Tag: Super Bowl 2025

The Mavericks tried to subtly drop Anthony Davis’s bleak injury update near the end of the Super Bowl

The Mavericks really wanted Anthony Davis’s new injury to get lost in the shuffle.

Late Sunday night in the sports world was momentous.

The Philadelphia Eagles were in the process of securing their second Super Bowl in franchise history in dominant fashion with hundreds of millions of people watching at home, and (whispers, very, very, very discretely) the Dallas Mavericks revealed that Anthony Davis would be out indefinitely with a groin injury.

Wait, wait, hold on, what?

That’s right. As the biggest event in American sports was winding down, the Mavericks not-so-subtly revealed that the newly-acquired Davis — the guy Dallas mortgaged its entire future for in exchange for the generational Luka Doncic — might miss a month of time because of an injury.

And in a supposed championship or bust season, no less.

Man, talk about a brazen news dump:

I’ll give the Mavericks credit. I, too, would have taken the opportunity to share that my new hopeful franchise player — acquired in a much-maligned trade of a beloved face of the team — wouldn’t be seen in live game action again for a month in the middle of something like the Super Bowl.

Sometimes, it’s good to take the easy way out!

However, everyone’s still going to notice when you do. That is an unfortunate and evergreen caveat.

Patrick Mahomes vowing to come back stronger after deflating Super Bowl loss should terrify the NFL

A motivated Patrick Mahomes is awful news for the NFL.

Let’s make no mistake. The Philadelphia Eagles earned the second Super Bowl championship in franchise history in convincing fashion. They were the NFL’s best team this year, and they showed it on the biggest stage in American sports on Sunday.

Put another way: the Kansas City Chiefs never stood a chance.

Nonetheless, I can’t help but shake the feeling about what a motivated Patrick Mahomes will look like after taking the second Super Bowl loss of his career on the chin. The three-time Super Bowl MVP made his thought process very clear after the Chiefs’ 40-22 defeat in New Orleans. This, after he was showing so much emotion at the end of the game.

Mahomes compared this loss in Super Bowl 59 to the beatdown his Chiefs received in Super Bowl 55 from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. To follow up that loss, Mahomes took Kansas City to three Super Bowls in four seasons, winning two of them.

After professing that his latest Super Bowl defeat will motivate him even more, I’m a little scared about what Mahomes will unveil next:

Mahomes doesn’t turn 30 until mid-September of next season. He’s officially played in five of the last six Super Bowls. Knowing what kind of great player he is, we’re still probably only at the start of Mahomes’ dominance over the NFL.

And a Mahomes that promises to come back stronger from a low point in his career is a player every team in the league should fear.

Jordan Brand’s ‘Love, Hurts’ commercial for Jalen Hurts is just so incredibly cool

This is the smoothest commercial ever.

Jalen Hurts has always been incredibly cool.

That’s just how it’s always been with him. He’s not giving you much in interviews. You’ll rarely catch him showing too much emotion on the field. He’s just always even-keel.

For some, that’s boring. But for others? You know the vibes, man. You know what it is.

Jordan Brand knows what it is.

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The brand released a commercial for Jalen Hurts after the Eagles won the Super Bowl and it was just the coolest thing ever. It’s just Jalen Hurts playing ball while we listen to the sweet, soothing sounds of Teddy Pendergrass in the background.

The video finishes with the tagline “Love, Hurts.” Incredible

So smooth. Fly, Eagles, fly.

Patrick Mahomes was holding back tears at the end of the Chiefs’ humbling Super Bowl loss

This was a tough way for Patrick Mahomes to go out.

In the end, the Kansas City Chiefs were one game from completing the first-ever Super Bowl three-peat in NFL history. But given the way the Philadelphia Eagles dominated them on Sunday night (a 40-22 final score was not at all reflective of how the game went), it sure felt like Kansas City was never that close to history.

Patrick Mahomes’ emotions throughout the Chiefs’ humbling defeat told the story.

There was Mahomes literally pouting after throwing a pick-six to Cooper DeJean near the end of the first half. Later, with the Chiefs’ loss officially cemented in the final minutes, Fox cameras captured the three-time Super Bowl MVP clearly holding back some tears as he made peace with his second career defeat in the Big Game:

Man, that’s such a brutal way for the NFL’s best player to go out. But knowing Mahomes, he will only come back stronger after this. He’s too great of a player to be down for long.

For now, Mahomes will have to roost in another loss on the biggest stage in American sports.

Jalen Hurts was characteristically calm in his postgame Super Bowl victory interview

For a guy who just won the Super Bowl, Jalen Hurts was SO calm.

New Super Bowl-winning quarterback Jalen Hurts was cool as a cucumber after securing his first championship.

Not that you should expect anything else from Jalen (he’s efficient with his words), but the man was so calm after he won his first ring. He held it together much better than any other quarterback I’ve ever witnessed win their first ring.

