Following the victory of the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl LIX, the reign of the Kansas City Chiefs has faltered. Are the Eagles really the new top bird? Or, is this just a temporary setback for the Chiefs?
Pro-Eagles:
Over the course of the last seven seasons, the National Football League (NFL) has seen a talent unlike ever before. In the 2017 NFL draft, the Kansas City Chiefs took Patrick Mahomes, a gunslinging quarterback (QB) from Texas Tech University. NFL scouts had doubts that his style of play would translate to the big league, but boy, were they wrong. Little did the world know that the Chiefs were getting one of the most electrifying quarterbacks in NFL history.
After being given his chance to start, Mahomes took the league by storm. In 2018, he threw a staggering 50 touchdown passes. It didn’t take long for those tapped into sports to realize that the young man from Tyler, Texas had the “it” factor.
Mahomes ran away with the MVP award that year and never looked back. Since then, his team has been crowned champions three times, and he’s received a plethora of other accolades to cement himself in the conversation for the greatest QB the sport has ever seen. Regardless of all of this, I, along with tens of millions of others, am tired of hearing about them. This team’s fame and glory has run its course, and we are all ready to see a new face in the league.
I get it. Mahomes and the Chiefs are undeniably one of the most dominant forces in the NFL today. But, if I’m being honest, it is getting exhausting. It’s not that Mahomes isn’t a fantastic QB or that the Chiefs don’t deserve their success. It’s more about the constant media saturation.
Every headline, every analysis, every highlight seems to circle back to the same few names: Mahomes, Andy Reid, and Travis Kelce.
It is hard to escape the relentless coverage. Whether in commercials, sports shows, or social media, the Chiefs’ dynasty feels omnipresent. The NFL is full of talented teams and players with compelling stories, yet Kansas City consistently steals the spotlight.
If the sports world strives for one thing in particular, it is new storylines. The overexposure of one team can make the whole sport feel like one big repetitive cycle, taking away the authenticity of the underdog.
The NFL, just like any other major league, thrives in competition. But when the spotlight is always on one team, it starts to feel more like a monologue than a dynamic, unpredictable competition. Sure, Mahomes and the Chiefs are great, but maybe it is time to shift the conversation, even just for a little while.
And maybe, just maybe, the crushing result of this year’s Super Bowl is a sign that the tides are changing, and the league will see some different faces in the big game from this point on.
Pro-Chiefs:
We all saw the final score, and the worst part is that it wasn’t even that close. Regardless of what happened, the public was against the Chiefs. Don’t get me wrong, I was rooting for the Bills just as hard as anyone during the AFC championship, but once the Super Bowl rolled around, I’d developed a sense of sympathy for the Chiefs. Everyone in the US (except for Kansas City) was rooting against them.
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid is a likeable guy. He is arguably a top three coach of all time, and other than that, he’s best known for funny State Farm commercials and his love for cheeseburgers. He took the Chiefs from 2-14 in 2012 to 11-5 in 2013. The Chiefs were terrible before that, so maybe it’s time they finally have some success.
Secondly, they’ve had to overcome all kinds of challenges to be where they are today. They traded superstar wide receiver Tyreek Hill in March 2022 and won the next Super Bowl that following year. Patrick Mahomes’ top wide receiver target, Rashee Rice, went down with a season-ending ACL tear in week four. Starting running back Isiah Pacheco suffered a fracture to his leg and wasn’t the same. They shrugged it all off, ignored the people writing them off, and made it back to the Super Bowl. They didn’t do it with flashy running backs like the Eagles or with high-flying wide receivers like the Bengals. They did it with nitty gritty plays in the trenches and by just doing enough to come out on top.
The only reason I’ve actually heard anyone produce as to why they were rooting for the Eagles was that they were tired of seeing the Chiefs every year. This may be a good reason, but what you’re really saying is that the Chiefs are too good and you think they shouldn’t be good enough to win. They defy the odds, and you don’t like it when a team figures out a strategy to win and has tremendous success with it.
