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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The years since the Chiefs’ last Super Bowl victory have felt like decades and the decades like centuries in the Kansas City area, where season after season ended in emotional wreckage. The playoffs unspooled as if booby-trapped. Good teams cratered. Better ones collapsed. There are scars. Deliverance arrived on Sunday night. […] More
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Kansas City Chiefs stormed back for a ridiculous 31-20 win over the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, reeling off three touchdowns in just over five minutes to overwhelm one of the N.F.L.’s most dominant defenses. The win snapped a 50-year championship drought for the Chiefs, while handing San […] More
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — This had not been, by any stretch of the imagination, the best game of football that Patrick Mahomes had ever played. And then the Kansas City Chiefs arrived at the moment when they needed their star quarterback to be the Pat Mahomes he had been for most of the postseason. Down, […] More
Super Bowl LIV pits the N.F.C. champion San Francisco 49ers against the A.F.C. champion Kansas City Chiefs. Here is a look ahead. Here are key points about the game: When is the game? How can I watch? Will this be a good game? Who will perform at the halftime show? What should I read in […] More
[Follow our live coverage and updates of Niners vs Chiefs.] Here are key points about the game: When is the game? How can I watch? Will this be a good game? Who will perform at the halftime show? What should I read in advance? When is the game? The official broadcast will begin at 6:30 […] More
MIAMI — The N.F.L.’s longtime leading men, the ones with the pizza commercials and the Super Bowl rings, whose names adorn the league’s most-sold jerseys, showed their mortality this season in ways that were uncomfortable to watch. Tom Brady and Drew Brees didn’t make it through the first round of the playoffs. Aaron Rodgers missed […] More
MIAMI — Lamar Jackson’s stunning season not only earned him The Associated Press N.F.L. Most Valuable Player Award, but he won it unanimously. The second-year quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens joins Tom Brady in receiving every vote for an M.V.P. award. Jackson drew all 50 votes from a nationwide panel of media members who regularly […] More
MIAMI — He grew his hair so long that it flowed out of his helmet and obscured the name on his jersey. Yet everyone knew where to find Troy Polamalu on Sundays. The Steelers great earned a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday along with another hard-hitting safety, the longtime Broncos […] More
