Enemy Reaction, Super Bowl 59 edition: Eagles demolish the Chiefs!

The Philadelphia Eagles soared to victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, exacting revenge on the team that beat them 38-35 two seasons ago in Super Bowl 57. There would be nothing close to 38 points for the Chiefs, while the Eagles dropped a 40-ball on Kansas City with relative ease. It’s a common statement that the sequel is worse than the original; this was true from a neutral perspective in terms of a close game with a lot of drama and it was very true for Chiefs fans. It sure as hell was the best sequel ever for the Eagles and their fans.

As is tradition, Enemy Reaction closes with the Super Bowl, regardless of who’s in it and who wins it. We’ve had scant opportunities to highlight Chiefs fans in meltdown mode, but today is that day. We’ll also check in on meltdowns from Eagles rivals and joy from Chiefs rivals.

Eagles game thread comments are from Bleeding Green Nation, while Chiefs comments are from Arrowhead Pride.

Halftime update

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Post-Game: Chiefs’ most important offseason question rests with Patrick Mahomes (Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star)

There’s winning a football game — the ultimate football game — and then there’s scarring a team so badly that it loses its own belief.

The Chiefs possess now what they never desired: an offseason removed from the celebratory spotlight, left to debug the virus of what just happened. That falls on coach Andy Reid, too. He owns part of this, and maybe a lot of it, though same as he owns three Super Bowl rings and two more trips there in the last six seasons.

This team will look different next year. It could potentially look a lot different. Trey Smith, Nick Bolton and Justin Reid are pretty high-profile free agents. We don’t know what decision Travis Kelce will make about his future.

But the most important question hanging over this offseason doesn’t rest with free agency, Kelce or even the left tackle.

It rests with the guy Fangio tested and lived to tell about it.

It rests with the guy who, if you happen to live in Kansas City, you should want to be responsible for the future.

It rests with Mahomes.

There was no point, as the confetti feathered to the Superdome turf, as the Eagles and everyone who loves them let waves of euphoria wash over them Sunday night, to be anything but direct and succinct and true: What happened here was the greatest victory in the greatest season in the history of Philadelphia sports.

That is not an exaggeration, not an overstatement, not hyperbole. With their 40-22 victory in Super Bowl LIX over the Kansas City Chiefs, with a performance so dominant that only the caution and cynicism that once defined Philadelphia fandom could have caused doubt to seep into anyone’s mind from the first quarter on, the Eagles completed a remarkable five months of football.

They played 21 games and won 18 of them. They did more than avenge their loss to the Chiefs two years ago in Super Bowl LVII. They did more than get the better of their old head coach, Andy Reid, and the best quarterback in the NFL, Patrick Mahomes. They did more than prevent the Chiefs from becoming the first team to win three consecutive Super Bowls. They made the Chiefs look foolish for even daring to think that a “three-peat” was possible. They made the league’s reigning dynasty look like a bad high school team.

Post-Game Audio: Eagles radio call of the final seconds

Post-Game Video: Chiefs fans stunned into silence, leave early (DRM News)

We still thank the Chiefs for not playing like this when they faced the San Francisco 49ers twice.

And that’s a wrap for the 2024 NFL season. Now it’s time to fully focus on the latest Seattle Seahawks offseason, which is the first full one under head coach Mike Macdonald.

Thanks for reading and go ‘Hawks!