So, a muffed punt changed the course of a championship football game. That’s what happened in Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday in Las Vegas. The Kansas City Chiefs were outplayed by the San Francisco 49ers for the first two and a half quarters of the big game. Then the Niners muffed a punt in their own territory. The Chiefs recovered and immediately scored a go-ahead touchdown. Older USC fans can relate to having a championship game turn on a special teams mistake, and more specifically, a muffed punt.
If you’re a USC fan and you’re under 25 years of age, you might not remember the 2005 Orange Bowl in which USC won the national championship with a beatdown of Oklahoma.
Special teams, special teams, special teams. Let’s relive a USC national championship memory and connect it to both the Super Bowl and the Kansas City Chiefs: