Last season, the Kansas City Chiefs made the Super Bowl, just as they had in 2024, and 2023, and 2021, and 2020. (It could have been five straight if they hadn’t blown an eighteen-point lead in the 2022 A.F.C. Championship Game.) They finished the 2024 regular season with a 15–2 record, which suggests that they were very good. They were not actually very good. Also, nobody likes them.

Maybe not nobody . Taylor Swift likes them. Also, it seems that somebody in the N.F.L.’s league office likes them, because the Chiefs are scheduled to play in more high-profile games this season than any other team. They started the season in São Paulo, Brazil, playing the Los Angeles Chargers, on the vanguard of the N.F.L.’s imperial ambitions. They played the Eagles in Week Two, in a rematch of the Sup

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