Saturday, January 06, 2007

Today is the big day. Around 7pm tonight on the Prairie we will know just what kind of a new year we will have. The Chiefs will have boarded a flight home, either the first winner of 2007... or just another loser.

Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson has been open to talk karma! “It’s been 37 years since the Chiefs went to the Super Bowl,” said Dawson, “That’s a long time. And they’ve had times when they thought it would be their year. The breaks haven’t gone their way. Maybe this year it’ll be different. Who knows?”

Bottom line is it's a hard business in a sometimes spiteful world. Win a Super Bowl and you will be immortalized. Fail and you just might be vilified. Payton Manning doesnt just want to be remembered as just a 92-52 as a starter in the regular season. Big deal, his critics already say. He's 3-6 in the playoffs. His own high regular season achievement is already obscured by playoff failure. Manning and Dungy can't win the big one. They are saying it already.

Trent Green has had his success too. He hasnt made the playoffs as often as his adversary Payton Manning. He may be ready to have a break out game. It may be karma. Here’s how it works: All the good things you’ve done or had done to you, and all the bad things you’ve done and or had done to you, the universe takes stock of them and then looks to balance them all out.

BILL REITER and The Kansas City Star cited here:
Some fellar named Steve MacDonald believes. Heck, he can sense it. He can feel the fact you Chiefs guys are due, and ya know... he’s read Arsenio Hall’s palm on national television! He toured the Chiefs Stadium the other day just... feeling! We got his impressions here! Yep, Yehaw, we got us some quotable quotes:
Impression #1"I think Lamar (Hunt)’s looking over the team,” MacDonald said. “This was his pet project. His energy is very much around."
Impression #2
"Trent Green — “His karma is pretty darn good, he’s done a lot of good stuff for the world.”

Impression #3
"Larry Johnson — “He’s a very powerful person who can spark energy in the crowd. That’s big for karma.”

Impression #4
As he turned and looked at the huge empty parking lot, the place that so many boisterous happy fans fill on game days. “There,” he said, “that is the energy. That energy doesn’t disappear into the universe. It’s here.” saying again, “Their energy is still here, even now.”


Back to me:
Karma or not. This team has the talent to pull this off. They have the stars aligned to get this reward. They just need to line up take the field and put in the effort. "The only game that matters is the last one." So they need the mindset, the determination and the where with all to do it, accept it and relish in the consequences. The Pittsburgh Steelers did it. Will we?
Are we ready to march that road to the next game on this our fabulous adventure!

Now The Colts are 0-3 during the postseason under coach Tony Dungy when they are minus in giveaway to takeaway differential. Now get this: the first eight games, Colts were plus-10 in giveaway to takeaway differential and went 8-0. Recently over the past eight games, they have gone minus-3 and 4-4. Advantage Kansas City.
Same thing expressed a different way: The Colts rank fourth in the NFL with just 19 giveaways on offense but are tied for 21st in the league for takeaways with only 26. If our defense can force that offense to turn it over twice, it could mean the difference. if Trent Green fires another interception it could kill us, replace him when neccessary!

My prediction:
Kansas City 27- Indy 24!

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