Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 185 Blue Collar Wishes
Brittany's face showed curiosity, "So, which night did it happen?"

Mahomes blinked his eyes. "No, what happened? Levi? Which night, what happened? I don't remember."

Levi's eyes widened in surprise, "You actually forgot everything?"

Mahomes was a little anxious, scratching his ears and cheeks like the Monkey King; Brittany, on the other hand, looked calm and composed.

Li Wei raised his chin slightly, "It was that night when we were playing a football game together and that guy McCafé lost 0:6 and rolled on the ground and threw a tantrum. We still need to protect our friend's image a little bit."

McCaffrey: A-choo! Who's cursing at me? Who's cursing at me behind my back?
Mahomes: ...That's it?
Brittany had already reacted. She knew at a glance that Levi was joking and she easily fooled both of them.

After the draft, people have been discussing whether it is appropriate to choose Levi, from the perspective of physical strength, confrontation, technology, etc., but now it seems to Brittany that they missed a key point:
wisdom.

A perfect score on the Von Derrick test is definitely not just a reference statistic.

However, looking at Mahomes' heartless and naive appearance, Brittany swallowed all the words that were about to come out of her mouth and turned to look at Levi.

"Patrick is just a fool. He was sold out but he is still counting money obediently. Now that you two have joined the team, I ask you to take care of him."

Li Wei: ??? This is all right?
Levi looked at Mahomes, and Mahomes also had an expression of approval on his face, which made Levi laugh, "Are you guys mistaken? The guy in front of you is the quarterback. I am the running back. I need to rely on the quarterback."

Brittany didn't buy it, and said meaningfully, "It's good that you believe it."

Then Brittany took a step forward and said, "Nice to meet you, Levi. I'll cook at home someday and treat you to dinner."

Levi also laughed, "Then I'll look forward to it."

After just a brief encounter, Brittany turned around and walked towards the truck to continue working. Levi looked over in the direction of Brittany's figure, and was slightly shocked by the size of the truck. The dazzling furniture filled the entire compartment.

It was a real move, moving the entire house here.

The NFL's rookie contract is four years. Although there are cases of early termination and early renewal, overall, rookies will play the full four years.

Because the hard salary cap for rookie contracts is relatively low, if a group of outstanding rookies are selected, the team will have sufficient salary cap space to sign reinforcements in the free market and build a team with championship potential.

This is also known as the "rookie benefit window." Once this window has passed and salary cap pressure comes, the team will have to make trade-offs and adjustments, which may disrupt the balance of the team as a complete whole.

This is especially true for quarterbacks.

Therefore, the team tends to firmly grasp the rookie benefit window for the quarterback and use this time to build a championship team. From this perspective, Mahomes' choice is correct. He will settle in Kansas City for at least the next four years.

In comparison, Levi, who was lightly equipped, looked like he was here for sightseeing.

Levi retracted his gaze, bumped shoulders with Mahomes and hugged him to say hello.

"Hey, Sherlock."

Levi's old problem came back: not remembering names.

Mahomes, just from the pronunciation, is very similar to Holmes, so Levi naturally made the association. Every time he saw Mahomes, the pronunciation of "Sherlock Holmes" came to his mind. After rounding it off, Mahomes' nickname came like this.

But the really interesting thing is that Mahomes never asked Levi the reason, let alone corrected it, and it continued like this.

Mahomes looked down the street again. The rear of West's car had almost disappeared. "So, you took his car all the way from Tuscaloosa to Kansas City?"

Levi followed Mahomes' line of sight.

"I guess so. He is a Chiefs fan who believes in the Chiefs with all his heart and puts all his hopes in life on this team." Mahomes didn't know the ins and outs of the matter and looked at Levi with confusion on his face.

Levi laughed immediately, "A playoff victory. They don't ask for much, just a playoff victory."

Mahomes stared, "How can one game be enough? Shouldn't the goal be to win the Super Bowl?"

Levi laughed out loud, "Yes, Super Bowl champion, of course, this is the ultimate goal."

The Super Bowl, the crown jewel, is the ultimate goal of all NFL teams and players every year, including the Kansas City Chiefs. But for this team, there are even more painful memories.

The Kansas City Chiefs have not won a playoff game since losing to the Buffalo Bills in the 1993 AFC Championship.

From the 1994 season to the 2014 season, for a full years, the playoff winless spell has become a tight ring around the Kansas City Chiefs' heads. Even Andy Reid has not been able to reverse this situation since he took over the team. This is also the second longest playoff winless record in the league.

A dishonourable record.

Second only to the Cincinnati Bengals, they went thirty-one seasons without a win in the playoffs from the 1991 season to the 2021 season, which ended in the 2022 season.

Of course, the Kansas City Chiefs also ended this embarrassing record in the 2015 season, defeating the Houston Texans in the first round of the playoffs and finally winning a game.

however.

In the 2015 playoffs, they lost to the New England Patriots and failed to win consecutive games. In the 2016 season, they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first game of the playoffs and were eliminated early.

Nightmare, awake again.

It took twenty-one years to finally get a playoff victory. So this time, Kansas City won’t have to wait another twenty-one years, right?

While other teams are aiming for the Super Bowl championship, Kansas City, which is in deep economic crisis, has only the simplest and most modest wish:

One playoff win would be nice.

Of course, they can look forward to the Super Bowl championship, and they can talk about the championship with great pride, but the reality is cruel and cold.

They don't have strong box office like the New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams in big markets, nor do they have a deep historical heritage like the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers, nor do they have unique support and support in a small town of people like the Green Bay Packers.

They are just an ordinary small town, a group of farmers and workers, struggling and persevering on the poverty line day after day.

In fact, their wish is really simple.

On match days, go to the stadium or to the bar to enjoy a beer and watch a game, and then use a victory to ignite a ray of light in the darkness, guiding them to move forward in the mud and quicksand.

This is enough.

They really don't want to have to wait until twenty-one years for their next playoff victory.

Now, the heavy responsibility falls on this generation of young people.

They, can they?

Levi looked at Mahomes and said, "But the starting point to the pinnacle of the championship begins with a victory. How about it, are you ready?"

(End of this chapter)