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In covering the
Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl LVIII ring ceremony, I was among the many who were mesmerized by the eye candy and totally missed a blunder hidden in plain sight. Or so it would appear.
All the glitz and glamour that comes with the Chiefs' new jewelry and its amazing designs aren't enough to mask the fact that they have a boldfaced error when it comes to listing out their most recent playoff accomplishments. Their triumph over the Miami Dolphins on Wild Card Weekend amid historically freezing conditions is forever immortalized on those Kansas City folks' fingers with the wrong playoff seeding for the Fins.
https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1801635148418404786
Maybe the images captured and posted by the Chiefs don't reflect what's actually printed on the IRL jewelry of the ring recipients. Why wait for confirmation either way, though? Let's take the ball and run angry with this like Isiah Pacheco.
Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel is a stylish guy who has a way with words. Do you think he might've slipped the jewelers some extra dough to get in the Chiefs' heads? How else is McDaniel supposed to manufacture an edge other than
setting team meetings 24 minutes past the hour?
That's a faux conspiracy theory that might as well be true, because while this would be a big, huge, major deal for literally any other team in the NFL, when it comes to Kansas City, I feel like the main takeaway from them should be, "Uhh...oh well. Get 'em next time?"
Seriously. Let's all be honest. As long as
Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid are together — no disrespect to Spags and the Chiefs' defense, or to Travis Kelce as he ages like fine wine, dates Taylor Swift, secures acting roles, etc. — Kansas City ain't going anywhere. And they're probably going to win at least one more Super Bowl.
Mahomes hinted that more is to come last night, echoing his sentiment literal moments after he threw the winning TD pass to Mecole Hardman to
beat the San Francisco 49ers in overtime.
https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1801445658185912752
https://twitter.com/NFLonCBS/status/1756888578439737348
Could we see a mass ring recall due to the fact that the Dolphins were the sixth seed, not the seventh seed? I doubt it. Why go through the trouble? Then again, this Chiefs crew may not mind banding together at a later date one last time to get their hardware corrected. How late is too late? I don't think there's any such thing as "too late" when it comes to celebrating a championship. Look no further than the Dolphins franchise, and ask their 1972 team. Their surviving members pop champagne every single season when the final undefeated team loses.
Will keep eyes peeled for more updates on this potential all-time mess-up. But once more, this is relatively small potatoes in any case for the Chiefs' dynasty.
