Philly helped to preserve a bit of history for the Packers.
For many fans of the Green Bay Packers, the possibility of another team matching something that only the Packers have done in NFL history was enough to sway their rooting interest in Super Bowl LIX. The Kansas City Chiefs’ opportunity to three-peat would have been the first time an NFL team pulled off that feat entirely in the Super Bowl era and would have written them into the history books next to the Packers as the only teams to ever do it.
Instead, the Philadelphia Eagles dominated on Sunday evening, beating the Chiefs 40-22 in a game that was a bigger blowout than even that final score indicated. And in so doing, they ended the Chiefs’ streak at two.
The Packers can also take some measure of solace in knowing that their own loss in this year’s postseason came at the hands of the eventual Super Bowl winners. That Wild Card contest wasn’t a pretty game and the Packers were largely outclassed from the opening kickoff, but this may still provide some fans with a bit of comfort.
Now that the game is over, it’s time to move right ahead to looking at 2025. The NFL Combine will start up in just over two weeks, with free agency another two weeks after that. There’s no down time in this league, and the Packers are surely already hard at work trying to figure out how to improve their roster and figuring out if there are any lessons they can learn from the new Super Bowl champs.
(Spoiler alert: it’s a good thing when both of your team’s lines are dominant.)
Dominant Eagles defense fueled by Chiefs’ three-peat talk – ESPN
Eagles defensive players said they used the Kansas City Chiefs’ three-peat talk as fuel for Philadelphia’s dominant Super Bowl LIX performance on Sunday, with defensive end Brandon Graham saying, “That was motivation because it was kind of a slap to us.”
As Patrick Mahomes Chases Three-Peat, Never Forget Packers’ Bart Starr | SI.com
Even if Mahomes and the Chiefs had won on Sunday, they still would have been chasing a ridiculous mark that Starr and the Lombardi-era Packers put up: five titles in seven years.
Super Bowl 2026 odds: Eagles open as early favorites while Chiefs fall – The Athletic ($)
The Packers look like they’re around +2000 in most places, which feels like a pretty great value bet.
Packers QB Jordan Love admits he fought through adversity of injury in 2024 | Packers Wire
Love acknowledged that he strained his groin around midseason because he was compensating for his injured knee. Clearly he wasn’t 100 percent at any point this last season, so hopefully he will be more healthy in 2025.
Former Packers defensive backs coach Dick Jauron dies at 74 | Packers.com
Jauron was the head coach of both the Bears and the Bills after his time in Green Bay, where he worked under three different coaches.
Google’s Gemini AI was wrong about cheese in its Super Bowl ad | Fortune
THIS OUTRAGE SHALL NOT STAND.