Chiefs and 49ers Advance from Championship Sunday
Head coach Andy Reid of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrates with the Lamar Hunt Trophy after a 17-10 victory against the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game at M&T Bank Stadium on January 28, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
Super Bowl LVIII (58) is set as the Chiefs and 49ers Advance from Championship Sunday. Meanwhile the Ravens and Lions will be left to wonder what could have been during the off season. Nevertheless, get ready for a big time Super Bowl.
The Chiefs scored twice early and hung on for a 17-10 win over the Ravens in the AFC Championship. Now, KC will try to become the first team since the 2004 Patriots to repeat as Super Bowl Champions. Additionally, Travis Kelce (Mr. Swift) made 11 catches for 116 yards and broke Jerry Rice’s record of 151 career receptions in the playoffs. So, he continues to impress his girlfriend.
CHIEFS AND 49ERS
Meanwhile, the 49ers had to make back to back comebacks vs the Packers and Lions the last two games in order to punch their ticket to the Super Bowl. Nothing went right for the 49ers in the first half (or everything went right for the Lions). And San Francisco found themselves in a 17 point deficit at the break. However, they flipped the script in the second half to lock up a Super Bowl bid against the Chiefs in Las Vegas in two weeks.
So, let’s see how well you retained information from yesterday’s championship games with some trivia on Craig Shemon and Company on ESPN Southwest Florida. Plus, you will win prizes if you are caller number 9!
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY
- Do you remember the final score to the Lions-49ers game? 34-31
- Do you remember the score to the Chiefs-Ravens game? 17-10
- Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers are not known for winning games in which they trail. What was their halftime deficit? 17 (24-7)
- Who was the leading rusher of the day Sunday? David Montgomery 93
- Who was the leading passer of the day? Jared Goff 273
- Who was the leading receiver? Travis Kelce 11/116 td
- Who was sacked the most? Lamar Jackson 4
- Christian McCaffrey scored 2 TD’s. Name the only other non QB to have a 2 TD day yesterday? Jameson Williams
- What non QB had the longest play from scrimmage yesterday? Zay Flowers 54 yards.
- How many Super Bowl appearances will this be for Patrick Mahomes? 4
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The 20 Hottest NFL Players: Ranked
The 20 Hottest NFL Players: Ranked
We’ve done these before, and they tend to do well. So we will give you the 20 hottest NFL players ranked. Baseball might be Americas past time, but football is Americas present and future. We have a saying in sports radio “football is king”. Unlike the NBA, there are not a ton of celebrity couples across the National Football League. Asking around the office there were a few names that kept coming up. Travis Kelce, Jimmy Garoppolo, and Saquon Barkley are all names that got thrown around. There are no players from the Florida teams (Buccaneers, Dolphins, Jaguars). So as the calendar shifts to the fall, out attention goes to football. And with it the 20 hottest NFL players ranked. If you’re a fan of the sidelines view, we’ve ranked the NFL Coaches as well.
I got this list from Ranker.com. Their list is quite lengthy. In fact I couldn’t get to the bottom of the list. And if you’re outside the top 20, you don’t deserve to be mentioned. What is nice to see is the variety of positions represented. We’ve got all of the usual suspects; quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers (the divas of the NFL). But there is a kicker and an offensive lineman in the list. It’s not often a position group that is called the “Big Uglies” get put on a list of the hottest players. But it is 2023 and big is beautiful, right? Also, the quality of the player is not taken into account. Nor is how good of a person or team mate they are. It’s the 20 hottest NFL players: ranked.
Craig Shemon has been hosting afternoons on ESPN Southwest Florida since 2017. Prior to that he was a nationally syndicated host in Los Angeles at FOX Sports Radio and in Houston at Yahoo! Sports Radio. Along the way Craig did play-by-play for the NFL on FOX, NFL Europe, Big Ten Network, and The Citadel Radio Network. Craig is a native Detroiter and Indiana University graduate. He has been known to proudly display his Detroit and IU fandom on the air. Craig likes to write about athletes, create quizzes, and covers big sports headlines.