PHOENIX — The Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes and the Philadelphia Eagles’ Jalen Hurts have competed against each other from afar all season, going back and forth as the favorite for the N.F.L.’s Most Valuable Player Award.
On Sunday, they will play in the Super Bowl, the first time in league history that Black quarterbacks will face each other in the championship game.
Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the N.F.L., said in a news conference on Wednesday that it was “probably for all the wrong reasons” that this moment took more than half a century to arrive.