Ten Things About Today's Game: Divisional Playoffs, KC 31 Indy 13

[gblowfish]

Ten Things About Today’s Game: Divisional Playoff, KC 31 Indy 13

10. It’s after 10pm and yes, I have been drinking. A lot. I got to Arrowhead around Noon, and finally walked in my front door here in Glorious Independence, MO around 8:30 to peel out of my damp winter survival gear. When I got into my robe and jammies, I had a sammich and started watching the game broadcast. I would just like to sincerely say, **** Mike Tirico, **** Tony Dungy, and especially **** RODNEY HARRISON, who all picked against the Chiefs in the pre-game show. Rodney Harrison was one of the dirtiest players ever, and Dungy wouldn’t have had a coaching career without Marty. So screw all those guys. Excuse me while I crack open another Boulevard Wheat.

9. For those of you outside of KC, I don’t think the game broadcast really showed the significance of the snow. The field had been covered up to a couple hours before kickoff. Outside Arrowhead, we had about nine inches of snow. It was a wet sloppy snow, kind of like lake effect snow. It shovels like wet cement. It snowed all morning and all afternoon, and spit more snow during the game. The fans were rabid and ready for a fight. They were loud and crazy all day long. I was late getting to the stadium because I couldn’t find my parking pass. I never did find it, and had to waste an hour setting up a ticketmaster account for Mrs. B, and transferring the parking pass to her phone. Why the Chiefs won’t just let you print out a goddamn ticket just makes me mad. Anyway, we finally got it figured out, and got in the gate with no issues. They parked me in Olathe although I was there three and a half hours before kickoff. I took a few pictures today which I’ll post later. It was a healthy trudge to the stadium.

8. Over the course of the year I get a lot of guff from the CP trolls about “All you do is read the stat sheet and don’t really add anything.” Well, I sat in the frickin snow and cold with Mrs B today, and I met Rain Main in person. So guys like Prison Bitch can suck it. I’ll make a few general comments on the game itself, but this win is so big, so historic, that it really doesn’t matter how we managed to do it. We just did it. The monkey on our backs has been spanked. Some Native Americans were out on the field before kickoff blessing the field. Will Shields was on drum duty. I promised my friend Gary I would fart on third down to help with crowd noise. Mission Accomplished.

7. For as bad as the defense has been this year, I guess if you’re going to show up and play your signature game of the year, this was a good week to pick for that. Colts had NO FIRST DOWNS for most of the first half, and scored their only first half TD without gaining a first down. The punt block was due to a high snap by Winchester. Just one of those things. A bad special teams play by the Colts near the end iced the game for KC, and we’ll get to that. Who was big today? Everybody on the front defensive wall: Bailey, Nnadi, Chris Jones all were a handful. Edge rush from Ford was good all day, and he played the run much better. Houston had a monster sack and a fumble recovery. He earned his paycheck. Luck officially had no picks, but should have had two: Nelson dropped one that would have been a pick six in the second half, and Murray dropped one that fell right in his lap near the sideline. Luck got sacked three times, and he had only been sacked 18 times in 17 games prior. So that’s bringing some great heat. Plus he had multiple passes batted down. And KC had only one defensive holding penalty on the secondary during garbage time at the very end. All in all a stellar game for the defense. They won the day. Time to crack open another beer.

6. Adam Vinatieri must have contracted Elliot’s Disease. He missed a 23 yard field goal and puked a PAT. Not bad for a guy the national wanks call “the greatest kicker ever.” I think he and Seabass ought to just meet up on a golf course somewhere in Florida and call it a career. Buttkicker was money. Thank God this time we forced Seven Dirty Sanchez punts (versus the dreaded no punt game) and although Colquitt had one blocked, he also did a nice job selling the running into the kicker near the end of the fourth quarter to sustain KC’s final scoring drive. Well done, and helped seal the deal.

5. Special kudos to Damien Williams, who did a pretty impressive impersonation of Kareem Hunt today, without kicking any drunken party chicks. He rushed for 123 yards and a TD. That’s January rushing production. The line gets some love for converting three out of four fourth down attempts, blowing the Colts front wall right off the ball. Fisher had a couple of rough penalties, as did Irving. Mahomes got sacked four times, but he attempted over 40 passes. So some sacks are going to happen when you throw that much.

4. Today was the first time in NFL playoff history that a team had a wide receiver, running back and QB score TDs on running plays. So, although Mahomes didn’t throw for a TD, his three main guys had big days. Hill rushed for a TD and caught 72 yards on what looks to be a still tender ankle. Kelce ate the Colts alive in the middle with 108 yards, and Sammy Watkins return was productive with 62 yards. His second half fumble could have been a momentum changer, but Ford tomahawked the ball from Luck two plays later, Houston fell on it to get it back for Mahomes.

