The Kansas City Chiefs are 12-1. That includes a 9-0 record in one-score games.
Make that 10-0 now, because Kansas City clinched its ninth-straight AFC West title by fending off the Los Angeles Chargers in a 19-17 win on Sunday night. And like those other 10 close wins, it featured some late game magic.
That includes the kind you’d expect — Patrick Mahomes escaping pressure to extend a game-winning drive — and the kind that makes you believe the football gods are real and love western Missouri barbeque. They’ve fended off their division rivals with a blocked kick (the Denver Broncos), a botched snap (the Las Vegas Raiders) and, now, a doinked-in game-winning field goal.
Unreal pic.twitter.com/Wx4a3YhaR1
— NFL (@NFL) December 9, 2024
It felt inevitable. And once that ball bounced through the uprights, analysts and fans took to Twitter to express their exhaustion with a Chiefs team that keeps winning but never makes it easy.
Of course their doink was good.
Of course.
— Doug Farrar (@NFL_DougFarrar) December 9, 2024
Chiefs are Nothing Ever Happens, The Football Team.
— lukezim (@lukezim) December 9, 2024
The worst 12-1 team of all time is still 12-1, you know.
— Aaron Schatz (@ASchatzNFL) December 9, 2024
The Chiefs have plot armor
— JP Acosta (@acosta32_jp) December 9, 2024
No way Of course it’s the Chiefs
— Alex Strouf (@alex_strouf) December 9, 2024
With that ricochet game-winning kick, the Chiefs have now set the single-season record for BMOE (Black Magic over Expectation).
Even when adjusting for era (pre- or post-Salem Witch Trials), this is the most TOTAL Black Magic in a season in NFL history.
— Benjamin Solak (@BenjaminSolak) December 9, 2024
You're kidding
So NOW Matt Nagy gets the bounce on a doink?
— Khari D. Thompson (kdthompson5.bsky.social) (@kdthompson5) December 9, 2024
Every week I tell myself, "oh it looks like the Chiefs might lose."
And every week, well, ya know. They don't.
— Alex Kozora (@Alex_Kozora) December 9, 2024
when the chiefs thank god after the super bowl i won't even bat an eye about the idea that a divine being would intervene to allow a team to win football games
— Arif Hasan, but NFL (@ArifHasanNFL) December 9, 2024
every week pic.twitter.com/xBhacKWCb0
— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) December 9, 2024
Matthew Wright reading the script for how the Chiefs were going to win this week pic.twitter.com/xHTsVi5E7v
— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) December 9, 2024
Bruh if i hadn’t been on the chiefs i wouldn’t believe this shi myself
— Saint Bink Saunders (@khalenNOTkaylen) December 9, 2024
