Chapter 185 Blue Collar Desire
Brittany looked full of curiosity, "So, which night did it happen?"
Mahomes blinked, "No, what happened? Levi? What night, what happened? I don't remember."
Levi's eyes widened with astonishment, "You actually forgot everything?"
Mahomes was a little anxious, scratching his ears and cheeks, like the Monkey King; on the contrary, Brittany looked calm and calm.
Levi raised his chin slightly, "On that night, we played a football game together. That guy from McCafé lost a '0:6' and then rolled around on the floor and started acting up. We still need to protect a little bit of our image for our friends. ”
McCaffrey: Sneeze! Who is scolding me? Who is secretly scolding me behind my back?
Mahomes:...That's it?
But Brittany had already reacted. She knew at a glance that Levi was joking, and he used it to fool both of them.
After the draft, people have been discussing whether it is appropriate to choose Levi, from physical aspects to confrontation to technical skills, etc., but now it seems to Brittany that they have missed one key point: wisdom.
Feng Derrick's perfect score is definitely not a reference data.
However, looking at Mahomes's heartless and naive look, she swallowed all the words that had come to her mouth in the end, and Brittany turned to look at Levi.
"Patrick is a fool. He was still counting money after being sold by others. If you join the team together, I ask you to take care of him."
Levi:? ? ? Is this okay?
Levi looked at Mahomes, and it turned out that Mahomes also had an expression of approval on his face, which made Levi burst out laughing. "Are you mistaken? This person in front of you is the quarterback. I'm a running back and I need to rely on the quarterback."
Brittany didn't buy it, and said meaningfully, "Just believe it."
Then, Brittany took a step forward and said, "Nice to meet you, Levi. I'll cook at home another day and treat you to dinner."
Levi also laughed, "Then I'll look forward to it."
After just one encounter, Brittany turned around and walked towards the truck to continue her work. Levi followed Brittany's figure and looked over. He was slightly shocked by the size of the truck. The dazzling furniture filled the entire carriage——
A real move, moving the entire home.
The NFL's rookie contract is four years. Although there are cases of early termination and early renewal, overall, rookies will play for four years.
Because the hard salary cap of rookie contracts is relatively low, if a group of outstanding rookies are selected, the team will have sufficient salary cap space to sign reinforcements in the free market and create a team with the strength to compete for the championship.
This is also called the "rookie welfare window." Once this window passes and salary cap pressure comes, the team will have to make trade-offs and adjustments, which may break the balance of the team as a complete whole.
Quarterbacks, especially.
Therefore, teams tend to firmly grasp the quarterback's rookie welfare window and use this time to build a championship team. From this perspective, Mahomes's choice is correct, at least for the next four years. He would settle in Kansas City.
In comparison, Levi, who traveled lightly, seemed to be on a sightseeing trip.
Levi looked away, bumped shoulders and hugged Mahomes to say hello.
"Hey Sherlock."
Levi's old habit is back: not remembering names.
Mahomes, just from the pronunciation point of view, is very similar to Holmes. Levi naturally associates it. Every time he sees Mahomes, the pronunciation of "Sherlock Holmes" comes up, rounding it off. , that’s how Mahomes’ nickname came about.
But the really interesting thing is that Mahomes never asked Levi the reason, let alone corrected it, and it actually continued like this.
Mahomes looked at the back of the street again. The back of West's car had almost disappeared. "So, did you take his car all the way from Tuscaloosa to Kansas City?"
Levi followed Mahomes' line of sight.
"That's right. That's a Chiefs fan who believes in the Chiefs wholeheartedly and puts all his hopes in life on this team." Mahomes didn't know the ins and outs and looked at Levi with confusion.
Levi laughed immediately, "A playoff victory, they don't ask for much, just a playoff victory."
Mahomes stared, "How can one game be enough? Shouldn't the goal be the Super Bowl championship?"
Levi laughed out loud, "Yes, Super Bowl championship. Of course, this is the ultimate goal."
The Super Bowl is the crown jewel and the ultimate goal every year for all players of all NFL teams, including the Kansas Chiefs, but for this team, there are even more painful memories.
The Kansas City Chiefs have not won a playoff game since losing to the Buffalo Bills in the 1993 AFC Finals.
From the 1994 season to the 2014 season, for twenty-one years, the curse of losing in the playoffs became a tight curse on the head of the Kansas City Chiefs. Even Andy Reid has not been able to reverse this situation since he took charge of the team. It is also the second-longest playoff winless streak in the league——
A disgraceful record.
Second only to the Cincinnati Bengals, they did not win in the playoffs for thirty-one seasons from the 1991 season to the 2021 season, and they did not end until the 2022 season.
Of course, the Kansas Chiefs also ended this embarrassing record in the 2015 season. They defeated the Houston Texans in the first round of the playoffs and finally won a victory.
However.
In the 2015 playoffs, they lost to the New England Patriots and were unable to usher in a winning streak; in the 2016 season, they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first game of the playoffs and were eliminated early.
The nightmare wakes up again.
They had to wait for twenty-one years before finally winning a playoff victory. So this time, Kansas City won't wait another twenty-one years, right?
While other teams are aiming to compete for the Super Bowl championship, Kansas City, which is in deep economic crisis, has only the simplest and simplest wish:
A playoff win would be nice.
Of course, they can look forward to the Super Bowl championship, and they can talk about it with pride, but the reality is cruel and cold.
They don’t have strong box office in big markets like the New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams, they don’t have a deep historical heritage like the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers, and they don’t have the franchise in a town of 100,000 people like the Green Bay Packers. Unique support and support.
They are just an ordinary small town, a group of farmers and a group of workers, struggling hard and gritting their teeth on the poverty line day after day.
In fact, their wish is really simple——
On match day, go to the stadium or go to the bar to enjoy a beer and watch a game, and then use a victory to ignite a ray of light in the darkness and guide them to continue moving forward in the mire and quicksand.
This is enough.
They really don't want their next playoff victory to have to wait until twenty-one years later.
Now, the important responsibility falls on this generation of young people.
Can they?
Levi looked at Mahomes, "But the starting point to the top of the championship starts with a victory. How about it, are you ready?"
(End of chapter)