Inside Conditions: ‘The Man From Orange’ couldn’t steal the spotlight away from Kendrick Lamar, Samuel L. Jackson

This column is dedi­cated to some of the leg­endary managing editors that I have served under (Ulish Carter, Lou Ran­som, Sonja Toler, Rob Tay­lor, Ashley Johnson and Sandy Hamm). If anyone was omitted, I am sorry, but I will soon be 72 and I still love and respect ev­ery one of you. Reminding the world of these former “Head Coaches” of the New Pittsburgh Courier is truly my Black History moment.) According to the res­ident NFL prophets, soothsayers and resident know-it-alls, the Kansas City Chiefs versus the Philadelphia Eagles’ Su­per Bowl LIX game was to be nothing more than an exercise in futility for the upstart Eagles. Did someone forget to CC the email to the Eagles? Did Andy Reid, the resident Head Coaching God of the Chiefs, expect Eagles Head Coach Nick Sirian­ni and Vic Fangio, the Defensive Coordinator of the Eagles, to make a pil­grimage and lie prostrate at the altar in the “temple Reid” shrine in KC? Well if they did, the shrine was locked down and full of the KC faithful and Vic Fangio and the Eagles’ “guillotine defense” had other ideas. Fangio was not about to worship, pay homage to the image of Andy Reid...