Sunday evening, with a frigid Arrowhead Stadium moonscape serving as the backdrop, the spunky, upstart New England Patriots—playing in their eighth consecutive conference Championship Game—pulled off a miracle upset victory against the mighty and formidable Kansas City Chiefs. Unheralded quarterback Tom Brady—who has piloted the Pats to fifteen 10-win seasons—masterfully orchestrated a go-ahead scoring drive with 40 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter and did likewise in overtime, utterly jugulating a stout Kansas City secondary—which ranked 31st in the NFL in pass defense during the 2018 regular season—with a metronomic onslaught of clutch third-down conversions.
Can we please put a stop to this “underdog Patriots” narrative?
