Thankfully, everything went according to plan. So, to celebrate Santa — head coach Andy Reid — stopped by the Chiefs’ locker room and delivered a delightful gift. “Proud of you, dudes,” he told a group of hyped players. “For the present, you get home-field advantage.”

Just one year ago, the Kansas City Chiefs fell on Christmas Day and used the loss as a rally through the AFC playoffs en route to the Super Bowl championship. Kansas City had to win two games on the road to get to the Super Bowl.

There's plenty of reason for cheer in the Kansas City Chiefs locker room. A 29-10 Christmas day blowout of the Pittsburgh Steelers improved their record to 15-1 and clinched the AFC's No. 1 seed in their quest for an unprecedented third-straight Super Bowl championship.