NFL coaches will often tell their players – and themselves – to ride out adversity and to stay the course. They do that by reiterating, time and again, that it's not how you start; but how you finish. That certainly applies to the two teams who will battle to lift the famous Vince Lombardi Trophy in Las Vegas on Sunday February 11.
The Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers have stayed the course in quite different ways at the back end of the 2023 season and now they will play out a Super Bowl re-match four years after Andy Reid's men won in Miami just before we were all locked down.
The Chiefs looked lost on so many occasions during the regular season and it feels like we have had multiple conversations about where it has all gone wrong. And yet they are now preparing for a fourth Super Bowl appearance in five years. An incredible, New England Patriots-like feat in what is supposed to be an era of salary caps, revenue sharing and a level playing field.
Kansas City hit a low when losing at home to the Las Vegas Raiders on Christmas Day. It was their fourth defeat in six games and left them staring at travelling route to the Super Bowl, if such a run was going to be possible at all. But since that ugly 20-14 loss, the Chiefs have won five in a row to book their ticket to Vegas.
The Chiefs have failed to hit their usual heady heights on offense for much of this season. And that has still been the case in this playoff run. They scored just two touchdowns in the Wild Card round against the Miami Dolphins but emerged victorious off a strong defensive display and they only found the end zone twice in Sunday's 17-10 AFC Championship Game win in Baltimore. The Chiefs did not score a second half point against the Ravens.
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