Here is Matt Damon as Sonny Vaccaro in a pretty wonderful movie about Michael Jordan and Air Jordan shoes called “Air,” talking about Michael in that movie:

“Once they’ve built you as high as they possibly can, they’re gonna tear you back down — it’s the most predictable pattern.”

It has always been a predictable pattern, and not just in sports. It’s just that in the modern world, which means the world of social media, that pattern is now on steroids. And now everybody outside of the Chiefs fans of this world are coming for the Chiefs, looking to tear them down every chance they get, and diminish the team that has now become the main event in professional sports in this country.

You know who the Dodgers want to be?

They want to be them.

But, of course, you can understand why people outside of Kansas City would be coming for them now, and getting behind the cockeyed notion that the refs like them better than everybody else. After all, these Chiefs did win their first Super Bowl because of a controversial call on the old Tuck Rule.

Then there was Deflategate.

And Spygate, don’t forget that.Oh, wait, that was the other team everybody loved to hate before the Chiefs started winning too much, and were trying to establish themselves as the kind of great and lasting and historic dynasty that Vince Lombardi had in the ’60s with the Green Bay Packers.

Now even Sean McDermott, coach of the Bills team that lost to the Chiefs last Sunday in the AFC Championship games, is running with the crowd and whining that a team having the kind of extraordinary run the Chiefs are having doesn’t get here without the refs.

“I told the team we wouldn’t get the calls,” McDermott says at ProFootballTalk. “But you have to play above it.”

Well, guess what, Coach? If you were so sure you weren’t going to get the calls then why, with all the options you have on offense and with one of the best quarterbacks in the world on your side, did you stubbornly make the fourth-down call you did last Sunday and leave yourself at the mercy of the same refs you’re basically saying were out to get you?

McDermott has Josh Allen, who may or may not end up being the MVP of the whole league this season, and Allen had the ball in his hands and two minutes on the clock and a chance to go down the field and, if not tie the game, knock the Chiefs right out of the ring once and for all. You know who did that one time, against an 18-0 Patriots team? Eli Manning. Allen did not, and now his coach looks small as a jockey talking about the refs after the fact.

When the Chiefs needed to make a first down at the end of the game to close out the Bills once and for all, you know what happened? Patrick Mahomes, who will someday be called the best quarterback to ever play the game if he isn’t there already, threw the ball in the flat and the Chiefs got the first down and that was that.

What stopped the Bills from making that kind of call, instead of running Allen up the middle even though he’d been lucky to get the first down the last time he tried that? And maybe McDermott can explain how the refs were mean to his team when, on the last fourth-down play of his team’s season, they got outflanked and outsmarted by Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo.

But Troy Aikman, who must have forgotten what it was like when he was the one getting hit and getting concussed, wrings his hands because he thinks Mahomes got a call from the refs on a late slide against the Texans the week before, like somehow Mahomes was gaming the system in that moment; as if somehow Mahomes’ team being awarded 15 yards after a soft late hit was some threat to the integrity of the game.

Get lost.

People were after Michael Jordan and the Bulls once, just not like this, not in this time when Mahomes is playing like Michael and trying to win three in a row, which is something Michael managed to do twice. That is the kind of air Mahomes is breathing, and Andy Reid is breathing, and Travis Kelce is breathing, and defensive coordinator Spags and even Jake from State Farm.

You know what you do with the Chiefs? You don’t whine about them, or about the refs, or suggest that somehow Mahomes’ dazzling lifetime record in the postseason practically requires an asterisk, he’s getting so many breaks. No. You appreciate what we are seeing. You appreciate the genius of Mahomes, and the greatness of his coach and of this team, whether they get clipped by the Eagles next Sunday in New Orleans or not.

I was sitting with Brian Leetch one time after Wayne Gretzky had come to the Rangers at the end of his career, and mentioned to Brian how lucky he must feel to be getting the chance to play on Gretzky’s team.

He smiled and said, “I’m just happy to be living in his time.”