Super Bowl 2025 LIVE RESULT – Taylor Swift BOOED as Eagles thrash Chiefs to win title and ruin three-peat bid – reaction
THE Philadelphia Eagles cruised to their second Super Bowl and thwarted the Kansas City Chiefs' three-peat bid last night.
Jalen Hurts and his men in green were magnificent, with touchdowns from DeVonta Smith, AJ Brown as well as the defensive stars Zach Baun and Cooper DeJean.
But the Kansas City Chiefs will be kicking themselves, after missing the chance of an unprecedented Super Bowl three-peat - and their usually magnificent offense took too long to get going.
Taylor Swift made a low-key appearance in the private boxes and her beau Travis Kelce left the field with a face like thunder following a difficult evening in New Orleans, in which she was booed by the Eagles faithful.
RESULT: Kansas City Chiefs 22-40 Philadelphia Eagles
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Post-game reading
A queue of post-game reading for those still looking for their Super Bowl fix.
Eagles announce date for Super Bowl parade
The city of Philadelphia and the Eagles have announced that the Super Bowl parade will be taking place on Friday afternoon.
Grease up those light poles and take cover.
The City of Brotherly Love will surely be partying all week, but the culmination and celebration of the Eagles dismantling the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, is set to take place on Friday.
And if it's anything like the parade in 2018, sound the alarms.
Philadelphia knows how to party, and it's only just begun.
Budweiser’ voted top Super Bowl commercial
Budweiser’s “First Delivery” commercial starring a Clydesdale was rated the best Super Bowl 2025 commercial – the first time since 2015 that Budweiser took top honors in .
$17M Travis Kelce conundrum
Another report in FOS about the fallout of the Super Bowl.
Travis Kelce, the NFL’s highest-paid tight end, has a $19.8 million salary-cap hit next season—but the Chiefs could save $17 million if they cut the star (all figures via Spotrac).
Given the discourse around his future in the game and the abject performance in Sunday's Big Game, maybe the Kelce decision hinges more on football than it ever has.
Chiefs stadium concerns
The Chiefs faces an uphill battle to sort out its future at Arrowhead Stadium—or elsewhere, according to a report in Front Office Sports.
The article states the franchise’s contentious efforts to raise local support for renovations to Arrowhead Stadium.
Last April, voters in Jackson County, Mo., denied a proposal that would have created a new ⅜-cent sales tax mechanism over 40 years to generate as much as $2 billion to help renovate Arrowhead Stadium and fund a new ballpark for the Royals.
While there’s no guarantee a three-peat would have swung future support in favor of the Chiefs, Sunday’s loss still means one less bargaining chip for the NFL team.
The Chiefs are also hoping to build a new training facility that could cost as much as $450 million. However, that process won’t begin until the team sorts out its stadium situation.
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Lamar’s swipes
KENDRICK Lamar was swiping left, right and centre at Drake during his Super Bowl performance.
The superstar rapper, 37, wowed fans when he took to the stage at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans for the game's famous halftime show - and he used it as an opportunity to slam his rival.
Kendrick didn't hold back in his Super Bowl show, with fans loving every single minute of it.
The rapper was chosen to perform on the world’s biggest stage, which was watched by 120 million fans at home.
Brown's book
AJ Brown has found himself being quite the book fanatic - in games!
The Eagles wide receiver has been spotted throughout the playoffs reading a book on the sidelines during intervals and the Super Bowl was no different.
As the Eagles were thumping the Chiefs in Sunday's showpiece, Brown was picked up by the Fox broadcast reading Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy.
Eagles join exclusive 18+ club
An intriguing stat doing the rounds on socials from The Athletic's Jayson Stark:
Teams that won Super Bowl & conference championship game by 18+ points in the same NFL postseason:
1984 49ers
1985 Bears
1989 49ers
2024 Eagles
Ain't that something.
'Long journey' to Super Bowl win - Hurts
"It’s been a long journey, a journey with ups and downs, highs and lows," he said. "You’ve got to be able to use these experiences that you’ve had in the past because they’re all formative for the future."
Mahomes pays respect to Hurts
"If he needs to run the ball, he’ll run it; If he needs to throw the ball, he will throw it. And if he needs to make a big play, he will make the big play," Mahomes told reporters.
"In the first Super Bowl we played against, I said he will be back, and he was."
Hurts' victory lap
As for the winning quarterback, the Super Bowl MVP is relishing in his victory lap.
