Vegas Golden Knights can learn from Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs
Football season is now officially over which means that all eyes will be on the start of the Baseball season and, more importantly, the business part of the year for the Vegas Golden Knights and the rest of the NHL.
The 100th season of the National Football League was crowned on Sunday in explosive fashion as the Kansas City Chiefs rose from the dead to beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV in Miami, a game the Vegas Golden Knights can learn from.
You may be wondering what we are talking about given that the NFL and NHL are two completely different sports and markets, but I believe that you can take lessons from any industry or walk of life and translate them to another.
And, in this instance, the Vegas Golden Knights could learn a thing or two from the new champions of the NFL as they continue to chase their own championship aspirations.
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Lesson 1 – Never Give Up
The main lesson the Knights can study from the Kansas City Chiefs is to never give up in moments of adversity.
In three postseason outings, the Chiefs had dug themselves in a hole on three separate occasions but, in all three instances, they fought back to blow out their opponents, setting an NFL record in the process.
That was again the case in Miami on Sunday as Kansas was staring disappointment in the face with a 20-10 deficit to try and overturn in the fourth quarter.
For most teams, this would have been mission impossible but rising from the dead and pulling off the unthinkable is the calling card of this Kansas City Chiefs team and, led by one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL right now in Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs executed a miraculous comeback one final time.
Mahomes, who had been stifled and suffocated by an elite 49ers defense for much of the contest, did what all true great players do and delivered the goods when the chips were really down, becoming the youngest quarterback to be named the Most Valuable Player in the Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl MVP earned that honor by leading his team to three touchdowns and 21 unanswered points to wipe out a 20-10 deficit and earn ultimate glory and football mortality for ever.
And it is a valuable lesson the Vegas Golden Knights can take on board as they prepare to try and make a deep postseason run.
After all, they were on the wrong end of it last year after imploding in the third period of Game 7 to the San Jose Sharks in the First Round of the playoffs, although there was of course controversial circumstances surrounding the game which we don’t need to go over again.
So, and although the playoffs in the NFL is one and done as opposed to the seven-game series we are treated to in the NHL, the Golden Knights can certainly adopt the Chiefs’ never-say-die approach.
You need that relentless attitude in the postseason and Mahomes and company certainly provided the template for how to battle towards your ultimate goal.
If the Vegas Golden Knights can play with that same determination come playoff time, then who knows how far they could go.