The Kansas City Chiefs narrowly beat the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday to win the 2024 Super Bowl champions, 25-22.
This Super Bowl will likely go down as one of the most memorable, given pop star Taylor Swift’s involvement and the fact that it was in Las Vegas for the first time. Throw in Kansas City winning back-to-back titles — a rare accomplishment — and Patrick Mahomes’ late brilliance, and it was a classic.
It wasn’t the most well-played game, with both teams losing big turnovers and neither offense really doing much until the end when fatigue seemed to take over.
The first two Super Bowls that Jim Nantz and Tony Romo worked together for CBS lacked some drama, but now both get to say they broadcast one of the best finishes in the game’s history.
“What a thrill to be able to say that we witnessed an overtime Super Bowl game and what will go down in history as one of the greatest games of all time and the longest Super Bowl game of all time. That’s what I’m trying to process right now,” Nantz said after the Kansas City Chiefs 25-22 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers.
The drama started when San Francisco linebacker Dre Greenlaw went down with a freak injury.
Greenlaw bounced up and down on the sideline and then started to run onto the field with a few teammates when he collapsed holding his left leg. He was then helped off in a cart with a torn Achilles tendon.
Meanwhile, Juan Jennings’ historic Super Bowl milestone will turn into only a footnote after his San Francisco 49ers lost the game.
It doesn’t make what the backup receiver did any less impressive.
Jennings threw a touchdown pass to Christian McCaffrey on a trick play in the first half and then caught a TD pass of his own in the second half of San Francisco’s 25-22 overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.
He joined Philadelphia’s Nick Foles as the only players ever to catch a TD pass and throw one in a Super Bowl.
San Francisco picked up three first downs in five plays and was going right through the Chiefs defense.
“I can’t put the ball on the ground on the first drive,” McCaffrey saud. “That’s going to sting. … I’m a little numb, angry, still going through all the emotions.”
But it wasn’t enough to overcome Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, who lifted the Lombardi trophy for the fourth time in their franchise history.
And the party was epic.
Watch the reactions of these Chiefs fans… including country-pop superstar Taylor Swift —