It all comes down to one game for the 2024-25 season in the NFL, and it’s Super Bowl 59 this Sunday in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football Conference will attempt to be the first team to win three consecutive Super Bowls when they face the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football Conference. It will be their second meeting in the Super Bowl in the last three years. Kansas City is the first team to reach the Super Bowl five times in six seasons. It is the fourth team all-time to appear in three consecutive Super Bowls, joining the 1990-93 Buffalo Bills (four successive Super Bowls), 1971-73 Miami Dolphins (three), and 2016-18 New England Patriots (three).

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who will be 29 years and 145 days old on Super Bowl Sunday, can become the youngest quarterback to start five Super Bowls and the first quarterback under 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).

For the Eagles, quarterback Jalen Hurts will become the eighth quarterback all-time to start multiple Super Bowls in their first five career seasons, joining Pro Football Hall of Famers Aikman, John Elway, and Kurt Warner as well as Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Ben Roethlisberger, and Russell Wilson. In Super Bowl LVII against Kansas City, he set the Super Bowl record for most rushing yards by a quarterback (70). He joined Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Davis (Super Bowl XXXII with Denver) as the only player with three rushing touchdowns in a Super Bowl.

Andy Reid for the Chiefs and Nick Sirianni for the Eagles will coach the two teams on Sunday. It will mark the fifth rematch between head coaches in Super Bowl history, joining the Pro Football Hall of Fame duos of Chuck Noll and Tom Landry,  Jimmy Johnson and Marv Levy,  Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick, and Reid and Kyle Shanahan.

Super Bowl LIX 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 Chuck Noll (four) as the only head coaches with four Super Bowl victories.

Sirianni is the third head coach of all time to make the Super Bowl twice in his first four seasons, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs (1982-83) and Mike Tomlin (2008 and 2010). He will be 43 and 239 days old on Sunday, becoming the fifth-youngest of all time to coach his second Super Bowl.  

Big stories for the 2024-25 season include tight end Travis Kelce for the Chiefs and running back Saquon Barkley for the Eagles. Travis Kelce, boyfriend of pop star Taylor Swift, has the most postseason receptions (174) in NFL history and ranks second all-time in postseason receiving yards (2,039) and postseason touchdown receptions (20), trailing only Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice (2,245 receiving yards and 22 touchdown receptions).

Philadelphia running back Saquon Barkley has 2,447 rushing yards this season, including 442 yards this postseason – the seventh-most in a single playoff run. 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 by a player in a season, including the playoffs, in NFL history and become the third player ever with 500 rushing yards in a single postseason, joining Pro Football Hall of Famers John Riggins (610 rushing yards in 1982 with Washington) and Davis (581 in 1997 with Denver).

Barkley led the NFL with 2,005 rushing yards during the regular season – the eighth-most in a season in NFL history – and will become the fifth player to lead the league in rushing in the regular season and play in the Super Bowl in the same season, joining Pro Football Hall of Famers Terrell Davis (1998) and Emmitt Smith (1992-93 and 1995) as well as Shaun Alexander (2005) and Christian McCaffrey (2023).

The Eagles have 39 rushing touchdowns this season, including 10 postseason rushing touchdowns. In Super Bowl LIX, they can surpass the 2022 Philadelphia Eagles (42 rushing touchdowns) for the most rushing touchdowns, including the playoffs, by a team in NFL history and the 1997 Denver Broncos (12 rushing touchdowns) for the most rushing touchdowns in a single postseason all-time.

The big game will be played in New Orleans for the 11th time in NFL history. With the recent terrorist tragedy that struck the city on New Year’s Day, security in the city is at its highest level. Then, with the announcement on Monday that President Donald Trump would be attending the game, the security was even higher. Fourteen people were killed and 35 injured in the New Year’s Day attack when an ISIS terrorist rammed his truck down a crowded Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

The Halftime Show, officially known as the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show, will feature Kendrick Lamar as the headliner. Lamar just won a Grammy for Record of the Year this past Sunday. He previously headlined the Super Bowl LVI halftime show alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Mary J. Blige, with 50 Cent and Anderson Paak serving as special guests. This was the first rap-based Super Bowl Halftime Show in the NFL.

The game will air on FOX TV with Kevin Burkhardt on play-by-play, joined by analyst Tom Brady. Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi will report from the sidelines, and Mike Pereira will be the rules analyst. Brady is in his first year as a broadcast journalist and has had to navigate constraints placed by the NFL with a conflict of interests as an owner in part of the Las Vegas Raiders.

Game time is set for 5:30 PM ET.

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