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Big Red.
Love the guy.
He’s a Super Bowl champion, finally, and not only was that victory a huge personal triumph, but it may have also helped prevent the spread of Coronavirus.
Seriously.
Read this passage from Sports Illustrated’s Arrowhead Report, written by Tucker Franklin:
It’s been a little more than two months since the Kansas City Chiefs came back from a 10-point deficit in Super Bowl LIV to defeat the San Francisco 49ers. It was a huge win for Kansas City. Now, according to one Coronavirus expert, it may have been a victory for the whole country.
Dr. Niraj Sehgal, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco and co-leader of UCSF’s COVID-19 command center, said that the novel Coronavirus would have likely experienced a widespread transmission if San Francisco had held a Super Bowl parade.
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“People may not remember this that well, but Super Bowl weekend, in some ways, with apologies to the 49ers’ fans, the gift we may have been given was the 49ers losing,” Sehgal said.
Huh. Never thought of that. San Fran was one of the first cities in the USA to have a COVID outbreak, so if we put hundreds of thousands of people in the streets for a Super Bowl parade, that thing may have been transmitted all over the place.
Not only did Andy Reid and the Chiefs finally win a Super Bowl, but they may have inadvertently saved lives and helped mitigate a disaster.
Big Red, you are the man.