CHIEFS SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS YET AGAIN!

Well, we are officially now a dynasty. They all said if the Chiefs won tonight, they'd be a dynasty. Well, we won. As usual there are a million things that can be said about this game, and so far I'm sure all the pundits in every corner of the broadcasting world and across the cybersphere have already touched on most of it.

I'm not going to say anything right now because it is late, but I do want to make one remark about the two most critical plays of the game in my view. I think many others share this.

With two minutes left the Niners had the ball in field goal range and faced a 3rd down. If they made that 1st down, the game would've been over. The Niners could have just let the clock run down and kick the game-winning field goal with no time left for the Chiefs to do anything in response.

But the Chiefs D held. On 4th down the Niners had to kick that field goal and lament having to leave enough time for Mahomes and company to march down the field and kick their own game-tying FG to send the contest into overtime. This is precisely what happened.

That was major defensive stop No. 1.

In OT the Niners got the ball first and did their own methodical march down the field, and with the new postseason overtime rules in effect whereupon both teams get a possession no matter what happens with the score, the Niners could have scored a touchdown to make it difficult for the Chiefs to have to match it or fail altogether handing the win to the Niners. 

So, with a 3rd down again in the red zone Niners QB Brock Purdy went back to pass and could have thrown an easy touchdown pass to the open receiver in the right flat, but the pass rush was so ferocious -- I'm pretty sure it was Chris Jones yet again -- that he had to ditch his pass.

4th down. Niners FG. This meant the Chiefs could go down and at worst kick a game-tying FG. But at the very best they could score the game-winning touchdown. 

This is precisely what happened.

Those two defensive plays were the ones. Just like it happened for much of the year, when the Chiefs were successful they had an adjusted, adapted, and just plain more robust defensive effort as the game wore on, and sure enough, that precise thing happened in this one.

Those two defensive stops on plays that could have led to certain game-winners for the Niners were stuffed by our D, enabling the Chiefs to become, yes, in the voice the late great John Facenda...

WORLD CHAMPIONS OF PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL!

I'm certainly thinking about blogging more at some later time, but for tonight...

Chiefs Kingdom rocks!

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The photo is from Steve Sanders at the official Chiefs site. Thank you.

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