Super thoughts*

 (*Includes the standard rebuttal: "Ha! You've never had a super thought IN YOUR ENTIRE BLEEPING LIFE!")

Welp. Superb Owl 58 is in the books, and it was one hell of a football game. The Chiefs won in overtime, barely, because they're the Chiefs and they've got Patrick Mahomes and you never, ever, ever bet against Patrick Mahomes when the day gets late and the desperation is thick enough to cut with a baloney sandwich.

Anyway ...

What we did learn, boys and girls? What did we learn?

"Never bet against Mahomes?" you're saying now.

My, you're quick.

"Brock Purdy is pretty damn good himself, was as cool as an October breeze and made enough plays to win if that hadn't been Mahomes on the other side of the field? So shut up about him just being a 'game manager' and 'well, he's got weapons' and all the other stuff that's true of virtually every other quarterback who's ever come down the pike?"

Right.

"The 49ers defensive scheme was brilliant and befuddled Mahomes the way the Chiefs D befuddled Lamar Jackson, until the game got critical and Mahomes started Mahomes-ing?"

Yessir.

"After three Lombardis in five years and back-to-back Supe wins for the first time in 20 years, it's not just media hype to say the Chiefs are now a dynasty or something like it?"

Correct-a-mundo.

And now that we've gotten all that out of the way ... some thoughts:

* The best part of the Chiefs coming from behind to win the Super Bowl was seeing Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift embrace and realizing that the MAGAs and the rest of America's most ridiculous people were at that very moment losing their shite.

* The same aforementioned people who also lost their shite when Kelce got in Andy Reid's face and screamed at him need to chill the hell out. Yeah, Kelce was an ass, but there's a reason Reid wisely didn't overreact. It's because he's been around the game forever and understands the heat-of-the-moment emotion it sometimes generates -- which is why both he and Kelce laughed it off later.

* Best ads: Christopher Walken/BMW; Dunkin with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Matt Damon and Tom Brady; E*Trade babies playing pickleball; Ah-nold/State Farm; Michael Cera/CeraVe; Jason Momoa/Flashdance sendup.

* In a related note, how do we know Tom Brady is retired?

Because he's in, like, every ad now.

* In a further related noted, that PAC ad for Robert Kennedy Jr. was damn near as weird as he is.

* Halftime show: Great cavalcade of artists, horrible sound mixing, totally lost on way-too-old geezers like me. Also, rollerblades were a nice touch.

* Show of hands: When it got to halftime and the Chiefs were down 10-3, who else was thinking they had the 49ers right where they wanted them?

* Show of hands: When it was 19-19 and went to overtime, who else was thinking "The Chiefs got this now"?

And last but not least ...

* Kelce in the first half: One catch for one yard. Kelce in the second half: Eight catches for 98 yards.

Apparently the screaming worked.