[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Cave Johnson

Quality read. A lot of you MFers need to embrace the Zen of Mahomes and the Chiefs’ golden age.

https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2023/1...tent-greatness

I just know that watching Mahomes now, week in and week out, is not simply a winning experience but a joyous one. Each game brings with it the promise, typically fulfilled, that in the next three hours I will witness an iconic play, whether it’s a no-look underhand toss to his running back for a 56-yard touchdown or a scramble to the pylon in which Mahomes stays inbound by briefly balancing his entire body weight on his left palm. Call it the game within the game: When I sit down to watch the Chiefs, it is with the unspoken question, “What will Mahomes do today that I will remember for the rest of my life?”

There is nothing that compares to—and no way to bring back—the emotions that Chiefs fans felt early in the 2018 season. There is nothing in sports that compares to seeing a phenom take over before your very eyes—especially when that phenom plays for your team, you’ve waited your entire life for this, and it’s actually happening.

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That feeling—of endless possibility, of a limitless future, of a near certainty that the best was yet to come—could not last forever, and it did not. And that’s OK: If it weren’t a once-in-a-lifetime experience, it wouldn’t be so special. But it’s been replaced by something even better, if less emotional: the Zen of living in the present, of enjoying the now, of watching the best football player in the world at the peak of his powers. He’s tasted the ultimate success and also endured disappointment and setbacks, and he’s emerged on the other side a better man for it. That was the sowing; this is the reaping. These are the glory years.

I don’t know how long this will last. I don’t know whether the Chiefs will win the Super Bowl this year or even whether they will beat the Jaguars on Saturday. And I certainly don’t know whether Mahomes will win seven more championships or none at all. All I do know for sure is that, right now, I get the opportunity every single week to watch and root for the best player in the sport, maybe the best player the sport has ever seen, with all of his potential realized: a football man in full. Every moment we get to witness him is a blessing. That is enough. Truly: That is everything.