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The Malicious Joy of Watching the Chiefs Crumble February 11, 2025
I try to be a positive person, which is difficult, because everything is terrible....
The Buffalo Bills Have Put Their Fans in a Trap January 28, 2025
There is not a lot left to say. Every publication is allotted one story with the headline “God Just Hates the Buffalo Bills,” and we used ours last year. We have already established in these pages, a few times, that the modern NFL has one fundamental...
I Hate That I Hate the Chiefs January 28, 2025
Some thoughts after our Kansas City Chiefs overlords again dispatched Josh Allen’s Buffalo Bills to again make it back to the Super Bowl…There’s a lot of research to suggest that people rationalize their emotional urges, retroactively. First you feel...
The Bills Are a Footnote in the Chiefs’ AFC Dynasty January 27, 2025
Again.First there was 13 seconds. Then Tyler Bass’s miss, wide right. And now, this. Once again, the Kansas City Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl, after winning the AFC championship game on Sunday, 32-29. And once again, they’ve gotten there on the...
Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills Are on a Quest January 22, 2025
Relative to the home crowd at Highmark Stadium, which frothed over at each inflection point as the snow fell on Sunday night, Buffalo Bills players were calm after winning the biggest game of the season 27-25 against the Baltimore Ravens in the divis...
How the Chiefs Became the Last Great American Dynasty February 14, 2024
Did you really think that the Kansas City Chiefs were not going to win the Super Bowl? It’s true that they struggled offensively this season, and entered the playoffs as a wild card, forcing them to compete in an extra game while the San Francisco 49...
Patrick Mahomes Is My GOAT February 13, 2024
As Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes scrambled for the first down with 2:05 remaining in overtime in the Super Bowl on Sunday, it hit me like a thunderclap: Patrick Mahomes is the greatest quarterback of all time....
End of Football Season Reflections February 13, 2024
Losing is pretty interesting. Winning is a thousand times better, but less interesting. You just don’t have as much to consider. You don’t have as much to manage.Like so many people in the region, and apparently a lot of gambling sharps, I wanted the...
Taylor Swift, America’s National Hero February 12, 2024
A record number of Americans are likely to watch this Sunday’s Super Bowl, probably only half of whom will be following the actual game. The other half will be scanning the luxury boxes for tantalising glimpses of Taylor Swift, the country’s most fam...
How Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Built Their Connection February 08, 2024
At this stage in their relationship, seven years and two championships in, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce are seemingly always on the same page. Not just on the field, where they’ve rewritten the Kansas City Chiefs record books, but also off the fi...
‘The Super Bowl Is Rigged!’: An Intervention February 05, 2024
In the ideological fever swamps surrounding this chaotic age, rife as they are with the miasmatic stench of toxic imbecility, it appears that some of our conspirators-in-chief have plunged through to the bottom of our debased, divisive political divi...
MAGA World Is About to Meet Taylor Swift’s Fandom February 02, 2024
Taylor Swift has many titles: cultural juggernaut; international pop star; billionaire businesswoman. She can now add MAGA conspiracy theory target to the list.Far-right internet personalities and even a former Republican presidential candidate are s...
The Four Keys to Super Bowl LVIII January 30, 2024
The football gods must love a good narrative. How else can you explain this Super Bowl matchup following a pair of deeply weird championship games that saw the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers advance? It was as if these teams were destined...
