Revenge of the Birds
Can Kyler Murray and the Cardinals shine for Festivus?
When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, America’s teams were the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys.
While the Dallas Cowboys went 7-10 in 2024, the NFL in 2025 decided to give them 6 primetime games —- the second most for any team, tied with the Super Bowl LIX Champion Philadelphia Eagles.
What a rook.
But move over Cowboys —- America’s team these days is clearly the Kansas City Chiefs.
Sure, having adoring Taylor Swift fans increase the Chiefs’ national viewership by a profitable margin certainly helps —- but the majority of the credit of the Kansas City allure goes to iconic quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the ultimate straw that stirs the Chiefs’ holiday punch.
Just as Tom Brady of the New England Patriots was either adored, revered, envied or despised by the millions of NFL fans, the baton of the QB G.O.A.T. of the decade has been passed to the ultra-crafty Mahomes, who will not only run around and turn busted plays into touchdowns, he will do it when necessary by gutting through third degree ankle sprains —- and he will deliver some jaw-dropping performances with an uncanny display of euphoric bounce and pure hustle.
Like the saying goes, “you cannot stop Patrick Mahomes, you can only hope to contain him.”
With the NFL granting the Chiefs 7 primetime games for the upcoming season, slating them to play premier games on Thanksgiving and Christmas, there is no longer any doubt that America’s team of the 2020s is the Kansas City Chiefs.
Patrick Mahomes’ ascension to NFL prominence has underscored the critical importance of two necessities:
Let’s take a close look at the last 12 QBs to win Super Bowls:
How many of these QBs were top 5 picks in their draft class?
Yet, when Peyton Manning won Super Bowl 50 (Broncos) and Matthew Stafford won Super Bowl 56 (Rams), neither was playing for the team...
