偏侧。不必要的粗糙。不道德的行为。通过干扰。还有拿着。大量持有。

所有这些处罚对帕特里克·马赫姆斯来说都太重了，以至于他无法克服:尽管汤姆·布拉迪和坦帕湾海盗队是值得周日比赛的冠军，但毫无疑问，堪萨斯城酋长队上演了一场教科书般的表演，展示了如何不在比赛中表现超级杯赛。

到中场休息时，卫冕冠军已经积累了更多的点球(8分)而不是分数(6分)，更多的沮丧而不是希望。这是一场不守纪律、反常的、有点难以置信的失去冷静的比赛，这为很少人预见到的以31-9惨败于海盗队奠定了基础。

堪萨斯城在上半场的95个点球是本赛季269场常规赛和季后赛中任何一支球队在上半场罚进的最多的。他们比堪萨斯城全年任何一场比赛都多一码。酋长队在下半场只罚了三个点球，以120码的11分结束了比赛。几乎不算进步。

“这不寻常，今天发生的太糟糕了，”教练安迪·雷德说。

这支球队在一个冠军赛季中像一台经典的、不可阻挡的机器一样运行，在他们第二次连续夺冠的过程中又赢得了16场胜利，但它自己却崩溃了。酋长队在试图掩护坦帕湾的接球手时过于手软，在混战线上过于紧张，在事情不如意时过于爽朗。

八个上半场点球中的每一个都以自己的方式受伤，没有什么比三场比赛中的两次传球干扰召唤更能导致达阵，并在中场休息前以21-6领先Bucs了。开车从坦帕29号开始，1:01离开了。里德在两次短暂的Bucs得分后，两次暂停，认为酋长队可能会拿回球。

他们没有。

面对堪萨斯城的所有这些挫折:是防守后卫泰伦·马修，他在一次34码的传球干扰呼叫后，让Bucs队陷入了困境，他自己的干扰呼叫击中了坦帕湾队，使其在KC 1球场获得了球。在下一场比赛触地得分后，马修因在布雷迪脸上摇手指而受到了不道德的行为处罚。

难怪他很沮丧。几分钟前，马蒂厄还与布雷迪发生了争执，因为他拦截了一个偏转的球，但被一个防守持球的电话取消了。这是一个不利于查瓦里乌斯·沃德的边缘决定——许多竞争，以及那种在季后赛大部分时间里持续不断的肉搏战。

当时只有7-3。所以，马修对布雷迪说了些什么。布雷迪没有退缩。布雷迪带着6分上场超级杯赛部分原因是他赢得了大多数智力游戏。

现在，他有七个。

“我从未真正见过汤姆·布拉迪的那一面，但不管怎样。无可奉告。一切都结束了，”马修说。

马莫斯仍然坚持一个标题。他一整天都很紧张，并被一个显然没有得到KC消息的Bucs防守催促着，他完成了49次传球中的26次，几乎所有的传球都很匆忙，270码和两次拦截。这无助于保护他整个赛季的两个首发铲球，米切尔·施瓦茨和职业保龄球手埃里克·费舍尔，都因伤缺阵。

“糟糕的一天就是糟糕的一天，”里德说。“但我不会把它放在进攻线上。它带走了我们所有人。”

至少有六次马莫斯的传球击中了手里的接球手，但被放弃了。

他们不是唯一有奶油手指的人。

随着酋长队在第二节以7-3落后，使用较少的撑船者汤米·汤森投出了一个完美的快球，不得不捡起球并猛踢。这是一种美，让坦帕重回30岁。但它被一个暂停呼叫取消了——一名保护者不得不猛拉一辆迎面而来的冲车，以防止最后一脚被挡住。

在第四回合的重赛中，汤森踢了一个29码的球，布茨队接管了堪萨斯城的38码。一个价值10年的惩罚让酋长队损失了32英镑。

然后，旗帜开始飘扬。

接下来的第一次驾驶取消了马修的拦截。

接下来是第四和第五场比赛中的五码点球——第一位在超级碗中工作的女官员莎拉·托马斯投出的旗子——这让坦帕湾队第一次摔倒，而不是在球场上进球。

在接下来的比赛中，布雷迪击中了罗布·格罗恩科夫斯基，这看起来是爱国者队的老队友之间的第二次触地得分，他们穿着Bucs队穿的白镴和红镴从来没有像现在这样好看过。但是地上有一面旗帜。

“控股。防守，34号，”裁判卡尔·切弗斯对着麦克风喊道。该处罚被驳回。当时是14-6 Bucs。在那片黄色的海洋中，酋长们看到了红色。

防守队员克里斯·琼斯说:“只有裁判可以判罚点球，点球百分之百地影响比赛。”。“那么，我能说什么呢？我们今天被罚了很多分。”

Chiefs lose composure and see red amid a sea of yellow

Offsides. Unnecessary roughness. Unsportsmanlike conduct. Pass interference. And holding. Lots of holding.

