Another Super Bowl has come and gone, and there is a lot to talk about.
The first half of last Sunday’s game wasn’t exactly a barnburner. The Kansas City Chiefs came out looking horrible, fumbling the ball all over the place, while the San Francisco 49ers weren’t much better, but better enough to hold a lead going into halftime. Sufficed to say, the first 30 minutes didn’t live up to the hype.
The half-time show with Usher was entertaining but nothing that will be remembered for years, ala Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake in 2004. It was nice to see Alicia Keys, though.
The second half was much better football and the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes ended up getting things together. Things came down to the wire with the Chiefs tying the game at 19-19 with mere seconds left to send it overtime. However, an earlier missed extra point is really what cost the 49ers the game as they would have been up by a single point.
In overtime, the new rules state that both teams get a chance on offense, even if the first team scores a touchdown. After the 49ers looked like they had something going, they ended up with a field goal to go ahead 22-19. The Chiefs then marched down the field, but at times looked like they were finished. However, Mahomes was able to scramble and scratch for every yard and get them down into the red zone, where able to win the game with a touchdown pass to a wide-open Mecole Hardeman for the win.
The backstory of the game was almost more exciting than the action, as Taylor Swift’s relationship with Chiefs tight end Jason Kelce has led to the annoyance of some NFL fans and right-wingers. This created an “us versus them” mentality, which in the end, is quite silly. I will say, there were a lot of photos of Taylor Swift on the NFL’s Instagram page after the game.
Whatever your feelings on all of this, it drew attention. Super Bowl 58 ended up being the most-watched television program ever in the United States with 123+ viewers.
