Eagles deny Chiefs Super Bowl 2025 "three-peat" with dominant win. Here are the game highlights.
What to know about the Eagles 2025 Super Bowl title and the score
In a Super Bowl rematch rife with storylines but low on drama, the Philadelphia Eagles crushed the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 Sunday at the Superdome in New Orleans, earning the franchise's second Super Bowl title and denying the Chiefs what would have been a historic "three-peat."
The teams' second Super Bowl meeting in three seasons held nothing of the intrigue of their first. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts threw for two touchdowns and rushed for a third, and kicker Jake Elliott connected on four field goals.
Along with 221 yards passing, Hurts led the team in rushing with 72 yards on the ground. Despite throwing one early interception, his performance earned him Super Bowl MVP honors.
It was vindication for an Eagles team that was criticized throughout the season for appearing to lack cohesion under head coach Nick Siriani, and that sometimes appeared out of sync.
"That's a great football team, and we had to come out and play our best, and we did," a jubilant Siriani said after the game. "... Let's run this back."
Hurts and the Eagles got revenge for their 38-35 Super Bowl loss to the Chiefs two years ago that was mired by a controversial holding call in the closing minutes.
"Personally, myself, I've just been able to use every experience and learn from it," Hurts said. "The good, the bad, all of it, using it as fuel to pursue my own greatness. I couldn't do any of these things without the guys around me."
Even more impressive was that the Eagles resounding victory came despite a lackluster performance from All-Pro running back Saquon Barkley, who rushed 25 times for 57 yards.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes struggled mightily throughout the night, throwing two interceptions, one that was returned for a touchdown, and losing a fumble on a strip-sack. He was sacked six times in total, as the Eagles dominated on both sides of the ball.
Mahomes had more interceptions Sunday, two, than in his other 20 playoff games combined, according to CBS Sports' Jeff Kerr.
Super Bowl score
The Eagles opened the scoring midway through the first quarter with a rushing touchdown from Hurts on their patented "tush push" play, giving them a 7-0 lead. A 48-yard Jake Elliott field goal midway through the second quarter extended their lead to 10-0.
Then the floodgates opened. Mahomes threw an interception that was returned for a 38-yard touchdown by rookie cornerback Cooper DeJean, on his 22nd birthday no less.
With under two minutes to play in the first half, Mahomes threw his second pick, this time to Eagles linebacker Zack Baun, deep in Chiefs territory. That set up a 12-yard touchdown catch for Eagles receiver A.J. Brown moments later to extend the lead to 24-0.
Elliott converted on a 27-yard field goal midway through the third quarter to give the Eagles a 27-0 lead. When the Chiefs failed to convert a fourth-down play on the following drive, the Eagles delivered what was the dagger when Hurts connected with Devontae Smith on a 46-yard touchdown pass to push the margin to 34-0.
The Chiefs finally got on the board late in the third quarter when Mahomes hit Xavier Worthy for a 24-yard touchdown. The scoring drive also marked the first time in the game the Chiefs offense had gotten into Eagles territory.
The Chiefs scored two garbage-time touchdowns to keep the margin respectable, but it was too little too late.
This is only the second Lombardi Trophy of the Eagles storied franchise. Their first came in 2018 when backup quarterback Nick Foles led a shocking playoff run that culminated in the Eagles defeating Tom Brady's New England Patriots in a Super Bowl LII shootout.
And it was Brady who called Sunday's Super Bowl for Fox.
President Trump, meanwhile, was in attendance at Sunday's Big Game, the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl. But he departed at around halftime and returned to Washington, D.C. In a pretaped Fox interview that aired just prior to the game, Mr. Trump had predicted a Chiefs win.
Before kickoff, the president came onto the field and met with first responders and survivors of the New Year's Day truck attack on Bourbon Street which killed 14 people.
Jalen Hurts named Super Bowl MVP
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has been named Super Bowl MVP.
Hurts threw for two touchdowns and rushed for a third. Along with 222 yards passing, Hurts also added 72 yards on the ground.
"Personally, myself, I've just been able to use every experience and learn from it," Hurts said after the game of his ability to bounce back after losing the Super Bowl to the Chiefs two years ago. "The good, the bad, all of it, using it as fuel to pursue my own greatness. I couldn't do any of these things without the guys around me."
