LAS VEGAS (AP) — Live updates from the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. Kickoff is about for six:30 p.m. ET, and the sport will air on CBS and Nickelodeon:
An enormous roar went up when Kansas City gained the toss. Either Chiefs followers felt that was unusually essential on this sport — or lots of people had guess on heads.
KC deferred its option to the second half, that means the 49ers get the ball first.
Reba McEntire made fast however majestic work of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
The “Queen of Country” sang the nationwide anthem moments earlier than kickoff, backed by a recorded observe of a rustic band with a horn part. Flag-bearing service members stood behind her, an enormous U.S. flag coated many of the subject, and navy jets flew over Allegiant Stadium as she sang.
She obtained by means of the track in about 1 minute 40 seconds. That’s a great 10 seconds longer than the over-under from oddsmakers, however nonetheless the quickest model of the anthem on the Super Bowl since Kelly Clarkson sang it 12 years in the past.
Grammy-nominated musician Post Malone sang “America the Beautiful,” bringing his distinctive vocal tone — most often paired along with his idiosyncratic method to pop-rock-rap — to the Super Bowl.
Wearing a bolo tie and enjoying acoustic guitar, Malone’s tackle the track was twang-y, his Texas roots taking a entrance seat. Mid-song, cameras lower to Taylor Swift and Blake Lively holding one another and having fun with the efficiency. Earlier this week, Malone’s breakout hit, “Sunflower,” with Swae Lee — launched for the “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” soundtrack — was named the first-ever double-diamond single in Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) historical past.
Andra Day gave a stirring, gospel-flavored rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a track that has turn out to be referred to as the Black nationwide Anthem, earlier than kickoff.
Day, sporting a grey go well with, was backed by a choreographed choir. Day advised the AP throughout the week that she deliberate to calm her nerves with pregame prayers.
Hers was the primary of three anthemic performances. After the groups take the sector, Post Malone will carry out “America the Beautiful” and Reba McEntire will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
The Chiefs are set for his or her fourth Super Bowl in 5 seasons. A win in opposition to the 49ers will make the Chiefs the primary crew to repeat since New England did it in 2003-04. That’s the longest stretch with out a repeat champion in NFL historical past. With a win, Patrick Mahomes will turn out to be the fifth QB to win no less than three Super Bowls and Andy Reid the fifth coach to win no less than three Super Bowls.
The 49ers are again within the Super Bowl in search of their record-tying sixth championship. The Niners haven’t gained all of it for the reason that 1994 season, dropping of their previous two journeys within the 2012 season and 2019 in opposition to Kansas City. Brock Purdy has gone from the final choose of the 2022 draft to changing into the third youngest quarterback to begin a Super Bowl and is in search of to affix Hall of Famers Joe Montana and Steve Young as QBs to steer San Francisco to a title.
This Super Bowl comes with bottle service, no less than for these prepared to pony up six figures to take a seat in a number of the NFL’s most unique seating situated on the sector simply past the north finish zone.
There are 29 cubicles, every seating as much as 15 folks. Fans who occupy these cubicles obtain wait service, entry to non-public bars and a particular entrance.
Former Raiders Super Bowl MVPs Fred Biletnikoff, Jim Plunkett and Marcus Allen “lit” the Al Davis Memorial Torch earlier than the sport.
It’s a Raiders custom for somebody of be aware to gentle the digital torch throughout Las Vegas residence video games. Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and recording artist and actor Ice Cube had been amongst those that turned on the torch this season.
The torch is 92 toes excessive, the world’s tallest three-dimensional printed construction.
Biletnikoff was the Super Bowl 11 MVP, main the Oakland Raiders to a 32-14 victory over the Minnesota Vikings. Plunkett quarterbacked the Raiders to a 27-10 win over the Philadelphia Eagles 4 years later.
Allen was the MVP of the Raiders’ lone championship after they had been in Los Angeles. The Raiders defeated the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Super Bowl 18.
