It ends for everyone, and sometimes it ends ugly. For Muhammad Ali, the end came not at Caesar’s Palace, or at Madison Square Garden, but inside the Queen Elizabeth Sports Center in Nassau, Bahamas. It didn’t come against Joe Frazier or George Foreman but Trevor Berbick. And it didn’t come after a classic 15-round slugfest but a sad, unanimous 10-round decision.
It ended ugly for Ali. It ends ugly for the Kansas City Chiefs, who have been the NFL’s heavyweight champ, uninterrupted and virtually unchallenged, for the better part of a decade. They have been to seven straight AFC Championship games, and won five of them. They have been to five Super Bowls, won three of them. They have been the NFL’s gold standard.
It ended Sunday night. It ended in a hail of Patrick Mahomes incompletions, a bevy of dropped balls — including two by Mahomes’ wingman across all of these seven years, Travis Kelce. It ended when Andy Reid made a decision based on teams he’s had in the past rather than the one playing in front of him, going for a fourth-and-1 deep in his own territory in a tie game after his own defense had played a near-perfect quarter, giving up nothing to the Houston Texans.
It ended in, of all places, Arrowhead Stadium, on a freezing-cold Sunday night, in front of 73,611 believers who’ve spent so much time watching excellence up close these last seven years that they’d forgotten what it was like to be part of the middling masses of NFL fans. The Chiefs had been one of the most star-crossed teams in sports from 1970 through 2018 or so. And then one of the best bets ever behind the unrelenting gifts of Mahomes, Kelce and Reid.
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