--- title: Take It to the House Kid Might Be the Super Bowl 2020 MVP description: The star of an NFL introduction to Super Bowl LIV is an exuberant kid, Bunchie Young, who is bringing lots of joy to audiences everywhere. canonical: https://time.com/5776396/super-bowl-2020-the-super-bowl-kid/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-02-03T00:44:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:31.734Z og:title: "Take It to the House" Kid Might Be the Super Bowl 2020 MVP og:description: The NFL introduced the Super Bowl LIV with the help of a star young athlete og:url: https://time.com/5776396/super-bowl-2020-the-super-bowl-kid/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5fa7fbdb9466601a/698a09aab21a9cca90503185/super-bowl-kid-intro.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1632 og:image:height: 918 og:image:alt: super-bowl-kid-intro og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: "Take It to the House" Kid Might Be the Super Bowl 2020 MVP twitter:description: The NFL introduced the Super Bowl LIV with the help of a star young athlete twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5fa7fbdb9466601a/698a09aab21a9cca90503185/super-bowl-kid-intro.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Choosing the Real MVP of the 2020 Super Bowl Is Tough But the Exuberant 'Take it to the House' Kid Did Great > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 3, 2020 12:44 AM UTC  YouTube  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 3, 2020 12:44 AM UTC The NFL knew what it had to do to open Sunday night’s [Super Bowl LIV](https://time.com/5772692/best-super-bowl-commercials-2020/) in Miami: rally both the crowd in the stadium and viewers around the country — with a cute, inspiring kid, of course. The “Take it to the house” kid made quite a splash with [this debut](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfgL%5FP-nrfw). Ahead of the [kickoff](https://time.com/5775560/super-bowl-2020-kobe-bryant-tributes/) between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs at Hard Rock Stadium, the NFL ran an introduction video showing a kid playing football with his friends and running the ball all across the country, supported by various players and icons along the way (and including a brief pause to honor [Pat Tillman](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/columnist/nate-davis/2019/04/22/pat-tillman-arizona-cardinals-death-army/3539819002/)). The broadcast then switched to real-time, where the kid — and his friends, all dressed in different NFL jerseys to rep different teams — stormed the field, with the star handing over the football to the referee to start things off. In the process, he helped hype up the crowd. An Illinois reporter identified the intro’s star as 13-year-old [Maxwell “Bunchie” Young](https://youth1.com/football/bunchie-young-12-year-old-football-prodigy-blazing-speed), a young football and running prodigy [from Los Angeles](https://youth1.com/football/bunchie-young-12-year-old-football-prodigy-blazing-speed) who has been featured regularly in youth sports stories and videos, thanks to his impressive speed; he was the [_Sports Illustrated_](https://www.sikids.com/skoty/bunchie-young-our-2017-sportskid-year) Kids SportsKid of the Year in 2017. > [](https://twitter.com/PaulGrondahl/status/1224115770839502848) > [](https://twitter.com/BaddIsabella/status/1224115992713809921) > [](https://twitter.com/wesastian/status/1224116734833184769) > [](https://twitter.com/briyetti/status/1224115648915107840) > [](https://twitter.com/craigwchoate/status/1224115512965246977) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5776396/super-bowl-2020-the-super-bowl-kid/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5776396/super-bowl-2020-the-super-bowl-kid/"},"headline":"Choosing the Real MVP of the 2020 Super Bowl Is Tough But the Exuberant 'Take it to the House' Kid Did Great","datePublished":"2020-02-03T00:44:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:31.734Z","description":"\"Take it to the house, kid\"","url":"https://time.com/5776396/super-bowl-2020-the-super-bowl-kid/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Super Bowl","onetime","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5fa7fbdb9466601a/698a09aab21a9cca90503185/super-bowl-kid-intro.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5fa7fbdb9466601a/698a09aab21a9cca90503185/super-bowl-kid-intro.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"super-bowl-kid-intro","caption":"Super Bowl 2020 Kid","creditText":"YouTube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5776396/super-bowl-2020-the-super-bowl-kid/","name":"Choosing the Real MVP of the 2020 Super Bowl Is Tough But the Exuberant 'Take it to the House' Kid Did Great"}}]}] ```