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Deja Vu All Over Again: Five Reasons the Chiefs Win Super Bowl LIV

MIchael Rose January 27, 2020 No Comments Gallery

 

Deja Vu All Over Again: Five Reasons the Chiefs Win Super Bowl LIV -this morning’s article will be reminiscent of my article almost two weeks ago where I listed five reasons that the Chiefs would beat the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Championship Game (ooh-ooh, another deja vu?). I’ll try my best to minimize repeating myself as I lay out my five reasons they will defeat the San Francisco 49ers this Sunday in Super Bowl LIV. Please forgive me, I’m not a superstitious person…  except when it comes to the Chiefs.

 

 

Superstitious Minds

For example, I always wear a clean Chiefs jersey or t-shirt on game day. This Sunday, I’ll be wearing my “Property of KC Chiefs” t-shirt along with my new Chiefs pullover that my “new favorite” son and my “new favorite” daughter-in-law, Tevin and Erica, gifted me for Christmas. I always get two “tall boy” Miller High Life bears to keep me company through the game. I open the first can “exactly” at the moment of the opening kickoff, and the second one, likewise, exactly at kickoff in the second half. I even cross my fingers on pivotal drives in games. Irrational? Maybe. Stupid? Perhaps, but I’m telling you it works. In the four games that the Chiefs lost this year, I foolishly broke my pattern. What happened exactly those four games was:

  • October 6th – Colts Win, 19-13 – I did lawn work earlier in the day. By rule, Chiefs attire is not work clothes. I neglected to throw on any Chiefs gear prior to the game, finally realizing and changing only at half-time. Too late.
  • October 13th – Texans Win, 31-24 – my son came over to watch the game with me, bringing a twelve-pack of Bud Light.  Wrong beer… for more reasons than just superstition, too.
  • October 27th – Packers Win, 31-24 – this was a night game. I had to get up early the next morning, so I broke my routine and drank both cans of beer before kickoff started. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
  • November 10th – Titans Win, 35-32 – I didn’t have any clean Chiefs gear, but determined not to make the same mistake as I did during the Colts loss, I pulled a jersey from the dirty laundry and tried to make do. Silly me, the rule is the jersey must be clean.

 

So, hopefully you can understand my need and desire to err on the side of caution and not risk potential disaster, no matter how irrational it might seem. It seems I am not alone. Perhaps you read this story already:

 

 

I wrote a “Top Five Reasons the Chiefs Will Bring Home the Hunt Trophy” article prior to the Chiefs victory over the Titans in the AFC Championship Game and we won. Doggoned if I’m going to break a habit that’s working for me!

 

 

That said, without further ado, here are the five reasons the Chiefs win Super Bowl LIV.

 

1. T-N-T and T-N-T – Tyreek and Travis on offense, Tyrann and Terrell on defense. That’s double-dynamite, baby!

 

 

It’s possible, however unlikely, the 49ers stop Tyreek Hill or Travis Kelce, but there is — absotively, posilutely — no way that they can stop them both every Chiefs offensive down in a sixty-minute game. Just ask the Titans, or the Texans, or the Patriots…. 

 

The T-N-T offensive tandem have combined for 2,089 yards receiving, 155 receptions, and 12 touchdowns during the regular season. This is with the Cheetah missing four games because of injury this year. Just in their two playoff games this postseason, they’ve combined for close to 200 receiving yards, five touchdowns, and over 20 receptions. Oh, did I mention that the Chiefs also have some pretty good other receivers named Watkins and Robinson, along with a standout rookie, Hardman?

 

 

Although the Super Bowl is just Terrell Suggs fourth game as a Chief, he’s already made an impact on this defense. His addition to the linebacking corps has made them almost double as good as what they were. Moreover, Suggs knows what it takes to win the Super Bowl. As a Baltimore Raven, he and his team won Super Bowl XLVII, 34-31.  The team they beat was none other than the San Francisco 49ers. Just sayin’.

 

 

Tyrann Mathieu is just a monster in the defensive backfield. Snubbed by Pro Bowl voters, the NFL now knows that the best safety in the NFL is, the Honey Badger, the Landlord. He’s snagged 4 interceptions, sacked the QB twice and has made 75 tackles this regular season. He’s the yin to Mahomes’ yang, on the defensive side of the ball. His leadership of the defense is reminiscent of Eric Berry in his heyday years with the Chiefs. 49er fans, beware, Matthieu truly is “the Landlord” and rent is due… plus first and last month’s rent!

