The Chiefs scored a game-winning field goal past the Chargers and everyone responded in kind

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - DECEMBER 08: Matthew Wright #49 of the Kansas City Chiefs shoots a field goal in the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on December 08, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images) — KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – DECEMBER 08: Matthew Wright #49 of the Kansas City Chiefs shoots a field goal in the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on December 08, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images)

The Kansas City Chiefs are 12-1. That includes a record of 9-0 in one-score games.

Make it 10-0 now, as Kansas City secured its ninth straight AFC West title with a 19-17 win over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday night. And like the other 10 close victories, the magic of the late game was palpable here.

This includes the kind you’d expect – Patrick Mahomes escaping pressure to continue a winning drive – and the kind that makes you believe the football gods are real and love Western Missouri barbecue. They’ve held off their division rivals with a blocked kick (the Denver Broncos), a botched snap (the Las Vegas Raiders) and now a game-winning field goal.

It felt inevitable. And as the ball bounced through the uprights, analysts and fans took to Twitter to express their exhaustion with a Chiefs team that keeps winning but never makes it easy.

Of course her doink was good.

Naturally.

— Doug Farrar ✍ (@NFL_DougFarrar) December 9, 2024

Chiefs are Nothing Ever Happens, the football team.

– lukezim (@lukezim) December 9, 2024

The worst 12-1 team ever is still 12-1, you know?

— Aaron Schatz 🏈 (@ASchatzNFL) December 9, 2024

Absolutely not 😂😂😂 Of course it’s the Chiefs

— Alex Strouf (@alex_strouf) December 9, 2024

With this game-winning rebound, the Chiefs have now set the BMOE single-season record (Black Magic over Expectation).

Even accounting for the era (before or after the Salem Witch Trials), this is the TOTAL most Black Magic in a season in NFL history.

— Benjamin Solak (@BenjaminSolak) December 9, 2024

You’re kidding 🤣🤣🤣🤣

So Matt Nagy gets a chance for a doink NOW?

— Khari D. Thompson (kdthompson5.bsky.social) (@kdthompson5) December 9, 2024

Every week I say to myself, “Oh, it looks like the Chiefs might lose.”

And every week, well, you know. They don’t.

— Alex Kozora (@Alex_Kozora) December 9, 2024

When the Chiefs thank God after the Super Bowl, I won’t even bat an eyelid at the idea that a divine being would intervene to enable a team to win football games

– Arif Hasan, but NFL 🏈 (@ArifHasanNFL) December 9, 2024

Bruh, if I wasn’t with the Chiefs I wouldn’t believe this shi myself 😂

– Saint Bink Saunders (@khalenNOTkaylen) December 9, 2024

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