Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 288 The Lone Star of Heavenly Evil
"God, oh, shit..."

"Touchdown, the referee confirmed it. There were no more surprises this time. There is no doubt that it was a touchdown. The Oakland Raiders beat the Kansas City Chiefs at home at the last minute, ending their division rivals' six-game winning streak at the start of the season."

"Wow, I mean — welcome to the NFL."

In competitive sports, everything is possible, and the weak defeating the strong happens all the time, and this is even more so in the NFL, where the strength of the teams is closer, the contrast between the strong and the weak is more subtle, and victory or defeat is often decided by a hair's breadth.

The main quarterback Derek Carr suffered a back injury, so that the Oakland Raiders completely lost the rhythm of last season and fell into a quagmire of four consecutive losses after two consecutive wins at the start of the season.

Although Carl returned from injury last week, he still was unable to reverse the decline.

This week, the Oakland Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs, two rival teams in the AFC West, met. Almost no one was optimistic about the Oakland Raiders' victory. All ten votes within the league were cast for the Kansas City Chiefs, overwhelmingly believing that the top seed will move towards a seven-game winning streak.

However, in the NFL, never jump to conclusions.

The game was extremely intense and tense, with fouls, yellow flags and even expulsions throughout the entire game and continuing until the very end.

"30:24".

With three minutes and 24 seconds left in the game, the visiting Kansas City Chiefs led by six points. Then Carr stood up, completed key connections in succession, and led the Oakland Raiders into the end zone in an incredible way. The two sides engaged in a fierce game on the two-yard line.

At the critical moment, the yellow flag foul disrupted the game——

The Kansas City Chiefs' yellow flag ruined their successful defense and gave their opponents an extra offensive opportunity. The Oakland Raiders' yellow flag also ruined a touchdown and had to be overturned and started over.

However, Carr did not miss the fourth opportunity, and the two-yard pass was successful, scoring a touchdown at the buzzer to tie the score.

"30:30".

At this point, the entire game has been consumed:
00: 00.

However, the Oakland Raiders can still challenge for the extra point.

Kicker Giorgio Tevecchio, who had missed an extra point in the first half, withstood the pressure and scored.

"30:31".

The Oakland Raiders scored a buzzer-beater at home, ending the Kansas City Chiefs' undefeated season.

The Oakland Raiders did not give the opponent's offensive team a chance to play again, forcing Levi to watch from the sidelines, helpless.

This was the first time that Levi truly experienced the essence of rugby.

Turn-based. Groups.

Without the defensive team, the offensive team cannot take the field; without the offensive team, the game cannot advance; and without the special teams, today's victory or defeat may be completely different.

None of them can be missing, and the team is a complete group.

Although Levi continued his excellent performance throughout the season in this game, he did not get the chance to turn the tide this time.

Helplessly and regretfully, Levi swallowed the first defeat of his career.

With such an ending, the Kansas City Chiefs' winning streak came to an abrupt end without warning, and the entire league exclaimed in surprise. Carr played a career-high 417 passing yards and scored three touchdowns, which was like divine help, completely subverting the predictions and interpretations of professionals.

Bart: ...grass.

This is simply amazing!

Bart strongly suspected that he and Levi were incompatible. Why did fate play such a trick on him?
He was slapped in the face so hard that he had to admit his mistake, and then he made a 180-degree turn and turned into a bootlicker.

Right after, Levi was slapped in the face again. His 21-game winning streak from NCAA to NFL ended against the Oakland Raiders. That was the Oakland Raiders, are you kidding me?
His left cheek was just swollen like a honey puppy, and now his right cheek was slapped loudly. Bart felt like he had lost all hope in life.

Then, Bart became popular again——

"Pele II", "Pele of Football".

There is a crow-mouthed Pele in the football world. Whoever he touches will be unlucky. Now the rugby world finally has its own Pele. Whoever you support will lose.

Look, the New England Patriots, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and now it's the Kansas City Chiefs' turn. Wherever they go, corpses are left everywhere. No one can escape Bart's curse.

There are even emoticons that have become popular, in which Bart stares at the camera with squinting eyes and a smile on his face, with the lines "I chose you, tell me if you are afraid or not."

Bart was also directly angry.

Professional, this is called professionalism, do you understand? My opinions are all professional analysis, which is completely different from Pele's random matchmaking.

Can it be the same?

Bart deeply believed that his reputation and professional image might be ruined because of Levi, and he had to find a way to save it.

There is no grudge, but it has become an enemy.

With his neck stiffened and his waist straightened, Bart really started to compete with Levi.

Bart believes that the Oakland Raiders was just an accident, a small accident. After all, the Kansas City Chiefs were seriously exhausted. They defeated last season's playoff teams such as the Houston Texans and the Pittsburgh Steelers in a row, and their vitality was seriously depleted. That's why they fought with the strong and young Oakland Raiders to the end, and unfortunately lost by one point.

After a short break, the Kansas City Chiefs will be able to regroup.

"They're going to get back to winning ways. Believe me, they will."

however--

The nightmare of the 2013 season repeated itself, and the Kansas City Chiefs seemed to have completely lost their way, losing consecutively to the Denver Broncos and Dallas Cowboys in the following games.

After three consecutive losses, Reed once again realized his shortcomings:

The ability to conduct on-the-spot command and respond flexibly is insufficient.

So, with Week 10 being the bye week, Reid made adjustments.

Reid chose to delegate power and gave the power to call tactics during the game to offensive coordinator Matt Nagy.

This is not unfamiliar to Reid.

Reid did this in the 2015 season after five consecutive losses. Peterson took over the heavy responsibility at that time, and the Kansas City Chiefs subsequently won ten consecutive games, which also won Peterson the position of head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.

This year, Reid also hopes that Nagy can change the team's offensive strategy and not waste Smith, Levi and Hunter's good competitive form this season.

However, this adjustment did not produce immediate results.

After returning from the bye week, the Kansas City Chiefs still couldn't get out of trouble, losing to the New York Giants, Buffalo Bills and New York Jets successively, and once again suffered a three-game losing streak.

What is this operation?
First they started with six consecutive wins, and then they fell into a slump of six consecutive losses. This free fall-like season process is really incomprehensible. Fans with weaker hearts may have just laid down.

Kansas City Chiefs fans were devastated:

Mr. Bart, Grandpa Bart, please, stop being a milkman and continue to smear Levi. You can smear Levi however you want. The "Levi-anti" camp needs your flag to continue flying.

Even Bart couldn't help but doubt himself. Wait, was I right all along? Was Levi just a useless piece of paper? If he had continued to grit his teeth and refuse to give in after the Pittsburgh Steelers game, wouldn't he be a god now?
As he thought about it, Bart fell into the grace and beauty of a daydream.

(End of this chapter)