You watched the same game I did, right? Listening to the morning TV hosts, the sports talk radio people, the fans, and any others with an opinion, and they are saying that Sunday's game was one of the top Super Bowl games ever. The Chiefs beat the 49ers to win it all, but was the game really that good? Well, maybe, but it didn't really start out that way.

This game was 0-0 at the end of the first quarter. After about 25 minutes of playing time, it was 3-0. The Niners were the first to find the end zone, but it was on a trick play. Kansas City was able to muster three points right at the end, and it was 10-3 at halftime. That really doesn't really qualify as one of the best ever, does it? We'll quit yawning, grab a bite, while we wait for Usher to take the stage.

We will definitely say that the defense set the tone. Short passes may be working for both teams. The long bombs, not quite as much. In the first ten minutes of the second half, just like all of the first quarter, nothing happened. What's different this time, though, is you can start to feel the tension. If you are a Niner fan, you are tense because your team has the lead, but the Chiefs have the ball. If you are rooting for K-C, you feel the Chiefs have to get points on this drive, preferably seven. They settle for three, and the score is 10-6. With a quarter plus four minutes remaining, it's anybody's game.

With about two minutes remaining in the third period, a break for the Chiefs. Forced to punt, the ball hits a Niner player. San Francisco's Ray Ray McCloud then tries to scoop it up, but bobbles it, and the Chiefs recover. K-C scores a touchdown on the very next play, and takes their first lead at 13-10. Things are starting to happen now.

The Niners next drive takes us into the fourth quarter. Quarterback Brock Purdy connects with Jauan Jennings for a ten-yard TD. Jennings, by the way, threw the TD pass to Christian McCaffrey on the trick play for the Niners first TD, so mark him down as the current MVP favorite. But wait a minute! The extra-point is blocked. San Fran's lead is 16-13. There's still 11:22 remaining in regulation, but we're starting to smell overtime.

There have only been three touchdowns in the game to this point. There would be one more, but not before four more field goals. With 5:46 to play, Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker nails a 24-yarder to tie the game at 16. The Niners go back in front on a Jake Moody 53-yard bomb that split the uprights, and it's 19-16. Too far away for a winning touchdown, but plenty of distance to tie it, Butker is good from 29 yards out, and for just the second time in Super Bowl history, the game, tied 19-19, goes to overtime.

The overtime rules for a postseason game are different than in the regular season, and are also different from 2017 when New England beat Atlanta. Under current rules, both teams are guaranteed a possession, even if the team that gets the ball first scores a touchdown (in the regular season, if the team that gets the ball first scores a TD, they win). San Francisco won the toss and elected to receive the ball first.

Some Niner players are now saying they didn't know the rule, and many fans feel they should have taken the ball last, so they would know what was at stake, pending the results of Kansas City's first drive. The Niners ended up with a field goal, took a 22-19 lead, with the Chiefs now getting possession. Another odd rule, is that during overtime, the clock runs as if it were a fifth quarter, meaning even if time were to run out, but if it was still the Chiefs' first possession, the game would not be over. They would put 15 more minutes on the clock (as if were the sixth quarter) and keep playing.

And with three seconds remaining in the 'fifth quarter', Patrick Mahomes found Mecole Hardman for the winning score, and the Chiefs won the ball game 25-22. Mahomes would be named MVP, but it was guys like Hardman for the Chiefs and Jennings for the Niners that were the stars of the night.

The Chiefs become the first team to back-to-back Super Bowls in 20 years (New England Patriots 2003-04), and they have now won three in five years, and have been to the Super Bowl four times in five years (losing to Tampa Bay in 2021). This, in sports, is the definition of a dynasty. As for the game itself, not much really happened in the first 40 minutes. Still one of the best Super Bowls of all-time? Oh yeah.

Halftime: I kind of felt old during the halftime show. I know who Usher is, but I don't know all of his songs by title, and I'm certainly not well plugged into the R-and-B community. I guessed correctly that Usher's first guest was Alicia Keys, and I've heard of H.E.R., but didn't know that was her, or H.E.R, when she came out. Didn't recall an intro for Ludacris or Will.i.am, and am not familiar with Jermaine Dupri or Lil Jon (any relation to Lil Wayne?).

Commercials: Didn't really dwell on them in depth this year, but loved the BMW ad with Christopher Walken (do you think anyone would do a Christopher Walken impersonation to Christopher Walken's face?). That ad was immediately followed by Arnold Schwarzenegger's State Farm ad where he can't properly pronounce neighbor (as in 'like a good neighbor...). I guess the Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Tom Brady Dunkin' commercial was pretty good as a sequel to last year.

Prize money: I stayed away from anything to do with Taylor Swift, but I did bet on a couple of Super Bowl longshots when I was in Vegas last week. I had Patrick Mahomes (12:1) scoring the game's first touchdown and Travis Kelce (14:1) winning the MVP. Put a little money on the Chiefs to win, too, so, reason to go back.