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As you’ve doubtless heard by now, Taylor Swift and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are headed to yet one more Tremendous Bowl.
On the energy of Patrick Mahomes’ clutch efficiency and a few very handy officiating, the Chiefs triumphed over the Buffalo Payments 32-29 in Sunday’s AFC Championship sport.
The Payments-Chiefs rivalry has developed into probably the most well-known in sports activities. And for probably the most half, followers of the 2 groups are mutually respectful. However as Brittany Mahomes reminded the world final evening, that hasn’t at all times been the case.
Brittany Mahomes Recollects ‘Disgusting’ 2024 Incident
The final time the 2 groups confronted off, the Payments triumphed over the Chiefs at dwelling in Buffalo.
Within the parking zone earlier than the sport, a fan hung a Kermit the Frog toy carrying Patrick’s jersey quantity from a pole.
(The gesture appeared to be a reference to a standard joke that Patrick’s talking voice is just like Kermit’s.)
A pic of that ugly incident made its means onto social media.
“Do we remember this Buffalo? Absolutely disgusting…So as you go home tonight, I pray we become better people,” Brittany wrote on Instagram alongside the picture from final 12 months.
Clearly, utilizing an effigy (even jokingly) as a means of expressing violent needs towards one other individual is rarely okay. Anybody who engages in that type of conduct needs to be banned from NFL video games for all times.
That stated, the choice to scold all the metropolis of Buffalo for the conduct of 1 or two fool Payments followers is just a little foolish.
In any case, there’s an extended historical past of Chiefs followers behaving violently and fascinating in different types of problematic conduct (together with armed theft).
However that’s not an indictment of the Chiefs group or town of Kansas Metropolis. The unhappy truth is there are idiots in each fan base and in each metropolis.
NFL groups — particularly ones which have appeared in 5 of the final six Tremendous Bowls — appeal to followers that quantity within the tens of millions.
In any group that measurement, there’s sure to be an entire bunch of jerks.
So it might make extra sense to only broadly condemn sh-tty conduct from followers than to behave like that type of conduct is particular to at least one metropolis or workforce.
However anyway, Brittany simply welcomed her third youngster, and the Chiefs are headed to their third straight Tremendous Bowl, so the Mahomes household has rather a lot to smile about.
Hopefully they gained’t let the conduct of some moronic haters get them down.
