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Once the Super Bowl ends, it may be probably the most chaotic scenes in sports activities as gamers, coaches and media members converge on the sphere. A convention that normally takes place as quickly as the sport ends is a handshake between the profitable and shedding quarterback.
Once the clock struck zero on Super Bowl LVII on Sunday, it appeared that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes truly did not share a handshake. The Chiefs took a 38-35 lead on a late subject objective with simply eight seconds remaining and Hurts’ hail mary try on the ultimate play fell brief.
Following that play, Hurts was seen jogging off the sphere at State Farm Stadium and down into the tunnel by himself, in line with Fox Sports.
The alleged lack of a handshake wasn’t touched on in any of the postgame press conferences and there aren’t any images of the 2 QBs shaking palms on the sphere after the sport ended. It is in fact doable that Hurts and Mahomes shared a second collectively away from the sphere.
Mahomes did meet up with some Eagles’ gamers, together with Eagles heart Jason Kelce, who he shared a pleasant second with him following the sport. Jason additionally caught up together with his brother, Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce, through the scrum.
The postgame handshake is a convention that normally takes place throughout most common season video games as effectively. However, lately retired quarterback Tom Brady has acquired some flack previously for failing to take part in a postgame handshake following earlier Super Bowls losses.
