Chiefs Win 11 Straight…Of Course They Did!

We had ’em all the way!  Our best (only?) offensive weapon (Jamaal Charles) gets hurt, tears his ACL and is out for the remainder of the season.  Our offensive line has more injuries and players playing out of position than Custard’s calvary troops.  Our win-loss record is 1-5…and my buddy Eric tells me, “hey, no problem…we’ve got ’em exactly where we want ’em”.

Is he kidding?

No, I don’t think so.  You see, Eric and the rest of the 1.8 million residents of Kansas City has recently witnessed the Royals stunning march to their first World Series title in 30 years.  Down by two or more runs in nine of their games, they somehow managed to win eight of them…an impossible feat, never before accomplished in post-season play!

So, when those same residents saw their Chiefs floundering, instead of burning coach Andy Reid at the stake, they dug in and prepared themselves for battle.  With only a 16 game schedule, one could argue a Chiefs’ turnaround more unlikely than that of the Royals.  After all, six games had already been played and with but 10 remaining, the odds of reaching the playoffs…well, there weren’t any!  Only once in a gazillion years had an NFL team started the season 1-5 and still managed to make the playoffs.

Now, not every resident of the kingdom agreed with Eric.  At least one of them (me!) was hardly celebrating when the final gun shot ended the Chiefs’ devastating loss to the Minnesota Vikings was fired.  Truth be known, I was done with the Chiefs a long time ago, back when they lost the second game of the season to the Denver Broncos.  Same old Chiefs.  Can’t EVER beat the Broncos, not even when playing them at home in the friendly confines of Arrowhead Stadium.  They’ll lose to Denver when they play in Denver (that’s for sure!).  Oakland always gives them fits even when they stink so they’ll lose at least once to them.  San Diego?  Philip Rivers EATS Chiefs ON his Cheerios!  That’s two, count ’em, two more losses.  11, maybe even 12 losses this season, easy.  Well, at least I won’t have to waste my Sunday afternoons watching these bums since the only excitement left to their season was wondering if they might end up with the worst record in the league, thus claiming the booby prize of owning next year’s first round draft pick.”

For once I figured my pessimism wasn’t a product of my chemically unbalanced brain…THIS time I had a right to be depressed!  THIS time my team really WAS horrible!  For once, my optimistic, unrealistic friends would rightfully be hearing “I told you so” as the Chiefs encountered loss after excruciating loss.

But it wasn’t to be.  The Chiefs weren’t dead at all, merely resting.  Somehow, with a makeshift offensive line and two fill-in running backs nobody ever heard of, they find themselves winners of 11 straight games and right in the thick of the post season.  With a win over the Patriots this Saturday, they’d find themselves just one victory away from appearing in their first Super Bowl in 46 years!

Just how much my friend Eric really believed this would be the outcome to the Chiefs’ season is something he doesn’t discuss.  He does tell me that it wouldn’t have done any good to have written the Chiefs off after Jamaal’s injury…and I tell him me doing so didn’t matter much, either.  But, at the end of the day, I know he’s had a lot more fun riding the wave of this historic streak than I have had doubting them still with each passing win.

Can the Chiefs do it?  Can they win 14 in row and capture the Super Bowl?  I’m beginning to think that Eric might be right…it won’t do any good to think that they won’t…and maybe thinking they will…hey, this is Kansas City and we’ve been here before!

 

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