The Kansas City chiefs are targeting a historic triplet of Super Bowl titles on Sunday when they face the Philadelphia Eagles in front of a starred crowd in New Orleans led by US President Donald Trump. Stident criticism of the National Football League over the years, Trump will become the first president in office to attend the Super Bowl when he will take place among a closed windows of around 74,000 fans at the Superdome Caesars for the largest annual event on the American sports calendar.
The Superstar of Pop Taylor Swift will also be in the VIP seats to watch its boyfriend Travis Kelce and his teammates of the Chiefs tried to become the first team in history to raise three consecutive trophies from Vince Lombardi.
The presence of Trump during the centerpiece of the NFL will increase security around an event which was already protected by a strong police presence after the attack on the New Year which left 14 dead and many others injured in the famous district of Bourbon Street of Big Easy.
“I am convinced that the safest place this weekend will be under the aegis of security that we have set up (the superdome),” said Cathy Lanier, the NFL security director this week. “We have examined and revised all the events of January 1.”
Trump’s revolutionary attendance in the match is added to a context of a tense relationship with the NFL which dates back several decades, when it sought to reach the League as a owner in the early 1980s to be postponed.
Trump also triggered an outcry during his first mandate as president when in 2017, he criticized the NFL players who kneeling during the game of the American national anthem to draw attention to racial injustice.
The players of the Sunday match have so far traveled a diplomatic line when they were asked for the presence of Trump, with the quarter of chefs Patrick Mahomes saying that playing in front of the American chief would be “cool”.
New Orleans fans have expressed hope that Trump will not politicize the opportunity.
“I hope that fundamentally, he enters and he is at his headquarters and they like to keep him silent. I just want it to be a fun game and not be political,” a teacher from Virginia told AFP.
As always, the Super Bowl crosses popular culture and the part-time show this year will star in the artist Hip-Hop Kendrick Lamar, who experienced clean scan during the Grammys last Sunday, winning in the five categories for which he received nominations.
Bookmakers and casinos take on a probability of the question of whether the star of chefs Kelce will offer pop icon swift after what could be his last match in the NFL. According to information, the information said that the 35 -year -old was considering retirement after the Super Bowl.
American sports books, now legal in 38 states, could take around 1.39 billion dollars in Paris on the Super Bowl according to an annual report by the American Gaming Association (AGA).
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For the most serious bettors, the ratings have the chiefs as a slight favorite for the match, a revenge match of the Super Bowl two years ago that the chiefs won by three points.
The chiefs defended their title last year, beating the 49ers of San Francisco in Las Vegas and putting them a victory far from an unprecedented “three peat”.
The 29 -year -old Mahomas will become one of the four -quarters of NFL history to have won more than three Super Bowls if he triumphs again, after driving the chiefs to the glory of the Super Bowl in 2020.
But the Eagles have added a serious offensive firepower since their defeat two years ago with the Mobile quarterrier Jalen Hurts joined by the speed and revolutionary power of the Ballon Saquon Barkley.
The Chiefs put the final touch to their preparations for the Super Bowl on Saturday with a procedure of 30 minutes of a simulated match.
Chiefing coach Andy Reid praised his team’s attitude towards training throughout the week since arriving in Louisiana.
“I thought the guys worked hard, they did what they needed to do,” said Reid.
The Eagles had a last session of the same session before going to the Superdome on Saturday for a team photo.
Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni said his players were “hungry” and “ready to ride”.
“We are ready for the challenge of a very good team,” said Sirianni.
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