Nick Siriani gets the Gatorade treatment
Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Siriani was unable to escape the cursory Gatorade bath as his players dunked him just minutes before his team claimed the Lombardi Trophy.
Mahomes commits his third turnover of the game
The Chiefs again turned the ball over with under 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter when Patrick Mahomes was strip-sacked near midfield.
The fumble was Mahomes' third turnover of the game. The Eagles lead 37-6.
Chiefs finally get on the board with Xavier Worthy TD
The Kansas City Chiefs have finally scored their first points late in the third quarter when Patrick Mahomes hit Xavier Worthy for a 24-yard touchdown. The Chiefs failed on the ensuing two-point conversion, giving the Eagles a 34-6 lead.
The scoring drive marked the first time the Chiefs got into Eagles territory. It also kept them from becoming the first team to be held scoreless in a Super Bowl.
The Dolphins hold the record for the fewest points scored in a Super Bowl, when they suffered a 24-3 loss in Super Bowl VI in 1972.
Eagles deliver what could be the dagger with Smith 46-yard TD grab
When the Chiefs failed to convert a fourth down play, the Eagles delivered what could be a dagger when Jalen Hurts connected with Devontae Smith on a 46-yard touchdown pass to push the Eagles lead to 34-0.
The struggling Chiefs offense finally crossed midfield for the first time in the game with under 2:30 to play in the third quarter.
Chiefs All-Pro defensive tackle Chris Jones limps off during 3rd quarter
Chris Jones, the Chiefs All-Pro defensive tackle, suffered what appeared to be a leg injury midway through the third quarter.
With the Eagles with the ball on a 2nd and goal play with about six minutes to play in the third, Jones came up hobbling on a Saquon Barkley run. He eventually went to the sideline after a television timeout.
His status for the rest of the game was unclear.
Kendrick Lamar performs "Squabble Up," "HUMBLE.," with Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam
Kendrick Lamar "squabbled up" with actor Samuel L. Jackson dressed as Uncle Sam at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, and was joined by singer SZA.
The Grammy-winning rapper went through some of his older hits, including "HUMBLE.," and "DNA," as well as songs from his new album, including "peekaboo" and "Luther," featuring SZA.
Lamar closed the show with record and song of the year "Not Like Us."
Tennis star Serena Williams also made a surprise appearance as one of Lamar's dancers.
Another Mahomes interception sets up an A.J. Brown TD, giving Eagles 24-0 lead
Patrick Mahomes threw his second interception of the day with under two minutes to play in the first half.
The throw, intercepted by Eagles linebacker Zack Baun at Kansas City's 14-yard line, set up an A.J. Brown 12-yard touchdown catch from Jalen Hurts moments later to give the Eagles a dominant 24-0 lead.
According to CBS Sports NFL writer Jeff Kerr, Mahomes has more interceptions today than in his other 20 playoff games combined.
Mahomes throws pick-6 to rookie DeJean as Chiefs offensive struggles continue
The Eagles went up 17-0 midway through the second quarter on a pick-6 from Patrick Mahomes. The throw intended for DeAndre Hopkins with just over seven minutes to play before halftime was intercepted by Cooper DeJean, who returned it 38 yards for the score.
DeJean's touchdown comes on his 22nd birthday. The rookie who was taken in the second round by Philadelphia.
The Chiefs first four drives have ended in three punts and an interception returned for a touchdown.
The stars are out for Super Bowl LIX, from Taylor Swift to Bradley Cooper
There are no shortage of stars in attendance at Super Bowl LIX. Here are some of those who have graced the Superdome with their presence.
Eagles take 7-0 lead on a Jalen Hurts "tush push"
The Eagles have opened the scoring, capping off a solid drive midway through the first quarter with their patented "tush push" — also known as the "brotherly shove" — a one-yard rushing touchdown by quarterback Jalen Hurts, giving them a 7-0 lead over the Chiefs.
The touchdown was the culmination of a seven-play, 69-yard drive.
Victims of Bourbon Street terror attack honored during pregame ceremony
The 14 victims of the truck attack on New Orleans' Bourbon Street were honored before the Big Game.
