The Kansas City Chiefs arrived in Phoenix around 5 p.m. EST on Sunday,and the Philadelphia Eagles weren’t far behind, arriving about an hour later.

Super Bowl Week has officially begun. Tonight will be the NFL’s big media night, called Super Bowl Opening Night Live will be held with the two teams at their podiums and all the usual craziness, around 8-11 p.m. EST on the NFL Network and ESPN2. Oh joy.

We always get nostalgic during Super Bowl Week. Heck, yesterday was the sixth anniversary of 28-3. It’s been four years since we’ve experienced it, and it’s always been quite the busy time. Work, people, work – the parties are non-existent for a lot of sports scribes covering the week with the exception of the Tuesday media party put on by the city’s Host Committee.

Of course, having the game in Phoenix brings back a lot of memories. They’re both good and bad for Patriot fans; in 2008 the undefeated season came to an end thanks in part to a Giant named David Tyree; in 2015 the Patriots snatched victory from the jaws of defeat thanks to a guy named Malcolm Butler. And the sheer stupidity of a coach named Pete Carroll.

That 2015 Super Bowl Week always stands out for a few reasons. The directive from management was to come up with some out-of-the ordinary stories, and boy did we find a couple. Back when they still had Media Day during the day, we bumped into a guy who was basically just wearing a barrel – nicknamed “Barrel Boy”. He was doing a promotion for a local radio station.

A character called “Barrel Boy” was part of the craziness on Media Day the last time the Super Bowl was in Phoenix, there as a promotion for a local radio station. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

But the jackpot was the next day, Wednesday. After returning around 10 a.m. MST from the early morning trip to the Patriots hotel in Scottsdale for team press conferences, we turned around the corner from where the media bus would drop us off. Sitting outside of a little cafe at the Phoenix Convention Center (where the media called home for the week) were two guys in Patriot garb, catching some rays and having coffee.

When we asked one of them where he was from, he said, “Well I live in Phoenix area (suburb called Surprise) but I’m originially from Nashua, New Hampshire.”

Column Jackpot.

His name was Chris Ledoux, and moved out to Arizona over 30 years ago. And his best line was the old saying, “You can’t shovel sunshine.”

Nashua native Chris Ledoux, who left the area to live in Surprise, Ariz., was hanging out at the Phoenix Convention Center back when the Super Bowl was last there in 2015, the Patriots vs. Seattle. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

Very appropriate because the other big thing about that week was the fact a huge snowstorm was slated to hit New Hampshire on Tuesday. We mean huge – over 30 inches. Yours truly was slated to leave on Wednesday. By that Sunday night, we knew from the forecast there was no way that was happening, so early that Monday, 7:30 a.m., we changed flights, lucky enough to get the last seat on an initial flight to Baltimore that was leaving just after noon out of Manchester, with connection to Phoenix.

The week’s first jackpot.

And now the game has returned to the Desert. We remember when the Patriots arrived on a Sunday night, owner Robert Kraft was demanding an apology from the NFL for placing the Patriots and Tom Brady under suspicion of deflating footballs, the accusations coming a week before after the Patriots blew the Indianapolis Colts away in the AFC Championship Game in Foxborough.

Of course, tons of drama would unfold, and it was a topic of convesation all week, especially at the usual mid-Super Bowl week state of the NFL press conference with Commissioner Roger Goodell.

But there’s no Patriots drama this week. They’re not involved in this game, and the way the week goes is after Monday the Eagles and Chiefs will meet the media at their team hotels on Tuesday, but just 10 players, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts, and coaches Andy Reid and Nick Siriani.

But on Wednesday and Thursday, anybody and everybody with the teams will meet the media at their team hotels, some with podiums, others at big tables as if they were at a wedding reception.

Ah, we remember those interviews. You can always get good nuggets in three or four on ones instead of the press conference settings.

Will there be another Patriots Super Bowl in the near future? We doubt it. The quarterback is mediocre, and so is the roster. Oh, they can win nine or 10 games, but who scares you in a Patriot uniform other than the offensive coaching staff of the previous season? New/old offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien can’t catch passes.

Maybe that will change. The first Phoenix Patriots Super Bowl team had Randy Moss; the second one had Rob Gronkowski. But until it does, not a chance.

Meanwhile, Arizona residents get another Supe Bowl.

“You don’t know when the Super Bowl is coming back,” Ledoux said back in 2015.

It’s back, but the Patriots aren’t. And who knows when they will be again.

Tom King may be reached at @Telegraph_TomK on twitter, or tking@nashuatelegraph.com