Knocking at the Door:
A boy hears a knocking at the door, he opens it, he looks left, he looks right, he looks up and down, and sees a snail.
He throws the snail into the yard about fifty feet.
Thirty years later the man hears a knocking at the door, he goes to the door, looks up, looks right, looks down, and then sees a snail at the door step. The snail says "What the heck was that for?"
That, pretty much, is life as a Kansas City Chief's fan.. It'd certainly been awhile since we knocked at the door - but hey, at least it was nice to be up on the stoop. It very well could be worse - we could live in a city without a franchise... Or,
We could be the Bengals, Bills, Browns, Cardinals, Jaguars, Lions, Panthers, Texans, Titans or Vikings... those franchises have NEVER won a Super Bowl.. The Browns, Jaguars, Lions and Texans have never reached a Super Bowl.
I did a little Google research - until I got dizzy - but never could find any hardfast stats on "What % of NFL players never win a Super Bowl?" The average playing career is under 4 years.. Only one team (of 32) wins the Super Bowl annually (3.125%)... everything I read suggested 90% of players (or more) never win a Super Bowl.
Victor, alla the above and a dollar plus tax will get me a cup of coffee at McDonalds - but it doesn't make me feel better. Besides, we are among the most elite in the league as far as 'sacks', but, hells bells we didn't even get one, so I can't even get a 'buy one get one' Big Mac Sack Attack' to go with my coffee. Heck, I wasn't even born yet in 1970.
"If Bob Sutton weren't our coordinator... if the damn refs... roughing the passer? Really?... if Dee Ford lines up correctly... it was too cold, dark, windy... Reid shoulda called... coin toss was rigged...it shoulda landed 'tails' insteada 'heads', we always win the coin toss... Saints got screwed too, I ain't never watching anudder NFL game....and so is your old man.."
Or maybe, New England was the better team last night. I really think, we, collectively, knew our fate when New England won the coin toss for overtime as by then they'd already scored 31 points, and two other times had made it to the one yard line.. Al Bundy played three more years of high school football than I, so who am I to say - but - from what I saw, I remember just once, one of our pass rushers getting within a foot of Tom Brady. Their offensive line was stellar. Ours, not so much. Yes, Brady threw two interceptions, but he made the plays when he had to. We hold Edelman and Gronkhoweveryouspellit with disdain, but they too were pretty damn good - especially when they had to be.
Look at the bright side. Of the 30 million-plus tuning in, surely we've gained a fan or two (Hint, the 2014 KC Royals certainly did.). We most certainly will globally as well, (true story) as over 150 boxes of T-shirts that are screen printed "Kansas City Chiefs, 2019 AFC Champions" are being sent to foreign countries, intended to be handed out to homeless folks there. Besides, Tavia and Clark Hunt have three children that will certainly lead us into tomorrow.
I like our future. Exactly one-half of starting NFL quarterbacks are age 30 and over. Some really good ones, are certainly toward the end of their careers: Rothhoweveryouspellit/36, Rivers/36, Manning/37, Brees/39, Brady/41. Heck, even Luck, Newton and Wilson are 29.
Our guy just turned 23, and he's special. No, he wasn't 'especially special' last night, but he got us to where we were one score, one coin flip, one offsides from being where over 90% of NFL players have ever been. And, rumors afloat he's gonna sign (or at least be offered) a 'George Brett why don't you stay here your entire career'-like contract.
At age 66, I just hope that damn man doesn't throw this snail very far this time.
Hail to the Chiefs,
By Henry Keepmatriculatingtheballdownfieldboys Stram Gibson,
Love, Victurd
PS: I wasn't homeless, but I've got a "Kansas City Royals, 1980 World Champions" T-Shirt.
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