The Kansas City Chiefs: Historical Super Bowl victory in griffible-sport

A wild conspiracy theory is circulating before the 59th Super Bowl on Sunday, it goes like this: The Kansas City Chiefs can win the American football final for the fourth time within five years. No franchise has managed to do this since the beginning of the Super Bowl era in 1966, and because the spectacle brings together several divisions of the entertainment industry, a Hollywood-ready screenplay is needed in which sport, art and pop culture are served equally for maximum entertainment.

So: The chiefs will be clearly lying back at halftime against the Philadelphia Eagles. During the break show, rapper Kendrick Lamar, clearer at the Grammys last Sunday, will fire a Dizz on Kanye West and thus enjoy pop star Taylor Swift, which has been pursued for 16 years by west. Swift will be in the stadium to cheer on your partner Travis Kelce. The Chiefs key player will only be shown later in a mixed documentary that the cabin will give an inspiring speech to his colleagues. At the end of the comeback, he would catch the decisive touchdown, end his career immediately afterwards and swift make a marriage proposal on the lawn.

The supposed proof of this theory: The bookmakers in Las Vegas have not adapted their odds, although more than two thirds of the bets were completed in the week before the game; You would now know the script and know about the success of the chiefs. There is also a meager that the rule interpretation of the referee team around Ron Torbert prefers the playing style of the chiefs – so loud that she had to dismiss league chief Roger Goodell as “ridiculous” at the beginning of the week.

Such theories belong to the patron of the spectacle. And it is true: the chiefs are slightly favored, but for three reasons that illustrate how NFL and Super Bowl work and why a triumph of the chiefs would actually be historical.

First, the choice at the talent exchange 2022. At that time it looked like the chiefs after renovation; They failed twice after their triumph 2020, the outstanding passport receiver Tyreek Hill had left the club. What the chiefs did: they chose seven defenders who will all be active on the lawn on Sunday; In addition, running player isiah pacheco – rather plow than slalom runners.

The spectacle chiefs became a team that dominated even more about defensive and could use the spectacular moments more targeted. Defensive wins championships, it is often said, and these seven defenders have experienced nothing other than titles in their professional career.

Second: injuries and schedule. There are forecasts for every season how good the teams will be – and in view of the numerous injuries in this sport, they are thrown over the pile of the first match day. Current example: Detroit Lions. They were long considered a super bowl favorite, but more than a dozen failures on the defensive were too many in the playoffs against other top-class players. During the defeat against Washington, it hailed 45 counterpoints.

The chiefs also had to complain about injuries, for example, running player Pacheco, passfmer Marquise Brown or passport defender Jaylen Watson from the 2022-draft. However, they became fit for the playoffs in time. And because the chiefs had qualified early and were allowed to pause in the first round, they are now considered to be somewhat complete and fit-no team is very healthy at the end of an NFL season. Still such a wisdom: not necessarily the best team becomes a master, but the healthiest.

Third: The connection between Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. For eight seasons, the most spectacular playmaker and the most productive Tight End of the story have been a couple, of course they understand each other blindly-and that is exactly what and not a Hollywood script is the reason for the numerous comebacks of the chiefs: they are masters in the first Half time to decipher the defensive strategy of the opponents and then react to it during a game; Which works all the more efficient when Mahomes has the choice: Collecting-I-Nachts-Um-Drei game on Kelce, which can never be guarded completely by only one opponent-or if the congenial partner is covered by two or even three defenders : Pass to another teammate who inevitably has to be free due to the Kelce guard.

“You never see the same thing twice,” says Mahomes about Vic Fangio, the defensive chief of the Eagles

How often have such attack series of the chiefs have been seen in the final quarter – and how often the despair of the opponents because they simply cannot think of this merciless efficiency? From this, the serenity of the chiefs even when behind, as against the, yes: Eagles two years ago. They were ten points at half -time and at the end won 38:35, also because of a – be careful: conspiracy – very questionable referee decision towards the end.

However, and that is exactly what makes the game so exciting in New Orleans on Sunday: This time the Eagles defensive is first place for opposing yards per game (278.4) and space profit per move (4.7) and in second place on points of the opponent (17.8). “It’s always different against him; You never see the same thing twice, ”says Mahomes about Vic Fangio, the defensive chief of the Eagles; A master in adapting the strategy during games and, as Mahomes says: “Creating new puzzles, building falling, misleading. It will be chess on Sunday ”.

The Super Bowl promises to be a treat; Not because of this historical opportunity for the chiefs and the pressure to miss them, as the New England Patriots in 2008, as a clear favorite against the New York Giants, did not manage to complete their season without defeat. But because two healthy teams (the Listen list of the Eagles was for the beginning of the week; it should be completely empty by Sunday) meet at the level of their tactical work. 60 minutes of lawn chess, and therefore only as much for predictability of the game and all conspiracy tools: the number of possible variants of a chess section is larger than the number of atoms in the universe.