Supe “Is On” Today

This day, one day before the 215th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, in Las Vegas, Nevada of all places, the 91st game (1933-2023), for the NFL crown will be contested between the 1950 NFL entry San Francisco 49ers and the 1960 AFL and 1970 NFL entry, Kansas City Chiefs.

5, 29, 4, 45, and 23 points were the margins of the 5 Niners’ Supe wins, the defeats by just 4 and a misleading 11 (that vs K,C, in a game they had a 10 point, 4th quarter lead and possession of the “pig”).

K.C. (Chiefs) won by 16, 11 and 3 (luckily last year), while losing by 25 and 22 point(s) margins in their 5 previous Super Bowl appearances.

Noting there were six “all the way” AFL title tilts from (1960-1965).

Three of the 4 title winners in those 6 seasons, have not won a crown in the (at least) 58 subsequent seasons, all of which ending or will end in an entity called the Super Bowl. (The Houston Oilers, now the Tennessee Titans ’60 and ’61, the Chargers as San Diego now again as in ’60 when they lost to the Oilers in the first AFL Title Game, in L.A. doing so in ’63 and the Buffalo Bills (’64 and ’65) are those teams/franchises.

The other pre Supe, AFL Title game winner, doing so in ’62 and then known as the Dallas Texans were/are the K.C. Chiefs, who today in a second such bid, hope to join the ’97 and ’98 Denver Broncos and ’03 and ’04 New England Patriots, as the only original AFL teams to win successive NFL/Super Bowl crowns.

Now, neither, after 24 seasons with that not the case, Bill Belichick or Tom Brady is with New England.

Today’s K.C. opponent, the S.F. 49ers are coached by the son of the ’97 and ’98 Broncos’ coach, Mike Shanahan and have a star running back, who is the son of Ed McCaffrey whose distinctions include titles with those ’97 and ’98 Broncos and also the last/most recent Niners’ Supe winner in ’94.

The sons Kyle and Christian, respectively have been part of teams that dissipated big Supe leads and is deemed a prohibitive favorite to, if “nada” else, score at least one touchdown in today’s game for the NFL crown.

Joe Montana, pictured above, won 4 crowns in as many Supe appearances with the Niners and was the ’93 Chiefs “QB,” in a season they lost at Buffalo, vs the Bills in the AFC Title/NFL “semis” game.