I so very much knew (how many other Chiefs fans did as well?...) it could be the case that weather was going to be a major part of this Chiefs playoff situation. Come on.
It's the Chiefs.
Turns out temps on Saturday night and Sunday will be 34 degrees. And it will pouring rain. Not 32 degrees so it could gently snow, no. Has to be 34 to allow tons of rain to dump all over Kansas City after which temps will drop below freezing to make all roads and parking lots one big ice rink.
As a result the NFL has rescheduled the game to 7:20 CST, when weather people seem to feel it'll thaw enough to allow people to safely travel and park their cars. I mean, has the NFL ever had to do that?
I think to be more safe they should make the game Monday. Even with the game Sunday night and the nearby roads and stadium lot cleared there are still fans from farther reaches like Iowa and Nebraska who have to be on the highways. But hey, we simply don't want too many Chiefs fans showing up at the stadium to be so loud as to rattle the Steelers three B's, Ben, Bell, and Brown.
Seriously, what is with this. One of our most potent weapons, the loud Arrowhead crowd messing with the Steelers offensive signaling may be compromised because Mother Nature simply has to do this stuff to the Chiefs. Really, how often do the Chiefs have a playoff game at Arrowhead? Once every millennia? And then this happens? My colleague at work seems to feel that this could affect the Steelers just as much as the Chiefs, but who knows. The point still remains...
What is going on here with the weather? The Chiefs? Possible crazy-ass impediments to Chiefs playoff success?
I will say one thing I did see along with the game time schedule change was that Justin Houston is planning to play. If he plays with any of his full offensive disruption capacity, coupled with all the other weapons we have in every facet of the game and Andy Reid's famously effective bye week preparation, we win this game hands down.
But then, there's this weather thing, and the Steelers charmed playoff play thing. See, we should win this one in most every reasonable scenario there is, but there is the ugliness of interminable Chiefs playoff disconsolations too painful to review. Here, there is that chance that silly charmed thing happens to hand the thing over to them, how many times have those things happened for the Steelers in the postseason.
Really, that's the only way they win this game.
Again, I'm very much looking forward to seeing the Chiefs do well, I really am. I'm as proud of this team as anything else -- again again, they deserve it because the talent and teamwork and smarts and leadership and camaraderie and character is so rich and full in this team.
And out of that I can thrill to the Chiefs being out there no matter what happens even if the Steelers have that silly charming thing that kills us. Yeah, it could just happen.
But it isn't resignation.
It's just acceptance.
It's a bountiful, joyous acceptance that holds on to who the Chiefs have been this season and how they've played. It is knowing that they deserve to have every accolade afforded them simply out of their own bountiful, joyous demonstration of all those things out on the field this season.
They'll play their hearts out no matter how much the winter storms pound against the team and its fans, no matter how much corruption spews out of the NFL and its media blappers, no matter how much any other forces conspire to keep them down. I've come to revel in the gallantry of Chiefs football in light of those robust challenges.
Today I did my late afternoon walk as I do on Fridays after work, and sure enough the sunset was amazing. The sliver of Steelers gold from the sun against the clouds slowly turned into a blazing Chiefs red sky filling the horizon.
That was awesome to see.
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