The Kansas City Chiefs are still trying to recover from their awful 40-22 Super Bowl defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles. Enter Tom Brady, who knows everything there is to know about Super Bowls – including what it’s like to lose.
Brady’s ‘Nightmare’ Of Losing A Super Bowl
Brady, 47, knows a thing or two about losing Super Bowls. Indeed, he came up short in three of his ten Super Bowl appearances. (It will always be insane writing the phrase “ten Super Bowl appearances.)
“You don’t sleep for a couple of days. You think it’s a nightmare, you really do,” Brady recalled in a video posted to his YouTube page earlier this week.
“You’re like, ‘It didn’t happen. I woke up, it was a bad dream,’ and then you’re like, it sinks in,” he continued. “And ultimately, you get over it. I mean, acute pain, but then there’s that chronic scar tissue of making it that far and then coming up short. Giants, Eagles, especially when you’re the better team. In all three Super Bowls we [the Patriots] lost, we were the better team, not that day, but…”
Brady and the Patriots were defeated by Eli Manning and the Giants in both the 2007 and 2011 Super Bowls. Brady and the Patriots later lost the 2018 Super Bowl to the Eagles in what was the first championship for Philadelphia.
But it was the 2007 season that really stung for Brady – considering the Patriots went into the game 17-0 and were heavy favorites.
Watch Brady’s full comments on this in the video below.
Kelce Admits Chiefs Played ‘Bad’
Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce has been open about just how devastating this Super Bowl loss was for him and his team.
“[We] couldn’t get it going offensively,” he admitted immediately after the game. “I mean, they just got after us on all three phases and then on top of that, you know, turnovers, penalties, playing behind the sticks on offense.”
“We haven’t played that bad all year,” he continued. “You don’t lose like that without everything going bad.”
That being said, Kelce still praised his Chiefs teammates for “fighting until the end forever,” even when a win began to seem impossible, given the blowout score.
“Even with the score late, we were always gonna fight,” Kelce added. “We just couldn’t find that spark. We couldn’t find that momentum.”
And let’s not forget – Like Brady, Kelce also knows what it’s like to win, and he has two Super Bowl rings to prove it.
Check out Kelce’s full comments on this in the video below.
Kelce Reflects On Super Bowl Loss
Days later, Kelce reflected on the loss on his New Heights podcast.
“Couldn’t find a lick of momentum. I’m kicking myself for some of the tiny, tiny decisions I made on the field,” Kelce lamented.
“I wasn’t the best that I could be in motivating my guys and keeping my guys calm, cool and collected and I put a lot of that on myself, you know, as the guy that’s been in the building for 12 years and seen a lot of football and seen a situation just like this, in the Super Bowl,” he added.
An insider recently told US Weekly that Kelce “was hoping he’d end his career on a high.” After the brutal Super Bowl defeat, the insider claimed that “he’s reconsidering what he wants moving forward. He may come back next season.”
Losing a Super Bowl is clearly not for the faint of heart. If Kelce is truly still struggling to come to terms with this defeat, he might want to contact Brady for some advice!
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