49ers Embrace 'Against All Odds' Mantra Despite Being The Favorite In Every Game This Season

In Super Bowl LVIII, the No. 1-seeded San Francisco 49ers will take on the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, who are making their fourth trip to the big game in five years. Truly the wild match-up no one saw coming.

Just kidding. Even the most casual football observer could probably have predicted this months ago. But that won't stop the 49ers from pulling the underdog card for the sake of a sweet social media hype video!

The NFC's top seed has embraced the mantra "against all odds" ahead of next week's game. The 49ers even used a little dice emoji, you know, to keep the Las Vegas theme.

Pretty cool. Except for one enormous, glaring problem: The San Francisco 49ers have been the betting favorite in every single game this season — all 20 of them. And that includes the Super Bowl against the juggernauts of Kansas City.

Nothing about the Niners' run is "against the odds." In fact, it's entirely with the odds.

And fans on social media were quick to point that out.

Niners' apologists will say this hype video just refers to the NFC Championship game — where San Fran had to rally furiously from a 17-point deficit to beat the Detroit Lions. But sorry, guys. You don't get to pull the underdog card after a come-from-behind win in a game in which you were favored by more than a touchdown to begin with.

But this whole shtick is strangely reminiscent of the Chiefs screaming for everyone to "put some respect on their name" after hoisting the Lombardi Trophy last year. 

"Not one of y'all said the Chiefs were gonna take it home this year," Travis Kelce screamed. "Not a single one! Feel that sh-t. Feel it! And on top of that, the next time the Chiefs say something, put some respect on our name!"

Really? You mean the same Chiefs who 1) were the AFC's No. 1 seed, 2) had the NFL MVP at quarterback and 3) had just won their second Super Bowl in four years? Not a single person thought you were "gonna take it home," Travis?

I simply don't think that's accurate.

So when Feb. 11 rolls around, can both teams just agree to drop this "nobody believes in us" nonsense? We fans of actual underdogs are exhausted.