Family members of victims in the Jan. 1 attack and emergency responders held photos of the them on the field at the Superdome, which is located just a mile away from Bourbon Street.
President Trump also met briefly on the field with first responders and family members of the victims.
Those killed in the attack were:
- Kareem Badawi, 23, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Martin Bech, 27, of New York City New York
- Andrew Dauphin, 26, of Montgomery, Alabama
- Nikyra Dedeaux, 18, of Gulfport, Mississippi
- William DiMaio, 25, of Holmdel, New Jersey
- Hubert Gauthreaux, 21, of Gretna, Louisiana
- Terrence Kennedy, 63, of New Orleans, Louisiana
- Reggie Hunter, 37, of Prairieville, Louisiana
- Nicole Perez, 27, of Metairie, Louisiana
- Brandon Taylor, 43, of Harvey, Louisiana
- Matthew Tenedorio, 25, of Picayune, Mississippi
- Elliot Wilkinson, 40, of Slidell, Louisiana
- Edward Pettifer, 31, of London
- Latasha Polk, 45, of New Orleans, Louisiana
Eagles opening drive ends on controversial penalty
The Eagles started the game with the ball, but a promising opening drive came to an end on a dubious offensive pass interference call on wide receiver A.J. Brown after making a spectacular fourth down catch in Chiefs territory.
The sights of the Super Bowl pregame show, from Jon Batiste to the "Human Jukebox"
Here's a look at some of the memorable moments of the Super Bowl pregame ceremony, from a performance by Southern University's "Human Jukebox" marching band, to the Jon Batiste's rendition of the national anthem.
How much do 2025 Super Bowl commercials cost?
Advertisers are shelling out close to $8 million on average for a 30-second spot during Super Bowl LIX, Peter Bray, founder and executive creative director at ad agency Bray & Co., told CBS MoneyWatch.
He estimates that around 51 minutes of advertising has been sold for the approximately three to four hour broadcast this year, making the total amount of ad sales somewhere in the hundreds of millions.
The close to $8 million price tag is almost a million dollars more than the $7 million it cost for a 30-second spot in Super Bowl 2024. Commercial air time during the NFL Championship in 2023 was also about $7 million for 30 seconds, a 55% jump from 2019.
Super Bowl advertising costs are "creeping up," said Bray, who believes ad sales for the broadcast will soon reach $1 billion.
What a Chiefs "three-peat" could mean for NBA legend Pat Riley's pocketbook
If the Chiefs win Sunday and make history with their third Super Bowl title in a row, one of the biggest winners won't be on the field.
Pat Riley, the NBA coaching legend and current president of the Miami Heat, just happens to own the trademark for the term "three-peat." He legally locked down the term in 1988 when he was head coach of the showtime Los Angeles Lakers.
"The foresight here is pretty impressive, because obviously, 'threepeat' has become a valuable term," said Alexandra Roberts, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law.
Roberts explains that Riley's trademark even includes various spellings.
"Every different iteration of this term that you could imagine, he has registered," Roberts said.
So if a U.S. team achieves the rarefied air and wins three championships in a row, they may have to pay Riley to use "three-peat" on their championship merchandise, from hats to shirts.
"I understand he's licensed it a few times in the past for $300,000, $600,000. Putting that in 2025 terms, we're already well into the millions," Roberts said.
Earlier this week, CBS News asked Chiefs owner Clark Hunt if he would be willing to pay to put "three-peat" on merchandise.
"We've got a very difficult task on Sunday playing a very good Philadelphia Eagles team," Hunt responded. "If we're lucky enough to win the game, we'll worry about the trademark issues."
Riley himself has never three-peated as a coach or executive. Since he trademarked the term, only a handful of American professional teams have achieved it, including MLB's New York Yankees, the NBA's Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, and the WNBA's Houston Comets.
Eagles, Chiefs players arrive for Super Bowl
Players for the Chiefs and Eagles turned up for the Super Bowl in style.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes wore all green, the color of the Eagles, while Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts wore purple.
While Mahomes wore green, Eagles receiver DeVonta Smith donned a suit in red, the primary color of the Chiefs. The Eagles shouted Smith out as being "Dressed for the occasion."
Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce wore a 1970s inspired Super Bowl outfit the NFL called "from another era." Teammate DeAndre Hopkins, a wide receiver, wore a coat his late father left him.
Trump arrives at Superdome
President Trump has arrived at the Superdome in New Orleans. Mr. Trump walked the field and posed with law enforcement officers who had responded to the New Year's Day truck attack which killed 14 people, along with wounded victims who survived it.
His attendance comes after Fox aired a pretaped interview with the president in which he discussed Elon Musk's work with the Department of Government Efficiency, as well as his support for the idea of Canada becoming a 51st state.
Trump says he is serious about Canada becoming the 51st state
In an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier ahead of the Super Bowl Sunday, President Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state.
"Yeah it is," when asked if his threats to annex Canada are a "real thing."
"I think Canada would be much better off being the 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada. And I'm not going to let that happen," he said. "Why are we paying $200 billion a year, essentially a subsidy to Canada?"
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was caught on a hot mic on Friday saying that President Trump's talk of making Canada the 51st U.S. state is "a real thing," Canadian public broadcaster CBC reported.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing," the Black national anthem, will be sung by Ledisi at the Super Bowl
Singer Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is widely known as the Black national anthem, at the start of the Super Bowl.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has a short Super Bowl history, but the song itself has been around since 1900, when it was first performed by a choir of 500 schoolchildren in Jacksonville, Florida. It was written by James Weldon Johnson, who considered the piece a hymn.
There will also be an American Sign Language performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by actor Stephanie Nogueras.
In Super Bowl interview, Trump says Elon Musk is "not gaining anything" with DOGE
President Trump said in pre-Super Bowl interview that he trusts Elon Musk, who has already exerted massive influence at the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency, especially since Musk is "not gaining anything" in the role.
"I wonder how [Musk] can devote the time to it," Mr. Trump told Fox News. "He's so into it."
Mr. Trump sat down with Fox News host Bret Baier at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend before Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. Mr. Trump will be the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl.
Mr. Trump said he was surprised that no previous sitting president had attended and said he thought it would be "good for the country for a president to be at the game."
Are new helmets reducing concussions in the NFL?
Ten years ago, the NFL began teaming up with helmet manufacturers to try to build safer equipment.
"If you look at a helmet from say 20 years ago and compare it to today's helmet, there's several major changes. We have materials that do a better job at absorbing force and not transmitting that force to the brain," Neurosurgeon Dr. Allen Sills, chief medical officer for the NFL, told CBS News. "We've got better padding inside there. It's placed strategically within the helmet in different places based again on where we expect force to occur and how we want to minimize that force."
Aside from improving equipment, the NFL has tried to reduce concussions by increasing player awareness and by changing certain rules, including starting teams closer to each other and farther downfield on kickoffs to lower the odds of high-speed collisions.
"The headline coming out of the 2024 season is that 2024 saw the fewest number of concussions on record in the NFL," Jeff Miller, who heads up health and safety for the league, said at a press conference last month.
In 2024, there were 182 concussions during practices and regular season games — a 17% drop compared to the previous season, which saw 219 in 2023.
— Leigh Ann Winick, Sara Moniuszko
Who's singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl?
Multi-talented performer Jon Batiste will sing the national anthem Sunday.
The multi-Grammy winner is set to open the game at kickoff at 6:30 p.m. EST. He told Entertainment Tonight last month that he hopes his performance "lasts the test of time."
The 38-year-old was the bandleader for "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" from 2015 to 2022. He also was the co-composer for the Pixar animated movie "Soul."
His documentary "American Symphony" won a Grammy for best music film this month, along with his song "It Never Went Away" from the documentary for best song written for visual media.
Some Super Bowl ads already live online
Super Bowl LIX is expected to draw more than 120 million viewers Sunday, making it one of the most-viewed television events of the year.
With an audience of that size, a few ad spots are reportedly selling for a record $8 million. That compares with a 30-second spot selling for about $7 million during last year's game.
Beyond the investment on securing Super Bowl air time, advertisers spend additional millions on creating their commercials, adding to the pressure for their investments to pay off.
