Bob Fescoe grieves differently than most fans. Or maybe his half glass full mentality is just the product of having a historically good quarterback in his prime to root for.
Hours after Kansas City was blown out in the Super Bowl by Tom Brady and the Bucs, Fescoe was on his 610 Sports Radio morning show predicting an undefeated season for the Chiefs.
“They’re going to take it to another level,” Fescoe confidently stated. “This team may go 16-0 and run the table next year because they’re going to feel like they have something to prove to everybody and tell them to go shove it where the sun don’t shine.”
According to Fescoe, the Chiefs no longer need to get creative in searching for motivation. The zero touchdown effort from the Chiefs in the Super Bowl created doubters and they’ll use that as fuel for revenge.
Responding to a headline he saw on ESPN.com about ‘where do the Chiefs go from here?’ Fescoe passionately defended the state of Kansas City’s football team.
“What’s next is they regroup and they go kick ass next year and get back to the effing Super Bowl!” he said. “They lost the Super Bowl, they didn’t lose their organization, they didn’t lose their fire, they didn’t lose what makes them great! This is still a Super Bowl team that is going to come back with a vengeance.”
Statistically, Patrick Mahomes played the worst game of his career and it came during the second biggest game of his career. Usually, a Super Bowl performance like the one Mahomes displayed on Sunday is met with a negative fan response. I’ve never seen an athlete play similarly bad in a big game and get universally lauded for the effort, and I certainly can’t remember another Super Bowl where the most impressive highlight was an incomplete pass by the losing team.
Mahomes and the Chiefs proved how hard it is to repeat as Super Bowl champions in the NFL. And as Mahomes annual salary begins its meteoric rise, the challenge of returning to the Super Bowl will only get more difficult. But on a day where it’s easy to be down, credit Fescoe for hitching his wagon to the unique talent that Mahomes is.
Brandon Contes is a former reporter for BSM, now working for Awful Announcing. You can find him on Twitter @BrandonContes or reach him by email at Brandon.Contes@gmail.com.
