Las Vegas – The very best quarterbacks in National Football League history have carried a sense of inevitability, a rare quality Patrick Mahomes once again proved he definitely possesses.

Mahomes didn’t play the greatest game in Super Bowl history on Sunday, just like he wasn’t the best quarterback in the NFL this past regular season.

But the Kansas City Chiefs star always found a way in those moments when his team absolutely needed him to make a play, and once again wound up standing on a stage holding both the Lombardi Trophy and the Super Bowl MVP award.

It felt, for most of the night, inevitable.

In so many ways the 58th Super Bowl game that ended in a 25-22 overtime win for Kanas City was a microcosm of the Chiefs’ season as a whole.

There were stages during the game when they appeared to be dominated by the San Francisco 49ers and a whole bunch of the game where it felt like a saw-off.

But when the Chiefs went to the locker room at halftime trailing in the Super Bowl for the second year in a row, there was no sense that the game was slipping away from them.

Nor was there any when the Chiefs started the second half with Mahomes throwing his first interception of the playoffs on their opening drive, and then going........

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