Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts and running back Saquon Barkley became NFL champions in a 40-22 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday in Super Bowl LIX. On Tuesday, their celebration tour reached “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
And they brought along the Eagles starting offensive line, including guard Landon Dickerson, who, like Hurts, is an Alabama alumnus.
They celebrated by shotgunning beers with Fallon, although Hurts did not shotgun his, but sprayed it onto Dickerson.
The offensive linemen also got to appear in a musical skit with Hurts and Barkley.
Barkley got the biggest laugh as he and Hurts chatted with Fallon when he described his role on Philadelphia’s quarterback sneak, which produced the first touchdown in Super Bowl LIX. The play has widely come to be known as the Tush Push, although Hurts said he doesn’t call it that.
“I have the easiest job,” Barkley said when asked his assignment on the play. “I’m the one who pushes the tush.”
Fallon asked Hurts what he felt as the confetti was falling around him after the Eagles’ victory on Sunday.
“I’ve just been telling people I was trying to process it,” Hurts said. “I think when you go into that, you don’t know how you’re going to feel. You watch as a fan sports and championship games and these iconic moments, and you see the greats and how they handle it in their excitement and the rush of emotions. All I could think about was all of the hard work, all of could think about was all of the effort.
“And to see my reflection on the chrome trophy, in that mirror, it was a pretty good feeling.”
The Eagles lost to Kansas City 38-35 in Super Bowl LVII two years ago. Hurts has kept a photo that shows him walking off the field through red and yellow confetti as the wallpaper on his phone since that game. The MVP of Sunday’s game, Hurts told Fallon he felt “no urgency to change it” after the victory.
“Every time I open my phone,” Hurts said, “I don’t just sit there and have this flashback of a moment. It’s not some psychotic thing or anything like that.”