The thing about making bold proclamations is they more than likely are going to come back to bite you. In the case of FS1’s Nick Wright, that reality came very quickly.
After declaring that the Kanas City Chiefs would go 20-0 on their road to winning another Super Bowl trophy, the Chiefs would lose their very first game of the season, 21-20, to the up-and-coming Detroit Lions. Unfortunately, in Wright’s case, his proclamation was much more of the permanent kind.
Wright was so foolishly confident in his stance that he actually got the words “Never a doubt” tattooed on his forearm. He may not have doubted it then, but he may have a few doubts about his decision now.
Yes, it's real. @getnickwright got a tattoo in honor of the Chiefs 👀
"NEVER A DOUBT" pic.twitter.com/34uVNgz7dU
— First Things First (@FTFonFS1) September 1, 2023
Naturally, as with all things, social media had a fun time with this. When you sit on national television and speak so definitively, and it backfires in the first game, of course, there is going to be a fan reaction to it. Even the Lions themselves got in on the fun.
First things first. https://t.co/1YGitGdHo6 pic.twitter.com/yGhWlbl1Fc
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) September 8, 2023
Nick Wright got a tattoo because he believed the Chiefs would go 20-0…
😂😂😂 https://t.co/hI0otuWCkn pic.twitter.com/ZkNrMdfUgP— LegendOfWinning (@LegendOfWinning) September 8, 2023
This HAS to be one of the BIGGEST jinxes in the history of sports/sports fandom. The amount of disrespect you put on the Detroit Lions is atrocious. "The Chiefs are gonna hang 30+" – Nick Wright
No hate to @getnickwright, you got love for your team, but goodness… https://t.co/Q9BiXzUPsS
— Mike (@MikeMikeQ25) September 8, 2023
Even Wright himself got in on making fun of himself after the fact.
Welp… see y’all tomorrow at 3pm ET, I guess. https://t.co/vLwWEnEARc
— nick wright (@getnickwright) September 8, 2023
While we now know for sure that Kansas City will not go undefeated in 2023, this Chiefs team is still quarterbacked by Patrick Mahomes. They will almost certainly factor into the playoff scenario at the end of the season, meaning Wright may ultimately see the Chiefs win it all, even if they won’t be doing it unblemished.
Has Any NFL Team Ever Gone Undefeated?
There has only been one NFL team in the league’s entire history to go undefeated, and that was the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who finished 17-0 on the year and won Super Bowl VII over the Washington Redskins.
To this day, the ’72 Dolphins have remained the only NFL team to complete an entire season undefeated. That season, Miami ranked first in the NFL in total offense, total defense, scoring offense, and scoring defense en route to a dominant performance that still has not been touched.
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The closest team to match the immortalized Dolphins team was the 2007 New England Patriots. That Patriots team, manned by Tom Brady and Randy Moss, would go on to go undefeated in the regular season before losing to Eli Manning and the New York Giants in the Super Bowl.
What looked like the greatest team ever assembled would ultimately be the victims of the biggest underdog win in Super Bowl history, further proving just how impressive what the Dolphins did in 1972 is.