5 Best Moments From Eagles Legendary Super Bowl Championship

NEW ORLEANS, LA — It took more than a half a century for the Philadelphia Eagles to win a Super Bowl. Now, just a few years after the magic of Nick Foles, Doug Pederson, and the Philly Special, they have two.

The Eagles annihilated the Kansas City Chiefs, winners of two consecutive championships who were in search of a history-making third, en route to what was probably the most dominant Super Bowl victory in decades.

At no point did the Chiefs looks like they were in contention. At no point after the opening drive were the millions around the world watching on the edge of their seats. The game served more as an exhibition, a celebration of the Eagles season, a reminder that despite the past two years, there is another force of nature vying to become a dynasty.

The win marks the second Eagles Super Bowl win in franchise history, and the third Philadelphia sports franchise championship this century, along with the 2018 Birds and the 2008 Phillies.

Here are five of the best moments from a night that will live on in the hearts of the Broad Street faithful for eternity.

The first interception: DeJean's birthday moment

In a game that was so lopsided that it didn't need a lot of clutch plays from the Eagles, they delivered anyway.

Early on, when it wasn't quite out of reach for the Chiefs, the Birds had a pair of pickoffs that electrified Philly fans from the Superdome to South Broad.

The first truly changed the tempo of the game and was the closest thing to a "Philly Special" moment in this year's Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs were deep in their own territory when Mahomes dropped back and fired a bullet across the field. Lightning quick Cooper DeJean, celebrating his birthday on Super Bowl Sunday, saw it coming and intercepted it, running it all the way back for a touchdown. The rookie DeJean was one of the Eagles most dynamic players this year and it's almost hard to believe the pick was the first of his entire career.

The score put the Eagles up 17-0 late in the second quarter and changed the tenor of the game from an Eagles advantage to an Eagles blowout.

Jalen Hurts and the bomb to DeVonta Smith

It's hard to pick just one moment from the game to highlight the Eagles genuine superstar quarterback, the MVP of Super Bowl 59.

He ran for 72 yards, and as Tom Brady kept pointing out from the broadcasting booth, appeared to have a sixth sense whenever Chiefs defenders were near. While Kansas City's run defense was surprisingly effective against Saquon Barkley, the Chiefs had no answer for Hurts when he dropped back, saw no good options, came under pressure, and decided to take matters into his own hands.

While any one of his longer runs could be pointed to as one of the best moments of the game, it's hard to think of any better "statement" moment than early in the second half.

The Chiefs had just given the ball over to the Birds after a three and out to start the half. Everyone expected the Eagles, sitting on a 24-0 lead, to give the ball to Barkley and do anything they could to run the clock down and shorten the game.

Instead, on the very first snap, Hurts dropped back, waited a few comfortable moments, and lofted an immaculately placed pass directly into the arms of a waiting DeVonta Smith nearly 50 yards downfield in the end zone.

The crowd was stunned. The Chiefs were stunned. The Birds went up 31-0, and the game was over when it was barely halfway over.

The doubters, the naysayers, kept nagging on Hurts even up to the NFC Championship game two weeks ago. There can be no question now. Jalen Hurts has cemented his place as one of the great quarterbacks of his generation.

Steel curtain sacks

The Eagles defensive line sacked Patrick Mahomes a truly stunning six times Sunday night. All of them were huge moments, as anytime the Chiefs are stopped in their tracks in the Mahomes-Andy Reid era has to be seen as an achievement.

To pick just one is impossible, but there were two in a row, within seconds of each other, that underlined how truly demonic and dominant this Eagles defensive line has become.

The Chiefs were trying desperately to get something going with just 1:35 left in the half. Knowing the results of the past two championships, it seemed just a matter of time before Mahomes and company lit up the field.

But the Birds defensive line was relentless. Mahomes had a second or two at the most before he needed to start scrambling around to free himself. But there was no freedom, there was no daylight to be found. There was only midnight green.

On two consecutive snaps the Birds took Mahomes down, setting up third down, and long...

The second interception: Baun's cinderella story

The next Eagles score - and the next pivotal moment of the game - came just a few minutes after the first interception and a few seconds after those back to back sacks. On third and long, Mahomes was forced to get rid of the ball quick again, and the Birds capitalized.

Zack Baun, who emerged as one of the best linebackers in the NFL this year after signing with the Birds in the offseason on a low key, one year contract, made an incredible diving catch on a Mahomes bullet across midfield. Both long arms extended, the image of Baun's grab, like DeJean's return, will be one enshrined in Philadelphia legend forever. Nick Foles, Corey Clement, Cooper DeJean...and Zack Baun.

Hurts connected with AJ Brown a few plays later for another touchdown to put the Eagles up 24-0 going into the half.

The Lombardi crowning

Nick Sirianni said it all year, and then again on Sunday night: the team representing the City of Brotherly Love has quite a bit of brotherly love.

No two Super Bowl squads are alike, and this 2024-25 Birds team, dominant in every way, clearly the best, never really the underdog even when the Vegas odds might indicate it, never suffering a serious setback save for the memory of the 2023 collapse, is truly nothing like the hungry dogs of 2018.

But as Hurts has said time and again, it was failure, both last year's and the loss to the Chiefs in 2022, that kept the fires raging in the hearts of every single player. And a team became a brotherhood forged in the same losses and disappointment, sparked and tindered by a media in love with the idea of a Chiefs three-peat.

Knowing all they'd been through together and the tears of joy, it's hard not see the otherwise stiffly formal, official moment of the trophy being handed off to Jeffrey Lurie, to Sirianni, to Hurts, to a few dozen taped hands reaching up to it in the charged electric Louisiana night, as the best thing that's happened to Philly in a generation.