The NFL Super Bowl will arrive this year with a touch of Latin flavor… Puerto Rican.
This is because there are two Puerto Ricans who will play in the big game of the NFL and will represent their Puerto Rican side. One plays with the Kansas City Chiefs and the other with the San Francisco 49ers, teams that will compete for the NFL championship in two weeks in Las Vegas.
These are the running back and star player of Kansas City, Isiah Pacheco, and the offensive lineman of the 49ers, Jon ‘Mongo’ Feliciano, the two Puerto Ricans of descent who represent their Puerto Rican blood in the Super Bowl, a game that the Americans have baptized as ‘The Best Show in the World’.
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By the way, it is worth noting that Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi sang the United States anthem in Sunday’s NFL National Conference game in which the 49ers defeated the Detroit Lions 34-31 to advance to the Super Bowl.
Pacheco and the Chiefs also advanced to the Super Bowl on Sunday with a 17-10 victory over the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship game in which Pacheco scored on the ground and gained 68 yards in 26 opportunities running with the ‘picua’ .
Pacheco has represented his blood in a previous edition of the Super Bowl, a bowl that has been won by other Puerto Ricans of descent in history, such as Ron Rivera, who won it in 1985 with the Chicago Bears. Rivera, in fact, also went to the Super Bowl as a manager with the Carolina Panthers in 2015, when he lost to the Denver Broncos.
Ron Rivera, of Puerto Rican descent, went to the Super Bowl as a player and manager. He won it as a player in 1985 with the Chicago Bears. (Susan Walsh)
As a rookie, Pacheco won the 2022 Super Bowl with the Chiefs, a team whose star is quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who, in fact, has a distant connection with Puerto Rico because his father, Pat Mahomes, pitched for the Criollos de Caguas in the 90s.
Julio Pacheco’s son scored once in that Super Bowl, in which he wore the Flag on his helmet, and gained 76 yards in total on the ground. He is a native of New Jersey and played NCAA with the Rudgers in that same state.
At 5’10 tall, Pacheco scored seven times last regular season. He accumulated 935 yards on 205 rushes and 15 games. He only lost the ball once.
Pacheco has scored in every Kansas City game this postseason. In the second playoff game, this one against the Buffalo Bills, Pacheco advanced the ball 97 yards in 15 opportunities. He also caught five passes.
For his part, Feliciano is more veteran than Pacheco. Before the 49ers, Feliciano played for the defunct Oakland Raiders, the Buffalo Bills and the New York Giants, where another of the Puerto Rican Super Bowl winners, the 2012 Super Bowl winner over the Patriots, receiver Víctor ‘Salsa’, saw action. Cruz, who made his nickname famous because he danced when celebrating his scores.
The remembered Víctor ‘Salsa’ Cruz.
Rafael Feliciano’s son is 31 years old, is 6’4 tall and weighs 325 pounds. His position is guard, whose function is to protect the team’s passer and open space between the defense for the runners.
Feliciano saw action as a starter in six of San Francisco’s 15 games in the regular season and started the NFC Championship game on Sunday, as well as the Division game against the Green Bay Packers.
He has played in each of the last four postseasons.
2024-01-29 20:15:59
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