A Very Good Chiefs Day

I have been itching to add more commentary to the yet-another Chiefs catastrophe from yesterday, one that has left every Chiefs fan shellshocked once more. But I'm not, I'm not even going close to that. No remarks about anyone or anything all of which is really just a repeat of all the other ones. Really, it is.

You could take any of my post-mortem posts from any of the years the Chiefs have inexplicably but very typically tanked in the playoffs, there've been so many, and just insert the names from yesterday and the events from yesterday and it'd be exactly the same. I do want to direct you to one link, in case you are new to my blog, about my overall perspective on God in relation to all of this since I did mention Him again in my last post. This post could've been written yesterday, really. If you read it or re-read it again, you'll see.

I've also seen nothing Chiefs or NFL since yesterday, and don't want to. And I won't any time soon. Why. As such after this post I don't intend to write anything until maybe after the draft, definitely during the preseason at some point. Most of what I'd write about yesterday is just pointless Chiefs navel-gazing and I'm kind of sick of it. I know you are.

What I do want to do is simply write about December 31st, and what that wonderful day it was. That's all. Just a bit of therapeutic transcription here to close out the season.

Just a few days before I'd found out the Chiefs were playing Pat Mahomes and I know every single soul in the Chiefs Kingdom was thrilled beyond belief. I knew, however, that I would not be able to see the game on television because we would be driving up to my mother-in-law's place in the mountains for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. So we headed out right after I made this post and made the best of seeing how we'd catch what was happening.

We had to make some stops along the way, and we noted that the score was 14-10 early. Woo-hoo! I wondered, wow, what is Pat Mahomes doing out there? This is terrific! My wife managed to get some highlights up on our mobile devices, so it was fun watching some of the early successful Chiefs action.

We headed up the hill keeping tabs on the score, until deep in the mountains it is difficult to keep a signal. We'd noticed at one point we'd stretched the lead to 24-10 as the game went into the 4th quarter. We then discovered that right after Andy Reid inserted Tyler Bray to finish things off he fumbled away the handoff to his fullback, one that a Denver defender returned for a touchdown.

It was now a scary 24-17, then after Bray did little more in his next set of downs, Denver roared back to tie it at 24-24.

Mahomes had to go back in.

While this was happening the drive up the mountain was just spectacular. It was cool and dry, no snow at all. On the azure-blue horizon in front of us through the trees a full moon was rising over a crystal white cloud bank just as the sun was about to set behind us, making for a brilliant picture of God's creation. It was truly glorious.

Meanwhile we weren't getting a signal on the game status. I'm texting my son to send me the results but because of lack of service he can't get a hold of me either. We were in the dark on this one.

We had to wait until we came down into the small valley where she lives at the top of our drive to get the mobile service to find out how this one ended. Sure enough, final score, Kansas  City 27, Denver 24. Butker won it with a last second field goal.

Mahomes did it. He engineered that last minute drive to get us into field goal range to win it. Looking at the highlights made it clear this was a highlight for the Chiefs history ages. His pass to Demarcus Robinson to get the 1st down while sprinting to his right to avoid a tackle was purely amazing. It was really a lot of fun just to review how well Mahomes played with all our second-stringers out there. It will be extraordinarily exciting when he's doing that with all our major playmakers next year.

The following evening we enjoyed that amazing Rose Bowl game between Georgia and Oklahoma, and while not directly related to the Chiefs it was fun because I had Georgia in our fantasy bowl playoff. Thing is I was deflated when Oklahoma went up 31-14, then elated when Georgia stormed back to go ahead 38-31, then deflated when they went back down 45-38, then elated again when they tied it then won it in overtime.

At the beginning of the season I'd drafted Georgia 16th among the six participants in our fantasy league, and here they are playing for the national championship against Alabama.

I mention this here because it can happen. It will happen for the Chiefs. They are good enough. It may seem hopeless right now but the Chiefs Kingdom is strong.

It'll be really really fun next year, just like football was this New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

I'll see you then.

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