Caliendo, who will start at left guard for the Chiefs in Sunday’s Super Bowl against the Philadelphia Eagles, nearly didn’t become a pro football player at all. He played six years at Western Michigan, finishing with a master’s degree in biological sciences before keeping multiple paths open in early 2022.

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but the Kansas City Chiefs will play in the Super Bowl this weekend. For the fifth time in six years Andy Reid’s side have made it through to the big game and this time they will be chasing NFL history as they look to land an elusive threepeat.

New Orleans holds a special place in the stories of both the Chiefs and the National Football League: It was the location of Kansas City's first-ever Super Bowl win in 1970, a game that helped change the course of the NFL.