KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Maybe this sounds familiar: Once upon a time, the Chiefs lost three straight times in less than a year to a bitter (and cocky) rival. Those defeats were lowlighted by an agonizing collapse on the cusp of the Super Bowl, a loss that propelled them into the offseason.
And along the way back to that stage a year later, they still proved vulnerable to the very foe they would face again, with a berth in the championship game once more on the line.
To what degree any of that past might be prologue remains to be seen. But the circumstances that season and today lend themselves to some compelling parallels, both tangibly and below the surface.
