By Lydia Jane Allison
NEW YORK — Feb. 5, 2025 — The Kansas City Chiefs (17-2) and Philadelphia Eagles (17-3) will meet in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday (6:30 p.m. ET, FOX) at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. The 34 combined wins, including the postseason, by the Chiefs and Eagles are the most-ever between Super Bowl opponents.
Kansas City is the first team to reach the Super Bowl five times in a six season span and can become the first team ever to win three consecutive Super Bowls. The Chiefs are the fourth team all-time to appear in three consecutive Super Bowls, joining the 1990-93 Buffalo Bills (four consecutive Super Bowls), 1971-73 Miami Dolphins (three) and 2016-18 New England Patriots (three).
In the past 25 seasons and including Super Bowl LIX, only three teams have appeared in the Super Bowl four-or-more times: New England (nine appearances), Kansas City (five) and Philadelphia (four). The Eagles can win the Super Bowl for the second time in franchise history, having previously won Super Bowl LII following the 2017 season.
Super Bowl LIX will mark the ninth Super Bowl rematch ever and the second time that two teams have met in the Super Bowl twice in a three-season span (Buffalo vs. Dallas, Super Bowls XXVII and XXVIII). Kansas City overcame a 10-point halftime deficit to defeat Philadelphia, 38-35, in Super Bowl LVII following the 2022 season, the only Super Bowl ever in which both teams scored at least 35 points.
With Chiefs head coach Andy Reid and Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni, it will mark the fifth rematch between head coaches in Super Bowl history, joining the Pro Football Hall of Fame duos of Chuck Noll and Tom Landry, and Jimmy Johnson and Marv Levy, as well as Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick, and Reid and Kyle Shanahan.
Super Bowl LIX will mark Reid’s 45th career postseason game as a head coach, surpassing Belichick (44 games) for the most playoff games by a head coach in NFL history. With a win, Reid can join Belichick (six Super Bowl wins) and Noll (four) as the only head coaches with four Super Bowl victories.
Reid has 28 career postseason victories, trailing only Belichick (31) for the most playoff wins by a head coach all-time. Including the postseason, he has the fourth-most total wins (301) by a head coach in NFL history, trailing only Belichick (329) as well as Pro Football Hall of Famers Don Shula (347) and George Halas (324).
Sirianni is the third head coach all-time to make the Super Bowl twice in his first four seasons as a head coach, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs (1982-83) and Mike Tomlin (2008 and 2010). He will be 43 years and 239 days old on Sunday, becoming the fifth-youngest all-time to coach his second Super Bowl.
With Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, it will mark the fourth rematch between starting quarterbacks in Super Bowl history, joining Pro Football Hall of Famers Troy Aikman and Jim Kelly, Pro Football Hall of Famers Terry Bradshaw and Roger Staubach, as well as Eli Manning and Tom Brady.
Mahomes, who will be 29 years and 145 days old on Super Bowl Sunday, can become the youngest quarterback ever to start five Super Bowls and the first quarterback under the age of 30 all-time to win four Super Bowls. He has 43 career postseason touchdown passes and can surpass Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Montana (45 touchdown passes) and Aaron Rodgers (45) for the second-most touchdown passes in postseason history, trailing only Tom Brady (88).
Mahomes – who was named MVP of Super Bowls LIV, LVII and LVIII – can become the first player ever to be named Super Bowl MVP in three consecutive seasons and can join Brady (five Super Bowl MVPs) as the only players all-time with four Super Bowl MVP awards.
Hurts will become the eighth quarterback all-time to start multiple Super Bowls in their first five career seasons, joining Pro Football Hall of Famers Aikman, John Elway and Kurt Warner as well as Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Ben Roethlisberger and Russell Wilson. In Super Bowl LVII against Kansas City, he set the Super Bowl record for most rushing yards by a quarterback (70) and joined Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Davis (Super Bowl XXXII with Denver) as the only players with three rushing touchdowns in a Super Bowl.
Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce has the most postseason receptions (174) in NFL history and ranks second all-time in postseason receiving yards (2,039) and postseason touchdown receptions (20), trailing only Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice (2,245 receiving yards and 22 touchdown receptions).
Kelce will become the third tight end ever to appear in five Super Bowls, joining Marv Fleming and Rob Gronkowski. In his first four Super Bowl appearances, he has totaled 31 receptions for 350 yards and on Sunday, can surpass Rice (33 receptions) for the most Super Bowl receptions and both Gronkowski and Pro Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann (364 receiving yards each) for the second-most Super Bowl receiving yards.
Philadelphia running back Saquon Barkley has 2,447 rushing yards this season, including 442 rushing yards this postseason – the seventh-most in a single playoff run all-time. In Super Bowl LIX, Barkley can surpass Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Davis (2,476 rushing yards in 1998 with Denver) for the most rushing yards by a player in a season, including the playoffs, in NFL history and become the third player ever with 500 rushing yards in a single postseason, joining Pro Football Hall of Famers John Riggins (610 rushing yards in 1982 with Washington) and Davis (581 in 1997 with Denver).
Barkley led the NFL with 2,005 rushing yards during the regular season – the eighth-most in a season in NFL history – and will become the fifth player to lead the league in rushing in the regular season and play in the Super Bowl in the same season, joining Pro Football Hall of Famers Terrell Davis (1998) and Emmitt Smith (1992-93 and 1995) as well as Shaun Alexander (2005) and Christian McCaffrey (2023).
The Eagles have 39 rushing touchdowns this season, including 10 postseason rushing touchdowns. In Super Bowl LIX, they can surpass the 2022 Philadelphia Eagles (42 rushing touchdowns) for the most rushing touchdowns, including the playoffs, by a team in NFL history and the 1997 Denver Broncos (12 rushing touchdowns) for the most rushing touchdowns in a single postseason all-time.
Philadelphia has 683 rushing yards this postseason, the fifth-most in a single postseason in NFL history, and with 110 rushing yards in Super Bowl LIX, can surpass the mark set by Washington in 1982 (792 rushing yards) for the most in a single postseason.
Eagles linebacker Nolan Smith has four sacks this postseason – two sacks in the Wild Card round and one sack in both the Divisional playoffs and NFC Championship Game. Since 1982, when the individual sack became an official statistic, no player has recorded a sack in four playoff games in a single postseason.
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