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Super Bowl LIX is just days away, and the champion of the 2024 NFL season will be either the Kansas City Chiefs or the Philadelphia Eagles. While the NFC champion Eagles are seeking their second Super Bowl title in franchise history following their maiden crown in 2017, the AFC champion Chiefs are eyeing their third successive championship -- uncharted territory for any NFL team.
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Legendary quarterback Tom Brady knows a thing or two about the pressure intrinsic to the biggest game on the league's schedule. The Super Bowl is where heroes are forged -- Brady won this game seven times as a player, an NFL record. But he never did what Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are four quarters from doing.
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Brady reveals Super Bowl LIX rooting interest: Chiefs or Eagles?
Brady and Kevin Burkhardt are set to call Super Bowl LIX for FOX Sports -- and just days before the game, Brady has revealed what he will be looking for from the eventual winner of this Super Bowl.
"The only thing I root for in these situations are great games," Brady said on his "Let's Go!" podcast. "I will say if the Chiefs win, I will be very happy for them. I mean, what they've achieved is unmatched."
Brady, like Mahomes now, dealt with his share of haters throughout his 23-year career, which began with the New England Patriots (where he won his first six Super Bowls) and ended with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brady beat Mahomes and the Chiefs in Super Bowl LV; the Chiefs have lost one postseason game since and now rest on the precipice of NFL history, despite a wave of complaints over how many close games Kansas City plays and perceptions of favorable treatment from referees, as well as the league itself.
"I think that's cool because people always hated on us for so many years. And I didn't understand it because all I did was like -- we try to do things the right way, we try to go out there and compete for our job and win," Brady said. "There's an excellence that I appreciate about people who are doing other things at really high levels, because you understand the commitment that it takes for them to do what they're doing. And to be in this country and to not cheer for excellence is beyond me."
Another factor that perhaps informs Brady's opinion is the fact that his Patriots lost to these Eagles in Super Bowl LII following the 2017 season, while he went a perfect 2-0 against Mahomes and the Chiefs in the playoffs. Super Bowl LII was Brady's final Super Bowl as a Patriots player, and his NFL career could have ended differently (maybe in New England) had the Pats won that frantic finale at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
Still, Brady may get his "wish" for a Kansas City three-peat. Since the betting line was introduced on Sunday, the Chiefs have maintained their place as slight favorites; as of Tuesday afternoon, the Eagles are 1.5-point underdogs.