Super Bowl LVII facts for kids

Super Bowl LVII was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2022 season. It was the 57th Super Bowl and was played on Sunday, February 12, 2023, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, with kickoff time at 4:30 PM MST (UTC-7). The American Football Conference (AFC) champion Kansas City Chiefs defeated the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles, 38–35. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was named the game's Most Valuable Player.

Both teams finished the regular season with a league-best 14–3 record. The Chiefs were playing in their fifth overall Super Bowl, having played previously in Super Bowls I, IV, LIV and LV. The Eagles were looking for their second Super Bowl victory after Super Bowl LII, having also appeared in XV and XXXIX. Three of the previous five Super Bowls had featured either the Chiefs or the Eagles, though this was the first time the two teams would meet in the championship. The Chiefs' victory was their second in four years and their third overall.

After the Eagles went into halftime up 24–14, the Chiefs mounted a comeback to win the game 38–35 with a Harrison Butker game-winning field goal. The 73 combined points was the third-highest scoring Super Bowl game, and the 35 scored by the Eagles were the most by the losing team in the Super Bowl. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was named Super Bowl Most Valuable Player (MVP), completing 21 of 27 passes for 182 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing six times for 44 yards. Mahomes became the first player since Kurt Warner in 1999 to win an NFL MVP and a Super Bowl title in the same season.

It was the fourth Super Bowl hosted by the Phoenix metropolitan area, with the most recent previously being Super Bowl XLIX in 2015, also held at State Farm Stadium (then called University of Phoenix Stadium). Fox's broadcast of the game is the second most watched program in American television history, behind Super Bowl XLIX. The game was seen by an average of 113 million viewers, with it reaching 118.7 million during the halftime show, which was headlined by Rihanna.

The game had many problems. The players could not play at full speed because the field was too slippery and the referee let the Chiefs win the final call of the game.

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  State Farm Stadium in February 2023, shortly before Super Bowl LVII

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  Patrick Mahomes became the first player to win the league MVP and the Super Bowl in the same year since 1999.

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  Winning 16 of his last 17 starts, Jalen Hurts became the eighth quarterback to start a Super Bowl before his 25th birthday and the youngest in Eagles history.

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  A.J. Brown's 45-yard touchdown catch allowed Philadelphia to retake the lead at the beginning of the second quarter.

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  Harrison Butker's 27-yard field goal gave the Chiefs a 38–35 lead with eight seconds left in the game.

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In Spanish: Super Bowl LVII para niños