The Chiefs are on their way back to the Super Bowl. Shocker. So it’s time to ask, is excellence worth celebrating or is there such a thing as too much winning?

The Idea That We Are No Longer The Standard Of Excellence

A lot has been made over the past year of American excellence. What exactly does it mean? Are we as a nation falling behind? Are we in crisis? Does America in fact need to be made great again?

The overwhelming voice of the American public has seemed to state that yes, changes are needed. Those changes have come, do they actually promote American excellence? If you ask me, absolutely not, but veering back to sports the Chiefs have posed a similar question to the one asked by our 47th president, do we need to make something with flaws, in this case, the country and the Chiefs better?

The answer for the Chiefs has been a resounding yes. A roster that at points looked like it was sleepwalking through the season, and also somehow managed 15 wins while doing so, has remembered its core DNA and become a juggernaut in the playoffs.

A wide receiving core largely ignored throughout the year is now making plays with explosive rookie Xavier Worthy leading the way. A defense that lost its top cornerback in the off-season has simply re-loaded. Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes are American excellence personified and it shows.

Are We Though?

Perhaps sports are the only place where America truly is excellent anymore. The current direction of the country has abandoned education, decided that diversity is a four letter word and can’t even keep a large swath of its community housed or children safe in their schools.

The only thing we have going in America right now that amplifies excellence is athletics. In this case, the Kansas City Chiefs are now seemingly destined to three-peat in America’s most popular and parity-stricken sport. No one has ever done it, and no one has ever won back-to-back Lombardi trophies. Not even the dynasties of the Patriots hit the threepeat mark, no what we are seeing is history, what we are witnessing is the next great American dynasty.

Winning Fatigue

The nation is fatigued by this though. There is such a thing as too much winning, especially when your team isn’t involved. For me, especially when your team plays in the same division as the big bad Chiefs.

Sometimes it feels like it is a slow death march towards yet another Chiefs championship. Perhaps this is what an empire feels like from the outside, to be dominated thoroughly and completely dominated for a decade. To know, that no matter what, there is no hope of escape no hope to make your own way, a sports dynasty is almost antithetical to the American dream.

That dream of course is now in question, as we move to what the current leadership views as the next age of the American empire. Recently a fake bible salesman and snake oil evangelical called empathy a sin, a statement wholly untrue and opposite to every word written in the Bible. It should behoove us though to have a bit of empathy, if America is in fact the Chiefs, think about the poor Bills fans of the rest of the world.

To be completely and thoroughly dominated in a sport is no big deal, it happens, but when it’s your livelihood and safety that is at play that’s entirely different. Empire and dynasties also force great powers into isolation. No one likes Chiefs fans, hell one of my best friends is a Chiefs fan and on game days and in the playoffs I cannot stand him. Is that what we want for our country though? To be viewed as unlikable bullies who would rather dominate than collaborate? History has such an odd way of repeating itself.

Back to sports though.

The Chiefs’ Dominant Organization And America’s Lack Of One

The primary difference between the United States of America and the Kansas City Chiefs, is that the Chiefs are perfect and America is not. IN fact far from it. The difference in ruling a country and a sports dynasty is that to borrow a sports cliche, inside “The Building” the Chiefs have a common goal and shared vision. Everyone is on the same page. The system is an eco system, and success breeds innovation and success.

For our country, sadly, none of that is true. Success is different for every American mind due to its inherent diversity and melting pot ability. Right now there are two vastly different definitions of American success amongst the American people and three to four different definitions amongst American leadership from congress, to the press, to the president.

While America is doomed to be torn apart due to a lack of solid front-office structure, the Chiefs have thrived off of a system that is the exact opposite. That stability, that culture, that is what has helped the Chiefs breed excellence within their building.

That structure starts with the Hunt’s and what has to be commended as one of the most patient and stable ownership groups in the National Football League. No surprise given that late family patriot Lamar Hunt all but created the modern day NFL as we know it alongside commissioner Pete Rozelle.

Andy Reid meanwhile, one of the best teachers in the NFL and best NFL coaches ever was left for dead in Philadelphia and given a second chance in Kansas City. A place where he drafted the greatest player of all time and catered an NFL system to his strengths. That player of course is Patrick Mahomes, Mahomes at 29 has already cemented himself as the best player to ever play the game. Argue Brady rings until you’re blue in the face, argue Manning passing records, argue the tape brilliance of prime Aaron Rodgers, it does not matter. None of their records, and none of the records of the great passers before them, Marino, Elway, Montana, and Unitas stand a chance against Patrick Mahomes and his unstoppable trajectory.

So With All This Said, Is It Worth Rooting For The Chiefs?

Yes. Begrudgingly. I hate myself for it. I really do, but there is something about greatness. Something about organizational perfection that is just to much to overcome in my sports writer’s heart. I ultimately love a good story, and a Chiefs dynasty that lasts as long as humanly possible is a great story.

I truly do mean forever, the Chiefs could easily win in two weeks and then yet again in 2026. Rashee Rice will return from injury, the Chiefs will once again have cap space to go after receiving weapons, the defense will continue to improve under Spags, and Kansas City will have the ability to try and continue to address its tackle problem.

In a moment in which Americ is trying to enter another age of empire, one already exists in the NFL. It would behoove the country to take note, and to find a common ground, because the only way to cheer for a dynasty is to believe in it. The only way to believe in an empire is for it to work for everyone.