The Kansas City Chiefs Vs. The AFC: Super Bowl Odds Part II
Kansas City fans have seen their share of good football over the years, even if it didn’t happen last year due to a series of key injuries that ended the 2011 season almost before it began. More frustrating is the fact is that a Super Bowl run hasn’t happened since 1969. The modern AFC has a road that goes through Foxboro if you want to get to a Super Bowl. Let’s compare Kansas City to the New England Patriots and the rest of the AFC East, as part of an ongoing series seeing what odds the smart money in Las Vegas is giving to AFC contenders . These odds are just to win the AFC, not to win it all…
Kansas City Chiefs: 15-1
The AFC East
New England Patriots: 3-1
New York Jets: 11-1
Miami Dolphins: 18-1
Buffalo Bills: 22-1
Let me ask you this—let’s take a Chiefs’ team that won seven games in 2011, and gets safety Eric Berry, running back Jamaal Charles and tight end Tony Moeaki all back from injuries that cost each basically the entire season. Then let’s take a Jets team that won eight games in 2011, got worse as the season went on thanks to dissension and has a self-manufactured quarterback controversy in which one above-average quarterback seems to have lost the team and another below-average quarterback has an almost mystical ability to make people believe in him. How would you look at these two teams and determine the Jets have a better chance to win the AFC than the Chiefs? New York bias is one possibility—Las Vegas sportsbooks get a lot of action from financially well-off travelers from the East, especially the Big Apple, and that money moves the number. But there’s no good football reason for the disparity, unless you’re still living in 2009-10.
The Chiefs vs. The AFC: Super Bowl Odds
AFC North
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AFC West
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