Running again Jerick McKinnon and broad receiver Skyy Moore had been energetic for the Kansas City Chiefs for the primary time in almost two months for his or her Super Bowl showdown with the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
McKinnon and Moore, who each performed a vital position within the Chiefs’ win over the Eagles within the Super Bowl final 12 months, haven’t performed since Dec. 17 in New England. McKinnon had surgical procedure for a core harm in early January and was thought-about questionable to play in opposition to the 49ers, whereas Moore spent a stint on injured reserve with a lingering knee harm.
Wide receiver Kadarius Toney, who additionally had a TD in opposition to the Eagles, was not energetic on Sunday.
Brock Purdy’s meteoric rise from last choose of the 2022 draft to Super Bowl beginning quarterback is full.
Purdy is on the brink of begin within the Super Bowl 11 months and at some point after present process main elbow surgical procedure. Purdy’s comeback from the harm to his throwing arm suffered in final season’s NFC championship loss to the Philadelphia Eagles has been a part of the storybook begin to his profession that began as Mr. Irrelevant because the 262nd choose within the 2022 draft.
The 24-year-old Purdy is the third youngest quarterback to begin a Super Bowl, behind solely 23-year-olds Dan Marino and Ben Roethlisberger.
With a win Sunday, Purdy would be a part of Hall of Famers Joe Montana and Steve Young as the one QBs to steer the Niners to a title.
Taylor Swift’s arrival at Allegiant Stadium even drew the curiosity of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who visited her in a luxurious suite earlier than the sport.
Goodell spoke glowingly Monday concerning the pop star’s impact on the NFL.
“Taylor is obviously a dynamo,” he stated. “Everything she touches, there are people following. We count ourselves fortunate, and we welcome it.”
Kelce’s brother, Jason, hugged Swift within the suite, and Swift launched him to Ice Spice. Jason Kelce performs for the Philadelphia Eagles however has totally supported his brother throughout the playoffs. The two confronted one another in final 12 months’s Super Bowl.
Kristin Juszczyk arrived on the Super Bowl in a snazzy jacket that features her husband Kyle’s 49ers jersey and his Harvard protect. Kyle is a fullback out of Harvard who performs for San Francisco.
Kristin has turn out to be a star after designing a coat worn by Taylor Swift that appeared like a jersey of her boyfriend, Kansas City tight finish Travis Kelce.
Taylor Swift completed her epic trek from the Tokyo Dome to Allegiant Stadium for the Super Bowl on Sunday. She arrived with Blake Lively and some others sporting a black high with black pants and a purple jacket slung over her shoulder.
Swift is available to observe Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce, whom she has been relationship for the reason that first couple of weeks of the season. She carried out in Japan on Saturday evening earlier than a flight throughout 9 time zones and the worldwide date line to achieve the U.S.
The mom of Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce arrived for the sport sporting a jacket with “SUPER BOWL LVIII” and “MAMA KELCE” on the again. In final season’s Super Bowl, Travis Kelce’s Chiefs defeated his brother Jason Kelce’s crew, the Philadelphia Eagles.
Instead of a matchup between two brothers, the Kelce household is within the highlight this 12 months due to Travis’ relationship with pop star Taylor Swift. Donna Kelce has appeared in a set alongside Swift this season.
The San Francisco 49ers are 2 ½-point favorites in opposition to the Kansas City Chiefs forward of their Super Bowl matchup, in response to FanDuel Sportsbook.
The 49ers are -134 favorites to win the sport, whereas the over/below sat at 46.5 factors.
Despite being the underdog, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is the favourite to win Super Bowl MVP at +150, adopted by 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy at +210.
Travis Kelce performed in opposition to Jason Kelce final 12 months, when the Chiefs beat his large brothers’ Eagles within the Super Bowl in Arizona. But Jason was totally behind the Chiefs on Sunday, sporting purple and yellow plaid overalls over a T-shirt that learn, “Big Yeti,” his nickname for Travis.
The brothers host “New Heights,” one of many hottest podcasts within the nation. And as soon as the Eagles had been knocked from the playoffs, Jason started following the Chiefs. He famously took off his shirt throughout a celebration in Buffalo, and he watched the Chiefs win the AFC title in Baltimore.
