The National Football League kicks off a four day festival of football tonight when the Kansas City Chiefs visit SoFi Stadium and the Los Angeles Chargers. Two games this week will be played on Saturday, along with the Monday Night Football meeting and a full Sunday schedule.
This is the first week that all NFL teams are in action since the byes started more than two months ago. Tonight’s game is a good one, from all perspectives, and the winner will hold possession of first place in the AFC West Division.
If the Chiefs win, they will pull two games ahead of the Chargers for the top spot in their division race. If the Chargers win, they would become the leader based on a tiebreaker, each team having nine wins in 14 decisions, but the Chargers holding the edge based on beating the Chiefs twice in head-to-head meetings.
Los Angeles won at Arrowhead in September in third week regular season play, 30-24.
Most figure Patrick Mahomes and his suddenly surging Chiefs will win tonight … I’m not with most.
In recent weeks, Kansas City has put to bed their dismal point spread run that began last season. Over their final 11 games of the 2020 campaign, the Chiefs only lost straight-up twice, but were 1-9-1 versus the point spread.