Kansas City Final Round Notes

Kansas City, which once, ever so briefly housed NHL and for a little longer an NBA team it shared with Omaha (Nebraska), has only 2 major sports league teams, the 2 time defending champion Chiefs, who seek an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl game win, now just 3 days hence (11 days of the hype “rear viewed”– cue Jimmy Stewart, and not to pitch steel belted radial tires) and the baseball Royals.

K.C. is one of the few cities (territories anybody?), to have all its major sports league teams having either above break even or break even records in their final round entities.

The Chiefs are (4-2) in previous “Supes” (3-1) under Reid and (5-2) in games for all the way crowns, having 2 “ot’d” the then Houston Oilers (now the Tennessee Titans) when as the Dallas Texans and in that name and city’s last tilt, they won (20-17) in the ’62 AFL title tilt, clinching– on Tommy Brooker’s game ending field goal.

Baseball’s Royals won World Series crowns 30 years apart in 1985 and 2015 while losing to the Giants in 2014 and to a Philadelphia team, the Phillies, who that year won their first crown in 77 possibilities (1903-1980, no World Series in 1904).