Canal Street Chronicles
The NFL’s premier event is finally upon us, Super Bowl LIX, and the champion of the 2024 season will be crowned this Sunday night. Let’s break down who the Super Bowl Champion will be.
Here we go folks, that bittersweet time for every football fan. As much as Super Bowl Sunday is a celebration of the NFL’s championship, it’s also the culmination of another football season. Come Monday, it’s all over for actual NFL football for another eight months until it all starts over again. Eight long months. So, before we talk draft and free agency for the New Orleans Saints, lets break down this final game of the season.
The NFC Champion Philadelphia Eagles face the AFC Champion Kansas City Chiefs in the biggest spectacle in American professional sports. Kansas City enters the game with a 15-2 record, and they are looking to win their third-consecutive Super Bowl title, while Philadelphia enters the game with a 14-3 record and field the NFL’s top-ranked defense. It’s a rematch of the Super Bowl from two years ago, so expect to see a classic in New Orleans. Let’s now take a look at Super Bowl LIX.
Two weeks ago, I went 2-0
I told you so: Both games!
What do I know: Everything, apparently?
“Will Kansas City make history?”
The Kansas City Chiefs are looking for their fourth Super Bowl title in six years. Clearly, neither franchise is a stranger to the Super Bowl stage, having faced each other in Super Bowl LVII two years ago, while KC comes into this championship opportunity with core talent and coaching that won the Lombardi trophy last February. These Chiefs core players and coaches know the thrill of Super Bowl victory, but they also know the gut-wrenching sting of a demoralizing Super Bowl defeat, having suffered that feeling four years ago at Tampa. Philadelphia knows that feeling, at the hands of KC, all too well themselves. The sight of confetti falling at the moment of their defeat is likely to be seen vividly in the eyes of players like Jalen Hurts and Chauncey Gardner-Johnson. Neither team wants to revisit that empty feeling as confetti falls for their opponent.
For Kansas City, the road to “three-peat” will be led by none other than Patrick Mahomes. This comes as no surprise. The premier quarterback of this generation, and one of the all-time greats, alongside Brees, Manning, and Brady before him, Mahomes has seen it all. For the second-straight February, he faces a team he has already defeated in the Super Bowl recently, and like last year, the challenge is increased in this rematch. With Andy Reid providing his game plan and keeping the ship on course, Mahomes will have the steadiest hand at...
