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I wonder who Bradley Cooper supports...

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Patrick Mahomes is out on the field getting loose.

The Chiefs quarterback is 3-1 in Super Bowls. If he leads the Chiefs to victory tonight, he'll enter the history books with a three-peat. It's a huge night for the 29-year-old.

Ben Collins
BBC Sport at Caesars Superdome, New Orleans

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New Orleans' French Quarter is an assault on the senses on a regular day, but it's something else now it's Super Bowl Sunday.

Fans of many NFL teams - not just the Eagles and Chiefs - have been mingling on there all day before making the 25-minute walk from Bourbon Street to the Superdome.

And the bonhomie has frequently been broken by the dozens of police vehicles that have been rolling by.

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The Chiefs are all over Super Bowl history - you can even thank them for the name.

Former Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt (pictured) is actually the man credited with suggesting 'Super Bowl' as the name for the AFL-NFL Championship Game as it was first known.

The suggestion was initially laughed at by owners, but media and fans started using it anyway before the third of these games, which then became known as Super Bowl III.

The Chiefs actually played in the very first Super Bowl (billed as the AFL-NFL Championship Game) and then won their first at Super Bowl IV - right here in New Orleans as well.

After so long in the doldrums, it would perhaps be fitting that a team that helped create the Super Bowl in the first place etched its name into the event's history.

Here's how we got to tonight...

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It's tricky to say.

The match itself is split into four 15-minute quarters, with a long break for the half-time performance. The clock also stops at various points due to on-field play, as well as for commercial breaks.

The game itself can last anywhere between three and four hours.

If scores are level at the end of the 60 minutes, an additional 15-minute overtime period will be played.

Regular-season NFL games can end in a tie but for the Super Bowl, teams will play several periods of overtime until a winner is decided.

Last year's Super Bowl 58 was the last to be decided through overtime, when the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22.

The Kansas City Chiefs won their first Super Bowl way back in 1970 - beating the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 in Super Bowl IV.

And it was held in none other than New Orleans, at Tulane Stadium, so it would be apt if they could carve out a piece of NFL history by clinching a historic three-peat back where they first lifted the trophy.

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BBC Sport journalist Paul Higham was at the last Super Bowl in New Orleans, when the stadium was plunged into darkness. Read his first-hand account of that memorable night.

"Is it getting a little warm in here?" asked a fellow journalist sat next to me perched high up in the rafters in the press box at the Superdome.

In hindsight now we know why, but at the time we were trying to make sense of the chaos on the pitch after the Ravens had just taken a commanding lead.

The Superdome is loud, seriously loud. Even with the crowd split between the two teams, the roars and cheers were still reverberating from below, ricocheting off the roof and hammering our ear drums.

Then it happened. Our monitors went off, the scoreboard disappeared, the stadium announcer's booming voice was silenced and the majority of the stadium's lights went out.

Apart from some emergency lighting, darkness engulfed the Superdome. And silence. Such an eerie experience in such a huge building.

We've been here before.

New Orleans is hosting the Super Bowl for the 13th time - the joint-most along with Miami.

Last time we were here in Louisiana in February 2013, the lights went out for 34 minutes, just moments after Jacoby Jones of the Baltimore Ravens scored the longest touchdown in Super Bowl history.

To read more about that - and the storied history of this venue, check out our full piece.

Travis Kelce often steals the show on the pitch, but we reckon he might have won the pre-game fit check contest as well. Looking very Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems, which is by no means a bad thing.

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Meet Philadelphia Eagles fan Bill Curley, who has been in New Orleans since Monday. Bill went to the Eagles' first Super Bowl, which was right here at the Superdome in 1981, with the Oakland Raiders winning 27-10.

He said he paid $4,650 for his ticket and that was direct from the Eagles so it wasn't a marked-up price.

"I was here 44 years ago to see the Eagles lose to the Raiders," he told BBC Sport. "I'm back and this time we're going to win it.

