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Super Bowl LVIII
Super Bowl LVIII was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2023 season between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion and defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers. In a rematch of Super Bowl LIV four years earlier, the Chiefs once again defeated the 49ers 25–22 in overtime, making the Chiefs the first NFL team since the 2004 New England Patriots to win back-to-back Super Bowls. It was the second Super Bowl to be decided in overtime following 2017's LI, the first Super Bowl to use the new overtime rules implemented during the 2022 season, and the longest Super Bowl in NFL history, with a net playing time of 74 minutes and 57 seconds. The game was played on February 11, 2024, at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada. It was the first Super Bowl to be held in the state of Nevada. Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes was named Super Bowl MVP for the third time in his career, completing 34 of 46 passes for 333 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception.
San Francisco entered the game with a posted 12-5 record and 1st seed, and the franchise's eighth Super Bowl appearance. The 49ers were seeking their sixth Super Bowl title, which would put the franchise in a three-way tie with the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers for most Super Bowl Championships, while also attempting to reverse their past two consecutive losses in 2013's XLVII and 2020's LIV. Kansas City posted an 11-6 record and 3rd seed. It was the latter's sixth Super Bowl appearance, second consecutive appearance, and fourth overall appearance in the past five years. The Chiefs also entered the game in a bid to become the first back-to-back Super Bowl champions since the New England Patriots in 2004.
The game began with the two teams exchanging possessions until the second quarter, where a trick play culminated in 49ers runningback Christian McCaffery increasing San Francisco's score to 10–3 by halftime. However, in the third quarter, following the Chiefs' second field goal and subsequent punt, the ball was fumbled and recovered by Kansas City after it bounced off the shoe of 49ers' cornerback Darrell Luter Jr., which set up the Chiefs in the red zone to take the lead at 10–13. The 49ers responded with a touchdown drive that carried into the fourth quarter, with a field goal attempt by 49ers kicker Jake Moody getting blocked by Chiefs linebacker Leo Chenal, leaving the score 16–13 with 11:20 left in regulation. Following several successful field goal attempts by both teams, the game went into overtime as the Chiefs' fourth successful field goal attempt by kicker Harrison Butker, ended regulation to tie the score once again at 19–19. In overtime, San Francisco won the coin toss and elected to first possess the ball. They were then stalled at the Chiefs' 9-yard-line, opting to settle for a field goal, making the score 22-19. During Kansas City's overtime drive, Mahomes drove the ball for a 75-yard gain. The game was then subsequently decided in its final play, nicknamed "Tom and Jerry", as Mahomes threw the ball to wide receiver Mecole Hardman, who ran toward the sideline during the pre-snap and walked the ball into the endzone, seconds away from an unprecedented second overtime and concluding the game at 22-25.
The Chiefs won its fourth Super Bowl title in franchise history, following victories in 1970's IV, 2020's LIV, and 2023's LVII. The 49ers were handed its third consecutive Super Bowl loss. The game's sellout attendance of 61,629 was the smallest unrestricted crowd in Super Bowl history due to the seating capacity of Allegiant Stadium, and the smallest unrestricted NFL Championship attendance since December 1946 (58,346). For the third straight year the Super Bowl was played in the Western United States, following host cities Inglewood, California, in LVI and Glendale, Arizona, in LVII. It was the first Super Bowl since its inception that George Toma did not serve as groundskeeper. It was also the second simulcast in Super Bowl history, and the first since Super Bowl I.
Several outlets rank the game as one of the greatest Super Bowls of all time, with many citing the performances of both teams, the game's overtime finish, in addition to the game cementing the Chiefs as a sports dynasty. The game's broadcast on CBS, youth-oriented Nickelodeon, and Spanish-language network Univision became the most watched program in American television history, with a total of 123.7 million average viewers across all platforms, continuing an upward viewing trend that would be broken again the following year. It had the highest unduplicated total audience in history at 200 million viewers watching all or part of the game, becoming the most-watched United States broadcast since the Apollo 11 moon landing. The halftime show, headlined by Usher, peaked at 129 million viewers.
The Chiefs would make the Super Bowl once again in 2025 for a historic third consecutive year in a bid for an unprecedented three-peat in the Super Bowl era, but ultimately would lose in a Super Bowl LVII rematch to the Philadelphia Eagles, 22-40.
On May 23, 2018, the NFL picked the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans to host Super Bowl LVIII. The league picked the winning city from a list of candidates that it had compiled, a process that replaced an earlier one in which cities that wished to host a Super Bowl submitted bids to be debated and voted upon at the league owners' meetings.
In March 2020, the NFL and the NFL Players Association agreed to expand the regular season from 16 to 17 games beginning in 2021, pushing Super Bowl LVIII from February 4, 2024 to February 11, and causing a conflict with the city's Mardi Gras celebrations.
