It was quite a close, riveting affair, however -- my son texted me saying he lost some hair watching that 4th quarter. But the wonderfully felicitous thing about it is --
WE WON!
Yowza yowza, we actually won a one-point game. Really, when was the last time that happened? Okay, okay, I did take a moment and go back through all of our wins through the years past until I got to the last one we won by one point. Sure those games don't happen that often anyway, really, close games are mostly margins of three points, four points, seven points, for good reason. But hey, can you believe it? Do you know when it was? Our last one-point victory?
Back on Christmas day, 2004, when we beat the Raiders 31-30. Remember that game? When Dante Hall made that great runback on the kick to get us the winning field goal?
Well, anyway, let's get into this game.
I thought it would turn on that phantom defensive holding call by Eric Berry just before he picked off a pass to Jason Whitten. After that they kicked a field goal to make it 17-16 with lots of time left. With the pick we'd have the ball at midfield with a four-point lead.
As it was after that FG we got the ball and ran clock. Yes we got help from a pass interference call ourselves that the Cowboys railed against, but I'm sorry, their guy did push Donnie Avery to the ground. It was clear. But the best of it was Jamaal Charles and our offensive line very effectively grinding it out against a very good Dallas defense. Cuh-lutch.
As for our other offensive play, it was truly beast at the beginning of each half. First half: splendid drive for a touchdown, but I wonder! What the bloomers was Alex Smith doing running all the time? Second half: another great drive capped by a sweet Dwayne Bowe slant pass for our second touchdown.
We have to confess that we did get a lot of help. That pass Dez Bryant dropped late in the game was big. We benefitted a lot from some sweet turnovers, but a lot of that is the product of a fiercely alert defense. I am concerned about our pass rush -- Tony Romo had way too much time out there, but then they were saying the Dallas O-line is pretty dang good.
If that's the case, then this win was big. I really don't know much about Dallas, but they looked pretty good out there to me. And wow --
We actually beat them.
How crazy is that. How delightfully crazy is that for Chiefs fans who've had to endure one of the worst seasons of quarterback hell. How crazy that here we have a quarterback who is -- crazy!!! -- actually making fine plays out there!
How great is this, too, considering that in the history of the Cowboys-Chiefs rivalry, the Chiefs have not done very well at all. Remember, these two franchises battled it out for supremacy in Dallas until it was the AFL's Texans that got pushed out. Perversely that was actually a pretty great thing, because it gave birth to the Kansas City Chiefs, but still...
You still gotta beat Dallas. You just gotta.
And today, we did.
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