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Consider all that can go wrong on a football field, all that could have gone wrong for Kansas City at Allegiant Stadium late Sunday night, with the Chiefs trying to score the go-ahead touchdown and the Las Vegas Raiders seeking to stop them.
Penalties, mental lapses, drops, imprecise routes. The ball could sail just high or wide, grazing off a receiver’s fingertips. It could be caught a centimeter out of bounds, or intercepted a centimeter in bounds. All sorts of wacky stuff.
Until recently the Chiefs, with a grisly history of postseason malfunctions, knew wacky stuff.