They told us this game would only begin when Kansas City were down 10. How right they were.

For 51 minutes of the 60 this was the San Francisco 49ers’ Super Bowl. A stage that was meant to be Patrick Mahomes’ was anything but as Kyle Shanahan and his juggernaut team pitched another near-perfect game. When KC’s QB missed linebacker Fred Warner covering underneath a 164 interception-less postseason attempts streak was over. When running back Raheem Mostert crashed over from a yard out on the resulting drive so were the Chiefs chances of ending the second-longest title drought in NFL history.

Or so we all thought.

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