What looked like a crushing, embarrassing defeat at the hands of the San Diego Chargers, turned into what might be the modern day Kansas City Chiefs greatest win…
The Chiefs were facing an impossible comeback with the team down 24-3 late in the second half, only to fall back to 27-10 with 9 minutes left in the game.
Then QB Alex Smith and Spencer Ware along with Jeremy Maclin and Travis Kelce took over!
The Chiefs went from zero to hero in 9 minutes plus overtime. In overtime the Chargers never got the ball as Smith drove for a game winning touchdown.
Final 33-27 KC!
Don’t get me wrong the Chiefs have plenty of work to do on defense if they want to go to the Super Bowl.
However now they have true character.
They will never think they’re out of a game. Ever.
It was the largest margin in Chiefs history to overcome. Before this the team’s best comeback was 18 points.
Alex Smith threw for over 300 yards, Spencer Ware caught passes for over 100 yards and Jeremy Maclin was fantastic in the end.
It’s gonna be an exciting season for these guys.
Oh yeah, and I will likely now win all my NFL bets today.
Thanks Chiefs.
stop glaze with your b.s.
you jinxed them just like you jinx everything you touch.
just shut up…walk away….and write or say nothing.
with you black hand…you could jinx the chiefs like you jinxed
the royals.
I hope they can withstand the black cloud you have put over them.
and don’t forget you called them the worst team in history after just one half.
say bad things about the chiefs…please. then they will make the playoffs.
By Chris Amos, a retired Norfolk Police Officer wrote the following: An Open Letter to Colin Kaepernick
Dear Colin, Guess you have been pretty busy
these last few days. For the record I don’t think any more or less of
you for not standing for the National Anthem. Honestly, I never thought
that much about you, or any professional athlete
for that matter, to begin with. I’ve read your statement a few times and
want you to know I am one of the reasons you are protesting. You see I
am a retired police officer that had the misfortune of having to shoot
and kill a 19-year-old African American male.
And just like you said, I was the recipient of about $3,000 a month
while on leave which was a good thing because I had to support a wife
and three children under 7-years-old for about 2 months with that money.
Things were pretty tight because I couldn’t work
part time. Every police officer I’ve ever known has worked part-time to
help make ends meet.
You know Colin the more I think about it the
more we seem to have in common. I really pushed myself in rehab to get
back on the street, kind of like you do to get back on the field. You
probably have had a broken bone or two and some
muscle strains and deep bruising that needed a lot of work. I just had
to bounce back from a gunshot wound to the chest and thigh. Good thing
we both get paid when we are too banged up to “play”, huh? We both also
know what it’s like to get blindsided. You
by a 280- pound defensive end, ouch! Me, by a couple of rounds fired
from a gun about 2 feet away, into my chest and thigh. We also both make
our living wearing uniforms, right? You have probably ruined a jersey
or two on the field of play. I still have my
blood stained shirt that my partner and paramedics literally ripped off
my back that cold night in January. Fortunately, like you I was given a
new one. Speaking of paramedics aren’t you glad the second we get hurt
trainers and doctors are standing by waiting
to rush onto the field to scoop us up. I’m thankful they get to you in
seconds. It only took them about 10 minutes to get to me. By the grace
of God, the artery in my thigh didn’t rupture or else 10 minutes would
have been about 9 minutes too late. We also
have both experienced the hate and disgust others have just because of
those uniforms we wear. I sure am glad for your sake that the folks who
wear my uniform are on hand to escort you and those folks that wear your
uniform into stadiums in places like Seattle!
I guess that’s where the similarities end
Colin. You entertain for a living, I and almost 800,000 others across
this country serve and protect. Are there some bad apples within my
profession? Absolutely and they need to be identified
and fired or arrested! But you know what, the vast majority do the right
thing, the right way, for the right reason.
Colin I have buried 7 friends, killed in the
line of duty and three others who have committed suicide. I have
attended more funerals than I care to remember of neighboring
departments who have lost officers in the line of duty, during
my career. Law Enforcement Officers with different backgrounds,
upbringings, and experiences united by their willingness to answer the
call to protect and serve their fellow citizens.
Colin I am sorry for the endorsement deals you
may lose and the dip in jersey sales, but please know you will NEVER
lose what these men and women and their families have lost. And so
whether you stand or sit during the National Anthem
or not means very little to me. As for me and the men and women on whose
team I was privileged to serve, we will put on our ballistic vests,
badge, and gun, kiss our loved one’s goodbye, for some tragically for
the last time, and out into a shift of uncertainty
we will go. We will continue to protect and continue to serve and we
will be standing at attention Colin, not just for the playing of our
National Anthem, but far more importantly for the playing of Taps.
People who write open letters are grandstanding a-holes. If you want to write the guy a letter SEND HIM a GD letter.
