What a day of football we had today. They should rename today upset Sunday, because that's all that happened today were upsets. Let's start with one of the biggest upsets, and that is the Kansas City Chiefs ending the run to perfection of the Green Bay Packers. Yeah that's right this isn't a typo, the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Green Bay Packers and hand the Pack their first loss in a full calendar year. This game should have shocked the entire nation as no one saw this coming. Everyone thought that the Packers were going to come into this game, win it, and secure home field advantage throughout the playoffs. Let's take a look at the numbers for KC in this game. Kyle Orton, who is receiving his first start at a Chief, went 23-31 299 yards no TD's and no INT's. One TD was credited to running back Battle who only touched the ball 10 times today and had 37 yards rushing and the TD. Other than that the only other points came off the leg of their kicker Colquitt who went 4/4 with a long of 46 yards and the extra point on the TD. On the Packers side of things Rogers we 17-35 235 yards 1 TD and no INT's. Rogers also rushed for a TD late in the game to bring the packers with in 6 points in the game. The final in this game was 19-14 in favor of the Chiefs.
The Kansas City Chiefs did something today that no one thought would be done this season, and that is beat the Packers. Some key injuries for the Packers may of be one of the reason for the low score for the Packers. Two linemen went down today which made the Packers coaching staff to make some moves on the line. This made the Packers line weak and Rogers vulnerable to sacks and big hits. But that's not to take anything away from the Chiefs Defense which played out of their minds today, in my mind, to hold the Packers to 14 points. The thing, in my opinion, which caused that the Chiefs did that no one has done against the Packers, and that is finish the game. They played hard from the first snap of the ball and they didn't quit throughout the entire game. A game that stands out in my mind is the New York Giants who had the game wrapped up in the 4th quarter, but the Defense let Rogers and the Packers drive down the field for the game winning field goal. The Chiefs wouldn't let that happen, after losing their head coach they wanted to come out and play hard to show they still have it in them. Last don't count them out, mathematically the Chiefs are still in the playoff hunt, yes they need a lot of help, but still not out of the hunt. I would love to see them make it for a second time in two years. It would be a great thing for a historic franchise and would bring some life back to the city of Kansas City.
In other news around the league Colts win, Detroit comes back against the Raiders, and the Panthers upset the Texans. Four big games, four big upsets and you know everyone loves an underdog story, and today was their day.
Until next time readers,
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