It is Christmas Day in chilly Kansas City, and the Chiefs are back-to-back AFC West champions.
And it is so deserved after a ride so unique.
Kansas City, at 5-0, was unanimously regarded as the league’s best team. ESPN wrote, “No team is ever a lock to make the playoffs after five games, but the Chiefs are pretty close right now,” on its weekly power rankings article at the time.
Alex Smith was the “it” MVP candidate and Kareem Hunt was accomplishing things no other player in NFL history had before.