On Sunday the 59th Super Bowl was played in New Orleans with the Philadelphia Eagles playing host to the Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs had a chance to become the first NFL team to win a third straight Super Bowl, their only problem was, the Eagles were in their way.
The Eagles were the favorites at Caesars Superdome with Philly fans clearly outnumbering Kansas City Fans. The same seemed to be the case nationwide with most social media platforms showing a large discrepancy in support of the two teams, likely due to fan fatigue seeing Patrick Mahomes winning three of five Super Bowl appearances in five years.
Unfortunately for Mahomes and the Chiefs, their feat of winning another and becoming the only team to win three straight would have to wait for another time.
The Eagles were aggressive defensively and were smart with the ball on offense jumping out to a 24 – 0 lead over the Chiefs at the half. By the end of the third the Eagles had established a 34 – 0 lead before Kansas City scored their first touchdown of the game. Kansas City went on to score two more garbage touchdowns that were mostly against Philadelphia’s second stringers while the Eagles added 6 more to give them a 40-22 victory.
In other sports the Denver Nuggets won their seventh straight after defeating the Portland Trailblazers on Monday night at Ball Arena. The Nuggets have been on a terror despite have several key players out due to injury.
Nikola Jokic scored 40 points and didn’t play a single second in the fourth quarter in Denver’s season high 146-117 win. With Monday’s win the Nuggets have pulled to within a game of the Western Conferences second place team the Memphis Grizzlies.
The NBA’s power rankings have the Nuggets at fourth overall, behind the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Boston Celtics, and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Currently the NBA’s Kia MVP rankings have Oklahoma City Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at number one with Nikola Jokic at number two despite Jokic’s triple double average this season.
While the Kia MVP race shows Jokic at number two, fans around the league clearly show their support for Jokic as the lead candidate for the MVP race this season with his ridiculous triple double average.
The Nuggets will host the Trailblazers again this week before heading into the All-Star break.
