Uche isn’t participating in Super Bowl LIX with the Patriots, of course. He’s one of seven members of the Chiefs — six players and a coach — who were traded or let go by the Patriots in recent years. There was an eighth, but the Browns signed quarterback Bailey Zappe off the Chiefs’ practice squad in Week 8.

Every single year we get a new Super Bowl to add to this list. But every single year, it seems, we get a new Super Bowl to add to the top of this list. Such is the nature of the modern NFL championship game: the league's on-field and roster-construction rules and have resulted in close games and increasing parity.