Sunday Past, Was Not The First “Swift,” AFC Title Game Win- Vs A Baltimore Based Team

Last Sunday, the underdog and defending champion, Kansas City Chiefs came to Baltimore for a second straight week and second ever road ‘offs tilt with their great quarterback, Patrick Mahomes and in relatively “swift” fashion, scored touchdowns on their first two possessions, albeit on long drives, en route to a (17-10) win at the Ravens, moving them into a fourth Super Bowl appearance in five seasons.

Travis Kelce, another great offensive player on the Chiefs, whose much publicized “significant other,” has a first name, Taylor, evoking such football greats with that surname as Jim, Lawrence, Charlie and another Chiefs’ great receiver, Otis, hauled in the game’s first score and made three, 3rd or 4th down conversion catches, on the two K.C. touchdown drives.

Ms. Swift, who ought to be back from her musical tour in Tokyo, Japan the day before and is so likely to attend the Supe, to be played in Las Vegas, Nevada, also has a football connection, that of a player with her name, Swift, that was on another team, that defeated a Baltimore based team, in an AFC Title game.

That player is Dr. Doug Swift, a member of the 1971 Miami Dolphins, who won at home vs the then Baltimore Colts, in that season’s AFC Title game, just the second of what is now 54 such games.

Those ’71 Dolphins lost to the Dallas Cowboys in the subsequent Super Bowl, however, Dr. Swift, an anesthesiologist, played on 2 truly great Miami title teams the next two seasons.

Swift graduated from Nottingham High School in Syracuse, New York.

Don Nottingham was a member of the ’71 Colts and later a teammate of Swift, as he was traded to Miami during that season, on the ’73 Super Bowl winning team.