Hard to believe

I left the house when the Chiefs – Colts game was at halftime with the Chiefs up 31 – 10. I thought the game was over. I flipped the car radio to the station it was on, though, so as I was out and about I heard most of the comeback. It seemed like every time I got back into the car after finishing an errand the Colts were scoring again. I got back into the house just in time to see the final Colts score and the desperate fourth-down heave down the sideline by Alex Smith, caught out-of-bounds by Dwayne Bowe.

Unreal. That may be worthy of a name, just like John Elway and the Broncos’ “The Drive” got that name after the 98-yard series of plays the team ran to tie the AFC Championship Game with 37 seconds left in January 1987. I saw the last minutes of that game on board a DC-10 or 747 while the plane was still on the tarmac in Honolulu, about to taxi out to the runway and head for LA.

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  1. So in addition to bringing up the 1992 Oilers and their epic collapse against the Bills, the announcers also talked about how the Chiefs hadn’t won a playoff game in 20 years. Know who they beat? That would be the 1993 Oilers, the team that had Buddy Ryan coaching the defense when he wasn’t trying to slug offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride. Yeah, this game was awesome to watch for folks in Houston.

  2. Ouch. I hadn’t thought of that, but of course it would be painful. I still cringe when some baseball discussion brings up Russ Hodges’ call of Bobby Thomson’s home run in 1951.

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