Reba McEntire walked into Allegiant Stadium for the Super Bowl about 3 1/2 hours earlier than kickoff Sunday sporting a puffy, grey fake fur coat and holding fingers together with her companion, Rex Linn.
McEntire is because of carry out the nationwide anthem earlier than the Kansas City Chiefs play the San Francisco 49ers in a rematch of the Super Bowl 4 years in the past in Miami. She can have so much to reside as much as after Chris Stapleton’s efficiency final 12 months in Arizona acquired excessive reward.
Super Bowl ticket costs stay out of attain for a lot of followers who made journey reservations months in the past to return to Las Vegas this week, in order that they’ll probably be watching on TV like hundreds of thousands of others.
To purchase tickets days earlier than the sport will be pricey. This 12 months they’re going for roughly $7,700 — although that’s about $2,000 lower than they had been two weeks in the past.
Carl Bray, a Cincinnati fan, booked his journey to the Super Bowl two months in the past and got here despite the fact that the Bengals didn’t make it.
“I don’t have tickets yet, but I got the hotel, flight, and I thought ‘Welp, if I lock into something, I’ll go,’” Bray stated. “If not, I’ll just go to MGM or someplace and watch it.”
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes paid homage to the crew that calls Allegiant Stadium residence when he confirmed up for the Super Bowl on Sunday sporting a jet-black go well with and silver tie that made him appear to be a fan of the AFC West-rival Las Vegas Raiders.
Mahomes gave the impression to be all enterprise behind his black shades as he wheeled alongside his matching black Louis Vuitton baggage by means of the corridors of the stadium. He is attempting to maneuver right into a tie for fourth behind Tom Brady, Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw by choosing up his third Super Bowl ring.
Gates to Allegiant Stadium opened simply after 11 a.m. native time, unleashing a flood of followers in purple. Five San Francisco 49ers followers had been the primary let by means of the gates.
“Woo!” They yelled. “First ones in! We’re the first ones!”
Tony and Susan Chiosso traveled to Las Vegas from the Bay Area to observe their first-ever Super Bowl and, they hope, witness their crew defeat the Kansas City Chiefs.
They assume their luck to date this morning is an efficient indicator of which crew will come out on high.
“I’m only seeing good signs today,” Tony Chiosso stated.
Will she make it in time? Intrepid flight trackers on-line appear to assume so.
On social media, followers of Taylor Swift and aviation journalists imagine they’ve recognized Swift’s personal jet, labeled “The Football Era.” It arrived from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport to Los Angeles’ LAX airport simply after 3:30 p.m. native time Saturday.
Her transportation plans onward to Las Vegas, the place her boyfriend, NFL star tight finish Travis Kelce, will play in Sunday’s Super Bowl, have but to be revealed.
If the Chiefs beat the 49ers for his or her third Super Bowl title in 4 journeys over the previous 5 years, will probably be for one easy cause: expertise.
The Chiefs can lean on what they realized and endured over a dominant six-year run with Patrick Mahomes at quarterback. In truth, when the Chiefs beat the 49ers in Miami for his or her first title throughout this run, San Francisco quarterback Brock Purdy, broad receiver Brandon Aiyuk and lots of others had been nonetheless in faculty.
Throw in the truth that Chiefs coach Andy Reid might be in his fifth Super Bowl, the third most in NFL historical past, and has an opportunity to win a 3rd ring, and the information on the Kansas City sideline might be a bonus too large for the 49ers to beat.
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The 49ers had Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs on the ropes 4 years in the past within the Super Bowl in the beginning fell aside, resulting in a 31-20 loss that also stings at present.
The distinction when the groups meet within the rematch on Sunday? This time, the 49ers can have a quarterback in Brock Purdy who’s able to making a giant play down the stretch.
Purdy has gone from “Mr. Irrelevant” as the ultimate choose within the 2022 draft to the franchise quarterback who has elevated coach Kyle Shanahan’s offense in lower than two years. He led the NFL in passer ranking (113) and yards per try (9.6), along with his means to throw deep and scramble including new wrinkles to the offense.
Purdy additionally has a much better group of playmakers than the one which surrounded Jimmy Garoppolo 4 years in the past.
