BakoSaint

I have been predicting the Chiefs to win it all too, but not because the league is scripted. Mahomes is just a winner. He is a Bradshaw, Montana, Brady type. You have a coach who won 2 super bowls, a QB who won 2 super bowls, their best defense ever, an improved running game, and you just need that QB to make it work with diminished receiver, but their rookie WR is finally starting to produce. Its just logical they should be the favorite.

Then in the rest of the league you have playoff choke artists galore. Josh Allen is another Boomer Esiason, Jim Kelly, Tony Romo, Matt Ryan type who always loses in the playoffs. Dak Prescott and Lamar Jackson are the same. Brock Purdy disappeared in the NFCCG last year and got hurt with his small frame, I mean perhaps he turns it around since he has less of a track record to hold against him, but probably not. Jalen Hurts actually player well enough to win it all last year, but the Eagles went cold. Matt Stafford and Sean McVay were the only other championship duo but Stafford is very old now and they snuck into the playoffs on a rebuild. Goff has previously choked in the playoffs and should never have made a big game. And then you had Love and Stroud who were effectively rookies.

Don't take it as a script if KC wins. Take it as the only team with a good playoff QB in his prime won, which is usually what happens. Does NFL marketing like it that Kelce and Swift are dating? Sure. But that does not mean that any World Series the Yankees won who DiMaggio was dating or married to Marilyn Monroe was fixed. Celebrities and Athletes date.

Also KC is not a great market. If the whole relationship was fixed they would want Swift to date a coastal teams star. Officiating in the NFL is biased but the touchback call that went against KC was rough. The officials hate certain teams that defied their authority and will do favors for certain prime markets but that does not make the season scripted. KC has a good chance to win because their QB is a winner. He won it all last season with a high ankle sprain or whatever and JuJu as his #1 receiver.

Sinner

Good points and a valid perspective. I am much more of a Conspiracy Realist. Celebrities and Athletes dating has been part of a script long before the general public began to notice that celebrities and athletes are indeed the same thing. We have been “programmed” for at least as long as TV “programming” has existed. Now it comes to us from all angles, and we can barely escape it.

The general public is being priced out and driven away from the coastal regions, but that’s an entirely different discussion. I agree about Mahomes though. Wish we had him, among other tools, but that’s not in the script.