Too few Moments…

I don’t remember the first time I ever watched a Kansas City Chiefs game. I didn’t grow up a Chiefs fan, and even though I’m from Mississippi, that didn’t stop me from being a San Francisco 49ers fan. I loved Joe Montana and Mississippi native son Jerry Rice. I cut my football teeth on “the Catch” and laughed heartily as the 49ers marched up and down the field at the New Orleans Superdome dropping a double nickel on the Elway and the Broncos in Super Bowl XXIV. In 1989, this upstart linebacker from Alabama was drafted in the first round by the Kansas City Chiefs. I couldn’t have cared less, until I saw him take the field. He was a monster off the line leveling quarterbacks left and right. The next year, he set a record that still stands today, 7 sacks in a single game. Derrick Thomas was the reason I became a Kansas City Chiefs fan. When the Chiefs traded for Joe Montana (my all-time favorite) in 1994, I officially became a Chiefs fan.

Since then the number 6 has become an important number in the Chiefs organization. This past Sunday, the Chiefs dropped their 6th regular season game in a row. Six also happens to be the total number of wins the Chiefs have had since the 2007 season. The Chiefs have lost 6 Pro Bowl players, Willie Roaf, Will Shields, Trent Green, Jared Allen, Priest Holmes, and Tony Gonzalez. It has been 16 seasons since the Chiefs last won a playoff game (Ok, it’ll be 16 in January, but you get my point). The Chiefs are paying 63 million their new “franchise” quarterbacks.

I didn’t watch nor did I listen to the game Sunday. I usually listen to the game on my laptop, but I swear every time I do “Bad things happen, man, Bad Things.” It didn’t matter. I followed the game via Twitter and updates on the bottom of the screen. I was shaking my head as the Chiefs entered the fourth quarter with the Raiders up 6-3. This is a pro game and score was 6-3. I’m watching Drew Brees kill the Eagles while screaming about my Chiefs inability to apparently do, well, anything. Then, Cassel throws a pass to Dwayne Bowe and the Chiefs look like they are going to pull out one at Arrowhead. Wrong. With a little over a minute left, JaMarcus Russell drove the Raiders down the field with Darren McFadden driving the knife into the hearts and silencing the Arrowhead crowd.

The Chiefs dominated the game in every way except the one that counts. Matt Cassel was 24-39 in passing; JaMarcus Russell was 7-24 (that’s not a typo, he only completed 7 passes in the whole game). The Chiefs had 409 yards of offense, while the Raiders had 166 yards of offense. Chiefs held the ball for 38:39, the Raiders, 21:21. Penalties were prevalent for both teams (Chiefs 9 [70 yards], Raiders 7 [45 yards]).

Todd Haley and Scott Pioli keep telling us that they have a plan for the team, a plan that they have decided not to share with the fans. I know that in the last three years, we have had 5 quarterbacks in the last three years, only 14 of the 26 draft picks have remained, and we traded the franchise player for a 2nd round pick next year. The Chiefs (I still believe that the NFL schedulers hate the Chiefs) face the Eagles next followed by every other team in the NFC East and the Chargers. The Chiefs are 0-2, record that only 14% of the teams in the league overcome yearly to make the playoffs. The Chiefs need to learn how to start, maintain, and finish, or they will never raise the Lamar Hunt trophy much less the Lombardi trophy.

Cesare Pavese, an Italian poet, once said, “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

November 20, 2008-That was the last time the Kansas City Chiefs won a regular season football game. Since 2007, the Chiefs have won 6 out of 48 games, a record only slightly better than the Lions and the Rams.

They played valiantly, but they came up a little short-Raiders 13, Chiefs 10. This was the final score Sunday, September 20, 2009, but it could have been the week before or the week before that because the Chiefs have not won a game since November 30, 2008.

Submitted by Chunta.