Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 1078: Fight without bloodshed

According to a professional sports study, Denver has the best home stadiums in North America, including the NFL's Denver Broncos, the NBA's Denver Nuggets, and the MLB's Colorado Rockies.

Home field advantage, ranking first in North America.

All of this is due to the city’s geographical advantages.

Even the top players in each sport will encounter their own bottlenecks when competing at the top level of professionalism, and exercising at high altitudes will bring another source of stress, putting severe tests on physical condition.

For tourists and fans, getting used to Denver's high altitude is not difficult. They can resume normal activities after a day or two of adaptation, but competitive sports are different.

If players aren’t used to the altitude, it’s going to be hard for them to elevate their game and compete against a team that practices every day in a city a mile high.

Because Denver is above sea level, players breathe in less oxygen during high-intensity exercise, making it difficult for the lungs to pump oxygen into the blood. Continued lack of oxygen has a cumulative effect, increasing players' heart rates and making breathing increasingly difficult.

Compared with cities with lower altitudes, players who usually practice at sea level consume 20% more energy when playing in Denver, but their oxygen intake is 10% less. After adding one plus one minus, the challenges for players playing in Denver are even more severe.

Because of this, most teams may only go to away games one day in advance; but when league teams go to Denver to play, they often go two or even three days in advance, extending the training time to adapt to the environment, hoping to overcome the difficulties of fighting in the plateau.

However, this remains a difficult problem.

There is more than one devil's home field in the NFL. Arrowhead Stadium has become the most terrifying and powerful devil's home field in the past two seasons, but Denver's "Mile-High" has always been a monster of a different level. From a geographical perspective, it has become the most special devil's home field in the league.

Because of this, other teams must be equipped with oxygen cylinders at all times when visiting Denver, and players must breathe oxygen after experiencing intense confrontations.

From all indications, the Kansas City Chiefs' visit to Mile High Stadium in Week 7 of the regular season is indeed the Denver Broncos' best chance to cause an upset.

Before the game, the Denver Broncos players and fans were full of confidence.

Von Miller, MVP of the 2011th Super Bowl, second overall pick in the draft.

Although he has never won the Defensive Player of the Year award, he is undoubtedly recognized as the league's top linebacker and is still at his peak.

Last season, he was ranked 11th among the league's top 100 players.

That year, the Carolina Panthers used the No. 1 pick to select quarterback Cam Newton, so Von Miller has been the "No. 2 pick" since entering the league.

In the 2015 season, Newton won the regular season MVP, but Miller defeated Newton in the Super Bowl and was crowned the Super Bowl MVP for perfect revenge.

In a blink of an eye, three years have passed. Newton has been forgotten by everyone due to injuries. The former "Superman" is now scarred and on the verge of breaking; but Miller still stands at the top of the league and has evolved into the only superstar of the Denver Broncos.

"Levi, oh, I'm looking forward to him."

"I hope he won't use the last game as an excuse to get out of this loss. Facing an injured and low-health Watt, it was so hard. I think Levi has already started to go downhill."

"So we always say don't rush when looking at players, at least stick with them for five years, otherwise you'll end up like Cam Newton."

Newton: ??? I didn't provoke you!

Sarcastic and confident.

However, when reporters threw these words at Levi to fan the flames, Levi did not get angry.

Not only that, but he was smiling.

"Haha, I believe he is praying that this day will come as soon as possible. How many times has he lost so far?"

"one two Three……"

Levi was actually counting his fingers, his face full of sincerity.

"Oh, sorry, I can't count. But I can be sure that the number of times we lost, zero, the number of times we lost to the Denver Broncos was zero."

"So, I don't blame him for talking nonsense there, I express my sincere blessings." Cruel, really cruel.

Hit someone in the face, a fatal blow.

Rumor has it that when Miller went to the team for training the next day, he had a dark face and scared several child fans who came to ask for his autograph into tears.

Obviously, the Denver Broncos are eager to beat the Kansas City Chiefs.

In these three seasons, the Oakland Raiders, who were in a quagmire, ended the Kansas City Chiefs' six-game winning streak at home in the 2017 season, and the aging Los Angeles Chargers made a strong comeback in the 2018 season and overturned the Kansas City Chiefs at home. Among the rivals in the same division, the Denver Broncos are the only one left to play.

And it’s the Denver Broncos, the most recent Super Bowl champion.

Before the rise of the Kansas City Chiefs, the Denver Broncos were the dominant team in the AFC West; but now, the Denver Broncos have become the only team in the AFC West that has not defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in three seasons.

This is simply unimaginable.

Putting aside other things, standing in the position of a deadly rival in the same division, the Denver Broncos need to beat the Kansas City Chiefs, and Von Miller must get rid of this label.

The Oakland Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers both beat the Kansas City Chiefs at home.

So, now is the opportunity. Von Miller is not willing to wait even for another week. He knows that defeating the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium will be another kind of happiness, but he really doesn't have the patience to wait any longer.

Now, immediately, they need to get rid of the label of being the only team in the AFC West that has not been able to beat the Kansas City Chiefs in three seasons.

That's a shame.

Some people may say, that's it? This is not a matter of life and death, it's just a division win or loss, it has nothing to do with the playoffs or the Super Bowl, and it's not even a game that determines the division champion.

So?

But Denver Broncos players and fans will say it was the "little things" that made it all the more humiliating and devastating.

They need to get rid of this "mere label" as soon as possible, not even for a day longer.

What's more, the grudges between the rivals in the same division are, to some extent, more important than the Super Bowl championship. In any case, the Denver Broncos don't want to see the Kansas City Chiefs continue to show off.

The Denver Broncos, from top to bottom, were united as one, and even treated this game as a life-and-death battle of the season.

pity.

Reality is cruel, not only bleak but also bloody.

"37:6".

The visiting team is in front and the home team is behind.

The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Denver Broncos without a single blow, escaping from Mile High unscathed and remaining undefeated at the home of the league's No. 1 team for three consecutive seasons.

Denver Broncos, not a single chance.

Originally, in people's imagination, even if the Denver Broncos could not really beat the Kansas City Chiefs, under the cover of the rising momentum of two consecutive victories, at least the Denver Broncos could create some threats to the Kansas City Chiefs. Coupled with the stalemate in the divisional civil war, the suspense of the outcome may continue for a while.

However, it did not.

From the first minute of the game, the Kansas City Chiefs' tactics were clear. They set a trap using Mahomes' long pass as bait, but opened up the situation through ground offense. Levi and Damien took turns to suppress their opponents with great force and quickly established an active advantage.

After Levi scored the first touchdown, the Denver Broncos never regained their rhythm and were in a state of disarray.

(End of this chapter)