{"id":19640,"date":"2024-02-12T00:36:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T05:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/super-bowl-2024-kansas-city-chiefs-defend-nfl-title-after-beating-san-francisco-49ers-in-overtime\/12\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T00:36:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T05:36:58","slug":"super-bowl-2024-kansas-city-chiefs-defend-nfl-title-after-beating-san-francisco-49ers-in-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/super-bowl-2024-kansas-city-chiefs-defend-nfl-title-after-beating-san-francisco-49ers-in-overtime\/12\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl 2024: Kansas City Chiefs defend NFL title after beating San Francisco 49ers in overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year&#8217;s Super Bowl attracted arguably more interest than ever before, with the US television audience expected to eclipse the record 115 million for Kansas City&#8217;s win over the Eagles last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was the first Super Bowl to be held in the entertainment capital of the world, Prince Harry made a surprise appearance at the end-of-season awards ceremony in Vegas on Thursday and then there&#8217;s Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/68270784\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">music superstar&#8217;s relationship with Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce<\/a> has brought a wealth of new fans to the Chiefs and the NFL in general, and there have even been conspiracy theories about the team&#8217;s play-off run being rigged to maintain that new interest and help get US President Joe Biden re-elected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This week NFL commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/68206676\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Roger Goodell called those claims &#8220;nonsense&#8221;,<\/a> while many media outlets speculated whether she would be able to attend the Super Bowl as she was performing in Tokyo on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She made it, joining dozens of stars in the crowd at Allegiant Stadium, although it seemed she and Kelce would be disappointed at half-time. He took just one catch for one yard in the first half and showed his frustration by bumping into coach Reid and shouting in the 65-year-old&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Kelce, 34, ended the game with 93 receiving yards, with Mahomes passing for 333 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mahomes also rushed for 66 yards, including a scramble on fourth down in overtime when failure to make a first down would have handed victory to the 49ers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That ensured Mahomes was named the Super Bowl&#8217;s Most Valuable Player for a third time and he is the first to win the award back-to-back since Terry Bradshaw (1979 and 1980).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">More to follow.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/68145318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&rsquo;s Super Bowl attracted arguably more interest than ever before, with the US television audience expected to eclipse the record 115<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/super-bowl-2024-kansas-city-chiefs-defend-nfl-title-after-beating-san-francisco-49ers-in-overtime\/12\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[2530,2557,638,2172,758,707,606,2171,190,4887,111,586,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19642,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640\/revisions\/19642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}