Super Bowl date for 49ers and Chiefs
The San Francisco 49ers overturned a 17-point halftime deficit to book a Super Bowl clash with the defending champions, the Kansas City Chiefs.
The 49ers scored 27 unanswered points as they beat the Detroit Lions 34-31 in the NFC Championship game to book a trip to Las Vegas.
It is their second Super Bowl appearance in five seasons having lost to the Chiefs four years ago.
"We played as bad of a first half as we could," coach Kyle Shanahan told Fox. "It's been a long year to get to this point and we got it done today.
"It was hard at the beginning, but the character we have in our team, the type of guys we have, we can't wait to get to Vegas, man."
The Chiefs will defend their Super Bowl title after beating the Baltimore Ravens 17-10 in the AFC Championship game.
Quarterback Patrick Mahomes completed his first 11 pass attempts and threw for 241 yards and a touchdown, but it was the Chiefs defence which was largely responsible for securing a fourth Super Bowl date in five years.
The Ravens were restricted to just 10 points on home soilandquarterbacklamar Jackson was intercepted in the end zone in the fourth quarter as he attempted to round off what would have been a 99-yard drive.
Mahomes told CBS: "God put a lot of adversity in our way this year and we accepted the challenge and we're better for it.
"It's been a heck of a year, we're not done yet, but this is the way to get there."
He added: “Now we've got to go out there to Vegas and play a great team and see if we can get the Super Bowl."