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When the Chiefs replaced the New England Patriots as the defining NFL team, the team received a lot of sympathy. Now they are in the Super Bowl for the fourth time in five years. Your omnipresence is tiring.
Popular advertising figure: quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
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There are a few universal, unwritten rules in professional sports. One of them: People love outsiders. They clap happily when it goes up. And maybe even then, once you can stay there. But at some point the feelings of a not insignificant part of the audience turn into envy and resentment. You can see this with series champions all over the world. With Novak Djokovic. At Manchester City. The BSC Young Boys. And also with the Kansas City Chiefs.