KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The stories passed down about the Kansas City Chiefs’ playoff malfunctions might sound apocryphal, as if embellished over a game of telephone, but they’re not. In his grand playoff unveiling, Patrick Lavon Mahomes II purged a quarter-century of Arrowhead futility. After every first down, every score, every defensive stop, fans in the upper deck flung snowballs in glee. They kept coming, much like the top-seeded Chiefs, who blitzed their postseason nemesis, the Indianapolis Colts, 31-13, and advanced to host the A.F.C.

Source: New York Times January 13, 2019 01:32 UTC