The Kansas City Chiefs confirmed themselves as champions at Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas thanks to a heart-pounding finish against the San Francisco 49ers that reached overtime and in which quarterback Patrick Mahomes broke the tie for the umpteenth time: 25 to 22 on final results.
"We are waiting for you at the White House.
With three victories in five seasons the Chiefs are not just champions, they are a dynasty", President Joe Biden proclaimed on accompanied to Washington by girlfriend Taylor Swift.
“There's no way she'll support him, I made her earn too much money,” Donald Trump had anticipated the blow before the match, whose followers see the Midnights superstar as a loose cannon: in the last elections Swift voted for Biden and could come back here in November to give him the endorsement.
Travis and Taylor were among the protagonists of the most followed event in the country and which keeps over one hundred million people glued to the TV (the last legacy, it has been said, of the pre-Internet era).
She had come from Tokyo playing on the time difference to applaud her new teammate's team.
"Viva Las Vegas" he shouted until he lost his voice before the highly anticipated passionate kiss to the megastar who came onto the field to join him.
The show, interrupted by million-dollar commercials (the omnipresent ones from the Chinese e-commerce site Temu), was exciting and full of entertainment.
In the stands, 'A' celebrities, from Lady Gaga to Jay-Z and Beyonce.
Taking advantage of a Verizon carousel, Queen Bey announced her next album - in country style, but exploring the African-American roots of the white Southern American musical genre - which will be released at the end of March.
With Taylor, framed sparingly by the CBS cameras, the entire extended family was gathered: Travis' parents and brother Jason, who plays with the Philadelphia Eagles, but also mom and dad Swift and little brother Austin, plus her friends Blake Lively (ex Gossip Girls) and the rapper Ice Spice with whom she duetted in the remake of Karma.
And karma was in the front row in the match in which the 49ers, hungry for victory, started with the advantage.
The San Francisco team had reached the final of the Super Bowl the last time in 2020 and were defeated by the Chiefs.
If Travis also stole the show for a dramatic moment in which he lost his temper with the 65-year-old coach Andy Reid, making him even stagger (and giving rise to countless memes on social media), Patrick Mahomes gave emotions to athletes, who at 28 years old confirmed himself as Tom Brady's heir.
In his fourth Super Bowl, Mahomes is now the first African-American quarterback to win three times.
At half time, the mid-game show whose protagonists perform for free for the privilege of being chosen, Usher reigned: the R&B superstar had invited him to accompany him in his first performance at the Super Bowl (he had also been guest of the Black Eyed Peas) Alicia Keys, Little Jon, Ludacris and Era in a medley of 14 hits from a 30-year career summed up in just 13 minutes.
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