{"id":32937,"date":"2025-02-10T05:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T05:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/jordan-mailata-makes-history-as-first-australian-to-win-a-super-bowl\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T05:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T05:33:12","slug":"jordan-mailata-makes-history-as-first-australian-to-win-a-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/jordan-mailata-makes-history-as-first-australian-to-win-a-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Mailata makes history as first Australian to win a Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Eagles player completes journey from reserve-grade rugby league<\/li>\n<li>Mailata plays big hand in Philadelphia\u2019s 40-22 win over Chiefs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jordan Mailata, the giant rugby league convert from Bankstown, has made history by becoming the first Australian to play in a Super Bowl victory. The offensive tackle, taking part in his second NFL championship decider, played no small part in the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 stunning win over the Kansas City Chiefs in this year\u2019s showpiece game held in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>In front of a star-studded Superdome crowd and a global audience of tens of millions, Mailata\u2019s journey from humble beginnings in Sydney\u2019s south-west to the pinnacle of world sport was completed, as he helped the Eagles to a one-sided 40-22 win over the Chiefs, whose hopes of securing a three-peat were dashed in spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/10\/jordan-mailata-makes-history-as-first-australian-to-win-a-super-bowl\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eagles player completes journey from reserve-grade rugby league Mailata plays big hand in Philadelphia\u2019s 40-22 win over Chiefs Jordan Mailata, the giant rugby league convert from Bankstown, has made history by becoming the first Australian to play in a Super Bowl victory. The offensive tackle, taking part in his second NFL championship decider, played no &#8230; <a title=\"Jordan Mailata makes history as first Australian to win a Super Bowl\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/jordan-mailata-makes-history-as-first-australian-to-win-a-super-bowl\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jordan Mailata makes history as first Australian to win a Super Bowl\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}