After that catch by Kelce for a first down, Mahomes is 8 for 8 for 76 yards and one touchdown as we near the end of the first quarter.
Jackson hooked up with Zay Flowers on a remarkable 30-yard TD pass.
The Ravens QB amazingly escaped the rush of Chiefs LB Leo Chenal to heave the ball deep to Flowers.
The game had an unexpected pause — an administrative timeout — that sent viewers to commercial.
When the game came back, Jim Nantz said it was because of a drone. We don’t know much more than that, at least for now. Drone incidents have been an ongoing problem, one that the NFL and members of Congress have expressed concerns about.
Ravens tight end Mark Andrews with his first catch of the game — and his first catch since week 11 of the NFL regular season.
Andrews was recovering from a serious injury ankle that left Baltimore without one of its top offensive weapons.
The Ravens risked fourth-and-1 from their own 34 and Lamar Jackson made it work for a 21-yard gain.
Both teams have now converted fourth-down plays, though Kansas City’s gamble had lower risk at the Baltimore 41. The Ravens risked giving up the ball at their own 34.
Moments earlier, the tight end caught a 13 -yard pass on fourth-and-2 from the Baltimore 41 to keep this drive alive.
The Chiefs have now scored on their opening possession in eight straight playoff games.
There’s been some murmurs of Kelce slowing down this season. Huge 4th down grab and a great catch for the TD already. Big players show up in big games, as they say.
Mahomes and Kelce hooked up on a key 13-yard completion on fourth-and-2 from the Baltimore 41.
The Chiefs have scored on their first possession in seven consecutive playoff games.
So far, the Chiefs have called five running plays and four passing ones on their drive, collecting more than 60 yards and eating up more than five minutes on the clock.
It’s a little wet and windy in Baltimore today, and that could affect the passing game.
The Ravens said on X that a pre-game flyover was canceled due to the weather.
As kickoff approaches in Baltimore, the Ravens remain 4.5-point favorites over the visiting Kansas City Chiefs.
Baltimore opened as a 3.5-point choice but bettors have been putting money on the Ravens to push that line up.
The Chiefs and the 49ers have been frequent visitors to the Super Bowl in recent years, even playing against each four seasons ago.
The Chiefs are defending champs and also took home the Lombardi Trophy in 2020 against San Francisco. They were in the final game the following season but lost to Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Bucs.
Besides the loss to the Chiefs four seasons ago, the Niners were also runners-up against the Ravens in the 2013 title game.
The Ravens have made two Super Bowls, in 2001 and 2013, winning both of them.
The Lions have never played in the Super Bowl.
He’s a Michigan Man who wants a Lombardi Trophy.
Newly hired Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh, brother of Ravens coach John, said it was a tough choice to leave Michigan just after winning the national college title.
“I love Michigan, but I love the NFL too and there’s no Lombardi Trophy in college football,” Harbaugh told CBS Sports ahead of the AFC title game. “I got so many sands left in the hourglass and I want to take a crack at that.”
Harbaugh was 44-19-1 as coach of the San Francisco 49ers but was essentially pushed out due to conflicts with management. His 49ers were famously defeated by brother John’s Ravens in the 2013 Super Bowl as a rally by the Colin Kaepernick-led Niners fell just short.
Saturday Night Live” saw the glass half empty last night as it depicted an NFL broadcast team grappling with the end of the league’s season.
“I expect this to be an all-out battle for the next three hours, and then after that, it’s all over,” Andrew Dismukes, appearing as Tony Romo, says in the show’s cold open.
“After today it’s just … it’s done,” he says. The Super Bowl, he argues, isn’t “real football.”
“The Super Bowl is for commercials and Usher and people who never watch football asking how many points a touch down is worth,” Dismukes says. “Today’s the last real football day for just us guys.”
Another commentator asks what men are supposed to do on Sundays now — “just go to their friends’ houses for no reason?”
