The second Super Bowl clash between Kansas City and San Francisco will be the third major North American sports league final round entity, contested between the cities of Kansas City (Missouri) and San Francisco.
In 2014, the San Francisco Giants won in 7 games with pitcher, Madison Bumgarner starring vs the Kansas City Royals.
I do not know of too many, (any?) other cities with as many as 3 final round entity clashes in baseball and Super Bowl football in such proximity.
Research? If you do it or know, please comment.
Madison Bumgarner, pictured above.
It’s the Chiefs vs the 49ers! A great place to watch the game is midtown Manhattan’s Rick’s Cabaret New York, home of the world’s most beautiful dancers.
The three-level club is known for providing the best in VIP treatment, warm hospitality, and delicious food from its own top-rated Rick’s Steakhouse. Watch the game while surrounded by the sexy Rick’s girls who love to entice you with their bodies. And don’t miss the After-Party featuring bottle specials that is sure to go all night long!
“Its the biggest contest in all of sports and this year’s match-up of the Chiefs vs 49ers will be exciting,” said Rick’s girl Nadia. “Football and the hot Rick’s girls—it’s going to be an awesome fun time. Come flex, be a baller, and make it rain!”
Rick’s Cabaret New York 50 West 33rd Street
“The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers, meeting in the Super Bowl for the second time in five seasons/four years, have each lost 2 Super Bowl games and after the upcoming tilt, one of the teams will be (0-2) in “CBS as the AFC network” (although there are numerous cross over telecasts, denying the old rules of visiting team/that conference network, “getting”/telecasting said game), Super Bowl telecasts. “T
This will be Jim Nantz’ sixth Supe as lead broadcaster.
Both the Chiefs (vs and actually at TB/TB–Tampa Bay (Buccaneers) with Tom Brady, winning a record seventh Super Bowl crown) and 49ers (to the John Harbaugh coached Ravens, an entity still in tact that K.C. beat to gain 2023 season, Supe entry) are (0-1) in such games.
The Chiefs are (3-2) in previous Supes, with all three wins coming on the NFL/NFC network, including the ’69 crown on CBS, when it was the NFL, as opposed to AFL network.
K.C. also won the crown on NFC network, Fox in both ’19 and ’22, the former vs the Niners and last year against the Philadelphia Eagles.
S.F. won it all in their first 5 Supe appearances but have lost in the last two, one under current national champion coach with Michigan but also new L.A. Chargers’ coach, Jim Harbaugh vs (as cited above) to brother John’s Baltimore Ravens in ’12 and as also cited above, to the Chiefs in ’19.
Their Supe wins were in ’81 on CBS when it was NFC, neutral ABC in ’84 and ’94, on AFC/NBC in ’88 and again on NFC/CBS in ’89.
Click below as I posted this video as tribute to greats, Willie Mays (upcoming Mays’ 2/24/24 day) and broadcaster Lon Simmons.
It is Lon’s call of Willie’s 600th home run. He also broadcast 49ers games in good, bad and great S.F. seasons.
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.
Sunday past’s title tilts are over and for the second time in 5 seasons/4 years on the calendar a low spread Kansas City Chiefs vs San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl matchup has manifested (S.F. is a very slight “fave”).
After the Chiefs scored touchdowns on their first two possessions, none after, just a field goal, however held off the Baltimore Ravens to advance to a 4th Supe in 5 seasons (17-10), the 49ers all but “reversed ’57” when they dissipated a (27-7) halftime lead and lost to the Detroit Lions in another “at S.F. NFL “semi,” by overcoming a (24-7) halftime deficit to (34-31) Detroit and advance to their 8th Super Bowl (5-2 in previous but they lost in their last two, one to K.C. in ’19).
Travis Kelce had 9 receptions for 109 yards and scored the game’s first TD in the K.C. win while I cite Brock Purdy’s two big scramble runs, first a 21 yard “such” to the Detroit 4 before McCaffrey plowed in to essentially tie the tilt at 24 (S.F. did not quite love Mr. Mays the way they ought to have, however ceremonies for Willie on 2/4/24, a week before the Supe) and another big one on the drive that culminated in the go ahead to stay field goal.
