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Football professional Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift after the game
Photo: Julio Cortez / AP
The Kansas City Chiefs are in the Super Bowl again. The defending champions in the National Football League won 17:10 at the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday and will face the San Francisco 49ers (34:31 against the Detroit Lions) in two weeks.
In Baltimore, Chiefs professional Travis Kelce showed his best game of the season. The friend of pop superstar Taylor Swift scored the first touchdown of the hard-fought game and caught a total of eleven passes for 116 yards.
After the game, he picked up a kiss and a hug from his extremely celebrity girlfriend. The couple was still walking arm in arm across the pitch long after most of Kelce's teammates were in the dressing room.
"It's been a great year, we're not done yet," said Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. »We were the underdogs in the last two games. But we never feel like outsiders.«
In the final again – for the fourth time in five years
Mahomes won the duel with Lamar Jackson from the Ravens. In addition to his touchdown pass, Mahomes had throws for a total of 241 yards, Jackson also finished the game with a touchdown and passes for a total of 272 yards - albeit also one bad pass. The Chiefs are now in the Super Bowl for the fourth time in the last five years. A win on Feb. 11 in Las Vegas would be the team's second straight title, third in the past five years and fourth in team history. The Ravens haven't been to the Super Bowl since winning in February 2013.
Jackson provided a highlight in the offensively better first half when he caught his own pass attempt that had previously been deflected by a Chiefs defender. The preliminary decision was a scene in the final quarter when the ball was knocked out of Ravens professional Zay Flowers' arms just before the end zone and the Chiefs gained possession of the ball without conceding any points.
Flowers scored the hosts' only touchdown in the first half and had a strong, but ultimately unfortunate, game. The Chiefs, for their part, were also unable to capitalize on the next attack, but got the ball back a second time with an intercepted pass.
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