NEW ORLEANS — For five days, the talk of the Super Bowl here in New Orleans, featuring the Chiefs for the fifth time in six years, had centered on the theme you might have expected.

Those guys again?

Nope.

It won’t be those guys again.

The postgame begs a much different question: Who the hell was that guy?

Patrick Mahomes turned in ...Read more

NEW ORLEANS — On the Art Museum steps on a frigid February afternoon, Doug Pederson promised 1 million freezing, faithful Eagles fans that this sort of celebration would be “The new norm.”

He was right. He was just seven years premature. And, even though he won Super Bowl LII, it turned out that Pederson was the wrong coach.

And it ...Read more

NEW ORLEANS — While breaking down the huddle after warmups ahead of Super Bowl LIX, Jalen Hurts reminded the Eagles of their dominance all season long.

“We did this [expletive] all year,” Hurts said. “Don’t stop now.”

They didn’t. The Eagles pulled off a 40-22 beatdown of the Kansas City Chiefs in the Superdome, usurping the ...Read more

It took the Philadelphia Eagles 52 years to win their first Super Bowl.

It didn’t take them nearly as long to win their second, although it did take two tries.

Seven years after the organization’s first Super Bowl championship, the Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX 40-22 on Sunday at the Superdome in New Orleans. It was ...Read more

NEW ORLEANS — There was no point, as the confetti feathered to the Superdome turf, as the Eagles and everyone who loves them let waves of euphoria wash over them Sunday night, to be anything but direct and succinct and true: What happened here was the greatest victory in the greatest season in the history of Philadelphia sports.

That is not ...Read more

NEW ORLEANS — The three-peat dream is over.

And the Kansas City Chiefs — after coming so close to an unprecedented feat — will forever be etched in history as coming one game short.

The Philadelphia Eagles dominated both lines, and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes had one of the worst games of his career in the Eagles’ 40-22 victory ...Read more

The final quarter of the AFC divisional round playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs on Jan. 23, 2022, could not have been more exciting.

Three lead changes.

Five scoring drives.

A 36-36 tie at the end of regulation.

The overtime period, however, could not have been more disappointing.

One coin toss.

One touchdown ...Read more

NEW ORLEANS — This year's Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs at the Superdome in New Orleans hasn't even started, but one of the top search terms on Google Sunday is already, "Where is Super Bowl 2026?"

Fortunately, the NFL has a roadmap for its next few Super Bowls. So if you want to plan ahead, you might start...Read more

NEW ORLEANS — For 50 years, the only Super Bowl the Chiefs had ever won was the last one they played here. So the storylines of that 23-7 victory over Minnesota in Super Bowl IV became all the more indelible from forever being a standalone:

A defense replete with six future Pro Football Hall of Famers pummeled Vikings quarterback Joe Kapp and...Read more

The Philadelphia Eagles took a 24-0 lead into halftime against the Kansas City Chiefs at Super Bowl LIX.

If Patrick Mahomes is somehow able to lead the Chiefs to victory, it will be the biggest halftime deficit to be overcome in Super Bowl history, breaking a record set eight years ago.

The Atlanta Falcons led the New England Patriots 21-3 at ...Read more

NEW ORLEANS — In a season full of record-breaking feats, Saquon Barkley had one last mountain to climb Sunday at the Caesars Superdome.

He celebrated his 28th birthday and his first Super Bowl appearance by breaking the 16-year-old record of Terrell Davis, who ran for a total of 2,476 yards between the regular season and playoffs with the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rookie running back Carson Steele received an unexpected financial boost after the NFL’s wild-card postseason round, even though the Chiefs didn’t play because they had a bye.

It was playoff pay from the NFL, which cuts a check to every player on an active roster in increasingly larger amounts of money as their team ...Read more

NEW YORK — Aaron Rodgers’ tumultuous tenure with the Jets is reportedly coming to an end.

The Jets informed the 41-year-old quarterback they plan to move on without him next season, according to Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer.

Rodgers reportedly flew to New Jersey last week to discuss his future with the organization, with whom he’s gone 6-12 ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Deebo Samuel wants out, again.

Samuel, a San Francisco 49ers team captain whose production has tailed off since his 2021 All-Pro season, is seeking a trade after the most tumultuous and disappointing season of his six-year tenure.

Getting traded, per his request, seems a more realistic exit plan than three years ago, ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Teams searching for a running back, whether in free agency or the draft, hope to find a player who possesses the three most essential and desirable elements for the position — productivity, durability and dependability.

The Steelers have all three with Najee Harris, which, surprisingly, no other team in the NFL can claim.

The ...Read more

NEW ORLEANS — Even though the Chiefs will be playing in the Super Bowl for the fifth time in six seasons on Sunday, it is still a special moment for everyone involved.

Chiefs rookies Xavier Worthy and Jaden Hicks likely dreamed of playing in the big game when they were drafted. Wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, who is in his 12th season, will be...Read more

NEW ORLEANS — The story of Super Bowl LIX is in the cards.

And by cards, think of a large sheet of heavy-stock paper loaded with information — player names, numbers, statistics and sometimes annotated trivia — always within reach of the broadcasters calling the game.

They're called "boards" and they're usually created from scratch by the...Read more

Marquise “Hollywood” Brown wasn’t recruited out of Chaminade High School in Hollywood, Fla. He wasn’t called Hollywood back in those days, either. He was Marquise Brown, just another kid with an uncertain future who ended up sitting out a year after high school before heading to a California junior college.

That junior college, College ...Read more

NEW ORLEANS — Jalen Hurts’ father compares his son’s competitive nature to a flame.

It was stoked from an early age and burned brightly well before he reached the NFL, in races up the stairs with his big brother, backyard football games against the older kids, and eventually the heat of the moment on a high school football field.

It’s ...Read more

Is this the best we can do?

Is this truly the best storyline we can come up with heading into the Super Bowl?

That the Kansas City Chiefs are villains in Sunday’s mega-matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles?

Are you kidding me?

Calling the Chiefs villains is like the police pulling over the ice cream truck for disturbing the peace.

Really? ...Read more