A element of footballs on the NFL Expertise fan pageant forward of Tremendous Bowl LIX on February 07, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Tonight the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs will meet the Philadelphia Eagles for a date with historical past. The Chiefs try to change into the primary NFL staff ever to win three Super Bowls in a row, and the Eagles are desperate to cease them and avenge their 2023 loss.
NPR and our member stations in Kansas City, Philadelphia and New Orleans could have highlights from the halftime present, the perfect (and worst…) commercials, and naturally outcomes for you all through the evening.
The sport kicks off at 6:30 p.m. EST in New Orleans. Here’s how to watch.
Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs reacts as he runs onto the sector previous to the AFC Championship Recreation towards the Buffalo Payments at GEHA Discipline at Arrowhead Stadium on January 26, 2025 in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri.
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🏈 Rooting for the Chiefs?
Head over to Kansas City member station KCUR for the perfect expertise.
“In the event that they win, that is like Michael Jordan, Nineties Chicago Bulls-type stuff — historical past that we are going to all look again on as one of many best runs of any sport ever, if they will get it performed,” says NPR sports activities correspondent Becky Sullivan.
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🏈 Rooting for the Eagles?
Head over to member station WHYY in Philadelphia for the perfect expertise.
This time round, with 14 regular-season wins — and a blowout victory on the NFC Championship Recreation — below their belt, the Eagles have one other shot on the Vince Lombardi trophy.
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🎉 The meals, the music and the commercials
Even non-football followers could have loads to stay up for, from star-studded commercials to a halftime present headlined by Kendrick Lamar, contemporary off his latest Grammy wins.
The festivities kicked off earlier this week with St. Augustine Excessive College’s Marching 100 ushered both teams into the Caesars Superdome on Monday evening.
Jon Batiste will carry out the Nationwide Anthem. Try his Tiny Desk to get within the temper.
🎶 Here is a breakdown of who is performing from NPR’s Dhanika Pineda.
Plus, a Tremendous Bowl riddle: Why are egg prices surging — but not chicken wings?
📺 What to observe for
Saquon Barkley #26 of the Philadelphia Eagles smiles in the course of the NFC Divisional Playoff sport towards the Los Angeles Rams at Lincoln Monetary Discipline on January 19, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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NPR sports activities correspondent Becky Sullivan has some suggestions for what to observe for on this 12 months’s sport:
An in depth, back-and-forth sport: All indicators level to an in depth sport. The Eagles protection goals to restrict massive features and power groups to beat them with small performs. However that is precisely how the Chiefs prefer to win: Kansas Metropolis is 12-0 in one-score video games this season. The Kansas Metropolis protection is not any slouch both, and Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has struggled at instances when pressured.
Kansas Metropolis quarterback Patrick Mahomes: The important thing to the Chiefs’ three-peat hopes is their 29-year-old quarterback who’s nice on a regular basis however in some way even higher in high-stakes moments: within the playoffs, on third and 4th downs and on game-ending drives.
The tush push: The Eagles have change into identified for his or her unusually profitable tackle the quarterback sneak. Here are the physics behind the play.
Eagles working again Saquon Barkley: After Philadelphia signed him final spring, Barkley has blossomed into the game-changer he all the time had the potential to be. He grew to become solely the ninth participant ever to hurry for greater than 2,000 yards within the common season, and he has extra 60-plus-yard landing runs in a single season than any participant ever.
And a few pre-game bonuses: Maintain a watch out for Chiefs huge receiver DeAndre Hopkins’ arrival outfit, and whether or not this Chiefs player tears up in the course of the Nationwide Anthem.
Extra 2025 Tremendous Bowl protection from The NPR Community
Report-setting authorized betting
A document $1.39 billion is anticipated to be spent on betting legally on Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl — up from $1.25 billion in 2024, according to the American Gaming Association (AGA). It additionally coincides with warnings from officers to watch out for scammers seeking to benefit from the extraordinary curiosity within the sport. Listed below are two reasons why this year could set a new record.
With the surge in sports activities betting, the chance of playing habit rises too. Here’s what can be done.
“Select Love”
The NFL has introduced it is going to take away the top zone message “Finish Racism” for this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl, changing it with “Select Love.”
Code Change’s Gene Demby writes about how the change fits into broader discussion taking place round DEI.
Omelets and cheesesteaks — totally free
There’s nothing fairly like a tailgate, the place followers serve meals to strangers who share the identical ardour. We went to a Philadelphia Eagles tailgate to study what drives this uniquely American tradition.
Regardless of final month’s terrorist assault, Tourism in New Orleans stays sturdy
Right now’s New Orleans is constructed on — and would undergo drastically with out — tourism. About 17 million individuals visited New Orleans in 2022, spending greater than $9 billion. A lot of that occurred throughout Mardi Gras, which made the New 12 months’s Day assault particularly regarding because it occurred proper earlier than the beginning of the tourism season. However to this point, a bit of greater than a month faraway from the incident, the tourists are still coming.
