While running out onto the field for the first time before Super Bowl LIV’s kickoff in 2020, Chiefs punter Dustin Colquitt remembers looking up and seeing a piece of trivia on the video board: If the Chiefs win today, Dustin joins his dad, Craig, and brother, Britton, as a Super Bowl champion.
It immediately triggered a bout of overthinking and anxiety.
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“Oh crap,” Colquitt thought.
To calm his nerves, he used a simple remedy: a series of breathing exercises on the sideline.
People everywhere deal with similar surges of pressure or nervousness. The professional football players who have made it to the Super Bowl are experiencing those same feelings, but on a public
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