Kyle Shanahan hoists the Lombardi Trophy high enough for the football gods to use as a toothpick. Little Shanny bear-hugs quarterback Arch Manning and wideout Luke McCaffrey, his co-MVPs. Then the three get busy picking orange and blue confetti out of smiles they can see from the windows of the ISS.
The Broncos win Super Bowl LXV to launch a new Shanahan Dynasty, and the circle of NFL life completes itself. This one? This one’s for Mike.
“You know what? Crazier things have happened,” Zach Zucker, Kyle Shanahan’s longtime pal/confidant and Shanny’s former Cherry Creek football teammate, told me with a laugh a few days ago.