There’s also a good chance this letter was never written and it’s just one of the thousands of fake “open letters” that are tossed around the Internet. If it’s fake, I have no interest in reading it, and if it’s real, it’s written to Colin Kaepernick and I have no business stealing his mail.
I talked with some people about these type of “heros”.
Noone puts a gun to their head to join the police. They’re
not forced into that job. It’s their choice. The job is a good one.
You get many times consecutive times off….good pension…good
retirement…90% of the time your not work.
How about firemen…1 day work…sometimes 2 days off.
Many have other jobs from subway sandwiche shops to
lawn companies and other types of companies. And they’re
not forced to join with a gun to their head. And there are
lines of people WAITING TO TAKE THESE JOBS….and again
it’s voluntary.
Sure they have dangerous jobs…but they understand the
risk which is pretty low for such a job. they ‘ve got great
insurance…pay….work comp etc that few jobs in America
have but theres a waiting list to get on these jobs and the
few picked are considered lucky.
Being a taxi driver is more dangerous. S oto me these letters
are kind of quirky. “we may never see our families”..then go
get a deck job an make sure you get home every night”.
Go get a job seomwhere else without the risk and not have
to worry about the potential problems. find a job where you
don’t deal with “bad ” people everyday and you don’t have
to have ashootout with some gang member.
These guys and women choose this occupation. And they
are considered lucky in some groups to get these jobs.
Are they heros? Maybe so but it’s their choice to take these
dangerous jobs with good benefits or go into the regular job
market and get the crap retirement most americans get.se
Of course we mourn when one gets shot…but fortunately not
one of them has saved my life or prevented me from danger.
And I imagine for 90% of americans its the same thing.
The only contact I get is when they infrequently ticket me or
write me up for going too fast (which has no effect on the
traffic fatalities in an area).
And they enforce and over enforce ridiculous laws that are
outdated…then say “that’s my job”.
So when colin points out when these cops or firefighters get out
of line and shoot and maim an innocent victim or hurt people (like the underage girls in san diego who were raped by 12
police officers/the blacks beaten for no reason but because they’re black/the rcial profiling they perform…the unneeded
violence they use on innocent people….lying in court…
etc…if makes you wonder.
And then they say its a tough job. Maybe go ditch digging
like chuck.
Why would these guys want these jobs that are so bad?
becase they aren’t reallysobad…and they have a personality that
fits an aggressive officer….or they like to beat up the innocent..
but why do they take the chance of losing their lives? Its
excitement/adrenalin/fun to have power over others.
I just don’t get it.
cush jobs? ask one of them…..andyou’ll see the truth.
There the cushiness of an easy job…and the policemen I
know never mention the danger…just the benefits.
No one puts a gun to force them to join; Why do they
join? The secret is pretty simple to figure out.
“It’s a sacred song!”
-Says every Chiefs fan that changes the lyric
Channel 13 Norfolk Virginia is just one of the organizations to notice this letter which has noticed this letter from the spokesman for the Norfolk Police Department.
“Retired Norfolk police officer writes open letter to 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick
Posted 10:00 pm, August 30, 2016, by Kelly Rule, Updated at 11:20pm, August 30, 2016.”
“NORFOLK, Va. – A retired police officer and former spokesman for the Norfolk Police Department is going viral on Facebook.
On Monday morning, Chris Amos posted an open letter to 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
His letter comes after Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem during Friday’s preseason game, which Kaepernick says was in protest of the way African Americans are treated in the United States. He specifically referenced police brutality saying, “cops are getting paid leave for killing people.”
One of those officers was Chris Amos.
“There’s way too many broad strokes being painted, this was one of them,” says Amos. “I’m one of those guys he was referring to.”
Amos’ letter talks about the time he was shot in the line of duty, and shot and killed his 19-year-old attacker. He wrote that he was put on paid leave and had to support his wife and three small children on about $3,000 a month.
Amos also addresses what he says people seem to forget any time there is a tragedy involving an officer.
“I hope people will read this and just say you know what are there bad cops, yes there are, are there good cops, yes there are, and the good far, far, far outweigh the bad.”
He says he never imagined his letter would get the attention it has. On Facebook alone, it has more than 19,000 shares.
In hindsight, Amos says, he’s glad he didn’t.
“Had I known, I probably would have been too afraid to push the first letter key on the keyboard,” he says. “A lot of policemen, a lot of law enforcement, they are active duty, they can`t speak. It’s given a lot of people a voice, is what I’ve heard.”
Oops, sorry for the typo.
Chuck, when did you start using the Harley Font?
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Part 47 of the swiss ‘this is our year!’ tour got underway yesterday, the results just as predicted by Kerouac: they got their backsides handed to them all day long, both sides of the ball.
Only the superior Chargers going auto-pilot the second half augmented special teams unforced errors their own, allowed the staggering swiss stay in the game. When it was over, only those who tried to convince themselves ‘we won, and that’s all that matters’ could deny the truth: annual local overhype proved hollow once more, as yet another unfulfilling season portends.
Week one in the books, the power rankings AFC West remain as they were pre-game:
1 Broncos – still the best team in the NFL
2 Raiders – a team the verge of greatness
3 Chargers – dominated the swiss 27-10
4 swiss – 46 years and counting
Kerouac, a fan since day one in 1963, saw the usual tell tell signs of yet another season destined for nowhere of import. Defense, a secondary that looked like the vintage 1966 Chiefs Mitchell & Williamson the corners, and an late arriving pass rush that ought get here about the same time Yahweh does provided the most plentiful guffaws of the day.
Offense, Captain check down was in mid-season form in tossing two ints, one of which was actually held onto by the Chargers. Strangely, the best RB’s on the field were not wearing red & mustard – rather, SD’s lightning bolt duo Gordon & Woodhead, both of whom outshone any the overhyped swiss RB’s, ones local media keep stating comprise the best group NFL. An four man unit saw one end with negative yardage, & 2 others couldn’t manage even a single carry, this vs the 31st ranked NFL rush defense 2015.
A Chargers team expected to finish third place gave one away to a team was described locally as ‘down and bound for the Super Bowl’. Aft yesterday, the only place swiss are down and bound for is down the water closet, per the usual.
🙂
Chuck the problem, as we all know, is this ‘how do you talk to or change the ‘gansta’ mentality of the young urban youths who live by the sword. They aren’t listening, they are on snap chat all day. They just aren’t interested.
As for being fair and making things equal for all. Of course thats the right thing to do. I don’t know how you get both sides of this together…law enforcement, the young people who cause most of the violence who just don’t want to listen to anyone, the lack of education, the lack of interest in it, family values…the list is so damn long. I think it just takes years and years to get it done. But hey we need to start somewhere.
The violence is just off the chain and nobody seems to have an answer.
I agree Glaze.
the guys pointing and firing the guns have the answers. decide for yourself who ‘the guys’ are.
As for the Chiefs yesterday. One I only went .500 as New England defeated Arizona with all its injuries to stars. Major upset. Hey you never know.
More interesting I was surprised at the lack of coverage the Chiefs massive comeback and win got on ESPN or Sunday Night Football on NBC. It was a throw away mention on everything. I thought it would be front and center. Instead the media focused on the new quarterbacks success or failures.
As with the Royals. If you didn’t notice the two time American League Champs and defending World champs had TWO nationally games on TV. Even the Pittsburgh Pirates had three. Why? No respect? I guess we are still seen as small market and don’t matter much. Sad kinda. Hey had the Royals been the Dodgers defending the title there would have been endless stories on their struggles and comeback this season on sports shows, almost none.
Boy what you gotta do to get respect out there with the Royals and Chiefs? Keep winning I guess.
I don’t know, CG. I thought the guys on SNF covered the Chiefs win pretty well. I saw highlights a few different times on the broadcast. But, I don’t worry about that kind of stuff very much.
Lack of coverage can’t ever take away the delicious taste of “Philip cry-me-a Rivers” and all of the San Diego fan’s salty tears. Nothing like getting spotted 3 touchdowns and still gagging on it.
Don’t think this is a post-season team, but that was a fun one!!
Marmalarde’s salty tears taste delicious.
Jim so you don’t see Chiefs in play offs? It’s early they have lots to fix no question. That first half was as bad as it gets, but the second half showed some real character and talent…I hope they improve and win the west but boy Denver and Oakland both look very good. Its gonna be a tough road, but it always is right. I think this team can get much better with stars coming back on D and some young guys getting experience. We’ll see.
CG, I don’t look at the Chiefs and say, “there’s a playoff team!”. It could certainly happen, no question. All things being equal, they look like a 9-7 or 10-6 team to me. That record has put plenty of teams into the playoffs, I know.
They are certainly going to be fun to watch. I would be tickled pink if I ended up being dead wrong. Just doesn’t look likely to me.
agree with you, JaBWH.
charachter and heart fill a lot holes, but talent and skill fill more.
when the chiefs’ D stifles a first-class offense, and the offense makes an opposing D look a day late and a dollar short, then i’ll believe we have a SB contender.
Can’t argue that, you guys are right.
Not impressed .. .locking arms to form a black panther fist. I don’t know if I can support them.
WEll JACK for once maybe we are on same page…they have that right but I don’t see it doing good for both groups. Violence is a big issue, but I don’t see this as solving anything. I do support the Chiefs.
Evocative Smith & Carlos half a century ago: heads bowed, arms raised. If, nod Zapata, “it is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees”, a disproportionate number the former will continue to, forward, deliverance their blue boogeymen unrewarded. If the past is prologue, the choice to become extinct is yours.