At the end, Harrison Butker offered the victory to the Kansas City Chiefs against the Cincinnati Bengals this Sunday. Patrick Mahomes’ team returns to the Super Bowl.
The Chiefs of Patrick Mahomes, heroic despite a painful right ankle, defeated the Bengals (23-20) at the end of the suspense, Sunday in Kansas City, and will play the 5th Super Bowl in their history, against Philadelphia on February 12.
It was Harrison Butker’s boot, three seconds from the siren, which delivered the fans present at Arrowhead Stadium, after a very close and indecisive meeting.
And Mahomes, holding his place a week after spraining his right ankle against Jacksonville, made that epilogue possible. Despite the pain that woke up in the second half, he found the strength to run nine yards to bring Butker close enough to the poles, at 45 yards all the same.
The two best regular season teams
Previously, the Chiefs quarterback had shone with his throws, first finding his favorite receiver Travis Kelce who did not disappoint him for the first touchdown (13-3) in the second quarter. He then sent the ball into the hands of Marquez Valdes-Scantling to regain the lead (20-13) in the third quarter.
The two best teams of the regular season (14 wins and three losses each), the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, will face each other on February 12 in Glendale, Arizona.
Mahomes will have to take advantage of the two weeks that separate him from the Super Bowl, to rest and heal himself, if he wants to offer Kansas City a second title in three years.
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