He stood in the winning locker room three years ago after a Super Bowl win in Hard Rock Stadium, dripping champagne and football wisdom, when someone asked him to look back at the decisions that won the night.
“I’m not good at looking back,’’ Kansas City Chiefs General Manager Brett Veach said that night in 2020. “I’d rather look ahead.”
Now comes a Super Bowl with two teams, Kansas City and Philadelphia, that looked ahead from one ring to the next in two distinct ways. These are franchises that don’t come to rent the trophy. They want to keep it.