Steve Spagnuolo all-time brilliance as responsible as anything for Chiefs’ dominance
NY Post
The game — and the Chiefs’ historic charge toward an unprecedented Super Bowl three-peat — was slipping away Sunday night in Kansas City.
Midway through the fourth quarter of the AFC Championship game at Arrowhead Stadium, the Bills were doing the unthinkable: Controlling the Chiefs in their house, where they don’t lose.
The Bills, after a dodgy start, had found their footing and found it in their running game, which was controlling the Kansas City defense, dictating play. Buffalo’s lead running back James Cook was having a day.
Buffalo had just taken a tenuous 22-21 lead, and there was Steve Spagnuolo, the 65-year-old Chiefs defensive coordinator, marching up and down the Kansas City sideline, urging his defensive players to clamp down on the run.
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This was near the end of a magnificent American life, and he’d been battling lung and prostate cancer for some time, but Pee Wee Reese was absolutely going to get in the car and make the drive from Louisville to Kansas City. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was honoring his dear friend Jackie Robinson, and Reese knew that meant seeing so many friends from the old days.
The pity is, at this point, the greatness we are watching in real time is threatened every week to be reduced to a footnote. We are witnesses to history, to the rarest form of extended success in a time of professional sport that’s supposed to be ruled by parity. But every year we have to deal with something else first.