As the AFC championship game reached its conclusion, that started the two-week window to talk about Super Bowl LIX.
The Super Bowl is the most watched and also the most dissected game of the sports calendar. A week before the teams get to New Orleans, let’s take a look at the storylines we’ll be hearing a lot about before kickoff on Feb. 9:
The greatness of Saquon Barkley
Barkley has been unbelievable all season. He escaped the misery that is the Giants franchise and in his first season with the Eagles, Barkley turned in one of the greatest seasons a running back has ever had. Barkley went over 2,000 yards in the regular season but sat in Week 18 with a shot to break the single-season rushing record. That looks smart now that the Eagles are in the Super Bowl.
The NFL’s new villains
When teams win too much, fans start to hate them. It happened to the New England Patriots a decade ago. It’s happening to the Chiefs now.
The Chiefs’ only crime is they keep winning, but that has been enough to turn NFL fans against them. Their dynasty started off as a fun, feel-good story, between the likable Andy Reid finally winning a Super Bowl and a dynamic new quarterback star in Patrick Mahomes. That’s long gone, replaced by feelings of jealousy and bitterness among fans of any one of the other 31 teams.
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