Super Bowl LVII pits the Philadelphia Eagles against the Kansas City Chiefs. Both teams are looking for their second Lombardi Trophies in the post-merger era. The Chiefs, who sent the American Football League out of business in the best way possible with a 23-7 win over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV at the end of the 1969 season, also won Super Bowl LIV, at the end of the 2020 season, by a 31-20 score over the San Francisco 49ers.
The Eagles finally got the franchise’s first Super Bowl win in LII at the end of the 2018 season, beating the New England Patriots, 41.33.
The storylines are compelling. Andy Reid was the Eagles’ head coach from 1999-2012, compiling a 130-91-1 regular-season record and a 10-9 postseason mark that included an appearance in Super Bowl XXXIX — a 24-21 loss to the Patriots at the end of the 2004 season. Reid, hired by the Chiefs before the 2013 season, has a 117-45 regular-season mark, and an 11-7 postseason record, including that Super Bowl LIV win.
Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts are making history as the first starting Black quarterbacks to face each other in a Super Bowl, and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Eagles center Jason Kelce are the first brothers to face each other in a Super Bowl.
The matchups in this game are even more interesting. And here’s where we at Touchdown Wire have endeavored to give you as much quality analysis as possible to get you ready for the big game. Here are all of our tape-heavy, stat-loaded previews, to (hopefully) give you all the insight you need to watch the game with a very full brain!