Among the five, three of them are a Patriot, a Charger, and a Ram -- Boston and Los Angeles teams -- but the other two are, yes, Will Shields and Tony Gonzalez. How about that.
Been doing some reflecting on this Chiefs team of late, and while I bilge my standard Andy Reid reproof at least once a year, I can't say that my Chiefs Kingdom perspective right now isn't pretty danged great. I mean, yeah, I do get too emotionally wrenched by this Chiefs thing, but ya know? Just not letting what seems like the inevitable playoff brutality get to me is quite liberating.
The secret again is just enjoying the moment. Really, when you think about it, whatever has happened in January, you do realize that every fall for most of the years since Carl and Marty took over in 1989 have been pretty awesome for the Kingdom? Really, very awesome. As Chiefs fans, when you think about it, we are pretty blessed.
I mean, yes, it is great to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Chiefs Super Bowl win, but how about the 30-year anniversary of that 1989 year? Really, that was just as much of a benchmark of tremendous Chiefs success through the entire history. Since that year, the Chiefs have had winning regular season in 21 of them. How many teams would kill for that kind of success? In that time we've compiled a record of 274-219-1, a winning percentage of .555. That is amazing, considering this includes a pair of 2-14 seasons and a pair of 4-12 seasons. That -- is amazing.
Point is, even if we haven't done the winning in January, we get to enjoy an entire fall of excellent play on a regular basis and with it always is the hope that we'll do exceptionally well in the postseason.
There is a lot to be said for that.
This year is no different, seeing how well our defense has steadily improved, seeing what we've got in Patrick Mahomes and his receiving core. It is wonderful just to enjoy this now.
We get to see from top to bottom the pieces we've got in place that make the Kingdom so fun.
Get out.
I mean, that is just beyond the pale -- beyond the pale of awesomeness, really. Vermeil is such a winning guy, he's got winning infused in every cell of his being. I can't even imagine what it was like, but I heard it had all kinds of "You guys never had to work as hard as we did" -- but in a good way, you know! But he finished with how proud he was of those players and the Kingdom.
Here's the thing. Yesterday we snatched Terrell Suggs off waivers. Wow. He was made available because the Cardinals weren't going anywhere, so they wanted to let the 37 year-old Suggs get a one-last chance somewhere else. Other teams not bound for the playoffs that could have had him didn't bite because they'd be committing themselves to a tail-end-of-career defensive stud for garbage-time season play. So four teams made a claim on him, and the team with the worst record of the four got to have him.
With their four losses so far on the season the Chiefs won the prize.
Think about that. Because the Chiefs lost that terrible horrible no good very bad game a few weeks ago against the Titans, we had that one extra loss to allow us to pick up a guy who may just be the key to shoring up the defensive front for the deep playoff run. I mean, we wish it didn't happen because Sunday we lost Alex Okafor for the year, and we'd already lost Emmanuel Ogbah and Breeland Speaks.
Brett Veach is right on top of all this. He's the man. He's gettin' it done in the front office, and maybe, just maybe Andy Reid will have the playmaking acumen running at its highest octane come playoff time that we're so blistering opponents they won't have a chance to do anything against us.
Just like the Christmas time story. No matter what happens later, right now as we celebrate that greatest joy of all, Christ's birth, Chiefs fans can have "visions of Super Bowls dancing in our heads."
Happens every fall.
Very very nice indeed.
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