All those penalties were too much even for Patrick Mahomes to overcome: Good as Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were Sunday -- worthy champions, certainly -- the Kansas City Chiefs put on a textbook display of how not to perform in a Super Bowl.

By halftime, the defending champs had amassed more penalties (8) than points (6) — and more frustration than hope. It was an undisciplined, uncharacteristic and somewhat unbelievable loss of composure that set the stage for a 31-9 drubbing at the hands of the Bucs that very few saw coming.

Kansas City's 95 penalty yards in the first half were the most by any team in the first half of any of the 269 regular-season and playoff games this season. They were one more yard than Kansas City had racked up in any single game all year. The Chiefs only committed three penalties in the second half to finish the game with 11 for 120 yards. It hardly counted as progress.

“It was uncharacteristic, and it was too bad it happened today,” coach Andy Reid said.

The team that ran like a classy, unstoppable machine through one championship season, and over 16 more wins en route to their second straight title game, imploded on itself. The Chiefs got too handsy in a vain attempt to cover Tampa Bay's receivers, too jumpy on the line of scrimmage, too chippy when things didn't go their way.

Each one of the eight first-half penalties hurt in its own way, none more than the two pass interference calls over the span of three plays that led to a touchdown and a 21-6 Bucs lead right before halftime. The drive started at the Tampa 29 with 1:01 left. Reid burned two timeouts, after two short Bucs gains, thinking the Chiefs might get the ball back.

They didn't.

The face of all this Kansas City frustration: It was defensive back Tyrann Mathieu, who, one play after a 34-yard pass interference call that put the Bucs in business, got hit with an interference call of his own that gave Tampa Bay the ball at the KC 1. After the touchdown on the next play, Mathieu got an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for wagging a finger in Brady's face.

No wonder he was frustrated. A few minutes earlier, Mathieu also sparred with Brady after his interception off a deflected ball was nullified by — what else — a defensive holding call. It was a marginal call that went against Charvarius Ward — lots of jockeying, and the sort of hand-to-hand combat that went unflagged through much of the playoffs.

It was only 7-3 at the time. And so, Mathieu said something to Brady. Brady didn't back down. Brady came into the game with six Super Bowls titles, in part because he wins most of those mind games.

Now, he has seven.

“I'd never really seen that side of Tom Brady, but whatever. No comment. It's over with,” Mathieu said.

Mahomes stayed stuck on one title. Flustered all day and hurried by a Bucs defense that apparently didn't get the message about KC, he completed 26 of 49 passes, virtually all of them hurried, for 270 yards and two interceptions. It didn't help that both starting tackles who had protected him all season, Mitchell Schwartz and Pro Bowler Eric Fisher, were out with injuries.

“A bad day to have a bad day,” Reid said. “But I'm not going to lay it on the offensive line. It took all of us."

At least a half-dozen of Mahomes' passes hit receivers in the hands but got dropped.

They weren't the only ones with butterfingers.

With the Chiefs trailing 7-3 in the second quarter, lightly used punter Tommy Townsend dropped a perfect snap and had to scoop up the ball and rush the kick. It was a beauty that pinned Tampa back on its 30. But it was nullified by a holding call — a protector had to yank down an oncoming rusher to keep the late-off-the-foot kick from being blocked.

On the replay of fourth down, Townsend shanked a 29-yard kick and the Bucs took over on Kansas City's 38. A penalty worth 10 years really cost the Chiefs 32.

Then, the flags started flying.

The first one on the ensuing drive nullified Mathieu's interception.

The next was a five-yard penalty on 4th-and-5 — flag thrown by Sarah Thomas, the first female official to work a Super Bowl — that gave Tampa Bay a first down instead of settling for a field goal.

On the next play, Brady hit Rob Gronkowski for what looked like the second touchdown connection between the old Patriots teammates, who never looked better in the pewter-and-red that the Bucs wear. But there was a flag on the ground.

“Holding. Defense, number 34,” referee Carl Cheffers called out on the mic. That penalty was declined. It was 14-6 Bucs. Amid that sea of yellow, the Chiefs were seeing red.

“Only referees can call the penalties, and penalties affect the game 1000 percent," defensive lineman Chris Jones said. “So, what can I say? We got a lot of penalties called on us today.”