia’s violative beforehand during Sunday’s Super Bowl, but it’s idiosyncratic for Kelce, whose brother, Jason, was the Eagles’ halfway for 13 years earlier retiring aft past season.
Kansas City’s Kelce became adjacent with immoderate of his brother’s erstwhile teammates and inactive watches their games.
“That violative enactment — that’s the centrifugal implicit determination successful Philly,” Travis Kelce said. “It’s going to beryllium a pugnacious occupation stopping them.”
Kendrick Lamar will beryllium the headliner for the halftime show.
The rap megastar, who has won 17 Grammys, said he’s looking guardant to bringing hip-hop to the NFL’s title game, wherever helium performed arsenic a impermanent creator with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent and Eminem successful 2022.
Lamar volition beryllium joined connected signifier by Grammy victor SZA — his erstwhile Top Dawg Entertainment labelmate. The vocalist appeared connected Lamar's recent medium “GNX” and was featured connected a mates of songs including “Gloria” and “Luther,” which besides features sampled vocals from Luther Vandross and Cheryl Lynn.
The duo’s erstwhile hits see the Oscar-nominated “All the Stars” and “Doves successful the Wind.” Jay-Z’s Roc Nation institution and Emmy-winning producer Jesse Collins will service arsenic co-executive producers of the halftime show.
Taylor Swift volition beryllium astatine the Super Bowl rooting for her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and the Chiefs, but she’s acold from the lone prima with a rooting interest.
The Chiefs' celebrated fans see Paul Rudd, Rob Riggle, Heidi Gardner, Jason Sudeikis, Henry Cavill, Henry Winkler and David Koechner. Musicians Melissa Etheridge and Tech N9ne person each created songs for their team.
Meanwhile, the Eagles boast a starry roster of superfans specified arsenic Bradley Cooper, Will Smith, Kevin Hart, Miles Teller, Pink, Questlove and Meek Mill.
Donald Trump is making past arsenic the archetypal president to be the Super Bowl portion successful office.
Trump has said that helium thinks Kansas City volition win, with backmost Patrick Mahomes the difference-maker. Trump says successful a pregame interrogation with Fox News Channel's Brett Baier that “I conjecture you person to accidental that erstwhile a backmost wins arsenic overmuch arsenic he’s won, I person to spell with Kansas City.”
Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. ET.
