Patrick
Mahomes
'
Kansas City Chiefs
and
Brock Purdy
's
San Francisco 49ers
play for glory this Sunday in a clash of titans in the
Super Bowl
, organized for the first time at Allegiant Stadium in
Las Vegas
, a city paralyzed for the most important event. important of the year in American sports.
The match will be played starting at 8:30 p.m. (Argentine time) and will be televised by
ESPN
and
Fox Sports
.
All in one match
.
The Chiefs are sixty minutes away from winning their second consecutive Super Bowl and the third since 2020. The 49ers, just one step away from raising the Vince Lombardi trophy to the sky after 29 years of waiting.
Although in the City of the Game the 49ers start as slight favorites, the Chiefs of Mahomes, the most representative quarterback in the NFL who is only compared to Tom Brady, highlighted that they have different ideas.
"I understand that we're not favorites, we've had ups and downs throughout the season, but I never feel like an underdog in a game
," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said at a Thursday news conference.
The Chiefs reach the last act of the season after overcoming a most demanding path in the playoffs.
Their eleven wins and six losses in the regular season forced them to play three games, two of them away from home, to reach Las Vegas.
They eliminated the Miami Dolphins and then won at the Buffalo Bills and MVP Lamar Jackson's Baltimore Ravens.
Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce, who led the Chiefs to four Super Bowls in five years, showed up in key moments.
The quarterback is building a dynasty in Kansas City and this Sunday will become the first player of his position to start in four Super Bowls before turning 30.
He will need his best version to knock down the 49ers who arrive in Las Vegas hungry for glory.
They have won five titles in their history, but they have not won the Vince Lombardi Trophy since 1995 and they already lost a Super Bowl against the Chiefs in 2020.
The 49ers were also defeated by the Baltimore Ravens in the 2013 Super Bowl, but this year they arrive with maximum confidence in a stellar team, led by quarterback Brock Purdy, and with an arsenal of offensive resources led by Christian McCaffrey, Deebo Samuel and George Kittle.
McCaffrey was honored last Friday as the best offensive player, after a season in which he totaled 1,459 rushing yards and fourteen touchdowns.
He totaled 564 yards and seven touchdowns per reception.
Along with Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk and Kittle, the 49ers were the third best offensive team in the NFL, with 491 points scored.
A $2 billion stadium
Allegiant Stadium, opened in 2020, is the second most expensive stadium in the United States with a cost of nearly $2 billion, an investment surpassed only by SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, which cost $4.9 billion.
The Las Vegas stadium, home of the Raiders, has capacity for 65,000 spectators and tickets for the Super Bowl, a few hours before the match, are still on sale on online platforms for figures between $5,700 and $45,000. .
Although the price has dropped in the last few hours, many 49ers and Chiefs fans who came to Las Vegas without a ticket will see the game in some bars in the city.
On the Las Vegas Strip there is a clear numerical superiority of 49ers fans, many of them of Latin origin.