3. Final game stuff to consider: Indy was ZERO for NINE on third down. That’s championship defense. KC held Luck’s offense to 263 total yards and only one offensive TD. Colts had nine penalties, with a bunch of those being defensive guys jumping offsides on Mahomes hard count. You'd think it would be their O-line jumping off, but it was mostly D-line offsides.

2. It was 24-7 at the half. When KC came out and failed to move the ball in the third quarter, I was having ugly flashbacks of last year when Alex Smiff’s anemic offense got shut out the entire second half by the Tits. But this year, both teams were scoreless in the third quarter. And when Luck managed to hit one to TY Hilton (or KY Jelly as I like to call him), we got the ball right back, and rammed it right down their throats. Biggest stat in this game was time of possession. KC was double Indy, 40 mins to 20 mins.

1. I couldn’t help but cry when we won. I don’t usually yell a lot anymore at Arrowhead. I’m old, and I yelled at Stabler, and Fouts, and Elway, and Marino, and Five Head, and Flacco, and others and other and others. I don't have the voice for it anymore. Today in the second half I yelled like when I was 20. And when they actually won a home playoff game for the first time in 25 years I cried. I kissed Mrs. B, and thought about my dad who passed in 2011 a week after we lost to the Ravens with Casshole as our QB. I thought about my friend Derrek who killed himself in March the spring after we lost the debacle to Pittsburgh three years ago. I thought about all the great Chiefs fans in this city and elsewhere, who had endured six straight crushing home playoff losses. The last playoff win was 25 years ago with Joe Montana. And he had to do it in OT. This game was a blowout. It was just what the doc ordered. I don’t want to think much about what happens next weekend, and who we play. I just hope the Pats and Bolts beat the crap out of each other tomorrow, then come what may, we’ll deal with it. Congratulations to all of us on the CP on this wonderful snowy Saturday in KC. It was indeed our finest hour in a long, long, long time.

Game Highlights can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr2v...feature=onebox

[Naptown Chief]

Originally Posted by eDave

Migraines are the worst man. Next time, heat up a wet wash rag and hold that against your closed eyes. Do it until it's gone. Works great for me. Every time. Heat to they eye ballies.

I've been blessed with migraines for years. I've found a few things can help to curb them. A warm rag does sometimes do the trick. Sometimes drinking a shit ton of cold water helps me. Believe it or not, a Coke (not Pepsi, not Mt Dew) can sometimes keep it bay. I'm not much of a soda drinker so I have to be out and about when it strikes if I'm going to buy one.

I generally know within an hour if those 3 things will help or not. Unfortunately there's those really nasty ones that nothing seems to help. For those days I pop an imitrex (thank God for imitrex). Take 1 and if it doesn't subside within an hour or two take a second. Rarely does 1-2 imitrex not completely alleviate (I can count on one hand) a full blown, knock down- drag out, migraine.

[cooper barrett]

Thanks George for your great work.

I was the only Chiefs fan watching the game at the brewery last night and was so proud of the Chiefs and the Chief's fans (other than the idiots throwing snowballs at the Colts) as we move on toward the Super Bowl.

Chris Jones is under appreciated IMHO. I was mentioning him all evening and feel like he deserved recognition for knocking down 3 passes and a hurry against Luck.


I assume it's OK to post the link to this thread to all my ex Colt's fan friends who gave me grief for the last two weeks. **** them, it's too late now...Mailboxes are stuffed with Chief's and Mahome's propaganda when they woke up this morning.

I wish I could have been there but write up's like your's make me feel the experience. I will be there next week if my connection comes through with the ticket promised... Seats at the tunnel are better than nosebleed seats in January but beggar's can't be choosers (unless you grew up in the 70's in OP.)

"On November 12, 1981 at approximately 3:00 p.m., Overland Park Police Officers Faddis and Mann entered the Choosey Beggar retail store located at 7619 Metcalf in Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas. The Choosey Beggar is a retail store open to the public. At the east end of the store along the north and *413 south walls the officers observed the following merchandise for sale: several glass and plastic water bong pipes, several small pipes made of metal, wood, glass, stone, plastic and ceramic of different colors, some emblazoned with a marijuana leaf design, cocaine cutting or `snuff' kits, roach clips of various designs, cocaine spoons and vials, `sno-seel' envelopes for storing & concealing controlled substances, various carburetor and/or chamber pipes and tubes resembling rolled-up U.S. currency used for ingesting or inhaling controlled substances. The officers believe the above mentioned items are drug paraphernalia as defined in Chapter 140 of the 1981 Kansas Session Laws."

It was a great day to say "Because Chiefs" because we can say it with pride.

[3rd&Long]

Helluva writeup George. You deftly captured the sudden joy of the moment yesterday along with all the past decades of dread and disappointment for all longtime Chief's fans including me. To tell the truth, I'd already prepared myself for another loss but as the game began to wind down in the 4th quarter my inner being began to repeat that 'this is different from all the other failures' and, of course, it was.

