Chiefs: Super Bowl Week

Laddie Morse

So, we find our Kansas City Chiefs at another Super Bowl for the fourth time in five seasons. The Chiefs reached Super Bowl LIV following the 2019 season and won it by beating the San Francisco 49ers 31-to-20. Then they went back-to-back in Super Bowl LV, but lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-to-9 and played the whole game without scoring a touchdown. That defeat was mostly due to the loss of Offensive Linemen prior to the game. The very next year, the Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills played in a game that has been considered by many to be one of the best games of all time. Chiefs fans know it as the “13 Second” game or the “Grim Reaper” game. However, the Cincinnati Bengals came into Arrowhead and beat K.C. that same year in the AFC Championship game, but they turned around lost to the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI. Last year, the Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII in a great game, 38-to-35. That brings us up to this Super Bowl. Super Bowl LVIII:

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The San Francisco 49ers will be the Away team and the Kansas City Chiefs will be the Home team in this Super Bowl, simply because the NFC and the AFC switch off Home and Away from year to year. The 49ers currently are the #1 seed in the NFC — which is the likely reason they are favored — and their record is 14-and-5 while the Kansas City Chiefs is the AFC #3 seed and are 14-and-6, which basically means they’ve played one more playoff game this year.

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Chiefs Practicing Players

Patrick Mahomes said yesterday, confirming what many of us have been thinking, “the best ability is availability.” With that in mind, let’s take a look at which players for the Chiefs will be available ramping up to game day:

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DT Chris Jones – CJ didn’t practice on Wednesday, the first day of practice this week but he was designated as having a Light Practice on Thursday.

RB Isiah Pacheco – Pop also didn’t practice on Wed. but did have a Light Practice on Thursday.

DL Charles Omenihu – is OUT of this game with an ACL tear and we hope he’ll be ready come Spring Training later this year.

RG Joe Thuney – didn’t practice on Wed. or Thurs. but Andy Reid said he thought “Thuney would be ready to go” (come game time). Still, I wouldn’t count on Thuney laying in the Super Bowl. Not with his backup Nick Allegretti doing so well vs the Ravens.

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WR Skyy Moore – had a Light Practice both Wed. and Thurs. but remains on the IR

LB Willie Gay – had a Light Practice on Wed. but a Full Practice on Thursday.

CB L’Jarius Sneed was the same as Gay.

OL Prince Tega-Wanogho – had a full practice both days but remains on IR.

QB Blaine Gabbert had a Full Practice both days.

WR/KR Richie James – had a Full Practice both days.

WR Rashee Rice – had a Full Practice both days.

LB Drue Tranquill – had a Full Practice both days.

WR MVS – had a Full Practice both days.

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The Chiefs Game Plan is being installed over these four days of Practice in K.C. with the last day being Saturday and the teams traveling to Vegas on Sunday. Both WR Skyy Moore and OL Prince Tega-Wanogho would need to be upgraded to the active roster for them to be illegible for this Super Bowl. Although Willie Gay didn’t play in the AFC Championship game — and he was missed as a “spy” on Lamar Jackson — he did have a Full Practice on Thursday so he’s been ungraded already and that is a big positive for the Defense.

Once the Chiefs arrive in Vegas, they will practice at the Raiders’ facilities during the week leading up to the Super Bowl. The 49ers will practice at UNLV.

While WR Kadarius Toney is no longer on the limited list of players not practicing, I don’t expect much from him. Now, just because I don’t expect much from him, doesn’t mean Andy Reid hasn’t already written him into his game plan, a few plays that might include Toney. Here’s Toney at practice goofing off…

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Travis Kelce is Releasing a T-shirt

You can purchase a t-shirt designed by Travis Kelce by going to this web address: TruKolors.com

The cost is $48.00 per t-shirt. If you buy more than one you can get a four interest free installments deal.

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Super Bowl Costs

If you’re wanting to fly to Vegas to watch the Chiefs play in the Super Bowl, the cost of airline tickets and hotel cost will likely not be your biggest expense (3:03):

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The cost for actual tickets to get into the game will vary to a degree. Either way, the ticket prices are not in line with what the common man can afford. From businessinsider.com:

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“At the time of writing, the cheapest price is at StubHub, where prices start at $6,751 each when buying a pair. Prices climb to over $7,000 when opting for just a single ticket. And it won’t surprise you to hear that these are way up in the nosebleeds.”

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BusinessInsider goes on to report:

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“A lot of the Super Bowl tickets in the first tier of the stadium… are available for not too much more… We’ve spotted tickets at a much more reasonable altitude priced between $8,000 and $10,000.”

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Super Bowl Commercial Increase

In an article written by Svetozar Pavlović called, “2024 Super Bowl ads sell out for CBS: How much does a 30-second commercial cost on TV?” he reveals that:

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“Multiple sources have reported that the average

cost of a 30-second ad for the 2024 Super Bowl

will be $7 million.”

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Also…

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“The average cost of a 30-second commercial during

the Super Bowl increased from $37,500 at Super Bowl I 

to around $2.2 million at Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000.”

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So, Super Bowl I — which wasn’t even named that at the time — had a 30-second commercial that cost $37,500 dollars and now it’s up to $7 Million for a 30-second ad? Wow, how times have changed. Here’s Joe Namath and Farrah Fawcett — a few years later — in a Noxzema Super Bowl Commercial in 1973 (0:29):

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The Super Bowl has become big, big, really big… business, if you didn’t already know. The owners are counting on us fans to follow along with the game… and commercials too. I guess we do. We really do.

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Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne

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