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Can the Chiefs three-peat?
Super Bowl LIX is here! The AFC Champion Kansas City Chiefs (17-2) will be trying for the first championship three-peat in Super Bowl history. Standing in their way will be the NFC Champion Philadelphia Eagles (17-3), who lost to the Chiefs, 38-25, in the Super Bowl two seasons ago.
Game time is 6:30 p.m. ET on FOX. FanDuel Sportsbook lists the two-time defending champion Chiefs as 1.5-point favorites.
Kansas City, led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes and head coach Andy Reid, is the first team to reach the Super Bowl five times in a six-season span and can become the first team ever to win three consecutive Super Bowls. The Chiefs are the fourth team all-time to appear in three consecutive Super Bowls, joining the 1990-93 Buffalo Bills (four consecutive Super Bowls), 1971-73 Miami Dolphins (three) and 2016-18 New England Patriots (three).
Sunday’s game will mark Reid’s 45th career postseason game as a head coach, surpassing Bill Belichick (44 games) for the most playoff games by a head coach in NFL history. With a win, Reid can join Belichick (six Super Bowl wins) and Noll (four) as the only head coaches with four Super Bowl victories.
Reid has 28 career postseason victories, trailing only Belichick (31) for the most playoff wins by a head coach all-time. Including the postseason, he has the fourth-most total wins (301) by a head coach in NFL history, trailing only Belichick (329) as well as Pro Football Hall of Famers Don Shula (347) and George Halas (324).
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni is the third head coach all-time to make the Super Bowl twice in his first four seasons as a head coach, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs (1982-83) and Mike Tomlin (2008 and 2010). He will be 43 years and 239 days old on Sunday, becoming the fifth-youngest all-time to coach his second Super Bowl.
Mahomes, who will be 29 years and 145 days old on Super Bowl Sunday, can become the youngest quarterback ever to start five Super Bowls and the first quarterback under the age of 30 all-time to win four Super Bowls. He has 43 career postseason touchdown passes and can surpass Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Montana (45 touchdown passes) and Aaron Rodgers (45) for the second-most touchdown passes in postseason history, trailing only Tom Brady (88).
Mahomes – who was named MVP of Super Bowls LIV, LVII and LVIII – can become the first player ever to be named Super Bowl MVP in three consecutive seasons and can join Brady (five Super Bowl MVPs) as the only players all-time with four Super Bowl MVP awards.
Former New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley has 2,447 rushing yards for the Eagles this season, including 442 rushing yards this postseason – the seventh-most in a single playoff run all-time. In Super Bowl LIX, Barkley can surpass Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Davis (2,476 rushing yards in 1998 with Denver) for the most rushing yards...
