We had the opportunity to see a good friend's son sing in one of those college music program annual Christmas presentations featuring a zillion orchestra people and a zillion choir singers. It was scheduled for right smack in the middle of the Chiefs game today, and as much as it pains me, family and friends and events-with-them and the accompanying participation in music that is all about praising The Savior takes priority, and, well, it always has.
So we watched the first few minutes and our failures twice to score touchdowns, settling for FGs each time. Errrghck.
On the way to the concert I took in the information shown on the gamecast, and saw that Jerick McKinnon scored a long TD. I did not know until later that this was the typically very very very fun play in which Patrick scampers away from the rush and flings a no-look pass right into his receiver's hands upon which he sprints for the long TD. Fun.
Just a bit later McKinnon scored another TD to make it 20-0. Before you could blink Willie Gay batted a Russell Wilson pass into his own hands and he scampered for another Kansas City score.
27-0.
We arrived at our destination knowing the Chiefs must have been so sore from yet another ding-dong loss to the Bengals last week that they were taking it out on the poor Broncos this week.
We went into this wonderfully delightful live music experience knowing this one was going to be 57-0 when it was all over.
Ahem.
Just before our show started I peeked at the score and at halftime it was 27-14.
Whaaattt?
Turns out watching the game later on the DVR, the five minute gametime-frame before and after the halftime break was a nightmare for the Chiefs. The Broncos put 21 on the board in that gametime span. Mahomes threw picks, goofy-dumb things happened, and back over at the Christmas music show intermission about 40 minutes later I again pulled out my phone and the score I saw at that point was 34-28 with an eternity of time left in the game.
Whut thuhhhh...
Turns out that was the final. Neither team scored again.
Before he got creamed Russell Wilson showed something of his former excellent self, there was that. He did suffer from sacks and mess-ups, but just as he did for Seattle he made winning-type plays when he had to.
You could say the Chiefs offense didn't take care of business as it should to keep it from being so close, but then you could also say the Broncos defense didn't do its job of keeping opponents' scores low as it has all season. You could also say the Broncos offense somehow scored 100 points more in this game than they did in any other game this season -- but then there were those goofy-dumb things the Chiefs defense had to deal with, like those critical 4th down conversions that gave Denver life.
That was the difference maker in the end.
There's more, but you know? I can't neglect to put in a good word for a player who is really one of our best players but fortunately rarely gets on the field, and that is our punter Tommy Townsend. This year he is booming punts, and when we needed it very very very badly late in the game he blasted a punt to put the Broncos way back at their five-yard line. They then went three-&-out to take more time off the clock and remove one more scoring chance for them.
Really, after this one, the only thing you can say considering everything that happened in it is whew.
Whew whew whew whew whew.
I'd like to think our defense is not an issue and we just had to deal with yet again those goofy-dumb things that plagued us again this week -- one of which was again those silly interceptions thrown by our fine quarterback that I know he can rectify.
The learning from this that we can get even with a close win that shouldn't have been that close -- that's a very good thing from all this.
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The posted image is from Andrew Mather at the official Chiefs site. Thank you.
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