I’m writing this on the Sunday afternoon before the AFC Championship Game. The Kansas City Chiefs play the Buffalo Bills in about 9 hours; the winner of that match-up will go on to the Superbowl. This is very exciting, especially for fans of the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills.

Sports are fascinating because they are an exercise in competing narratives. Ultimately, this is down to talent and luck and bodies crashing into one another on a field somewhere in the Midwest. But around this singul...