Pro athletes are amazing human beings, and they regularly put up with immense physical and emotional adversity, especially when a championship is at stake.

It’s especially true for football players, who may be the toughest athletes in any major sport.

The Kansas City Chiefs claimed their third Super Bowl title in five seasons on Sunday, and one of their starters in that contest was offensive lineman Nick Allegretti, who suffered a torn UCL in his elbow during the second quarter, per James Palmer.

Ask anyone on that team and they’ll tell you no one is tougher and plays with more effort and passion than Allegretti. https://t.co/599LKNeW7X

— James Palmer (@JamesPalmerTV) February 13, 2024

Allegretti was starting in place of Joe Thuney, the star guard who was ruled out because of an injured pectoral muscle.

Early on, it looked like perhaps Thuney’s absence was looming large, as the Chiefs had trouble getting anything substantial going offensively.

They mustered only one field goal by halftime, and San Francisco, their Super Bowl opponent for the second time in the last five seasons, was controlling the game on both sides of the football.

But quarterback Patrick Mahomes got himself going when a muffed punt allowed him to subsequently throw a touchdown pass to Marquez Valdes-Scantling late in the third quarter.

With his third Vince Lombardi Trophy, Mahomes is now considered by many to be one of the game’s best quarterbacks of all time, and he has developed an aura of invincibility, or at least inevitability, that only Tom Brady and Joe Montana have ever enjoyed.

It appears Kansas City has every intention of running it back in order to chase the league’s first-ever Super Bowl three-peat next season.

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