Super Bowl Preview - 49ers at Chiefs

Not going to spend a lot of time analyzing all of this to death. It always comes back around to this simple truth.

If the Chiefs don't have some crazy-ass stupid thing happen to them at the most inopportune time, they will win.

Period.

The main reason is shown in the posted image, one I clipped from a fine video a guy did about the worst drafting NFL team since 2012. The video was mostly about that particular team (the Jets) and its epic drafting failures, but right at the beginning he showed the graphic related to what it takes to have a championship team.

Thus, the Chiefs.

That we have Patrick Mahomes who simply refuses to lose and a defense that is not overwhelmingly muscular but is very skilled and extraordinarily strategic. Really, if you have a quarterback like we do and a defense like we do, as long as proper business is carried out, we have nothing to worry about.

(And I love how one of the featured key players in the graphic is our fine punter. Definitely though, Tommy Townsend is fantastic, he should get the credit he deserves!)

The game is played in Las Vegas, and the only thing that is splendid about that is it is the new Raiders home. How sweet is that, the Chiefs are playing in the Super Bowl on the Raiders home turf. Ahhh... Nice...

The thing that is very bad is this, yet another article describing the wretched problems with gambling into which the NFL has embroiled itself. Yeah it makes sense. So many get interested in the thing when they can bet on it, and the NFL tried to get a piece of that action by making quite specious relationships with the Draft Kings and Fan Duels and the Bet MGMs and all the things that makes Vegas just the most splandacularly spliniferous place anywhere.

Excccept... there's their part in destroying the lives of all those they've encouraged to hand over rent money because they just have to bet the over. There are all the questionable relationships among players and other NFL personnel with the nefarious elements who can easily give them a call, text, poke, anything that compromises the integrity of the game.

Yeah, I so want my Chiefs to win, be a dynasty, be "America's Team," engender the fandom of every person on the planet, be the greatest anything of all athletic endeavors in all time, space, and dimension -- all the rest of it. 

But wow.

The gambling associations, the alcohol promotions, the racialist browbeating, the unchecked promiscuity of many of the athletes, the ugly vulgarity spewed everywhere -- so many facets of the game just make it so difficult to fully champion.

I'll be watching with family, it'll be fun. I'll be proudly sporting my Mahomes jersey with some of my favorite people, several of whom are Rams fans or Cowboys fans who'd like nothing other than to see Patrick take apart the 49ers defense. That'll make it extra fun, for sure. So yeah...

Just got to keep it in perspective, and no matter what be proud of what Clark, Brett, Andy, and the rest of the major players in the Chiefs Kingdom have done to work as hard and as well as they have, simply be an inspiration. Maybe that's just the best thing of all in this, and hopefully those good things will be the best Chiefs thing there could be.

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