Arrowhead Adventures! The Arrowhead Advantage Is Back!

Wow! What else can you say? Nothing else came to mind as I drove home from one of the most exciting games I had ever experienced at Arrowhead.  Sure most of us have been a part of a crowd that large. But this was different. It was a unified 80,000 souls. A unified gathering of pure joy.

Before the game, Bowe came over to our little corner, no clowning this time just a serious stare. I think he is used to seeing me sitting there (don’t worry, I wouldn’t buy it either but stuff like that happens at Arrowhead) and when I proclaimed my usual “catch the ball” he looked at me with an uncharacteristically committed glare and assured me he would with a nod of his head”. A short time later, well he dropped a pass in the red zone.

This angered me, and when he came back at half time I let him know about it. He looked at me again and hung his head, threw up his hands in frustration and did the Bowe trot back to the bench.  Something about the way he did it made the anger leave. From that moment on, well, I want Bowe to stay a part of our team.  Dwayne, when you come back to our corner when the Cardinals come to town, I’ll be your biggest fan in Amen Corner! Criticize me if you will Addicts, Arrowhead does things to you that sometimes you cannot explain.

I’m told by endless souls that criticize my choice to be a season ticket holder, that the best seats in the place are in front of a 50 inch TV in ones home.

Warpaint doodie.

The home viewer may have experienced camera angles I missed. You may have enjoyed snacks not available to the Arrowhead fan. You probably took a snooze on the couch while I fought traffic out to I-35 and started my two and a half hour trip home.

But I can tell you what it sounds like when 80,000 tired, fed up Chiefs fans experience the moment when after years of wrong, the Chiefs do it right.

I know what it feels to look in Haley’s eyes and see the confidence of a coach that is turning his team around, instead of a coach wondering how much longer the ownership is going to keep him on the payroll.

I know the fear I felt in my heart as the devil played his games with the wind while Succop lined up for that last three point attempt.

You may have hugged your best friend or wife when that Succop kick sailed through the uprights, I hugged a biker chick, then her patched biker husband, who looked like he stepped straight out of the Sons of Anarchy, then turned around and put my arm around a wheel chair bound WWll veteran. All walks of life make the pilgrimage to the Chiefs Mecca.

As I walked out chanting the war chant with the exiting fans, I was as happy as a Chiefs fan could be on that day I guessed.

If its within your budget, your time, your family obligations, make the trek to Arrowhead this year. It’s better than its ever been. Its worth the time, money, and effort.  I wouldn’t sell my Arrowhead memories for any price. This Arrowhead memory is one of the best I have.

What about you Addicts? What do you remember from Sunday’s win?

My thought for the week:  Grossman and  Croyle must be really really good in practice.