Andy Reid is now (5-6) in title tilts, (1-2) on the road, the Ravens lost in their first home title game, while the Lions sans a road ‘offs game win since the aforementioned Western Conference playoff game at S.F. have now lost a record 11 straight road playoff games.
Brock Purdy is #13 and pictured above.
Yesterday, Aryna Sabalenka completed a dominant Australian Open, winning all 14 sets and a second straight title, defeating Zheng Qinwen (6-3, 6-2) in the final.
Earlier today and it is still early, this title tilts day, Jannik Sinner won his first major title, overcoming a 2 set deficit to win the crown vs Daniil Medvedev.
Medvedev had overcome a 2 sets to none deficit vs Alexander Zverev in one “semi,” while Sinner ousted the great Novak Djokovic in the other one.
Jannik Sinner, pictured above.
It is very likely (Isaiah Likely is a Baltimore Ravens player and they are seeking a third title) the song by the great “Seals and Croft,” which emits “we may never pass this way (again)’ is appropriate, as for just the second time in the annals (more details later), there are simultaneous first time major league baseball, NHL and NBA champions.
With an asterik (ode to Roger (Maris) and The Dick Van Dyke Show–please comment if you know), it is possible we can have an unprecedented four, if the longest shot remaining, the Detroit Lions win their next two games.
The Lions have won a title, in fact they have won four (not too many have more–rhyme), doing so with crowns in “The Year of Detroit, 1935), 1952, 1953 and 1957.
A technicality/asterik is that the Lions have never appeared in a Super Bowl, (the game for the NFL Title since 1970, and the “all the way” football crown starting in 1966), no less won one.
In fact Detroit is in just their second NFC Title Game/NFL semi-final game.
At the present time, the baseball Texas Rangers winning it all for the first time in their 62nd completed season, (1961-2023 with no completed season in 1994), having played in Washington D.C. and Texas, Denver Nuggets (they claimed a first title in their 56th season including the defunct ABA and 47th NBA season) and Las Vegas Golden Knights in just their 6th season (incredibly they made the NHL Final in their first season, losing to another first and still only time champion, the Washington Capitals, then in their 44th NHL season (’75-2019) with no NHL season in 2004-2005).
Once before did the sports world enter this round or the post baseball part of the NFL season with simultaneous first time champions in the other three major North American sports leagues.
The St. Louis Blues, with the late, great Laura Branigan’s “Gloria,” as their inspirational song won their first NHL title (still the only, but as with all these first time winners–that is great/enough in itself, at least in most instances) in what was their 51st NHL season (’68-2019), (again no NHL season in 2004-2005).
That calendar 2019 year was also one in which the Toronto Raptors in their 24th (Willie (Mays) wore #24 and S.F. by the way the host team vs the Lions in tomorrow’s NFC Title tilt will have Willie Mays Day on the numbers configuring 2/4/24 or February 4, 2024 and stay tuned here for a confluence of greats regarding one of another great’s, Mickey Mantle’s home runs) season and the Washington Nationals in what was their fiftieth completed season (1969-2019 with no completed season in 1994) as both the Montreal Expos and Washington Nationals.
The 2019 year’s NFL “semis”/title tilt participants included the Tennessee Titans nee Houston Oilers, who had not and still have not won an NFL crown in then their 54th possibility (50 such, ’70-2019 in the NFC/AFC configuration with 4 more in seasons that culminated with NFL/AFL Championship/Super Bowl games (’66-’69) and what is now, (we will denote as), 58 such possibilities.
Playing as the Houston Oilers the Titans/nee Oilers franchise won the first two AFL crowns in 1960 and 1961. In 2019, the Kansas City Chiefs, who that season won their first AFC/NFC configuration Supe and certainly their first title in 50 years, “semi’d” the Titans in the earlier title game.
The later/late NFC Title game matched two teams that had won many crowns, the Green Bay Packers and again tomorrow’s NFC Title game hosts, the San Francisco 49ers. (S.F. prevailed vs Green Bay only to dissipate a 4th quarter double digit lead in the aforementioned Supe loss to the Chiefs).
