NEW ORLEANS — History will repeat itself on Sunday.
For only the second time, two Black quarterbacks will face off on the NFL’s biggest stage, the Super Bowl. Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes and Philadelphia’s Jalen Hurts reunite two years after they first achieved the feat, which at one point in the league’s dark history seemed impossible.
This time, Mahomes, 29, and Hurts, 26, meet with far lesser fanfare. Two years ago, each fielded repeated questions about the significance of their historic meeting, which took place 35 years after Doug Williams became the first Black quarterback to win a Super Bowl.