Super Spagnuolo
One of the Chiefs’ biggest additions in 2019 was the veteran coach.
Kansas City Chiefs star Tyreek Hill wants to be the Super Bowl halftime show.
Hill said Monday he’d be willing to race Tampa Bay receiver Scotty Miller during intermission Sunday at Raymond James Stadium.
“Someone line that up for us,” Hill said.
Miller raised eyebrows last week when he said he believes he would win a oneon-one footrace with Hill, considered one of the fastest players in the NFL.
“I’m taking me every day of the week,” Miller said. “I’ll take me over anybody. Tyreek is unbelievable, super quick, unbelievable talent. But if we’re talking about a race, I’ve got all the confidence in myself going up against anybody.”
Hill was given several chances to challenge Miller’s assertion during a virtual media day, but he declined each time.
“I feel like Scotty answered that question the right way,” Hill said. “Your answer should be, ‘Yes, I’m that confident in myself that I’m faster than Tyreek.’ That’s any man.”
Hill tipped his hand when asked about any NFL cornerback being able to cover him.
“For me to just sit here and say someone can keep up with me would be I don’t know,” he said. “But I feel like in my heart no one can keep up with me. I’ve ran track. I’ve ran Olympics. Somebody in the NFL, nah, I don’t really believe so.”
GOAT forever
Tom Brady keeps raising the bar about how long he could keep playing quarterback in the NFL. As the 43year-old Brady prepares for his record 10th Super Bowl and first since joining Tampa Bay this past offseason, he said he’s already considering surpassing his previous goal and playing beyond age 45. “Yes definitely. I would definitely consider that,” Brady said. “It’s a physical sport. There’s a lot of training that goes into it. It has to be 100% commitment from myself to keep doing it.”
Prime-time honors
NFL Honors, the annual prime-time awards special that recognizes the league’s best players, performances and plays from the season, will be broadcast nationally the night before the Super Bowl. The two-hour show airs Saturday on CBS with Emmy Award-winning entertainer Steve Harvey hosting for the third consecutive year. Grammy award-winning rock band Green Day will open the show, and Leslie Odom Jr. will perform during the in-memoriam segment. The show includes the unveiling of the 2021 Pro Football Hall of Fame class, the prestigious Walter Payton Man of the Year announcement and The Associated Press’ annual accolades that include the NFL’s most valuable player and comeback player of the year.
Hunt tradition
The matriarch of the Kansas City Chiefs will continue her streak of seeing every Super Bowl in person. Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said his 82-year-old mother, Norma Hunt, will make the trip to Tampa, Fla., to see Kansas City play the Buccaneers Sunday. “My mother’s very excited to be headed back to the Super Bowl,” said Hunt, who serves as the face of the franchise’s ownership family. “Last year was a big one for her. It was her 54th but the first one she had been to in 50 years that the Chiefs were participating, so that was special.”
Norma Hunt was working as a schoolteacher and hostess for the Dallas Texans when she met Lamar Hunt in 1964, five years after he and other members of “The Foolish Club” founded the AFL. Hunt moved the Texans to Kansas City and renamed them the Chiefs and the upstart league eventually merged with the NFL. Lamar Hunt, who died in 2006, also coined the term “Super Bowl” for the league’s championship game.