That's because the Chiefs have become accustomed to overcoming big deficits during the AFC playoffs before quarterback Patrick Mahomes and company turned up the volume to 11, as the Houston Texans and Tennessee Titans will attest.
Mahomes, who won the game's MVP award with three touchdowns on 286 yards in passing, is going to Disney World. Coach Andy Reid has his first Super Bowl win in his 21 year career with the Chiefs, and before that the Philadelphia Eagles. And Kansas City, Missouri AND Kansas, has its first world football championship since 1970, prior to the NFL and American Football Leagues merging the following season.
Halftime
The NFL more than made up for bland shows by the likes of Justin Timberlake and Maroon 5 with this year's headliners Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, who turned Super Bowl 54 into Studio 54 (look it up, kids) with energetic dancing, crotch-first slides, pole dancing and wagging tongues. All in the name of good. clean family entertainment, right? At least there were no breasts exposed for the duration of the show.
Commercials
The ads for this year's Big Game weren't great, but weren't terrible either. Here's a few that stuck out.
- It began and ended with pitches for Woman Power, from Demi Lovato singing the national anthem to a woman kicking the game winning field goal in an ad for Secret deodorant, to Olay cosmetics' sending supermodels and an actual female astronaut into space. It ended with Microsoft saluting Katie Sowers, the first female and lesbian coach of an NFL team with the 49ers.
- We hate to bring up politics, but President Donald Trump bought two campaign spots and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg paid for one, with predictable results.
- Lil Nas X, still riding the gravy train for "Old Town Road", did his schtick for Doritos' Cool Ranch chips with Sam Elliott.
- Bill Murray reprised his role in the film "Groundhog Day" for the benefit of Jeep.
- More ads for Fox's "The Masked Singer", which followed the game, than you can shake a stick at. Of the 102 million who watched the game, around 24 million chose to stick around for "Masked Singer".
- Planters killed off Mr. Peanut, only to be replaced by a baby peanut. It would have been so much more dramatic if Kobe Bryant hadn't died in a helicopter crash only a week ago.
- Tide wanted to make the point that its detergent can wash out stains days after it happened. Which explains the same guy with the soiled shirt walking through every other commercial for different products, only to be told it can wait.
- Budweiser, which usually shows off puppies and Clydesdales in its Super Bowl ads, chose this one to focus on the Average American in a manner that looks like any political campaign commercial you've ever seen.
