Dominate the Super Bowl-Chapter 288 - 287 Lonely Star of Doom

"God, oh, damn it..."

"Touchdown, the referee confirms it, no mishaps this time, without a doubt, it’s a touchdown. The Oakland Raiders score a buzzer-beater at home to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, ending their division rivals’ season-opening six-game winning streak."

"Wow, I mean—welcome to the NFL."

In competitive sports, anything is possible, upsets are happening all the time, and even more so in the NFL where the teams’ strengths are even closer, the strong-weak contrast is even more subtle, and victories often hang by a thread.

Starting quarterback Derek Carr was plagued by a back injury, causing the Oakland Raiders to completely lose last season’s rhythm, sinking into a four-game losing streak after starting the season with two consecutive wins.

Although Carr returned from injury last week, he still wasn’t able to reverse the downturn.

This week, the Oakland Raiders faced the Kansas City Chiefs, both from the AFC West, and almost no one was optimistic about the Raiders’ chances of victory. The "League Insider" unanimously gave all ten votes to the Chiefs, overwhelmingly recognizing them as the top seed to step towards a seven-game winning streak.

However, in the NFL, never jump to conclusions too easily.

The game was exceptionally fierce and incredibly tight, with fouls, yellow flags, and even ejections spanning the entire game, right up to the final moments.

"30:24".

With three minutes and twenty-four seconds remaining in the game, the visiting Kansas City Chiefs were leading by six points, and then Carr stood out, completing a series of key connections to incredibly lead the Oakland Raiders into the end zone for a fierce contest at the two-yard line.

Critical moments, yellow flag penalties throw a wrench—

The yellow flag from the Chiefs ruined their own successful defense, giving the Raiders an extra offensive opportunity, while the Raiders’ yellow flag also led to a touchdown being overturned and they had to go for it again.

But Carr didn’t miss the fourth chance, completing a two-yard pass for a buzzer-beating touchdown, tying the score.

"30:30".

By then, the game clock had run out:

00:00.

But the Oakland Raiders still had the opportunity for an extra point.

Kicker Giorgio Tavecchio, who had missed an extra point in the first half, withstood the pressure and scored it beautifully.

"30:31".

The Oakland Raiders score a home victory at the buzzer, ending the Kansas City Chiefs’ season’s undefeated run.

The Oakland Raiders didn’t even give their opponents’ offensive group a chance to set foot on the field again, forcing Li Wei to stand helplessly on the sidelines, unable to participate.

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Round-based. Team.

Without the defensive group, the offensive group can’t take the field; without the offensive group, the game cannot progress and without the Special Duty Group, today’s outcome might have been completely different.

Indispensable, the team is a complete whole.

Although Li Wei continued his excellent performance throughout the season, this time he didn’t get the opportunity to turn the tide.

Helplessly, regretfully, Li Wei swallowed the first loss of his professional career.

Such an outcome brought the Chiefs’ winning streak to an abrupt, unforeseen halt, shocking the entire league. Carr threw for the second-highest yardage of his career with 417 yards and achieved three passing touchdowns, completely overturning the professionals’ predictions and interpretations.

Bart:... Shit.

This is unbelievable!

Bart strongly suspected that he and Li Wei were at odds—why did fate have to mock him like this?

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One moment, he was being slapped in the face so hard he had to bow down and admit his wrongs, turning a full one hundred eighty degrees to become a fawning sycophant.

The next, he was slapped in the face yet again. Li Wei had lost, the twenty-one game winning streak from NCAA to NFL had ended at the hands of the Oakland Raiders, of all teams, could there be a mistake?

The left side of his face had just swollen up, like a honey puppy, and now he was offering up the right side for a loud slap, Bart was simply in despair.

Then.

Bart flared up again—

"Bailey the Second", "The Bailey of Football".

There’s a notorious "jinx" Bailey in soccer who curses whoever he supports, and now the football world finally had its own Bailey, too. Whoever he supported would lose the game.

Look, the New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, and now it’s the turn of the Kansas City Chiefs. Wherever he went, there was a trail of destruction, and no one could escape Bart’s curse.

There were even memes that went viral, with Bart squinting and smiling at the camera, with the caption, "Say you’re scared if I pick you."

Bart got really angry.

Professionalism, this is called professionalism. Do you understand? All of my views are professional analysis and nothing like the haphazard predictions of Bailey—

Could they even be the same?

Bart deeply believed his lifetime reputation and professional image could be destroyed all because of Li Wei, and he had to find a way to redeem himself.

Even without a grudge, one had formed.

With his chin up and back straight, Bart really got into it with Li Wei.

Bart believed that the Oakland Raiders were just an accident, a minor mishap. After all, the Kansas City Chiefs had exhausted themselves, having beaten teams like the Houston Texans and the Pittsburgh Steelers from the previous season’s playoffs. It was this severe depletion that led them to the tug-of-war with the robust and vigorous Oakland Raiders until the very end, losing by just one point regrettably.

After a brief rest, the Chiefs would definitely rally.

"They’re going to get back on the winning track. Trust me, they will," he said.

However—

The nightmare of the 2013 season replayed itself as the Kansas City Chiefs seemed to completely lose their way, subsequently losing to the Denver Broncos and the Dallas Cowboys in the following games.

After suffering three consecutive defeats, Reed realized his weakness:

The ability to adapt and command spontaneously on the field was lacking.

So, with the tenth week being a bye week, Reed made adjustments.

Reed chose to devolve power, handing over the authority to call plays in-game to the Offensive Coordinator Matt Nagy.

For Reed, this was nothing new.

In the 2015 season, after five consecutive defeats, Reed had done just that. At that time, Pederson took over the heavy responsibility, and the Chiefs subsequently won ten games in a row, which earned Pederson the head coach position for the Philadelphia Eagles.

This year, Reed also hoped Nagy could change the team’s offensive strategy and not waste the good competitive state of Smith, Li Wei, and Hunter this season.

But the adjustment didn’t have an immediate effect.

Returning from the bye week, the Kansas City Chiefs still couldn’t break free from their rut, successively losing to the New York Giants, Buffalo Bills, and New York Jets, facing yet another streak of three losses.

What, what kind of maneuver was this?

First a six-game winning streak at the start and then a six-game losing slump. This free-falling seasonal progress was truly baffling. Fans with even a slightly weak heart might have been laid flat already.

Kansas City Chiefs fans one after another were hit hard:

Mr. Bart, Grandpa Bart, please stop praising them. Keep criticising Li Wei; however you want to do it, the "Li Wei Hater" faction needs your flag to continue flying.

Even Bart couldn’t help but doubt himself. Wait, was I always right? Is Li Wei just a pretty but useless fancy pillow? If he had continued to grit his teeth and refuse to back down after the game with the Pittsburgh Steelers, wouldn’t he be hailed as a deity now?

Thinking about it, Bart fell into the delightful and beautiful daydream.