I’m OK that Andy Reid and Travis Kelce are apparently OK with Sunday’s sideline scene. I don’t have a right not to be OK with it. It’s their thing. It’s their relationship. It’s their team. And it’s pretty obvious their team is doing just fine.

It’s just not my place to publicly criticize them. But I do have a right to tell you I didn’t like what happened. So, I’m telling you. I didn’t like what happened.

Yeah, I went back and re-watched the Super Bowl in its entirety. I do that annually on the Monday after the game. It’s part of my grieving, mourning, decompression/detox, weaning process as I turn the page on another precious NFL season. You all do realize that we each get only so many seasons, and then we die, right?

Here are a some follow-up take-aways from my Monday re-wind. The Niners were truly, physically whuppin’ and wastin’ Chief ass in the first half. SF had a ten-point lead that should have been 17 or more. That Harrison Butker field goal right before halftime cut the margin to just seven, and gave the Chiefs a chance to regroup during the lengthy Usher Halftime.

Both teams had Red Zone issues. There was a total of seven field goals attempted and seven field goals made in the game. My Lockhart High School math skills tell me that’s 21 points out of the 47 that were scored.  That’s 44.7 percent of the total. I find that to be less than scintillating.

Butker was 4-4. Jake Moody was 3-3, but did have a critical PAT blocked that prevented the Niners from taking a late four-point lead. Four, as you know, is greatah than three, particularly in the fourth quarter of a football game. That block was a big deal.

Was it a great play by the Chiefs, or did the kick come off Moody’s foot on a low trajectory? To me, it looked like a little of both.

The Niners not only stunk in the Red Zone, they were also odoriferous on third down, going just 3-12. The Chiefs fared much better once they got it together in the second half, converting nine of 19 third downs for the game.

There’s still no legitimate way for Kyle Shanahan to defend his decision to take the ball first in overtime. And the postgame admission by a number of 49ers that they were unfamiliar with and even unaware of the NFL’s new postseason overtime rules, and that the team had not even discussed OT strategy in two weeks preceding the game, is a jaw-dropper. But to be fair, so was the disclosure that the Chiefs’ Mecole Hardman was apparently unaware he had ended the game—and that his team had won the Freaking Super Bowl—when he pulled in that three-yard “corndog” from Mahomes.

Maybe Romo didn’t realize it was over, either. Otherwise, he would have just shut the eff up after Nantz simply said, “Jackpot.” Damn, man, that’s Introduction to Broadcasting 101. Greg Olsen wouldn’t have screwed the pooch like that. And, hey, Olsen may be looking to move.  Yeah. I just went there.

Chiefs d.c. Steve Spagnuolo deserves every accolade he’s getting. But don’t forget that Steve Wilks also did a very nice job. There was one call he would want back, though. In OT, with the Niners leading by three, the Chiefs were facing a third and long. Wilks dialed up a big Cover Zero blitz, and the SF defense showed it early. That became Easy Money for Mahomes and Rashee Rice. Chains moved.

Don’t forget that on that same drive, the Chiefs needed to convert a fourth and one just to keep from dying on the spot. Was there ANY doubt that Mahomes would get it with his legs, something that has become a huge part of his playoff arsenal?

Fair or not, Shanahan is about this far (Coach is holding his right thumb and forefinger less than an inch apart) from a career crossroads. You can only blow so many ten-point Super Bowl and NFC Championship leads before folks stop looking you in the eye.

While George Kittle and Deebo Samuel largely disappeared, I thought Jauan Jennings really stepped up into the Super Bowl spotlight, throwing a touchdown pass and catching one. Manly.

Finally, deal with this, Bubba. Super Bowl LVIII wasn’t just the highest-ever rated SB. It wasn’t just the highest rated sports event . It was the most-watched television program in the history of Earff. The game pulled an average audience of 123.4 million, and 202.4 million viewers saw at least part of the game. That’s a ten percent increase over the previous record which was set—wait for it—last year.

Yeah, the NFL’s in real trouble, isn’t it? Dumbasses.

Three parting notes that I’ll expound on tomorrow.

Damn, Wemby!  A triple double that included ten blocked shots? And five assists on top of that?

Looking like the Bears have decided to trade Justin Fields and draft Caleb Williams. I think that’s a mistake.

And did the Cowboys’ hiring of Mike Zimmer as d.c. almost fall apart?

Hmmm.