Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 460 Adapting to the Venue
Although the Super Bowl is still a few days away, Minneapolis has already been bustling. In fact, the party started ten days ago, before the Pro Bowl, and has been heating up little by little.

The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs also arrived in Minneapolis early and began to adapt to the venue and the overwhelming spotlights according to the time arranged by the league, feeling the frenzy of the Super Bowl in advance.

As the highest annual event in North America, the Super Bowl has unrivaled ratings and attention. Even top events such as the Oscars, the Olympics, and the World Cup are completely incomparable.

In North America alone, the Super Bowl viewership can easily exceed 100 million.

You have to know that the entire population of the United States is only 300 million.

Moreover, not only in North America, with the league's efforts and layout in recent years, rugby's influence in South America, Oceania and Europe continues to rise. The Super Bowl, which will be broadcast simultaneously in 56 countries and regions around the world, will also trigger more comprehensive heated discussions around the world.

This means that the Super Bowl will be shrouded in an intense and turbulent spotlight. Everything will be magnified to the extreme, just like playing under a microscope. The atmosphere and environment will be completely different.

Because of this, adapting to the venue before the game becomes even more important.

"No, no no no, impossible, absolutely."

"You can tell from listening to this that this is just the fantasy of an outsider. Don't go out and say you are a rugby player. You really don't know anything about rugby."

"How could it be impossible? When Patrick threw it, it looked so easy."

"Tsk. Why is the quarterback running over here to join in the fun? Just go and catch your breath. Didn't you hear about the announcement that the quarterback and the beast are prohibited from participating in the game?"

Mahomes: ???
The person involved is right here at the scene, is it really okay for you to talk nonsense like this?
However, the others pretended to ignore Mahomes who was eager to try and make a move. The chattering discussion completely excluded Mahomes. Mahomes stood aside with his eyes wide open, scratching his ears.

"Okay, of course. Don't listen to the nonsense of those outsiders. One or two of them make the job of a quarterback sound incredible. They are real outsiders. It's not that exaggerated."

"Roar, roar, roar, the ace tight end is different. He is worthy of being the man who can challenge Zach Ertz. Everyone listen to this tone. Travis, we are not talking about catching the ball, but a 50-yard pass."

"That's right. This is not like a casual kick in football. You just need to kick with all your strength. The pass has to control the parabola and the rotation of the football. Not everyone can pass the ball."

"Travis, you can catch the ball, but you really can't pass the ball."

As soon as this sentence was thrown out, everyone around understood what he meant and started to make a noise, making faces at each other and teasing Kelsey together.

Kelsey didn't mind. She put her hands on her hips, struck a Superman pose, and straightened her waist deliberately with a proud expression on her face.

"Men can do it."

Hahahaha, everyone burst into laughter.

After the joke, Kelsey continued.

"Believe me, it's really not that difficult."

"First, there was no pass rush pressure."

"Secondly, there is no defensive interference."

"You just aim the ball in the right direction. Not to mention fifty yards, sixty yards is not a problem. The real difficulty during the game is the interference from outside the field. Otherwise, Hail Mary wouldn't be so difficult." "If you are asked to throw a Hail Mary now, I guess only Rogers would dare to take this hot potato. But it's really easy to just stand here and throw the ball."

This afternoon, it was training time for the Kansas City Chiefs to get acclimated to the field.

The adaptation training and basic training have basically been completed. Indoor stadiums are relatively unfamiliar to the players, and there are only a few of them in the entire league. After all, rugby is still an outdoor sport. There are a few open stadiums with roofs that can be freely closed. This year, the most important game of the season will be completed indoors, and the players seem to attach great importance to it.

Recalling the biting cold and strong winds at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, indoor stadiums eliminate the influence of weather such as temperature, wind direction, humidity, etc., which is undoubtedly beneficial to the passing offense. So will this be more beneficial to the Philadelphia Eagles?
Of course, the Kansas City Chiefs are also good at passing offense. Although they have the league's top ground offense, they cannot forget the passing offense that has performed well this season; however, Smith's shortcomings in long passes cannot be ignored after all.

In direct contrast, Foles is a young man who dares to take risks and pass the ball long, so the Kansas City Chiefs began to discuss:

Are indoor courts conducive to long passes?
And then going a step further, does the fifty-yard pass become easier?
One by one, not only the offensive team, but also the defensive team joined the discussion. From their eyes and expressions, one could feel that the team was still a little nervous.

A mixture of excitement and anxiety, expectation and uneasiness intertwined together, either too exciting or too dull, more or less abnormal.

This, can't be blamed on them.

After all, for most players, the Super Bowl is a first-ever event.

In the entire Kansas City Chiefs team, the only player who has participated in the Super Bowl and played in the game is Revis, and Revis was not a starting starter for the New England Patriots that year.

It is conceivable that such a young and inexperienced team, which has stumbled all the way to the Super Bowl, is about to face the most important and crucial game of their careers.

The abnormal things happening in front of me don't seem so strange anymore.

That’s why Kelsey, as the team captain, stepped forward and tried to control the situation and defuse the tension.

But Kelce himself is unsure and can't handle the situation alone. At this moment, the void left by Berry's absence is more obvious than ever.

Throughout the previous season, despite Berry's absence, thanks to Levi's bet, the team from top to bottom had a belief, waiting for Berry's return, and exerted 200% of their energy to fill Berry's vacancy, looking forward to reuniting with Berry on the Super Bowl stage.

However, everyone now knows that this dream has been shattered.

That kind of emptiness and loss is naturally different.

Now, they need to adapt to the venue and the mentality, just like the Philadelphia Eagles without their starting quarterback, they need to adapt to the Kansas City Chiefs without their defensive captain.

Houston noticed, but there was nothing he could do because he felt Berry's absence as much as anyone else, standing on the stage he had always dreamed of at U.S. Bank Stadium, but still felt like something was missing.

Then, he saw Levi sitting cross-legged next to him eating melon.

"Rookie, what do you think?"

Levi, who was happily eating melons carefreely on the side, was inexplicably dragged into it and became the focus of everyone's attention. He could really feel the temperature of the eyes falling on the surface of his skin——

The person involved said that he was not mentally prepared.

(End of this chapter)