Chiefs Playoff Preview, Part V

I did it, I finally got a great shot of one of those vintage planes they fly around during the air show they have at the local airport every second weekend in January. A couple years ago I blogged about how invigorating it is to watch those old military planes, getting the feeling that these guys are courageously coming to the rescue and kickin' aye in the name of goodness and wholesomeness all around.

In that post I used a stock image of a fighter plane, but today I managed to get a great photograph of the ones that are flying overhead today. I couldn't help but catch that first one, do you see? The colors?

Red and gold.

Not only that, but look at how it's rightfully, correctly, teleologically flying ahead of that other plane, the silver and black one.

Very cool.

Nothing much else to put in this post though, really, everything that needs to be said has been said, and we're all waiting to see what happens tomorrow night. Should we review?

If Andy Reid gets the ball to Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill, as we should, we win.

If Alex Smith runs the offense efficiently with Spencer Ware grinding out yards, as we should, we win.

If our playcalling proficiently employs the other fine weapons we have such as Jeremy Maclin, as we should, we win.

If our pass rush is ferocious and our D-backs smother their receivers, as we should, we win.

If our special teams unit wins the field position game by a whopping margin, as we should, we win.

If our fans can get to Arrowhead, fill it up in spite of the weather, and ramp it up to 150 decibels or so when the Steelers have the ball, as we should, we win.

If we avoid that stupid opponent's charmed thing from happening by winning the turnover game, as we should, we win.

There it is. It's that simple.

It's funny, I had a dream last night that the Chiefs were busy winning this game, and winning big. Only thing is Jamaal Charles was in there somewhere. Now yeah, he's still on the team, definitely... And you know what -- I was thinking, do you remember that he actually scored a touchdown for us this season?

It just seems like he'd hardly played, and it's true he hardly did. But in one game he did score a rushing touchdown for us -- do you remember which one?

I'll wait a second. Did you get it?

Week 6, at Oakland, 2nd quarter, Charles carries for four yards and the touchdown, putting us up 13-7 on the way to a 26-10 win.

Just fun Chiefs stuff to think about as we celebrate our spot in the divisional activities awaiting the ultimate game tomorrow night.

Besides that there's also this -- that the Chiefs can win and have won, a lot, without Charles... we have the depth and the confidence that comes from that.

We're all over this.
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At this point I simply can't refuse to add this. This weather thing. Just saw this news story a while after finishing this post.

It is now about people's lives. I mentioned this in my last preview post, that they really should move the game to Monday, maybe even Tuesday now that I think about it, and because the NFL now is refusing to consider it seriously is one more reason the NFL is a word-I-don't-want-to-employ-here.

Pro football should be entertaining, and yet this kind of thing puts it in perspective. I'm even ashamed of myself for being so brutally obtuse, that I think only about this weather thing being so bad merely because it may so negatively affect the Chiefs play.

Ahem, they have a state of emergency from Oklahoma straight through Kansas City to Illinois.

What are these people thinking.
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