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While Mailata cannot essentially be ‘earthing’, given the US stadium’s lay artificial turf, NSW head of performance, Hayden Knowles, offered up reasons why the ex-Bankstown Bulls and Five Dock RSL forward undertakes his pre-game custom. Jordan Mailata pictured with Brad Fittler in 2018. Mailata was invited into the NSW camp in 2018, and Blues officials are now curious as to whether he may have collected the barefoot visualisation trait from Fittler’s State of Origin side. It’s a tradition that’s raised plenty of eyebrows in the US, where he’s been labelled the “Barefoot Bird”.Īnd he will do the same again today as he prepares for the biggest match of his life – the Super Bowl against the Patrick Mahomes-led Kansas City Chiefs in Arizona. Mailata, the former Souths under 20s player and now Philadelphia Eagles NFL left-tackle, has taken to barefoot visualisation before each game – a ritual made famous in rugby league by Fittler’s NSW side.Ī 166kg and 203cm giant, Sydney-born Mailata routinely whips off his shoes and socks and walks on the playing surface of every major US stadium before his Eagles go into battle. Is this Jordan Mailata’s Super Bowl superstition that he secretly pinched from Freddy Fittler’s Blues? Game on.Īrryn Siposs warms up prior to the Super Bowl. A Mahomes scramble and a big run from Isiah Pacheco got them in good position and then Mahomes went to his trusted man in Travis Kelce with a casually superb throw for the TD. He gets a 57-yard punt away as the Eagles turn the ball over to Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.Īnything you can do, Patrick Mahomes can do better? It certainly seems that way as the Chiefs quarterback and league MVP responds to Philadelphia’s opening drive touchdown with a TD of his own. His kick goes left and hits the post and bounces away, leaving the scores level with a tick over two minutes left in the opening corner.Īustralia’s Arryn Sippos is called into action for the first time as the Eagles’ second drive of the game stalls. П“ºðŸŽ§: #SBLVII on & /Yr9POGMNcl- NFL Australia February 13, 2023ĭoink! Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker makes the first real error of the game when he is called on for a 42-yard field goal attempt. The Chiefs are Super Bowl LVII champions! Heartbreak for Aussies Jordan Mailata and Arryn Siposs.Ĭheck out 🇦🇺 during the opening drive 😤Īs says 'MAN MOVER' 💪 #ChiefsKingdom #FlyEaglesFly The Eagles have one Hail Mary play to win it. Harrison Butker steps up and slots the field goal to put the Chiefs up 38-35 with eight seconds remaining.

Instead the Chiefs win a fresh set of downs and with the Eagles out of time-outs are able to wind down the clock to 11 seconds.

a huge holding call goes against the Eagles with time left of the clock and Kansas City set to settle for a field goal. There was no time for a miracle and Mahomes, the two-times MVP became a two-time Super Bowl winner. The two-point conversion levelled the score at 35-35 with 5:15 left in the game but the Chiefs managed the clock masterfully.Ī controversial late holding call against the Eagles James Bradberry gave the Chiefs a fresh set of downs near the Philadelphia line, and when after Butker’s 27-yard field goal, there were just eight seconds left on the clock. It was the first time a quarterback had scored three rushing touchdowns in a Super Bowl. Philadelphia left Kadarius Toney wide open to collect a five=yard pass from Mahomes and put Kansas City 28-27 up and then Toney produced a brilliant 65-yard punt return to set up a near identical play on the other side, with Skyy Moore the gleefully wide-open receiver.īut the Eagles responded again with Hurts hurling a 46-yard pass deep left to DeVonta Smith and the quarterback completed the drive with a two-yard run for his third rushing touchdown before adding a two-point conversion for good measure. The Eagles added a field goal to go into the fourth quarter with a six-point lead but then the Chiefs came roaring back. Patrick Mahomes runs with the ball during Super Bowl LVII.