Aside from winning the final Super Bowl before the merger in 1970, the Kansas City Chiefs’ biggest claim to fame for over half a century was team founder Lamar Hunt coining the phrase Super Bowl.
Patrick Mahomes changed all of that a year ago when he led a furious fourth-quarter rally that sent the Chiefs to a 31-20 win over San Francisco in Super Bowl 54.
Now, there are Mahomes murals all over town, the city’s famous restaurants run specials in his honor and he even has a cereal named after him.
The Chiefs (14-2) are again a top seed and they’re one win away from becoming the first team ever to host three consecutive AFC championships. The only NFC team to do that was the
