Patrick Mahomes had just pumped the ball. It was deep in the fourth quarter and this one -sided super bowl was long gone.
Travis Kelce beat the field, removed his helmet and stood alone. He spoke to anyone before he walked away, sat down on the couch and recorded everything.
Kelce is usually central to everything the chiefs do, from a threat on the field to his greatest cheerleader of it. When Mahomes is the brain of the team, the tight end is his heart.
But Kelce was far away from the piece and nowhere near the promotion. Everyone worried that the Fox broadcast can be taken over by Kelce and Taylor Swift did not have to worry. He was superfluous and she had nothing to celebrate.
If this has to be the NFL curtain call of Kelce, he left without whimmer, ending with four catches and 39 meters of six goals.
This version will also lead to a larger investigation why he started eating less than 48 hours for the biggest game of his life with his pop star friend.
Travis Kelce was anonymous because the chiefs of Kansas City were humiliated in the Super Bowl
Kelce looked destroyed on the couch after the leaders failed in their attempt to do the three-peat
Taylor Swift had nothing to celebrate when the Eagles Kelce and his Chiefs teammates dominated
No one can be sure what went through Kelce's head when he decided to go to a French restaurant in the Uptown district in New Orleans on Friday evening.
But it opened the door to his critics and their doubts that his attention was elsewhere.
When the NFL history is at stake and, at the age of 35, opportunities to win more super bowls, will only decrease, why would you open yourself for such an investigation? It didn't look good then. Now it looks irresponsible.
Mahomes must also take his part of the debt. It was a double date. His performance, the worst of his career, suggests that he would have been better off to rest or view tape in his hotel room.
Kelce said this week that he could see himself playing for another three years. But reports emerged on Saturday that his future is actually much less clear, and these kinds of performance show that time rises.
It was also not a friendly farewell for Kelce. When actor Jon Hamm took the microphone to introduce the leaders to the field, the deafening anger that greeted them in Philadelphia could be heard.
Jason Kelce watched while his little brother was booed by the fans who worship him. The Jeering also stretched to Swift when she appeared on the scenes at both ends of the Superdome early in the game.
Kelce's first chance to leave his mark came on the opening ride of the Chiefs. It was second and nine when a pass through Mahomes looked like it would be a routine catch. We have seen that connection so many times before.
Swift and Kelce stunned fans in New Orleans after they were seen on a dinner on Friday
Kelce is swollen by Eagles Defenders while he does not hold a pass by Patrick Mahomes
Kelce was under pressure and could not hold the pass. Just when he dropped the ball, a cracking hit at the back sent him to the ground.
He got up, shook it off and ran back to the Huddle, but it was an early mistake that contributed that the leaders had to throw the ball away.
To make it worse, Dallas made good, in Kelce's tight final shadow for a large part of the structure, his first game without problems. A simple catch in motion when the Eagles marched down and struck the first blow.
The reaction of the chiefs was overwhelming to say the least when the defense of Eagles Mahomes swung and gave no ground for the rest of the first quarter.
A interception of Bryan Cook should have inject some energy into the Chiefs attack, but they went three and gone with Kelce failing a pass.
In the third place, Mahomes searched again for his tight end. His pass was low and Kelce couldn't brag it. Something was switched off, the friends were on different wavelengths.
They finally connected for the first time with just under three minutes in the third quarter with an eight-yard pass and catch in the middle of the field. Mahomes was almost selected at the next game while the dominance of the Eagles continued.
On 34-0, where the leaders climb to prevent the outrage from walking a shutout in a super bowl, found Mahomes Kelce with a nice film, but the damage was caused.
Kelce finished with four catches and 39 meters of six goals and had no influence on the game
The Chiefs succeeded in gathering up to 40-22, but when Xavier Worthy scored his second touchdown to relieve shame, Kelce was not in the mood to celebrate.
While he slid back from the field and back to the dressing room, he seemed to fight tears back. He then admitted: “We just couldn't find that spark, couldn't find that momentum.”
Mahomes also called on his best friend to continue, insisting that Kelce 'knows that he still has a lot of football'.
Kelce will certainly not want to go out that way. But such a overwhelming achievement on the largest stage suggests that time is certainly on his legendary career.
