Diehard fans turn on Aussie after horror punt

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Diehard Philadelphia Eagles fans turned connected Aussie punter Arryn Siposs aft a nightmare Super Bowl moment, with the cult hero's 4th fourth punt starring to a grounds return, and yet a match-defining touchdown.

Moments aft the Chiefs took a 28-27 pb - the archetypal clip they had led each nighttime - and with astir 10 minutes near connected the timepiece successful the 4th quarter, the ex-St Kilda AFL weapon fluffed his lines with his 2nd punt of the night.

As a result, his Eagles teammates were precocious to screen Chiefs punt returner Kadarius Toney, who scrambled each the mode backmost to his attacking five-yard enactment to implicit a 64-yard return.

It was the longest punt instrumentality successful Super Bowl history.

From the adjacent play, the Chiefs scored a touchdown to widen their pb to 8 points done Skyy Moore.

While the Eagles would rally, scoring a touchdown and a two-point conversion to gully level wrong minutes of full-time, they ne'er again regained their pb and were yet enactment to furniture courtesy of a field-goal that resulted from a contentious holding penalty.

It was a infinitesimal that volition ever instrumentality with Siposs and turned sour a Super Bowl that started with large committedness for some the Victorian and his prima Aussie teammate Jordan Mailata.

With his archetypal kick, Siposs booted a 57-yard punt that Toney was lone capable to instrumentality 12 yards, an fantabulous publication particularly erstwhile considering helium had missed the past six games done wounded and lone started practicing again past week.

Mailata, meanwhile, had been successful beardown signifier coming into the Super Bowl, which helium was capable to transportation into the NFL's biggest night.

Mailata artifact leads to important touchdown

He rag-dolled galore Chiefs defenders passim the night, and had a nonstop manus successful 2 of the Eagles' archetypal fractional touchdowns.

First, helium made a cardinal artifact that allowed backmost Jalen Hurts to propulsion a stunning walk to wide receiver AJ Brown. Then, not agelong after, and with his squad fundamentally connected apical of the extremity zone, Mailata blocked 2 Chiefs defenders to let Hurts to stroll into the extremity portion virtually unchallenged.

It gave them the pb heading into half-time.

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