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Kingdom: How Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, and the Kansas City Chiefs Returned to Super Bowl Glory
After 50 years of waiting, Kansas City Chiefs fans were hungry for a return to Super Bowl glory. In 2020, their patience was rewarded in dramatic, exuberant fashion with a second-half comeback for the ages against the San Francisco 49ers. ESPN's Adam Teicher expertly retraces the team's unforgettable championship season as well as the moves and moments that made it all possible—the hiring of head coach Andy Reid in 2013, drafting future-MVP Patrick Mahomes, the heart-wrenching AFC Championship loss to the Patriots in 2019 that lingered in the mind of every player, and more. Teicher captures the mood of the team week by week, every step of the way, profiling numerous players, coaches, and key figures.
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265 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 8, 2020
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June 14, 2023
I really expected more from this book. I didn't really learn anything new about the Kansas City Chiefs, but I have been a fan for 50+ years. I'm not sure why Teicher felt it necessary to use the player's full names over and over, the entire book? We get it, after once or twice, we know Partick Mahomes is Mahomes, and Frank Clark is Clark. The reader can figure it out.
Also, the title is called Kingdom, but Teicher never really delves much into why Chiefs fans call it the kingdom. Jerky writing, not smooth and too much repeated info. Needed a bit more punch, a bit more behind the scenes. I felt like I read the newspaper for 234 pages.
Also, the title is called Kingdom, but Teicher never really delves much into why Chiefs fans call it the kingdom. Jerky writing, not smooth and too much repeated info. Needed a bit more punch, a bit more behind the scenes. I felt like I read the newspaper for 234 pages.
February 6, 2022
The flow is missing and the book is a consolidation of interviews.
October 5, 2020
Subtitle: How Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, and the Kansas City Chiefs Returned to Super Bowl Glory
Growing up on the opposite side of the state, the St. Louis Cardinals (now Arizona Cardinals) were my first favorite team. I was eight years old when the Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl IV. The franchise fell on hard times within a couple of years, and I adopted the Oakland Raiders and Miami Dolphins as my favorite AFC teams. After I moved to Kansas City in 1988, the Chiefs brought in Carl Peterson to run the franchise with Marty Schottenheimer as coach. Those actions, combined with the Cardinals leaving for Arizona, led to me becoming a Chiefs fan.
Adam Teicher covered the Chiefs for the Kansas City Star for 20 years before moving to ESPN, where he still covers the team. Kingdom tells the stories of the 50 year gap between the Chiefs' Super Bowl victories and a week-by-week recap of the Chiefs' 2019 season and post-season. Each of the game recaps focused on a different player's contribution to the team both within that particular game and during the overall season.
I gave Kingdom five stars on Goodreads. I recommend it to Chiefs fans, football fans in general, and readers who enjoy books about sports.
Growing up on the opposite side of the state, the St. Louis Cardinals (now Arizona Cardinals) were my first favorite team. I was eight years old when the Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl IV. The franchise fell on hard times within a couple of years, and I adopted the Oakland Raiders and Miami Dolphins as my favorite AFC teams. After I moved to Kansas City in 1988, the Chiefs brought in Carl Peterson to run the franchise with Marty Schottenheimer as coach. Those actions, combined with the Cardinals leaving for Arizona, led to me becoming a Chiefs fan.
Adam Teicher covered the Chiefs for the Kansas City Star for 20 years before moving to ESPN, where he still covers the team. Kingdom tells the stories of the 50 year gap between the Chiefs' Super Bowl victories and a week-by-week recap of the Chiefs' 2019 season and post-season. Each of the game recaps focused on a different player's contribution to the team both within that particular game and during the overall season.
I gave Kingdom five stars on Goodreads. I recommend it to Chiefs fans, football fans in general, and readers who enjoy books about sports.
October 30, 2022
What I hoped this book would be: A narrative re-telling of the greatest season in Chiefs history with NFL Films style flair and prose.
What this book actually is: A very repetitive collection of pulled quotes from press conferences, with some statistics and a few paragraphs here and there detailing in-game events.
If you've followed sports at all you would know that the quotes athletes and coaches give to the media are quite generic and are rarely even worth putting a name to it. There are paragraphs in this book that appear multiple times with slight revisions. Hardly any time at all is spent discussing one of the most iconic playoff runs in NFL history (including the Super Bowl??), with more time in the game's dedicated chapters spent talking about Reid's past playoff failures, Chris Jones' smelly gloves and eating habits, and personnel moves regarding the running backs. This book might be more compelling in 20 years after some time has passed, but I doubt it. I give it 2 stars because I love the Chiefs and this season and I finished the book (because it was $30).
What this book actually is: A very repetitive collection of pulled quotes from press conferences, with some statistics and a few paragraphs here and there detailing in-game events.
If you've followed sports at all you would know that the quotes athletes and coaches give to the media are quite generic and are rarely even worth putting a name to it. There are paragraphs in this book that appear multiple times with slight revisions. Hardly any time at all is spent discussing one of the most iconic playoff runs in NFL history (including the Super Bowl??), with more time in the game's dedicated chapters spent talking about Reid's past playoff failures, Chris Jones' smelly gloves and eating habits, and personnel moves regarding the running backs. This book might be more compelling in 20 years after some time has passed, but I doubt it. I give it 2 stars because I love the Chiefs and this season and I finished the book (because it was $30).
February 4, 2024
DNF - I found this to be pretty rambling and repetitive. I was hoping for more personality and interesting stories behind the scenes. While there were some behind-the-scenes explanations for certain things, they were about 5x as long as they needed to be with lots of quotes. Felt like a lot of fluff was injected.
January 12, 2021
A must read for Chiefs fans. I’ve read Teicher for years. He’s a good writer. The book can be repetitive though.
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February 7, 2023
Patrick Mahomeless is a mid quarterback. Burrow solos no cap fr fr. It's clear that Andy Reid ate the whole super bowl for bekfest.
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