
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — At 10:15 p.m. Eastern Time Sunday night, the clock struck zero at Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona. And Philadelphia endured collective heartbreak after the Eagles' third Super Bowl defeat.
The Philadelphia Eagles’ 2022 season ended with one of the most painful losses in their history, a 38-35 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. They came back from a 10-point halftime deficit and won on a 27-yard Harrison Butker field goal with eight seconds left, giving Andy Reid his second Super Bowl trophy, defeating his former team.

Back and forth we go
The first drive looked easy for Philadelphia, as the Eagles used two first-down catches by wide receiver DeVonta Smith and one by tight end Dallas Goedert to get Philly near the goal line. From there, quarterback Jalen Hurts used the Eagles’ near-patented rugby scrum play to sneak in for a one-yard score to give the Eagles a 7-0 lead with 10:09 left.
The bad news: Running back Miles Sanders had to leave the game after the first drive, and went to the locker room with an injury. He would return.
Kansas City’s return salvo was fired into the arms of Travis Kelce — yes, Jason’s brother — who went 20 yards with the Chiefs’ first explosion play of the night. The Chiefs tight end finished the drive with a 20-yard score to equal the game at 7-7 in the game’s first eight minutes and three seconds, and the track meet was on.
The Eagles could not do much with their second drive, but the Chiefs did enough to set kicker Butker up with a 42-yard field goal attempt. Thankfully, the Eagles’ luck with opposing postseason kickers "doinking" field goal attempts off crossbars — something that won them the 2018 NFC Wild Card game — came up again. Butker’s kick went off the left upright, and the game remained tied at 7-7.

Mistakes, redemption and a controversial no-catch
The first play of the second quarter again reflected the frenetic nature of the game, as wide receiver A.J. Brown took a pinpoint rainbow from Hurts to score the Eagles’ second touchdown, Hurts’ second score in 15 minutes and eight seconds of action.
Hurts played a key part in each of Philadelphia’s two touchdowns at that time, but he played an unfortunate part in the Chiefs’ second score.
He let the ball slip from his hands, and the Chiefs’ Nick Bolton sprinted 36 yards to tie the game at 14-14.
But Hurts atoned for his mistake. With the ball on the Kansas City 45 yard line, Hurts called his own number on 4th and 5 to snag a first down and much more, a 28-yard gain.
Coach Nick Sirianni rolled the dice a second time on fourth down and two at the Chiefs’ eight yard line, and the Chiefs committed a neutral zone infraction to set up a first-and-goal.
The penalty cost the Chiefs at least four points, as Hurts legged out his second touchdown run of the game, this one from four yards out, and the Eagles owned a 21-14 advantage.
The Eagles’ defense not only forced a key stop late in the second quarter, but also a Patrick Mahomes injury. Linebacker T.J. Edwards snagged Mahomes’ foot as he tried to scramble for a first down during a 3rd-and-15 play, and Mahomes limped off the field in apparent ankle pain.
After the two minute warning, Hurts launched a bomb that Smith caught in spectacular fashion down the right sideline, a 35-yard gain that would have put the Eagles in business in the red zone to set up a score for a two-touchdown lead. But referees reviewed the replay and determined Smith did not fully control the ball while falling out of bounds after getting both feet in bounds.
Jake Elliott did what his Kansas City counterpart did not, finishing a wild first half with a 35-yard field goal to give the Eagles a 24-14 halftime lead.
Hurts’ first-half stat line read like a full-game MVP-like performance. He went 17-22 for 183 passing yards and a touchdown throw, while rushing for 63 yards and two scores.

Close calls let Eagles keep lead
Mahomes came back to start the second half, and with fingertip catches by Travis Kelce and Mahomes’ own legs, he led a Chiefs drive that made Eagles fans' blood pressure increase when running back Isiah Pacheco sauntered in from a yard away to cut Philadelphia’s lead to 24-21.
In a short span, that lead was apparently gone. Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed stuck his helmet into the football that Miles Sanders had just caught. It popped loose, and Bolton repeated his earlier feet, gathering the football into his arms and running it in for what was Kansas City’s first lead of the game.
But referees ruled that Sanders did not have enough control of the football for the catch to be ruled complete, and Philadelphia kept its advantage.
Clutch defined a leaping Goedert catch in double coverage with 5:52 left in the third period. He snagged the football and got two feet down.
His catch set up a 33-yard Elliott field goal that expanded Philly’s lead to 27-21.

A fourth quarter that will haunt Philly
That Eagles lead finally evaporated under the heat of a Kansas City drive ending with a Mahomes-to-Kadarius Toney five-yard touchdown pass that gave the Chiefs their first advantage at 28-27.
A stop by Kansas City led to Toney taking the Eagles’ punt and traveling 65 yards with a punt return to Philadelphia’s five yard line.
Skyy Moore took in a Mahomes pass and went the rest of the way to make it an eight-point Chiefs lead.
The most important Eagles drive of the season to date had plenty of tense moments, but a clutch third down catch by Brown and a 46-yard bomb to a wide-open Smith set the Eagles up on the Kansas City two yard line.
Hurts rugby-scrummed the rest of the way to the end zone to make it 35-33 Kansas City, and he sweeped around left end for a two-point conversion that tied the game at 35-all.
The Chiefs marched down the field slowly in the final minutes to not only gain yards, but eat up time. A Mahomes scramble took Kansas City deep into field goal range with 2:40 left in the game.
With the clock under two minutes, a hard pass rush forced an incompletion from Mahomes on third down and eight forced an incompletion, but Eagles cornerback James Bradberry was flagged for defensive holding.
“It was holding. I tugged his jersey. I was hoping they would let it slide,” Bradberry said after the game.
With only one time out, the Chiefs had a chance to win the game with a first down touchdown run. But Kansas City running back Jerick McKinnon slid down at the one yard line so Kansas City could not only set up a clinching field goal, but keep Hurts and company off the field until minimal time was left.
A pair of kneeldowns by Mahomes to drain the clock down ended a masterful fourth quarter, reminiscent of his performance three years ago in Kansas City’s final-stanza comeback in defeating San Francisco.
“He’s the MVP,” Reid said about Mahomes. “That’s all that needs to be said. MVP. And you saw it tonight.”
Those kneeldowns set up Butker for a game-winning 27-yard field goal with 11 seconds left.
He nailed it. And broke Philadelphia's heart.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.