Sure Cure for Your Super Bowl Hangover: Rinse and Repeat

Sure Cure for Your Super Bowl Hangover: Rinse and Repeat – like most all of Chiefs Kingdom, my past two weeks since the Kansas City Chiefs unlikely, phenomenal comeback victory in Super Bowl LIV against the San Francisco 49ers, have been satisfying to say the least. I rejoiced the night of the win. I got drunk (if only in my mind) with Super Bowl MVP QB Patrick Mahomes and his go to TE Travis Kelce during the frantic, frenzied Super Bowl victory parade the city threw for them on the following Wednesday. I’ve bragged about the Chiefs awesomeness here and on social media to no end. I’ve watched the last six or seven minutes of Super Bowl LIV daily, sometimes twice a day. Friends avoid me now, tired of my droning on endlessly about the best team in the NFL. It’s great. Really.

I especially enjoy (now watching later, knowing the outcome) the moment in the fourth quarter when Tarvarius Moore picked off an errant Patrick Mahomes pass. The 49er defenders then saw fit to pose for a “Super Bowl Victory” photo in the end zone. Huge mistake. Huge mistake. Just Huge!

They may have gotten away with it, too: that is, a 49ers Super Bowl Victory.  Indeed, they could have, had it not been for those “meddling kids”… the 24-year-young Mahomes, and his fleet of speedy receivers, along with a durable, always reliable, Damien Williams, carrying the load, and a rejuvenated Honey Badger collecting rent with his fellow regulators.

This is great, I thought. Yet, still, something was missing.

Despite our glorious victory, something deep down and in the back of my head, just seemed to keep me from fully enjoying the feeling. As an eight-year Navy veteran, it was a familiar feeling to me. It was a hangover. A Super-Bowl hangover.

Being the crackpot Internet sleuth I undeservedly espouse myself to be, I funnelled my inner Google-Fu and got cracking. Turns out that the Super Bowl Hangover, is a real thing, but it applies to the losing teams in the Super Bowl, not the winners.

I disagree. Repeating a Super Bowl Championship is difficult. Indeed, back-to-back Super Bowl victories are rare, shared by only seven teams:

1. 1.  the Green Bay Packers (1966–1967)
   2.  the Miami Dolphins (1972–1973)
   3.  the Pittsburgh Steelers (1974–1975 and 1978–1979)
   4.  the San Francisco 49ers (1988–1989)
   5.  the Dallas Cowboys (1992–1993)
   6.  the Denver Broncos (1997–1998) and,
   7.  the New England Patriots (2003–2004). 

However, we are the Chiefs, Kingdom… and I foresee further Super Bowl victories in the next two decades for the City of Fountains, but… we need a cure.

My cure is “hair of the dog” (use your inner Google-Fu if you don’t know). Our older readers know exactly of what I speak. For those others, the cure for a Super Bowl hangover is as simple as washing your hair – rinse and repeat. I’m not saying that it will be easy for the Red and Gold, but rinse and repeat is a time-proven formula for back-to-back Lombardi Trophies.  Just ask the Green Bay Packers, the Dolphins, the Steelers, the 49ers, the Cowboys, the Broncos, or the Patriots. However, none of those franchises, nor any other NFL team will claim Super Bowl victory after the upcoming 2020 NFL season. Not if Andy Reid… and his “meddling kids”… have anything to do with it.

Michael Travis Rose — ArrowheadOne

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