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Foles Wins Super Bowl MVP

Arizona letterwinner Nick Foles ’11 threw for
373 yards and three TDs, while also catching a

TD pass, to earn Super Bowl MVP and lead the

Philadelphia Eagles to the Super Bowl title.

by Associated Press

INNEAPOLIS — Cast aside once in Goff was drafted No. 1 overall. Foles considered
Philadelphia, Nick Foles delivered the hanging up his cleats before Reid persuaded him Nick Foles delivered
Mcity its first Super Bowl title, and he to go to Kansas City to be Alex Smith’s backup.
outdueled the great Tom Brady to do it. After one season with the Chiefs, Foles Philadelphia its first
Sumlin Era Begins injured his right knee in mid-December, matched returned to Philly to provide insurance behind Super Bowl title.
Foles, who took over when Carson Wentz
Wentz.
by Tom Danehy five-time champion and three-time MVP Brady Now he’s a folk hero for a franchise that had
big play for big play in leading the Eagles past the gone 0-for-2 in Super Bowls.
New England Patriots 41-33. Foles and fellow Arizona letterwinner Dave
He threw the go-ahead touchdown to tight Fipp, who serves as the Eagles special teams
end Zach Ertz from 11 yards on third-and-7 with coordinator, raised the Lombardi Trophy Sunday
2:21 remaining, capping a seven-minute, 14-play night. Two other Wildcats, Rob Gronkowski and
drive that covered 75 yards, kept Brady cooling Marquis Flowers, also appeared in the Super
his cleats on the sideline and allowed the Eagles’ Bowl for the Patriots. Gronkowski finished with Nick Foles raises the Vince Lombardi Trophy
exhausted defenders to catch their collective nine receptions for 116 yards and two TDs, while after the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the
breath in a game that featured 1,151 total yards, Flowers recorded a tackle. New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII in
the most in any NFL game in the Super Bowl era. Minneapolis on Feb. 4, 2018.
/ Mike Ehrmann, Getty Images photo
Brady threw for more yards — a playoff career-
high 505 to Foles’ 373 — but Foles matched Brady’s
three touchdown tosses and even caught another.
He hauled in tight end Trey Burton’s toss
from the 1 that gave Philadelphia a 22-12 halftime
edge and made him the first player in Super Bowl
history to be on both ends of a touchdown pass in
the same game.
Foles was 28 of 43 and wasn’t sacked at all.
A third-round pick by former Eagles coach
Andy Reid in 2012, Foles had tremendous success
as a starter under Chip Kelly his sophomore
season. He threw 29 TDs and only two picks in
11 starts, including playoffs in 2013. Foles posted
a passer rating of 119.2, third-highest in league
history. He tied an NFL record with seven TD
passes in a game at Oakland in November 2013
and won an offensive MVP award at a Pro Bowl.
But Foles was traded to St. Louis for Sam
Bradford in March 2015. He lost his starting job to
Case Keenum and asked for his release after Jared