MIAMI — Dee Ford has a chance to ruin the Chiefs’ season for the second year in a row.
This season, he plays for the 49ers. Last season, he played for the Chiefs, who lost in the AFC championship game against the Patriots. Lost because of Ford.
With 1:01 left in that game, Ford lined up in the neutral zone — a five-yard penalty which negated an interception that almost certainly would have won the game for the Chiefs and sent them to the Super Bowl — they had a three-point lead at the time. Instead, they lost when the Patriots scored a touchdown a few plays later.
Monday evening during the opening night of the Super Bowl festivities, Ford reflected on the lowest moment of his career.
“It was hard for a brief period of time,” Ford admitted. “But just like everything else, I had to get over that. Now it’s in a compartment with other bad plays. I got over it.”
The Chiefs never completely got over Ford’s mistake, though. This year, just two days before they beat the Titans in the AFC Championship, Ford’s replacement on the Chiefs, Frank Clark, unloaded about Ford’s penalty.
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