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As lengthy as they nonetheless have one another, they’re nonetheless going to go to each Super Bowl.
That’s the sentiment shared by three buddies who say they’re the ultimate followers who can declare membership within the unique “never missed a Super Bowl” membership. And they’re again once more for quantity 58 — Super Bowl 58 — this 12 months.
The three followers, all of their 80s, are Don Crisman of Maine, Gregory Eaton of Michigan and Tom Henschel, who splits time between Florida and Pennsylvania. The three are gathering this weekend in Las Vegas for the massive sport, they usually’re hoping they’ll all make it to the sixtieth version of the sport two years from now.
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Before Taylor Swift grew into a worldwide celebrity and the speak of this Super Bowl, she obtained her singing profession began by performing the nationwide anthem at sporting occasions as a younger baby and teenager.
She sang the anthem earlier than 45,900 followers at Game 3 of the 2008 World Series. The U.S. Open. NASCAR. The World Series. Yes, even the Double-A Reading Phillies.
Swift was an unsigned artist who appeared for any sort of break by belting out the track concerning the land of the free and the house of the courageous in entrance of as many packed crowds as she might discover.
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Dozens of Indigenous activists have traveled to Las Vegas to collect outdoors the Super Bowl and demand the Kansas City Chiefs change their title and ditch their emblem and gametime rituals.
Rhonda LeValdo based and leads a gaggle known as Not In Our Honor that’s calling for the modifications. The Acoma Pueblo journalist and school member at Haskell Indian Nations University has been within the Kansas City space for greater than twenty years.
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One of the largest fears in relation to soccer’s largest video games is {that a} high-profile officiating mistake will play a task within the consequence.
So the seven on-field officers will get loads of display screen time when the Kansas City Chiefs face the San Francisco 49ers in Sunday’s Super Bowl.
The referee in command of the crew in black-and-white unforms might be Bill Vinovich. He was additionally the referee when the Chiefs beat the 49ers within the Super Bowl 4 years in the past — and when the Rams beat the Saints within the 2019 NFC championship sport after an notorious missed name.
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Advertisers might be pulling out all of the stops on Super Bowl Sunday — enlisting the largest actors, investing in probably the most dazzling particular results and, they hope, going for laughs as they search to win over viewers.
Most corporations seem like doubling down on flights of fantasy or gentle humor, usually with a dose of nostalgia and a number of mini-reunions of TV characters.
Big names like Jennifer Anniston, Christopher Walken, Arnold Schwarzenneger, Ice Spice, Jenna Ortega, Lionel Messi, Tom Brady, “Judge Judy” Judy Sheindlin, Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner Usher and extra will seem throughout sport breaks. And as all the time, there’ll nonetheless be some gameday surprises.
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Millions of Americans will discover one thing to be enthusiastic about in relation to Super Bowl Sunday. That’s earlier than even factoring within the affect of Taylor Swift.
Four in 10 U.S. adults are extraordinarily or very excited for no less than one a part of the Super Bowl day’s festivities. That could possibly be the sport, commercials, halftime present or the Puppy Bowl, in response to a brand new ballot from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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Trent Williams’ accomplishments are already worthy of a Hall of Fame profession with 11 Pro Bowl bids, three first-team All-Pro alternatives and close to common recognition as the perfect left deal with of his technology.
All that was lacking for the San Francisco 49ers star was one thing he by no means envisioned could be attainable as he spent the primary decade of his profession mired within the dysfunction and ineptitude in Washington.
Williams has gotten that lacking piece along with his first probability to play within the Super Bowl this week in opposition to Kansas City.
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Captains of a Hawaii highschool soccer crew whose city was destroyed by a lethal wildfire are on the Super Bowl as friends of the NFL.
The 4 college students and three of their coaches are serving as honorary coin toss captains earlier than the sport.
A little bit greater than two months after the Aug. 8 fireplace, tickets for the Lahainaluna High School homecoming sport bought out in minutes. That was a sign of how badly Lahaina residents wanted a glimmer of hope amid a tragedy that claimed no less than 100 lives.
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