If you said the Kansas City Royals would capture a postseason series win before the Kansas City Chiefs would be victorious in a playoff game, you would have been labeled as senseless. Although both teams have suffered long droughts, the Chiefs looked as if they could win a playoff contest before the Royals.

The Chiefs have not won a postseason game in 20 years while the Royals hadn't made the playoffs in 29 years. Despite losing the last eight postseason contests they have appeared in, the Chiefs showed promise through the years with occasional winning seasons and playoff appearances as the Royals still struggled to clinch a postseason berth.

However, the Royals did the unexpected and impossible. Even during an up-and-down season, the Royals will finish 2014 as either World Series champions or as runners-up.

According to Spotrac, the Royals are 19th among all baseball teams in total payroll. The club was also last in the majors in home runs with 95, the only team with fewer than 100 home runs in the regular season.

But the postseason has been a brand new season for the Royals. Despite suffering a deficit in some games, the team has bounced back and created an entertaining postseason, going 8-0 with half of its wins coming in extra innings en route to the World Series.

No one saw this coming.

The Kansas City Chiefs, whose Arrowhead Stadium neighbors the Royals’ Kauffman Stadium, should take note in what the Royals accomplished.

Even though the Royals stood on top of the AL Central in June, the team reached a lot point later in the summer and appeared to have only a slim chance of playing in October.

Even during the playoffs, hope was shattered.

In the sole wild-card game against the Oakland Athletics, the Royals suffered deficits of 2-0 in the first inning, 7-3 in the sixth inning and 8-7 in the 12th inning before completing a comeback win. In the next series, the Royals swept the best team in baseball, the Los Angeles Angels, to advance to the American League Championship Series. The Royals are now in the World Series after sweeping Baltimore Orioles. Given their 8-0 postseason run, it shouldn’t be a shocker if they are universally favored to win it all.

The Royals proved the past does not matter. The Chiefs last won a Super Bowl in 1970 while the Royals last took the World Series trophy in 1985. Both franchises have gone decades without a postseason victory.

Let the Royals be motivation for the 2-3 Kansas City Chiefs, who currently sit in third place in the AFC West.

Turnarounds within a season can happen sporadically in sports. The Chiefs had a roller coaster five-game start to the 2014 season, but that should not dictate how the team will conclude the regular season.

For the latter part of the Royals' 29-year dry spell, baseball fans in Kansas City pondered the dream of the Royals playing in another World Series. It was viewed as a long shot from a realistic standpoint. But it happened.

In addition to trying to win the World Series, hopefully the Royals gave the Chiefs a plethora of motivation, a boost of confidence and hope. Just because the Chiefs are 2-3 in mid-October does not mean they should be written off for the remainder of the season.

The football season is far from over, and as the boys in blue in Kauffman Stadium showed, anything is possible. It is up to the Chiefs to come together and focus to finish the job and return to the postseason in back-to-back years for the first time in 19 years.

At that point, anything is possible and any team can emerge as Super Bowl champions.

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