Chiefs Comeback to Win Super Bowl

The Kansas City Chiefs pulled off a 31-20 comeback win over the San Francisco 49ers last night (February 2nd), rallying from being down by 10 points with just under six-and-a-half minutes left to play at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, to nab the franchise's first Super Bowl championship in 50 years.

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who was named the game MVP, finally found his spark in the second half of the fourth quarter, leading the Chiefs to three touchdowns in five minutes for their third straight win this postseason after being behind by 10 points or more. The victory also gave Andy Reid his first Super Bowl ring in two decades as head coach, having previously won a championship as tight ends coach with the Green Bay Packers in 1996.

Stats:

• The 24-year-old Mahomes is the youngest quarterback to be named Super Bowl MVP, and the third-youngest player overall, behind Marcus Allen and Lynn Swan.
• The 49ers are just the third team in Super Bowl history to give up a 10-point lead in the second half.
• The Chiefs' only other championship was in Super Bowl IV in 1970 over the Minnesota Vikings. In their one other Super Bowl appearance, they lost the very first one in 1967 to the Green Bay Packers.
• 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan was the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Braves three years ago when they suffered their own Super Bowl collapse and lost to the New England Patriots in overtime after having been up 28-3 midway through the third quarter.

Kobe Bryant Tribute:

The teams paid tribute to L.A. Lakers great Kobe Bryant, who was killed in a helicopter crash one week earlier along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people. The Chiefs and 49ers players lined up for a moment of silence, standing on their respective 24-yard lines in tribute to Bryant's Number 24 jersey. Several players also wore cleats during warmups with tributes to Bryant, and during Fox's pre-game show, the 49ers' Richard Sherman read a poem called, "Dear Football," adapting most of it from "Dear Basketball," the poem Kobe wrote as a way of announcing that he'd be retiring after the 2015-16 NBA season. Sherman ended by saying, "We love you Kobe. We love you Gianna. Love always, Richard."

"AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL"




Renowned gospel singer Yolanda Adams performed a riveting rendition of “America the Beautiful” before the game. Standing atop a giant white football, the Texas legend was joined by the Children’s Choir of Miami for the pregame exhibition.

NATIONAL ANTHEM

Demi Lovato crushed her performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” continuing her big music comeback after taking a year-and- a-half hiatus following a drug overdose. Many applauded Lovato’s rendition of the U.S. National Anthem, which earned massive applause at Hard Rock Stadium and praise from the online community.

THE HALFTIME SHOW




Shakira and Jennifer Lopez took to the stage during the halftime show and belted out some of their best known hits. The set included “Whenever, Wherever” and “Waka Waka” by Shakira and “Waiting for Tonight” and “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” by Lopez, among a slew of their other club anthems. The singers performed on a circular stage that was elaborately lit as fireworks erupted from the top of the Hard Rock Stadium.

'Ass Time' Show

During the performance, Shakira, dressed in a red sequin outfit, performed a belly dance with a rope that led into her iconic song “Hips Don’t Lie.” Then Lopez took to the stage in black leather while holding on to the antenna of a mock skyscraper and sang her thumping hit about her Bronx beginnings, “Jenny from the Block.” She then ran through a medley of her classic tunes as leather-donned backup dancers performed complex routines.

Lopez commanded the stage in a perfectly choreographed rendition of “Get Right,” joined Shakira in a salsa number and welcomed her daughter Emme on the field for a duet of “Let’s Get Loud” and “Born in the USA” -- while donning a cape with both the Puerto Rican and American flags.

She had five outfit changes and props, including a pole, in a tribute to her Hustlers character. At points J Balvin and Bad Bunny took the stage, continuing the celebration of Latin musicians.




"Groundhog Day," a brilliant 60-second reprise from Jeep starring Bill Murray, finished first in USA TODAY's Ad Meter, which ranks Super Bowl ads by consumer rating . The spot barely beat out Hyundai's "Smaht Pahk" commercial in which John Krasinski, Chris Evans, Rachel Dratch, and David “Big Papi” Ortiz marvel over the car's ability to park itself. Round out the Top 5 in voting were Google's "Loretta," Doritos' "The Cool Ranch" and Rocket Mortgage's "Comfortable."

Advertisers paid up to $5.6 million for a 30-second Super Bowl ad this year. Celebrities, as always, were everywhere, and advertisers kept things funny and playful, steering away from some of the more political or social cause-focused ads of the last few years. The most notable exceptions were the two campaign ads from President Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg. Both featured African-American women, Bloomberg's a mother whose son was lost to gun violence, and Trump's Alice Johnson, who was freed from prison after being granted clemency.

USA Today' Ad Meter: USA Today held its annual Ad Meter review of the Super Bowl commercials in which people register online and vote on the ads. The full results, including the most popular and least popular ads, will be available today as of 8:15 a.m. ET

Spotted at The Super Bowl:

• Apple's Eddy Cue and Paul McCartney, which prompted speculation about a future collaboration.
• Jeff Bezos and Lizzo. The Amazon chief says he's "100% the singer's biggest fan."
• Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall, Lachlan Murdoch, Fox Sports chief Erik Shanks and Fox Entertainment chief Charlie Collier.