Thank you, Lord, for the season that this has been.
Thank you, Lord, for blessing us with enjoying the Chiefs Kingdom like we've been able to this year.
That's it. It really is. I do feel a great measure of gratitude right now, very richly so. I'm reveling in everything God has blessed us to enjoy with the team right now, and every member of the Kingdom really should be as well.
It does seem, however, like the Lord somehow, someway does favor the Patriots because of all the crazy ways they pull out wins. Taking nothing away from this team, they are indeed a phenomenally coached, finely disciplined, exceptionally skilled team.
But ya know? It can't be denied.
That crazy-ass stupid thing did happen to us in this game.
As I've said a million times before, against the Patriots the only way we were going to win is for that thing not to happen. I could point out how in one of the key Patriots touchdown drives, Chris Jones was called for a roughing the passer call when it totally wasn't, giving the Patriots new life. I could point out how on the same drive their receiver was gifted a pass reception that was unquestionably a very favorable interpretation for the Patriots. There may be one you can think of that was particularly notable.
But the key crazy-ass stupid thing to happen to us was when Charvarius Ward intercepted a Tom Brady pass to seal the game. We won. We had this game won right there. We run out the clock, it's all good!
Except Dee Ford was offside.
Now he may have been legitimately offside, I'm not against the call, even though I see guys just about that much offside all the time, and it is just never called. As legitimate as it may have been...
It doesn't make it any less the exact kind of crazy-ass stupid thing that gets the Patriots win after win after win after win after win after win after win in the postseason.
Another one was simply losing the coin toss in overtime. I thought a while back after winning the first, like, nine I think, coin tosses to start the season, that... well... The Patriots won this one and sure enough, just like they did in the Super Bowl two years ago, they stormed right down the field to score the game-winning touchdown. Thuh end.
And then you've got, yes, yet again for the Super Bowl, a big-market media-darling team against another big-market media-darling team. Hmm, Boston vs. Los Angeles, didn't we see this once before, like in October? Hmm. Not going to go into all the conspiracy stuff right now. Yeah, I still see it, feel the effects of it very deeply. (Oh, and how about that blatant non-call in the Saints-Rams game that essentially handed the game to the Rams, you know the one, everyone saw it -- umm, except the refs. What was it that I've been saying about adding two officials in the booth with the capacity to make calls to the field? Huh?...)
Here's the thing, though, don't lose sight of this.
We've got a real future.
Not going to review it, but just look at this last post from the Colts game.
Of course a lot of it is Patrick Mahomes, but this very tough loss is actually a very good thing for him. He learned a lot, very early. I don't know how much of an impact it would have made, but he ran himself out of a field goal late in the 1st half and we got no points. Would we have won 34-31 in regulation? Don't know.
But now he knows, and he is such a gamer, he is chompin' at the bit to be back out there right now.
And it isn't just Patrick, it's the entire Kingdom. Don't worry, Brett will be taking care of business and getting those key additions -- that is a very good thing to look forward to.
So yeah, I'm ready for next year already.
In the meantime, just remember.
The Royals' Lorenzo Cain still ripped a double into the gap clearing the bases in the 12th inning of Game Five to put the Royals up 7-2 to ensure the World Series.
Sporting KC's Jimmy Nielsen still resolutely protected our goal to help win the shoot-out for the MLS Championship.
And Willie Lanier still intercepted Joe Kapp to gloriously, wonderfully, delightfully seal the Super Bowl win.
I must add that my dad still caught pitches from flamethrowing Jim Golden in high school to capture the 1953 Kansas state baseball championship.
We're still champions.
Sometime, at some point in the next few years the Chiefs will be making it known more firmly in bright red and gold, they will.
That Lamar Hunt trophy is as good as ours.
Another Lombardi trophy will soon occupy a prominent place at Arrowhead Stadium.
Let's roll!
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