Our NFL Weekend Adventure

If you’re a regular here, you know that I love my Kansas City Chiefs football team. You also might have caught on to the fact that we have great kids. Said great kids for Christmas this year sent The Long-Suffering Wife and I down to San Diego to see my beloved Chiefs play the Chargers. (Gosh golly, does that ever make for a really, really long day, especially with a four hour drive back after an overtime game — so I’ll be brief!)

I had to take a picture of this. We parked at a shopping center in an underground parking garage before we got on the trolley to get to the stadium. At the entrance to the underground levels was this sign. Really? I mean…REALLY? And you know that they only have this sign up because some idiot(s) actually did it.

The trolley is a fantastic way to get to and from the game. More later.

We got there plenty early and got a lot of sun. As in “not-quite-lobster-like-but-we-probably-should-have-brought-sun-screen” lots of sun. Despite it being mid-winter and a deep freeze for most, in San Diego it was in the upper 70’s and in the sun for almost five hours it got toasty.

Warmups.

The Chiefs faithful travel well, and in the seats directly behind the Chiefs bench there was almost more KC Chiefs red than SD Chargers blue.

Once the game got going I didn’t take very many pictures (imagine that, something that I actually did that was more important than taking pictures!), but I did snap this one about five seconds before we scored our second touchdown in the first quarter.

Sad to say, we lost in overtime, after losing the chance to win in the last thirty seconds of regulation when our normally reliable field goal kicker missed a chip shot. We’re still not sure how that happened.

On the other hand, we had secured a spot in the post-season playoffs a couple of weeks ago and nothing that happened today was going to make than any better or any worse, so our coach chose to rest ALL of our starters and play the reserves and second stringers. The Chargers had to win the game in order to squeak into the last playoff wildcard spot, so they played their starters the whole game. Even with that mismatch, we still came this close to beating them. Plus, starting the playoffs next week, our starters will be rested and healthy. So we’ll find out then if the strategy worked.

More some time later about the trip, right now I’m exhausted. Suffice it to say, we had a great time!