The Early Years Tournament: Round 2, Heat 2.
 

2017 - Week 17 - W 27-24 over DEN
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...1712310den.htm
Chiefs 9-6 / Broncos 5-10

The Debut. The playoff-bound Chiefs let the backups play, which included putting our rookie Patrick Mahomes II up against the broncos' franchise quarterback Paxton Lynch. You get to see Mahomes' first NFL completion, a great throw to Demetrius Harris for a 51 yard gain on 3rd and 10. His first touchdown drive of roughly 86 yards took 57 seconds, and that was a sign. Mahomes and the Chiefs positioned us for the win with a comfortable 14-point lead, but then Tyler Bray came in and had a bad day. Bray fumbled a handoff that resulted in a broncos touchdown, and then stalled on the next drive and suddenly we had a tie game. So Andy brought Mahomes back in to lead the winning drive and position Harrison Butker to kick the winning field goal as time expired. The leading yardage guy was Albert Wilson, whose 147 yards made him a millionaire. Mahomes threw for 284 yards in his first appearance, and the Chiefs defense pitched in with two interceptions and five sacks, including a Chris Jones sack and strip that Ramik Wilson returned for a touchdown.

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2021 - Week 15 - W 34-28 over LAC
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...2112160sdg.htm
Chiefs 9-4 / Chargers 8-5

The Chargers tried to keep the ball out of the Chiefs' hands, running the ball 39 times, going for five fourth downs, and holding the Chiefs time of possession to only 28:12 even including overtime. They successfully held Mahomes to 410 yards and a one-minute drive to tie it up before the game-winning overtime drive. Tyreek came through with 148 yards, but the big story was Travis Kelce. He had his best-ever receiving day (so far) with 191 yards and two touchdowns. (This is the 7th-best single-game receiving total by a tight end in NFL history.) He capped this by taking a pass over the middle in overtime, surrounded by defenders, and wove 29 yards through them after the catch for the winning touchdown WITHOUT BEING TOUCHED. Travis Kelce is magical. The Chiefs' defense had trouble getting to the passer with Chris Jones on the Covid list, but Hitchens had an interception and 8 tackles, and Bolton had 14 tackles, and Sorensen, Niemann, and Wharton all made big fourth-down plays on goal-line stands. (This was also the game where the Chargers TE got the bad concussion, so mature audiences only on the highlight video.) Also, just for fun, look at the Chiefs' pursuit on a routine running play at 3:30 in the video.

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The Debut is, of course, The Debut. It's where it all started, and as a bonus we got Chris Jones sack and a defensive touchdown, and we saw Albert Wilson become a star for one brief game.

But the Chargers game epitomizes the unstoppable Chiefs offenses. Kelce and Hill combined for over 330 yards, and Kelce had that amazing overtime touchdown. One down side here is no Chris Jones, but we still saw some good defensive plays.

I'm tempted to go Chargers, but the Broncos game is special as we watched our very own franchise quarterback take the field. I'll go broncos.

Uh oh. Tiebreaker needed. Make your vote count.

That Chargers game was insane, particularly the game-winner by Kelce. So that one got my vote.

BUT I do have a pretty fond memory of the Broncos game. We were down for a good portion of that game looking a bit listless. It was into the 4th quarter and we were still down. I had work in the morning and I knew if I stayed up to finish the game I’d be miserable so I made the executive decision to stop the game, get some sleep and finish it before I headed in to work.

So I turn the TV off and try to get some rest, heart still pounding. Ended up sleeping like shit and woke up a bit late so I couldn’t even finish the game before heading to work. Whole time I’m dreading checking the score, thinking there’s a good chance we’d lost. Then I notice I had a notification on Facebook. My friend had tagged me in a video. I click on it and the caption is “Chiefs fans talking about Pat Mahomes rn” and the video is this guy saying “THAT’S WHY HE’S THE GOAT!”

At that point it’s clear that we’d won the game so it was like the weight of a million suns were lifted off my shoulders.