Don't minimize what Chris Jones was able to do in frustrating Luck, getting into his head by pushing the middle and batting away a couple of passes. Those were huge as well. One more win and I want it to be the Patties that will have a mudhole stomped in their ass, and I'll be driving about 90 minutes south from where I live to North Springs MARTA, catch a train to Benz stadium then see the boys live, in person, go for the Lombardi.

But I want to savor this win a few more days. It's been a long time coming. Thanks again for expressing it as well as you did.

[1adam1238]

Great write up! YOU Nailed it! I always enjoy reading your stuff. This one is on top. Hope we get an even better one next week!!!

chiefs tie guy

[Prison Bitch]

Good write up

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

It was so loud today I stopped yelling a couple times just to listen to the sheer awesomeness of the crowd.

So, you heard me?

Yeah, my voice is all but GONE this morning...

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

So, you heard me?

Yeah, my voice is all but GONE this morning...

Maybe it was my migraine but through the tele I thought the crowed was louder or as loud as ever. It was loud but the funny thing was all the offside penalties the Colts had not so much false starts but the offsides when Patrick barked out the cadence. Because you could hear a pin drop when Chiefs had the ball smart fans.

[otherstar]

I cried at the end of the game too. I was there in the crowd when the Chiefs lost to the Colts in 1996 due to Lin's (after today,l I will say his name because I think it's time) missed kicks and I thought it was poetic justice that a kicker who had been money for so long muffed several kicks today. This win feels better than just about any other win I can remember in my life (maybe even better than when Montana out-dueled Elway in Denver).

[Easy 6]

Outstanding write-up, gb

It was such a perfect team win, all sides of the ball were clicking like a well oiled machine

And the atmosphere in Arrowhead really came through the tv, it was LOUD... as you said, folks were ROWDY

Incredible display by our guys, being a Chiefs fan is finally starting to pay off

[redfan]

Absolutely infriggincredible!!!!

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

Maybe it was my migraine but through the tele I thought the crowed was louder or as loud as ever. It was loud but the funny thing was all the offside penalties the Colts had not so much false starts but the offsides when Patrick barked out the cadence. Because you could hear a pin drop when Chiefs had the ball smart fans.

It was WAAAAAY loud. I'm not sure the loudest I've ever heard, but I can assure you the Indy O-line was have to spend cycles on the snap count that they might not have to other places away from home.

I've not re-watched the game, but a good place to tell would be the noise at the beginning of the 2nd half - people took their time getting back to their seats...

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

I'm glad for Lenny he gets to broadcast the Lamar Hunt championship game y

Nice!!!!!!

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

It was WAAAAAY loud. I'm not sure the loudest I've ever heard, but I can assure you the Indy O-line was have to spend cycles on the snap count that they might not have to other places away from home.

I've not re-watched the game, but a good place to tell would be the noise at the beginning of the 2nd half - people took their time getting back to their seats...

None of us like Andrew Luck, but he was pure class about KC Fans and the Chiefs after the game interview.

I can't quote it exactly, but it was in reference to dreaming about playing in an atmosphere like they just did at Arrowhead. How much better and more disciplined the Chiefs played.

No excuses they just got outplayed.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

I'm glad for Lenny he gets to broadcast the Lamar Hunt championship game I'm going have to listen to him. Only thing is it's three seconds before i see it on the tele and that's kind of a problem.


I have always loved Mitch and Lenny

Is he coming back to do the game? I thought he retired? Or was that just TV?

[WilliamTheIrish]

Ah gblow...

We've seen a few things in this life, eh?

I didn't cry any tears. This year, this guy, PM II, makes it all different. Never did I feel the Colts had a chance. Ghosts? Nah. The only ghost that has bothered me is the 71 Christmas day game. And now, I don't care about any failures of teams past. Yesterday, the Chiefs claimed what was theirs.

My emotions, especially right after, were rooted in "Why did we wait 33 years to try drafting a QB in the 1st"?? Carl led us down the path with a bunch of retreads. Pioli went that route also. But those are two ghosts of failures past also.

FINALLY, they took a chance and PM II had a good QB to watch and learn from. But this win is all about his juice. The guy is fearless even in tough conditions.

I said it just after Christmas and I'll say it again today:

Quote:

Originally Posted by dirk digler View Post
If we get HFA how many of you suckers are going to go the divisional round home game?

Ticket purchased.

I’ll say it again in this thread:

on 12/26/2018

Chiefs are going to beat the Raiders. Then have two weeks off and will finally remove the 800# gorilla from our backs.

With that weight off their shoulders, they destroy whatever team stands in front of them and will be crowned AFC Champions. At home.

Quit being pussies.

The bell tolls for our next opponent.