Welcome to Bad Takes Week, where MMQB staffers have been asked to expand upon some of their worst football takes. Keep an eye out for more of these throughout the week, and every story is posted here.
Sorry, Chiefs fans. I’m going to say it: Super Bowl LVII was a missed opportunity. Last year’s matchup for the Lombardi Trophy pitted two of the most fun-to-watch, make-something-out-of-nothing quarterbacks in the league right now against each other. It delivered for 58 minutes, and yet it ended … with two kneeldowns and a field goal.
Maybe it’s because the game of football wasn’t ingrained in my head from a young age—I’ll admit to being a relatively late convert, in the grand scheme of things—but something about a field goal being the final play of an otherwise neck-and-neck game feels wrong. It’s anticlimactic. It’s like placing a poorly tied ribbon on a gifted Maserati. And last year’s Eagles-Chiefs Super Bowl proved it.
