As Patrick Mahomes was dodging hostile snowballs Sunday night after helping the Chiefs win the best game of the NFL season, I couldn’t help but think of an especially tortured fan base.

No, not the snow-packing Buffalo Bills fans, who re-lived their worst nightmare on a 33-year delay when Tyler Bass missed a late would-be game-tying, 44-yard field goal to all but seal a 27-24 loss to the Chiefs in the Divisional round of the AFC playoffs. Wide Right II called back to Scott Norwood’s miss at the end of the Super Bowl XXV loss to the Giants.

I was thinking of Knicks fans. And then of Pacers fans, Jazz fans and any other NBA fan base whose 1990s stars were kept from winning an NBA title by Michael Jordan’s killer instinct.

Because Mahomes is shutting the championship windows of his Hall of Fame-caliber rivals – another year squandered for Bills quarterback Josh Allen – the way Jordan once did.