Chiefs cover point spread and total against Washington on otherwise-meaningless fumble return on the last play of the game

One of the funniest things that’s happened in the NFL all season:

Washington tried a last-ditch lateral play against the Chiefs on Monday Night Football, attempting to work upfield in impossible fashion to score a winning touchdown.

That obviously didn’t happen, because these things do not ever work. But what did happen was Washington fumbling and Kansas City’s Justin Houston scooping the ball up, then running it into the end zone for a totally meaningless touchdown.

But it wasn’t actually meaningless it all, obviously, which is why this blog post exists. The Chiefs settled as about 6.5-point favorites. They led by three before that last play, and the touchdown covered the spread. It also got the total points scored to 49, surpassing an over/under that was either 47.5 or 48, depending on the sportsbook.

This is the second-best sports beat of the last few years, in my opinion. The only one I’ve liked nearly as much was this thing the Grizzlies did to the Knicks last season:

That is brutal. I adore it.