Super Bowl 2025: What you need to know about the NFL final

It is the largest single sports event in the world, more than 800 million people worldwide switch on the TV sets every year: the Super Bowl, the final of the American football league NFL. In the night from February 9th to February 10th, the Kansas City Chiefs meet the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans. For the chiefs it is the five -time participation in the Super Bowl in six years, Philadelphia hopes for a revenge for the lost final two years ago.

The NFL has already determined several years in advance where the grand finale of the season will take place. Most of the time, due to the warmer weather, those responsible choose a location in the south or on the west coast of the USA. After Las Vega’s host was hosted for the first time last year, the NFL returns to New Orleans in the Caesar’s Superdome. For the eleventh time, the Super Bowl is held in the birthplace of the jazz – only in Miami was the Super Bowl also held as often. 2026 (Santa Clara, at San Francisco) and 2027 (Inglewood, at Los Angeles) we go to California for the NFL.

It has been regulated since the first Super Bowl in 1967, which team has home right. At the odd Super Bowls, the NFC participant has home rights, and the AFC team at Gerad Super Bowls. The NFL is divided into two conferences, the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC), in which 16 teams each play for moving into the playoffs, but also on teams from each other during the season Conference meet. After completing the main round, NFC and AFC play out their own playoffs before the two conference winners meet at the Super Bowl. Since the 59th Super Bowl is held in New Orleans, the Eagles have been home and the choice of which jersey they want to attract. In the history of the final, the home right is not necessarily a lucky charm: in 32 of the 58 previous endgames, the designated guest team won.

With a capacity of 73,208 places, the Caesar’s superdome is one of the largest stages in the league. The largest stadium is the Metlife Stadium, the home of New York Giants and New York Jets, with 82,500 places. However, the arena in New Orleans can be enlarged to up to 76,000 places for special events, a capacity that is also expected for the Super Bowl.

If you spontaneously want to experience the Super Bowl live, you either have to be lucky and win cards – or have the necessary change. U.S. media, citing ticket portals, reported an average price of $ 6,900. After all: Ticket prices have dropped significantly compared to the previous year – by average 17 percent. Last minute can also be bought, the cheapest available available at the Seatgeek provider cost $ 2300 on Sunday afternoon, the most expensive $ 8087. With the prices for simple tickets, the exorbitant costs for a suite should not be surprised. According to “USA Today”, they are between $ 500,000 and $ 1.95 million.

Of course, the big TV event also includes a superstar who appears during the break and is announced by the NFL early. After Usher was on stage last year, hip-hop superstar Kendrick Lamar appeared this time, who was only awarded four Grammys the previous week. You can always look forward to surprises. Rihanna revealed her pregnancy during her appearance two years ago, often surprise guests come on stage as accompanying. At Usher these were, among others, Alicia Keys and Will.i.am.

The answer is simply and surprising: US President Donald Trump. For the first time in the history of the Super Bowl, a US president will be present at the final-and probably keep your fingers crossed for the chiefs. Because after the Super Bowl triumph of the Eagles 2017, the players refused the traditional visit to the White House-and snubs the man who has been in power again since the end of January. My colleague Moritz Hermann wrote down the effects of Trump’s visit to the league and New Orleans:

The Kansas City Chiefs are the team of the 20s in the NFL, have been in the Super Bowl for the fifth time since 2020, lost only one game (2021 against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaners). The Eagles will be extremely reluctant to remember the final two years ago. The team led to the last quarter around Quarterback Jaylen Hurts. With a field goal eight seconds before the end, kicker Harrison Butker get the crucial three points to the 38:35 win of the chiefs.

Threepeat is a pun from the English words for “Three” (three) and “Repeat” (repeat). Historical could succeed in the Kansas City Chiefs at night, because an NFL team has never been able to become masters three times in a row. By the way, the former NBA trainer Pat Riley was protected the expression “Threepeat”. Although he failed with his Los Angeles Lakers on the triple triumph, he deserved the expression well through the license rights. According to his own statements, he mainly uses the financial means to finance his foundation.

In Germany, too, the Super Bowl will be shown on free TV and at streaming services. RTL broadcasts the final, the reporting starts at 11:15 p.m., the game starts at 0.30 a.m. German time. In addition to the additional livestream at RTL+

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