Miami Gardens, Florida (CNN)Patrick Mahomes keeps rewriting the NFL history books, and the wait for the Kansas City Chiefs -- and for their head coach -- is finally over.
A half century after winning their first, the Chiefs have won Super Bowl LIV, overcoming a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter and defeating the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 at Hard Rock Stadium.
With that feat, the Chiefs are the first team in NFL history to win three games after trailing by 10 or more points in a single postseason.
Mahomes, last year's league MVP, is now a Super Bowl MVP. He has joined Ben Roethlisberger and Tom Brady as the only quarterbacks to hoist a Lombardi Trophy before their 25th birthday.
"We kept believing," Mahomes said. "That's what we did all postseason. I felt like if we were down by 10, we weren't playing our best football. The guys really stepped up. They believed in me. I was making a lot of mistakes out there early. We found a way to win it in the end."
At 24 years and 138 days old on Sunday, Mahomes became the fifth-youngest quarterback to start in the Super Bowl and the second-youngest quarterback to win it (Roethlisberger, at 23, is the youngest).
Mahomes is also now the youngest player to win both an NFL MVP award and a Super Bowl title, surpassing Pro Football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith (24 years, 233 days old on the last day of his MVP 1993 season).
Mahomes is the third African American quarterback to win a Super Bowl, joining Doug Williams (with Washington in Super Bowl XXII in 1988) and Russell Wilson (Seattle, Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014).
And it's the first title for Andy Reid, 61, who up until Sunday night had been known as the best head coach to have never won a Super Bowl or NFL championship. This was his second Super Bowl appearance in his 21-year head coaching career.
Now, with career win No. 222, Reid is a champion. He broke the record for the most wins (including the playoffs) by a head coach before winning it all, surpassing 2020 Pro Football Hall of Famer Bill Cowher's 152 wins.
"I'm really excited," Reid said. "You get one, you want to go get another one, but we got to backpedal for about a minute here and enjoy this one and we'll get busy on the next one."
Said Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt: "Nobody deserves this trophy more than Andy Reid."
SOURCE: CNN