This year's mix of ad categories for the most part includes the usual suspects: beverages, snacks, tech companies and telcos, according to Mark Evans, executive vice president of ad sales for Fox Sports. There will be a focus on AI in more commercials, he said, and slightly more pharmaceutical companies advertising this year.
Click here for some of the ads you can already watch online.
What is at stake Sunday
A win Sunday would cement the Chiefs Patrick Mahomes as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, giving him an unprecedented four Super Bowls, all before the age of 30. It would also carry extra meaning for Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, who led the Eagles for 14 seasons before his firing in 2012.
But this could prove the toughest Super Bowl challenge for the Chiefs of any in the Mahomes era. This Eagles team is arguably more talented than the one from two years ago, with the NFL's leading rusher in Saquon Barkley, and one of the stoutest defenses in the league.
The Eagles are seeking just the second title of their storied franchise. Their only Lombardi Trophy came in 2018 on the back of an extraordinary playoff upset run led by backup quarterback Nick Foles, culminating in his defeat of Tom Brady's New England Patriots.
And in a twist, Brady will be broadcasting Sunday's Super Bowl for Fox.
For Super Bowl, NFL scrapping "End Racism" end zone stencil in favor of "Choose Love"
The NFL is stenciling "Choose Love" in the back of one of the end zones at the Superdome for the Super Bowl on Sunday in what the league says is an effort to encourage the country after a series of tragedies over the first six weeks of the year.
It's not using "End Racism" for the first time since the NFL began using Super Bowl end zone stencils.
"The Super Bowl is often a snapshot in time and the NFL is in a unique position to capture and lift the imagination of the country," league spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement this week. "'Choose Love' is appropriate to use as our country has endured in recent weeks wildfires in Southern California, the terrorist attack here in New Orleans, the plane and helicopter crash near our nation's capital and the plane crash in Philadelphia."
"It Takes All of Us" will be stenciled in the other end zone as it's been since the league began using field stencils in 2020 for the NFL's Inspire Change initiative.
Teams this season have selected "Vote," "End Racism," "Stop Hate," or "Choose Love" for the other end zone.
Who is favored headed into Super Bowl LIX?
Just hours before kickoff, sportsbooks have the Chiefs as 1.5-point favorites over the Eagles, a number which has remained steady throughout the past week.
The game is expected to be high-scoring, with an over-under of 48.5, according to sportsbooks. The two teams combined for a 73-point shootout in their first Super Bowl meeting.
The Chiefs 15-2 record this season is somewhat deceptive, eking out wins, with the team only going 8-9 against the spread, per Covers.com. The Eagles finished with a 14-3 record but went 11-6 against the spread. The Chiefs finished 11th in the NFL with a regular season point differential of plus-59, according to StatMuse, while the Eagles finished second with a point differential of plus-160.
How much are Super Bowl tickets?
As of Thursday, the cheapest nosebleed Super Bowl seats in the Superdome were going for about $3,400 with fees on Ticketmaster, while on StubHub the cheapest tickets were listed for significantly less at just under $2,550 with fees.
Ticket packages sold directly by the NFL start at roughly $6,700 per person and include amenities along with the seat, like access to tailgate parties, meet-and-greets with football stars, and free food and drinks.
The priciest tickets were on the ground level near the Chiefs' area on the field. Seats in that section cost around $8,650 on StubHub, with comparable seats costing up to $12,000 on Ticketmaster.
Who's performing at the Super Bowl halftime show?
Rap megastar Kendrick Lamar is headlining the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX halftime show.
This is not the first time Lamar has graced the halftime show stage. He performed at Super Bowl LVI in 2022 during an ensemble act that also featured the likes of Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and 50 Cent.
Lamar will be joined on stage by special guest SZA, the league announced in January.
The two are set to go on a 19-city North American tour that kicks off in April. The duo has collaborated on songs "30 for 30," "luther," "Gloria," "All the Stars" and "Doves in the Wind."
Super Bowl menu ideas and recipes
From burgers, hot dogs, tacos, BBQ and wings, to salsas and cocktails, here are some tempting recipes and menus from top chefs, cookbook authors and restaurateurs to go with watching the Big Game.
They include the likes of Eddie Jackson's Cajun sticky wings, Erik Blauberg's ultimate chili with watermelon and Guy Fieri's chicken avocado egg rolls.