"We've got the offensive line, we've got Saquon Barkley. The Eagles are in great shape. I think they're going to put up lots of points, and that defensive line, they're going to tear them up."

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New Orleans is famed for jazz music but you'll do well to hear any of that today.

Walking towards the stadium, every spare parking lot has been turned into a tailgate party, with dance music booming out of them.

Turning on to Poydras Street, the main thoroughfare in the Central Business District, fans fill the street as it has been closed for the day.

There's a few more bars to keep fans refreshed on their final approach to the stadium, which is handy as it's about 25C right now. Not that that will matter in the stadium - it's indoors so is air-conditioned.

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Donald Trump has arrived at the stadium in New Orleans, where tonight he'll become the first sitting president of the US to attend the Super Bowl.

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US President Donald Trump is the first sitting president to be attending a Super Bowl today, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell welcomed the news at his press conference earlier this week.

Well, one of Sunday’s cameos - SZA - isn’t really a surprise, as it was confirmed by Apple Music back in January that she would be joining her fellow Grammy winner for the Super Bowl 59 half-time show.

Kendrick Lamar himself has been pretty tight-lipped about what else we can expect from his approximately 13-minute set, leaving much room for online sleuths to speculate about who else the LA-rapper could bring up on stage with him.

Some have theorised the convenient factor that Lamar’s one-time collaborator, Taylor Swift, has already confirmed to be in the audience could leave room for the pair to perform a rendition of Swift’s remixed hit, Bad Blood.

Other long-time collaborators of the 37-year-old’s - including rappers Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul - have also been proffered as possible guest stars, but there’s been no indication from Lamar’s team that a reunion of this kind will take place. Only time will tell.

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Sunday’s half-time show will mark Kendrick Lamar’s second performance at one of the music industry’s most coveted gigs. The Compton-born rapper made his debut back in 2022, when he joined rappers Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Mary J Blige for a performance that earned the group an Emmy Award.

It was confirmed back in September that the 37-year-old would now be taking up the mantle of headlining the Apple Music half-time show by himself.

He is considered to be one of the “greats” in rapping, not only for his barrier breaking wins - in 2018, he became the first hip-hop artist to receive a Pulitzer Prize - but also for dominating more traditional fields - last Sunday, he raked in five Grammys, bringing his total trophies at the awards show to 22.

It remains unclear if the rapper will perform his chart-topping song from last year - Not Like Us - as the diss track has recently attracted legal attention from its supposed target: Drake.

Earlier this month, the Canadian rapper announced that he was suing Universal Music Group (UMG) for defamation and harassment over its release of the track.

• Continue reading about the Kendrick Lamar and Drake feud

The Super Bowl’s first half-time show in 1967 was a rather small and low-key affair. It was performed by a college marching band, a tradition that continued throughout the 70s.

But much like most things American, it didn’t stay small for long.

Fast forward to the 90s, major stars began giving highly memorable performances. When Michael Jackson took to the stage in 1993, the half-time show became more than just an interlude between the two halves of the game.

The King of Pop began his performance by standing still for almost two minutes, before belting out hits like “Billie Jean” and “Black and White”. The show also featured a catapult, a body double and an audience card stunt.

The 90s also saw Patti LaBelle, New Kids on the Block, Stevie Wonder and Gloria Estefan perform during the coveted slot.

Since then, the half-time show has transformed into a cultural behemoth, attracting an audience of its own.

From Beyonce’s bold performance in 2013 to Rihanna’s show-stopping act in 2021, the half-time show has become one of the most watched concerts on earth despite its humble beginnings.

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The great and good of the showbiz world are in New Orleans, including British rapper Stormzy. However, he isn't there to watch the action on the pitch...

"I'm here to see Kendrick [Lamar] to be fair," he told BBC Sport. "I'm not going to act like I know everything about the NFL, but I appreciate it, and [I'm here] to watch an amazing half-time show."