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The "underdog" Philadelphia Eagles football team has won its first Super Bowl. The team defeated the favored New EnglandPatriots in the National Football League championship Sunday night in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The final score was 41 to 33.

Eagles quarterback Nick Foles was named Super Bowl 52's Most Valuable Player, or MVP. Foles was backup quarterback for most of the 17-week regular season. He replaced starter Carson Wentz when he was injured in week 14.

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The last time a player has gone from a backup at the start of the season to Super Bowl MVP was sixteen years ago. That player was Tom Brady, the quarterback of the Patriots. Brady led his team in play Sunday night also.

Nick Foles catches a pass for a touchdown against the New England Patriots in a trick play

Foles threw for three touchdowns and even caught the ball in a trick play. Brady dropped a pass in a similar play. However, he broke a Super Bowl record in passing.

Twenty-eight other Super Bowl records were tied or broken during the game. The game was the second highest-scoring Super Bowl ever.

As Brady's final Hail Mary pass dropped on the field, incomplete, Eagles fans flooded the streets of Philadelphia to celebrate the Pennsylvania city's first Super Bowl victory.

Hometown newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, reported the scene this way:

"Men hoisted women on their shoulders, a father set off fireworks with his son, and residents clobbered pots and pans... Some people drank champagne. Some cried. And everywhere, Eagles chants thundered through the air."

Some of the celebrations turned ugly, however. People broke windows of a department store and pushed over streetlights at major road crossings. In another incident, a car was overturned outside a hotel. And the mayor's office said police made three arrests in connection with the post-Super Bowl activities.

By the morning light, city workers were out to clean up the mess and prepare for a victory parade on Broad Street.

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I'm Caty Weaver.

Hai Do adapted this story for Learning English based on reports from the Associated Press and other sources. Caty Weaver was the editor.

概要：正如我们所读到的这个讲的是刚结束的超级碗比赛，eagle是宾夕法尼亚州的球队，对抗爱国者Patriots，常年输球的他们今年却夺得了超级碗的冠军，其中有一个人表现最出色，eagle的替补四分卫Nick Foles，作为替补上场却当选mvp，赢了比赛以后，人们很兴奋，庆祝的同时出现了好多“ugly”的行为。

词汇：

underdog  失败者; 退居下风的人; 受压迫者; 打败了的选手;

Patriots 爱国者

quarterback 四分卫

Hail Mary pass 紧急时刻的长距离的成功率低的长直传，就像篮球中的超远距离绝杀

clobber 用力敲打

hoist 举起，使升起

补充：

Minneapolis,明尼阿波利斯是美国明尼苏达州最大城市，位于该州东南部，跨密西西比河两岸。面积151.3平方公里，市区人口407,207（2014年）都市区人口超过3,459,146 （2013年）。东与圣保罗毗邻， 组成著名双子城，包括附近郊县在内，面积12626平方公里，人口约占全州总人口一半以上。