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Super Bowl LVIII
Super Bowl LVIII was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2023 season between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion and defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers. In a rematch of Super Bowl LIV four years earlier, the Chiefs once again defeated the 49ers 25–22 in overtime, making the Chiefs the first NFL team since the 2004 New England Patriots to win back-to-back Super Bowls. It was the second Super Bowl to be decided in overtime following 2017's LI, the first Super Bowl to use the new overtime rules implemented during the 2022 season, and the longest Super Bowl in NFL history, with a net playing time of 74 minutes and 57 seconds. The game was played on February 11, 2024, at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada. It was the first Super Bowl to be held in the state of Nevada. Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes was named Super Bowl MVP for the third time in his career, completing 34 of 46 passes for 333 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception.
San Francisco entered the game with a posted 12-5 record and 1st seed, and the franchise's eighth Super Bowl appearance. The 49ers were seeking their sixth Super Bowl title, which would put the franchise in a three-way tie with the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers for most Super Bowl Championships, while also attempting to reverse their past two consecutive losses in 2013's XLVII and 2020's LIV. Kansas City posted an 11-6 record and 3rd seed. It was the latter's sixth Super Bowl appearance, second consecutive appearance, and fourth overall appearance in the past five years. The Chiefs also entered the game in a bid to become the first back-to-back Super Bowl champions since the New England Patriots in 2004.
The game began with the two teams exchanging possessions until the second quarter, where a trick play culminated in 49ers runningback Christian McCaffery increasing San Francisco's score to 10–3 by halftime. However, in the third quarter, following the Chiefs' second field goal and subsequent punt, the ball was fumbled and recovered by Kansas City after it bounced off the shoe of 49ers' cornerback Darrell Luter Jr., which set up the Chiefs in the red zone to take the lead at 10–13. The 49ers responded with a touchdown drive that carried into the fourth quarter, with a field goal attempt by 49ers kicker Jake Moody getting blocked by Chiefs linebacker Leo Chenal, leaving the score 16–13 with 11:20 left in regulation. Following several successful field goal attempts by both teams, the game went into overtime as the Chiefs' fourth successful field goal attempt by kicker Harrison Butker, ended regulation to tie the score once again at 19–19. In overtime, San Francisco won the coin toss and elected to first possess the ball. They were then stalled at the Chiefs' 9-yard-line, opting to settle for a field goal, making the score 22-19. During Kansas City's overtime drive, Mahomes drove the ball for a 75-yard gain. The game was then subsequently decided in its final play, nicknamed "Tom and Jerry", as Mahomes threw the ball to wide receiver Mecole Hardman, who ran toward the sideline during the pre-snap and walked the ball into the endzone, seconds away from an unprecedented second overtime and concluding the game at 22-25.
The Chiefs won its fourth Super Bowl title in franchise history, following victories in 1970's IV, 2020's LIV, and 2023's LVII. The 49ers were handed its third consecutive Super Bowl loss. The game's sellout attendance of 61,629 was the smallest unrestricted crowd in Super Bowl history due to the seating capacity of Allegiant Stadium, and the smallest unrestricted NFL Championship attendance since December 1946 (58,346). For the third straight year the Super Bowl was played in the Western United States, following host cities Inglewood, California, in LVI and Glendale, Arizona, in LVII. It was the first Super Bowl since its inception that George Toma did not serve as groundskeeper. It was also the second simulcast in Super Bowl history, and the first since Super Bowl I.
Several outlets rank the game as one of the greatest Super Bowls of all time, with many citing the performances of both teams, the game's overtime finish, in addition to the game cementing the Chiefs as a sports dynasty. The game's broadcast on CBS, youth-oriented Nickelodeon, and Spanish-language network Univision became the most watched program in American television history, with a total of 123.7 million average viewers across all platforms, continuing an upward viewing trend that would be broken again the following year. It had the highest unduplicated total audience in history at 200 million viewers watching all or part of the game, becoming the most-watched United States broadcast since the Apollo 11 moon landing. The halftime show, headlined by Usher, peaked at 129 million viewers.
The Chiefs would make the Super Bowl once again in 2025 for a historic third consecutive year in a bid for an unprecedented three-peat in the Super Bowl era, but ultimately would lose in a Super Bowl LVII rematch to the Philadelphia Eagles, 22-40.
On May 23, 2018, the NFL picked the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans to host Super Bowl LVIII. The league picked the winning city from a list of candidates that it had compiled, a process that replaced an earlier one in which cities that wished to host a Super Bowl submitted bids to be debated and voted upon at the league owners' meetings.
In March 2020, the NFL and the NFL Players Association agreed to expand the regular season from 16 to 17 games beginning in 2021, pushing Super Bowl LVIII from February 4, 2024 to February 11, and causing a conflict with the city's Mardi Gras celebrations.