Kareem Hunt’s eight-year NFL odyssey can be captioned in videos of him plowing into the end zone for the Chiefs — usually from inside the 5 — with both arms wrapped securely around the ball, striding to the back of the end zone as he flings it to the ground, and then pounding his chest as he looks defiantly to fans in the stands.
Very few Division II football players even dream of having a chance at being drafted into the NFL. Few manage to get that phone call on draft night and even fewer become Super Bowl champions.
The two teams facing off in New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX Sunday have a ton of common threads, and most of them start with Andy Reid’s influence.
Last year’s Super Bowl, in a way, felt like the Super Bowl of Super Bowls – the tight game went to overtime, Patrick Mahomes won his second consecutive Lombardi Trophy (and third overall), Taylor Swift’s attendance was a peak pop culture moment and the game was the highest-rated television program ever tallied by Nielsen.
Travis Kelce is the NFL’s all-time leader in playoff receptions, but his biggest impact on the AFC Championship Game didn’t show up in the box score.
Kansas City’s emergence was a breath of fresh air for a league suffocating on New England’s prolonged excellence.
Did you ever see a football player get hit so viciously that you shudder? Like, the guy gets hit so hard that your body is affected? Well, there was this Nick Bolton hit.
Patrick Mahomes is chasing Tom Brady‘s ghost.
Sitting under a media tent and clinging to every inch of shade from the sun and summer heat in St. Joseph, Missouri, a reporter with a striking resemblance to the ruggedly handsome face that accompanies this column watched Kansas City Chiefs training camp practices and focused on a second-year quarterback and first-year starter named Patrick Mahomes.
Many fans were angry before and after the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Buffalo Bills 32-29 to advance to their third straight Super Bowl on Sunday night.