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“God is good,” Jalen said when asked how it felt to finally win a championship. “Personally, myself, I’ve just been able to use every experience and learn from it … using it as fuel to pursue my own greatness. And I think I couldn’t do any of these things without the guys around me.” After he finished his thoughts, he simply just smiled.

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The 2025 Super Bowl’s 6 most unhinged commercials, including Tubi’s bizarre cowboy skin hats

These were so bad.

The 2025 Super Bowl commercials were, well, weird.

I’m not sure I expected them not to be strange because there are usually a few every year. However, I’m not sure I was prepared for the gravity of this year’s bunch. It started with Skechers’ Martha Stewart commercial where she was supposed to be gliding (dancing?) in her shoes. Sure.

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Then, it went downhill fast. What in the world was that Mountain Dew and Seal commercial? WHY? JUST WHY!?! I’m all for a good pun, but I’m so confused about how that even became a thing. However, it wasn’t the only lousy commercial on Sunday evening. There were plenty more, including Tubi’s horrific cowboy skin hats commercial that I can’t even explain. WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS?! EXPLAIN YOURSELF.

Here’s five more unhinged commercials from the 2025 Super Bowl:

Sketchers with Martha Stewart dancing

Mountain Dew and Seal 

Coffee Mate’s Cold Foam 

Reese’s Lava

Tostino’s Alien

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Tom Brady roasted Kevin Hart during the 2025 Super Bowl broadcast

WELP.

Fox analyst Tom Brady roasted Kevin Hart during Sunday night’s Super Bowl broadcast.

Brady’s ridiculous memory and petty side came out during the Chiefs-Eagles title game. Known Eagles fan Kevin Hart was enjoying the clinic his team was putting on, so naturally, cameras found him. Well, Tom wasn’t very amused by that decision—likely still some bitterness from jokes dropped during The Roast of Tom Brady—and lit into Kevin.

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“Kevin Hart’s here? How do the cameras find Kevin Hart?” Brady said, surprised. However, he wasn’t done. He made more to get off his chest. “Kevin, I love you. You took so many shots at me in May. I’m coming right back at you.”

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DeVonta Smith broke Alabama’s incredibly weird Super Bowl TD drought

What a weird streak.

Think about all of the incredible players who’ve come from Alabama during Nick Saban’s regime alone.

Mark Ingram, Derrick Henry, Julio Jones. There’s plenty more where that came from on both sides of the ball. You can dig even deeper in Bama’s history to find even greater players, too.

Somehow, despite all of that talent, none of them have ever scored a touchdown in a Super Bowl.

No, you’re not reading that incorrectly.

No player drafted directly out of Alabama has ever scored a touchdown in a Super Bowl. Not until today, that is.

With this Jalen Hurts bomb to DeVonta Smith, the former Heisman trophy winner became the first Crimson Tide player to score a Super Bowl TD.

 

No idea how this hasn’t happened until now, but at least Crimson Tide fans have some good news today after missing the College Football Playoff.

Kendrick Lamar had the whole Super Bowl crowd singing ‘A minor’ during Not Like Us for halftime show

Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show was iconic.

Kendrick Lamar performed at halftime of the Super Bowl on Sunday night, unsurprisingly putting on an incredible show. The 20-time Grammy winner had Samuel L. Jackson as his emcee, SZA as a guest star and a surprise appearance from tennis legend Serena Williams.

His performance of his five-time Grammy-winning diss track, “Not Like Us” was highly anticipated, and the rapper broke it out near the end of his set.  Much like his performance at the Grammys last weekend, Lamar had the entirety of the 75,000+ crowd in the Superdome singing along with his iconic “A minor” line.

It was deafening.

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Patrick Mahomes literally pouted after throwing a wild pick-6 to Cooper DeJean

Patrick Mahomes was SO upset with himself after this brutal sequence.

It would be an understatement to say it was a rough start for the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday’s Super Bowl.

Through an entire half of play, the Chiefs’ offense gained just a single first down as Patrick Mahomes (two interceptions) struggled to sustain a consistent rhythm against the Philadelphia Eagles’ ferocious pass rush. Meanwhile, Jalen Hurts’ Eagles offense more or less did whatever it wanted while building a seemingly insurmountable 24-0 lead.

(And this was WITH a controversial offensive pass interference penalty on A.J. Brown.)

The Chiefs’ struggles culminated with Mahomes throwing a brutal pick-six to Eagles’ defensive back Cooper DeJean at the halfway mark of the second quarter. It was a positively stunning sequence:

After the play, Fox cameras caught Mahomes going through all the emotions before literally pouting over his mistake:

It was that kind of half for Mahomes and the Chiefs: listless.

Unfortunately, you don’t get do-overs on the first 30 minutes, either.