I was not quite “there” literally or figuratively for the seminal Woodstock Event in the incredible year of 1969 (think the moon and the miracle Mets also), when Melanie, born Melanie Safka, was one of just three female solo performers but surely was “there” big time for her great song “Brand New Key.”
Sadly, the key that opens the door to life no longer fits as Melanie died far too young at age 76.
Having ridden many “bicycles past,” still sans “the key,” as with many, many on this planet, Melanie’s beautiful song about loneliness and need, with a great tune, will always resonate.
Add among others, “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain),” inspired by people at Woodstock, lighting candles after the rain began to fall.
Click below to view Melanie’s great song, “Brand New Key.”
This Sunday’s at Baltimore vs the Ravens, 2023 AFC Title Game will bring Chiefs’ coach Andy Reid’s eleventh title tilt appearance (only Bill Belichick with 13 and an (8-5) record has more such appearances, Reid will pass the great Tom Landry, who had 10), only the third to be a Reid team road game.
Reid’s teams, the Philadelphia Eagles (1-4) and Chiefs (3-2) are a combined (4-6) in the previous ten.
All but the ’01 loss at St. Louis, vs the heavily favored Rams and the ’08 game at Arizona, vs the Cardinals were Reid team home title games, as the previous 5, in this Reid and the Chiefs’ 6th consecutive title game appearance, were home games.
The Chiefs nee Dallas Texans played and won all three of their AFL Title games, all of which were road games. (In ’62 as the Texans at the Houston Oilers, in ’66 at Buffalo in the first of what is now 58 Bills’ seasons sans a crown, corresponding “exactly” with this the season in which the 58th (ode to the great, 4 time Supe winning, Steeler’s player, Jack Lambert) and in ’69 in the last AFL game (was there an All-Star Game that followed that last title game?) at Oakland vs the Raiders).
Playing within the AFC for now 54 seasons, the Chiefs have made 7 AFC Title Games, the first and the upcoming one “sandwiching” five straight home such games, the last 5 completed seasons (’18-’22).
Adding it up, Reid coached teams (4-6) in such games have or will have played 8 of the 11 at home.
Meanwhile the Chiefs in either AFL or AFC title games are currently (6-3) with (after the tilt is played, earlier than the NFC game on Sunday) half (5) of their such tilts at home.
Noting: all but one of the total 10 Chiefs games and all 11 of Reid’s (6 with the Chiefs were Conference Title Games/NFL Semi-final games.
The ’62 AFL Title Game was of “the all the way” variety. No Super Bowl nee NFL/AFL Championship game followed. It was four years later that the two 1962 champions, the then Dallas Texans and by then the Kansas City Chiefs and Green BAy Packers met in the NFL/AFL Championship Game, which is now considered the first of what will be 58 Super Bowls played after that such game on February 11, 2024.
Click below or eventually on You Tube for highlights of the Chiefs’ AFL Title Game win at Oakland, vs the Raiders on January 4, 1970. One week later, the Chiefs prevailed vs the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings (not as large favorites as the Colts, who famously also lost, were vs the New York Jets the year before) in what was the last AFL/NFL and considered the fourth Super Bowl.
At (the Len Dawson pass) 2:12, the play begins (I am not a big fan of replay, love Otis Taylor and am appalled he is “not in” the Football Hall of Fame) notice the great Otis Taylor is also “NOT IN” but was ruled to be on that play.
Alas in both cases, apply, as is not always but often the “case” (pun or comment intended) the saying “justice is blind.”
Yesterday, after the Detroit Lions won just their second division round game (the other being a slot 4 win vs Dallas (Cowboys) in 1991, as was the case thirty years ago when they won at Houston vs the Oilers (now the Tennessee Titans), the Kansas City Chiefs won at Buffalo vs the Bills, and were the lone road team to prevail in the 2023 Slots/Division Round.
Now in the earlier game, the AFC Title Game, the Chiefs will play at Baltimore vs the Ravens.
Then the Lions will be at San Francisco, vs the 49ers, in what is a 1957 NFL semis redux, as in an unscheduled playoff for the ’57 Western Conference crown, the Lions overcame a (27-7) deficit and advanced to what was a home title game rout of the Cleveland Browns.
Tom Tracy had two touchdowns in the Lions comeback win in that 1957 Western Conf
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