The NFL sea­son reach­es its finale Sun­day in Las Vegas when Chris­t­ian McCaf­frey and the San Fran­cis­co 49ers take on Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs at Super Bowl LVIII at Alle­giant Stadium.

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Pre-game updates

Inac­tives (3:18 p.m.): For the 49ers, the inac­tive play­ers are: QB Bran­don Allen, DL Alex Bar­rett, WR Ron­nie Bell, LB Jalen Gra­ham, DL T.Y. McGill, OL Matt Pri­or and CB Samuel Wom­ack II.

For the Chiefs, the inac­tive play­ers are: CB Ekow Boye-Doe, LB Dar­ius Har­ris, RB La’Mical Per­ine, WR Justyn Ross, DE BJ Thomp­son and WR Kadar­ius Toney.

Bet­ting favorites (2 p.m.): We’re about two-and-a-half hours before kick-off is sched­uled. The 49ers are slight favorites (-2) over the Chiefs, accord­ing to BetMGM.

Patrick Mahomes is the ear­ly favorite to win the game’s MVP award at +145 — mean­ing a $100 bet would win $145. He’s fol­lowed by 49ers quar­ter­back Brock Pur­dy (+230), San Fran­cis­co run­ning back (and Col­orado native) Chris­t­ian McCaf­frey (+450) and Tay­lor Swift’s main squeeze Travis Kelce (+1,200). — Joe Nguyen

Watch par­ties (1:55 p.m.): Are you a Chiefs or a 49ers fan and want to find oth­ers to cheer with today? Here’s a list of the watch par­ties host­ed by the two fan­bas­es’ Den­ver chap­ters. — Joe Nguyen

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49ers-Chiefs Super Bowl LVIII: Must-reads

Many tried to stop Christian McCaffrey during his Colorado high school days. Few could. “He did whatever he wanted”

One moment, Blake Nel­son had the per­fect angle to stop a bub­ble screen for a loss near the side­line. The next, he was lay­ing on the turf, sub­ject to the full Chris­t­ian McCaf­frey Expe­ri­ence. That’s just one tableau of many from McCaffrey’s sto­ried prep days at Val­or Chris­t­ian from 2010 to ’13 when the dynam­ic run­ning back and Col­orado native was the cen­ter­piece of four straight state title teams.

As the San Fran­cis­co 49ers star pre­pares to face the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday’s Super Bowl, the play­ers and coach­es who tried to stop McCaf­frey dur­ing his Col­orado prep days now speak with rev­er­ence about the time they shared a field with the future All-Pro. For many, it rep­re­sents a brush with ath­let­ic great­ness they’ll nev­er for­get. For oth­ers, it stands as the most frus­trat­ing 48 min­utes of their careers.

One thing just about all of them agree on: McCaf­frey, at his best, was “untack­leable,” Kyle New­man reports. Read the full sto­ry.

Keeler: Gary Kubiak on Kyle Shanahan, Christian McCaffrey, his sons and Broncos West in Super Bowl LVIII: “I miss football a lot, and this gets me a chance to stay in it”

While Mike Shana­han and Kubi­ak were push­ing but­tons and kick­ing tail for the Bron­cos and 49ers, a young Kyle, the Cher­ry Creek alum now coach­ing in his sec­ond Super Bowl with San Fran­cis­co in the last four years, got tasked with babysit­ting the Kubi­ak boys. Some­times, things went … you know, sideways.

“Some­body told me the oth­er day, ‘You know that you’ve been part of three world cham­pi­onships with Ed McCaf­frey?’” the elder Kubi­ak said. “So, yeah, we have a lot of his­to­ry togeth­er. And Chris­t­ian was run­ning around as a lit­tle kid back in those days. Life comes full cir­cle, man.”

No kid­ding. Klint, the kid whose tighty-whiteys once dan­gled from said door­knob, is now Kyle’s offen­sive pass­ing game spe­cial­ist and, accord­ing to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the next offen­sive coor­di­na­tor of the New Orleans Saints. Klay, that oth­er young rap­scal­lion, is Kyle’s assis­tant quar­ter­backs coach with the Nin­ers. Flail and for­give, appar­ent­ly, Sean Keel­er writes. Read the full col­umn.

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