More K.C. And S.F. Final Round Entity Notes

Three of the four Kansas City and San Francisco major North American sports league football and baseball teams lost in their first current league final round entity.

Among the four (K.C. Chiefs and Royals, S.F. 49ers and Giants), only the 49ers, who again, as cited here a number of times, won their first five such entities and have now lost their last three, have a current final round loss streak.

The Chiefs in their first and the first Super Bowl/NFL/AFL Championship Game, lost decisively to the heavily favored Green Bay Packers.

However, the Chiefs have won 4 of the 5 Supes they have appeared in since that loss. (They beat Minne in ’69, the Niners in ’19 and ’23 and the Eagles in ’22–losing to the Buccaneers in ’20).

The baseball Royals lost to the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1980 World Series, won vs the St. Louis Cardinals in ’85, lost to the San Francisco Giants in 2014 and 5’d the New York Mets in 2015.

San Francisco’s Giants, sans a crown with 2 World Series losses (to the Yankees in 7 games in ’62 when Bobby Richarson grabbed Willie McCovey’s line drive hit right at him with the Yankees ahead (1-0) but with S.F. runners, Mateo Alou and Willie Mays in scoring position and to the Oakland A’s in 4 games (’89), in which S.F. never had a lead. I “refuse” to call it “The Earthquake World Series,” but I guess I just did) in their first 51 completed seasons in S.F. (can not say 51, as related to the Giants, without citing the then New York Giants’ incredible 1951 N.L. Pennant), those from (1958-2009), with no completed season in 1994.

Subsequently, the Giants have won in their last three World Series appearances, all in even alternate years from (2010-2014), doing so with at best, players named Posey and Bumgarner, not true greats, such as Mays, McCovey, Juan Marichal, Orlando Cepeda and Gaylord Perry, who largely due to the greatness of the “had to finish first,” National League of the major part of the 1960’s and the tough, aforementioned World Series loss to the Yankees, failed to title.

The Niners, oh the Niners, (think “My Darling Clementine,” I think with some relation to gold prospectors, certainly not sure) have now lost in their last 3 Supes, two by three point margins and the other, in which they dissipated a 10 point(s) fourth quarter lead.

Their 5 Supe victories, as cited here in previous posts, were by 5, 29, 4, 45 and 23 point(s) margins.

I was not exactly “swift,” in picturing, a third, other than Mahomes, current Chiefs’ great player, putting Trav Kelce, pictured above, after Chris Jones and Har Butker.