"I took great pride in never backing down from a challenge, always turning my negatives into positives," said Hurts, who has led the Eagles to the playoffs in all of his four seasons as a starter in Philadelphia.
"In the end, things come right on time. Last time around, it wasn’t our time. It wasn’t my time. Sometimes you have to wait your turn."
'Proud of our guys' - Mahomes
"Even though we put up some stats at the end of the game, those stats didn't really matter because we kind of lost the momentum for this entire team, and so I have to be better at not turning over," the Chiefs quarterback said.
"Whenever it's not going my way, trust in my defense, trust in the rest of my team to get those stops until I can figure out what we need to do as an offense.
"I mean, we were confident until the very end," he said.
"I mean, there's been crazy things that's happened in the NFL. But all you can do is take it play by play and give everything you have. And I'm proud of our guys for how they did that in the face of adversity."
"And it was something that we'll think about for the rest of our careers and hopefully motivate us to be even better."
'Proud of our guys' - Mahomes
"Even though we put up some stats at the end of the game, those stats didn't really matter because we kind of lost the momentum for this entire team, and so I have to be better at not turning over," the Chiefs quarterback said.
"Whenever it's not going my way, trust in my defense, trust in the rest of my team to get those stops until I can figure out what we need to do as an offense.
"I mean, we were confident until the very end," he said.
"I mean, there's been crazy things that's happened in the NFL. But all you can do is take it play by play and give everything you have. And I'm proud of our guys for how they did that in the face of adversity."
"And it was something that we'll think about for the rest of our careers and hopefully motivate us to be even better."
Mahomes takes 'ownership'
More Patrick Mahomes quotes coming out following last night's fallout:
"I threw two interceptions in their end, I mean, I threw a pick six, and I threw a pick that they returned to the five-yard line, and they scored immediately after," he told reporters huddled around him in the bowels of the cavernous stadium.
"So, you give the team 14 points, especially a really good football team, a Super Bowl football team, and not a lot of good things happen.
"That's why I take ownership of this loss more than probably any loss in my entire career, because I put us in a bad spot there."
Rees-Zammit decision 'next week'
To someone who was initially singed by one of the Super Bowl teams...
The intriguing story of Louis Rees-Zammit continues to rumble on.
The former Wales rugby star signed to the Kansas City Chiefs for pre-season training last March but failed to make the regular season roster for the season just gone.
He is a free agent after the Jacksonville Jaguars opted not to sign him on a reserve/future contract and aims to make it in his second year in American football.
"Yeah, looking for options," Rees-Zammit told ITV Sport.
"I think in the next week or so we'll make a decision on where I am next year, but you know the past year has been [a] crazy experience. Mentally, physically, it's been tough, but it was a journey I've always wanted to be on so I'm loving it."
Rees-Zammit decision 'next week'
To someone who was initially singed by one of the Super Bowl teams...
The intriguing story of Louis Rees-Zammit continues to rumble on.
The former Wales rugby star signed to the Kansas City Chiefs for pre-season training last March but failed to make the regular season roster for the season just gone.
He is a free agent after the Jacksonville Jaguars opted not to sign him on a reserve/future contract and aims to make it in his second year in American football.
"Yeah, looking for options," Rees-Zammit told ITV Sport.
"I think in the next week or so we'll make a decision on where I am next year, but you know the past year has been [a] crazy experience. Mentally, physically, it's been tough, but it was a journey I've always wanted to be on so I'm loving it."
Drake's response
Whilst most were enjoying Kendrick Lamar's half-time show, the man at the heart of the preformative set had his mind elsewhere.
Drake, who was on the receiving end of Lamar's shade last night, has responded to the globally broadcasted performance.
To find out more, read the article below:
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- Philadelphia Eagles clinched this year’s Super Bowl with an emphatic 40-22 victory over defending champions the Kansas City Chiefs.
- Travis Kelce brushed aside rumours of retirement in the lead up to the Super Bowl – but what now after the Chiefs were blown out by the Eagles in New Orleans?
- It was a decidedly celeb-studded affair; before the match started, actor Jon Hamm introduced the Chiefs while Bradley Cooper brought the hype for the Eagles.
- Taylor Swift was also spotted – and repeatedly booed.
- President Donald Trump stormed out of the Super Bowl at halftime as the Kansas City Chiefs were down big to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Trump at the Bowl – with 'mini me' security guard
Here are some of the best pics of the President attending the Super Bowl, including a pic with his son grandson, Theo, who stole the show after acting like his bodyguard, and an image of him with his daughter – and Theo's mum – Ivanka.