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☆ NFL Week 16 top storylines: Eagles still soaring; who earns final AFC playoff spots?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( Mike Jones | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

NFL Week 16 is in full swing, with three games already in the books after Thursday and Saturday’s action. Five more teams — Baltimore and Pittsburgh in the AFC; Detroit, Philadelphia and Minnesota in the NFC — have also secured playoff berths. The Eagles have won 10 straight games, the longest active streak in the NFL and the longest in team history. The Eagles, Lions and Vikings enter Sunday with identical 12-2 records. Williams hasn’t topped 200 yards passing for two straight games, and the Bears have been outscored 68-25 in two games since Eberflus’ firing.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Trey Smith shared the WWE title belt to help calm a young boy in the aftermath of the mass shooting at the team's Super Bowl celebration. Smith, who sported the belt during the celebration, noticed the frightened boy, who was with his father. “I was thinking, what can I do to help him out?” Smith said in an interview Thursday on Good Morning America. “Andy Reid was trying to comfort me, which was nice,” Wallace told The Kansas City Star.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs trainer Rick Burkholder said the team was on buses returning to Arrowhead Stadium when a shooting occurred Wednesday at the end of the Super Bowl championship parade. Burkholder said he was with coach Andy Reid and other coaches and staff members at the time of the shooting. “Praying for Kansas City,” Chiefs quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that also included three emojis of hands in prayer. Offensive tackle Donovan Smith, defensive tackle Mike Pennel and safety Justin Reid were among the Chiefs players offering similar statements of support on social media.

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“It's a family matter, so I'll keep it to the family,” Mahomes said at Super Bowl opening night. This Kansas City's fourth Super Bowl appearance over that span; the Chiefs lost to Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers following the 2020 season. Photos You Should See View All 45 Images“You always have nerves going into the Super Bowl,” Mahomes said. Now it's about going out and playing the game.”Another Super Bowl victory would further secure Mahomes' place in history. Brady's seven Super Bowl wins is a big number, even for the 28-year-old Mahomes, who, barring injury, is still in the early part of his career.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes had his helmet shattered on a hit from Miami Dolphins safety DeShon Elliott during Saturday night's frigid AFC wild-card playoff game. With a game-time temperature of minus-4 degrees Fahrenheit, the game was the fourth-coldest in NFL history, and it was unclear whether the temperature made the shell of Mahomes' helmet more brittle than usual. But then again, rarely is it below zero at kickoff of a football game. Mahomes ran two more plays before officials made him get a backup helmet from the sideline.

Persons: Patrick Mahomes, DeShon Elliott, Mahomes Organizations: KANSAS CITY, Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins, AFC, Dolphins, Kansas City Locations: KANSAS, Mo

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City will hire overdose investigators as part the Missouri city's effort to lower the number of fentanyl deaths. An ordinance passed Thursday by the city council allows the city health department to hire two investigators and requires overdoses to be reported within 24 hours, the Kansas City Star reported. A Kansas City police official told the newspaper that the agency has confiscated more than 61,000 grams (about 134 pounds) of fentanyl so far this year, and Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said there was a suspected overdose every day but one in 2022 in Kansas City emergency rooms. “Overdose deaths are at an epidemic level in Kansas City and fentanyl is driving the epidemic,” Lucas said.

Persons: Quinton Lucas, ” Lucas, Lucas Organizations: KANSAS CITY, Kansas City Star, Kansas City Locations: KANSAS, Mo, Kansas, Missouri, Kansas City

Bankrate.com recently released a report detailing the best places to save for a six-month emergency fund in 50 US metro areas. San Jose, California, was the hardest place to save money for emergencies, while Kansas City, Missouri, was the easiest. AdvertisementAdvertisementA new report by Bankrate.com outlines the best places to save money for a six-month emergency fund across 50 US metro areas. Even in the easiest metro area to save money — Kansas City, Missouri — the typical family can save as much as 63% of their emergency-fund goal in just one year. We narrowed down the list to the 25 best places in the US to live to save money, ranked from the hardest to easiest.

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