 

2. Andy Reid Will Not Be Denied. Not this time!

 

 

I know that we’re all tired of hearing that, Andy can’t win the big one.  Can you imagine how he feels? I realize that many consider Patriots head coach Bill Belichick the best coach still coaching in the NFL. For my money, though, it’s Andy Reid. Andy, despite winning the Super Bowl… has amassed an outstanding resume over the years as both a head coach and an assistant coach. Mind you, he did this without the slightest hint of cheating. I’m not accusing the Patriots of cheating, but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck… it ain’t a dog!

 

 

Like an evil mastermind, Andy Reid has been plotting his return to the Super Bowl this Sunday since his devastating loss, 24-21, in Super Bowl XXXIX to the hated Patriots, as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. Since then, he’s come close with a 2008 appearance in the NFC Championship Game as Eagles HC, losing to the Arizona Cardinals, 32-25, plus last year’s heartbreaking defeat to the Patriots, 37-31 in the AFC Championship game.  He also lost three straight NFC Championships prior to the Eagles appearance in Super Bowl XXXIX. Only one of these losses was by more than a single score.

 

Coach Reid is ready. 

Coach Reid is due. 

Coach Reid will not be denied.  Not this time!

 

3. Esprit de Corps – “This is our year. This time, I mean it!”

In July of last year, I wrote an article titled, wait for it, “Chiefs Fans This Is Our Year.”  In it, I provided many reasons the Chiefs would be in Miami on February 2nd, chief among them was, esprit de corp. In the article, I wrote:

 

“Esprit de corps means doing everything possible not to let your teammates down, be it in the military, or in sports. This means staying in shape, reviewing the playbook, mending injuries, stepping up and being a leader where necessary, working on those parts of your game that you feel you can better, giving back to the community.”

 

Never has it been more true of a team than it is of the 2019 Kansas City Chiefs. They are the living embodiment of esprit de corps. I thought so in July 2019. I know so now. This Sunday, the Chiefs will prove it.

 

4. Championship Swagger –

I’m Smellin’ What You’re Steppin’ In!

 

 

Search for “championship swagger” on Google, and the entire front page of the search is all Chiefs-related, save for a Wikipedia entry about WWE wrestler Jack Swagger. I believe that Honey Badger first coined the phrase. It stuck, and why not? The Chiefs have earned that Championship Swagger and they wear it well! They are not braggadocious or obnoxious with it, either. Rather, they are confident in their ability to take care of business and are not shy about it. Nor should they be. Teams earn Championship Swagger, no one gives it to them, and you certainly can’t buy it. The Chiefs look good in Championship Swagger.

 

 

Chiefs Kingdom, I’m in Illinois, a mere nine blocks from the Mississippi River across from St. Louis. I can smell that Championship Swagger coming from the City of Fountains, all the way from here. Never have I ever smelled such a smell! It reeks of victory!

 

5. Mahomes, Mahomes, Mahomes – With Mahomes behind center, we’re always still in the game.

 

I used this reason in my previous article (told you there’d be overlap), but this reason is as true now as it was then. Mahomes is the best quarterback in the NFL right now. Any pro football HC who says that they would not rather have Pat as their QB than their current QB is just fibbing. When God made quarterbacks, he broke the mold with Mahomes. He has all the tangibles that make QBs HOFers: cannon for an arm… pinpoint accuracy… leadership skills… smart decision-making skills… selflessness… ability to use his legs only when necessary… and a never-say-die attitude.

 

 

Plus, Mahomes is extra-Mahomey in the playoffs. While his passer rating during this year’s regular season was 105.3% with an average of just under 2 passing TDs each game… in his two 2019 postseason games, so far, his passer rating is 131.6% and he’s averaging 5.5 passing TDs per game. By the way, he’s never thrown an interception in the postseason… ever!

 

Knock on wood.

 

Please don’t judge me too harshly for my superstitions. I assure you it only applies to the Chiefs. I regularly step on cracks, break mirrors (not on purpose), walk under ladders, and I’ll even open up an umbrella indoors if the fancy hits me. However, the Super Bowl is far too important a game for me to “screw the pooch” on this one. Chiefs Kingdom, please know this fan’s doing his part!

 

Michael Travis Rose — ArrowheadOne

 

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“Super Bowl MythBusters”

 

 

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