The ESPN+ series “Peyton’s Places” had a hilarious faceoff in the season finale, along with a hovering helicopter piloted by a former Cowboys star. In the episode, Mahomes and Manning sparred amicably while learning about Lamar Hunt, the illustrious Chiefs owner who is credited with coining the term “Super Bowl.”
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Playing an extreme version of the catch, the pair competed. They even threw a Superball over Andy Reid, the head coach of the Chiefs, and the statue of Lamar Hunt. The show incorporates elements of absurdity, fun, and a lot of storytelling, in contrast to regular shows with interviews that can occasionally become dull.
On the show, when offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy asked coach Andy Reid if Mahomes and Manning were pranksters, he replied, “That’s our franchise quarterback and a 46-year-old retiree.” The camera pans to a triumphant Mahomes and Manning, who appear to have won the Super Bowl together.
Superballs were carried in a barrel by a helicopter piloted by three-time Super Bowl champion Chad Hennings with Chiefs mascot K C Wolf standing next to him. 10,000 balls were thrown into the parking lot of Arrowhead Stadium. The lot where Mahomes and Manning were standing became flooded as the balls simultaneously bounced up and down. This exciting episode exhibited their endearing and unexpected dynamic.
No windows were broken in the making of this show 😅
A brand new episode of Peyton’s Places, starring @PatrickMahomes and Peyton Manning, is now streaming on ESPN+. pic.twitter.com/6WGZBjVnNJ
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) December 24, 2022
Story behind the word “Super Bowl”
The Super Bowl originally got its name from a simple children’s toy, despite the fact that it is now one of the biggest sporting events of the year. The Super Bowl was named after the Super Ball, a bouncy ball that was one of the most well-liked toys in America in the middle of the 1960s, by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt in 1966.
The term “bowl” was already widely used to refer to the final game of collegiate football seasons and had made its way into professional football slang.
Hunt coined the phrase during a meeting in the summer of 1966, when he and other football executives were planning the first championship game, which was set to take place the following February between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. The committee’s other names for the game, such as “first AFL-NFL World Championship Game,” “final game,” and “championship game,” never caught on.
Finally, Hunt exclaimed, “It should be called the “Super Bowl.” He later admitted that the term was probably inspired by the Super Ball, a toy that his two children were obsessed with at the time.
