It's been over a week since the Kansas City Chiefs got blown out in Super Bowl 59 and exited the 2024 season with a whimper. Losing games happens and it's always an unsettling feeling but the pain of losing feels a thousand times worse in Super Bowls.
This is something that Chiefs fans have now experienced twice in the last four years, having lost Super Bowl 55 to the Buccaneers in 2021 and now losing to the Eagles a week ago. Tom Brady, who was on the call for Super Bowl 59 on FOX, lost his fair share of Super Bowls and revealed what it felt like for him in his three Super Bowl losses.
"You just don't sleep for a couple of days," Brady said. "You think it's a nightmare, you really do. You're like, 'It didn't happen, I woke up, it was a bad dream' and then you're like ... it sinks in. And then ultimately, you get over it. I mean, acute pain, but then there's that chronic scar tissue of making it that far and then coming up short. Giants, Eagles. Especially when you're the better team. In all three Super Bowls we lost, we were the better team. Not that day, but..."
Tom Brady describes how it feels to lose Super Bowl
Brady's description definitely applies more to the players and coaches than for the fans but some fans probably did wake up the following morning and think the blowout loss was a bad dream. After all, the game never felt close and was over by the time Kendrick Lamar stepped onto the field for the half time show.
Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and the rest of the Chiefs who were a part of the loss probably went through exactly what Brady did. Brady lost three Super Bowls during his 23-year career and always made it known that the losses stayed with him more than the wins did (and he had a lot of those).
If this loss serves one purpose for Mahomes and the Chiefs, hopefully it's motivation for them to go scorched earth on everyone in 2025.