Social media sleuths claim they already have all the evidence they need to predict the winner of Super Bowl LIX.
The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Buffalo Bills in a narrow 32-39 AFC Championship victory Sunday to punch their ticket to their fifth Super Bowl in six years down in New Orleans where the Philadelphia Eagles lie in wait.
The Chiefs and Eagles will clash at Caesars Superdome in the Big Easy on February 9 when Philadelphia will look to enact revenge for Super Bowl LVII.
The 2023 Super Bowl saw Kansas City emerge victorious with a 38-25 win over the Eagles in Arizona, marking their first victory of a potential historic three-peat.
However, internet detectives have already dismissed the Chiefs’ chances of sealing an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl, claiming history is not on their side.
Social media user Jay Cuda uncovered an interesting Super Bowl record that could be key to the Chiefs’ downfall.
He noted that there have been eight Super Bowls played in cities located in between the two competing teams’ hometowns so far this century.
On all eight occasions, the team that traveled east towards the Super Bowl host city has lost the NFL’s season finale.
The record held true just last year when the Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas with Brock Purdy and co. being the team to travel east to the Nevada desert.
This year, the East Coast Eagles will have the honor of making the 1,200-mile southwesterly trip down to the Crescent City.
While the Chiefs will also be heading down south, Kansas City does lie to the west of the Louisiana hotspot, rendering the reigning Super Bowl champions the east-traveling team and, if history repeats itself, the losing franchise.
The pattern has proven to be the demise of the Niners twice in the past as they and the St Louis Rams fell victim to the curse the last two times the Super Bowl was held in New Orleans.
In 2013, the 49ers were on the wrong end of the Louisiana voodoo when they lost the Big Game to the Baltimore Ravens, having been the team to travel east.
Meanwhile, another east Coast team emerged victorious in New Orleans in 2002 when Tom Brady won his first of six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots against the St Louis Rams.
It would come as a huge blow to the Chiefs who are looking to achieve a feat no NFL team has accomplished before on February 9.
The Chiefs became the fourth team in NFL history to reach three straight Super Bowls Sunday.
They join the 1971-1973 Miami Dolphins, the 1990-1993 Buffalo Bills (who made it four times in a row), and the 2016-2018 New England Patriots.
Now, they have the chance to become the first team in the history of the NFL to win three consecutive Super Bowl titles.
But NFC champions Jalen Hurts and the Eagles – and apparently history – stand in their way.
