And now ... the Big prediction

 All week long, dammit. All week long, these voices in my head.

One voice says this: Ya know, Philly has the kind of team that can beat the Chiefs. Physical. Strong up front on both sides. Clock-munching running game.

The other voices says this: What are you, nuts? You never pick against Mahomes in the playoffs. Never, ever, ever.

First voice: Yeah, but ... Jalen Hurts. Jalen Carter. Saquon Barkley.

Second voice: Travis Kelce. Chris Jones. Andy Reid with two weeks to prepare.

First voice: Eagles down seven vs. Chiefs O-line. Mismatch.

Second voice: Mahomes, Kelce, Xavier Worthy, Hollywood Brown et al vs. young Eagles secondary. Mismatch.

And then ...

First voice: Also, remember whose head we're occupying.

Second voice: Ah. Good point.

Good point, because I am hardly ever right about these things. I am, in fact, notorious among my circle of family and friends for being hardly ever right about these things. And  there's no reason to believe that trend will change with the Big Super Game Bowl tomorrow. 

In which cases, condolences in advance to Reid, Mahomes, the Kelce family, Taylor Swift and the entire Chiefs Kingdom. 'Cause I'm picking Kansas City.

Actually, I figure it will go one of two ways tomorrow night in New Orleans, either of which is entirely plausible. 

In one scenario, the Eagles dominate up front, Hurts and Barkley go for eleventy-hundred yards apiece, and Philly wins laughing, 37-20.

In the other, the Chiefs are down 21-17 after three, but then Mahomes runs for a score and throws for another in the fourth quarter, and the Chiefs win 31-27.

I'm going with the second scenario. Partly because I'm history-struck by the whole three-Super-Bowls-in-a-row thing, and partly because the Chiefs just know how to win these deals.

They've been there. They've done that. And they're a better team than they were last year, with more speed on offense and a killer D folks tend to overlook because they're too busy watching Mahomes pull rabbits out of hats.

My only qualm -- OK, so my biggest qualm -- is every time I turn on the TV, another yapping radio poodle or ex-jock or Mina Kimes is picking Kansas City, too. Which is usually a bad sign.

Meh. Don't care. I'm pickin' the Chiefs anyway.

A guy's gotta be strong in these situations, after all.