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Vs. Kansas City Chiefs (W, 20-6)
Not surprising, but Sunday October 7th had a military feel to it.
George Carlin said it best, in one of his monologues about the differences between
baseball and football. "The field general directs his arsenal on the gridiron
while avoiding the blitz, etc, etc.." While American troops started
Blowing
The Living Shit out of Afghanistan, the Broncos, unintentionally, had their
own "Armed Forces Appreciation Day".
In the first quarter, Mike Anderson rolled through Kansas City's defense like
an M-1 Abrams tank, for a 62-yd TD run. Further review showed that one of his
treads was out of bounds at the 2 yard line, which would only have delayed the
Denver TD by thirty-six seconds. The former Marine kept hammering, and racked up
155 yards by game's end. Semper Fi, Mike.
Denver also deployed the Deltha Force. Second year man Deltha O'Neal
picked off four Trent Green passes, tying himself with
18 other guys for the NFL record. The first two at crucial junctures of the game,
and the other two...well, he got those just for showing up.
Just like the fabled
U.S Delta Force, O'Neal was lying low, almost unnoticeable, when
he snuck up and crippled the opposition's offense. Cutting off all
supply lines to KC's wideouts, Deltha and the rest of his
Deltha Force kept the Cheifs out of the endzone, all day.
When the game ended,
O'Neal had even finished as Kansas City's second-leading receiver.
The Broncos employed a boring, plodding offense, that had about as much
firepower as a pack of Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum. Brian Griese threw to
Rod Smith 8 times... and three passes to two other guys (Dwayne Carswell
and Patrick Hape). An aerial assualt, it wasn't. They still need to work on the receiving
corps... right now it's
Rod Smith and friends...the equivalent to having one B-2 and six
bi-planes in your 'air force'.
Denver played old-fashioned
high school football: keep it on the ground, run the clock out and
play tough defense. It wasn't spectacular, but it got the job done and
ended Denver's 4 game slump against Kansas City.
Denver's squad looked like a MASH unit, about 20 minutes into the game.
Cries of "Medic! Medic!" could be heard everywhere, as Kevin Kasper,
Dan Neil, Denard Walker. Trevor Pryce and even Bill Romanowski suffered injuries.
Of the five, only Kasper's injury looks to be significant. Kasper, the
fan-anointed "savior of the offense" (depsite fumbling punts in the pre-season and
having ONE catch this year) will be out for over a month. Walker
may also be in trouble, as he entered into the always
entertaining realm of concussions. Pryce,
Romanowski and Neil all returned to the game. Neil played with a heavy limp,
Pryce appeared to have no setbacks, and Romanowski kept on getting
man handled by his good pal, Kansas City TE Tony Gonzalez.
Gonzalez deserves a nod for catching a tipped pass in the third quarter.
Trent Green threw deep to the left, where Kennoy Kennedy and Jimmy Spencer conveened
on the ball like fat guys at a free buffet. But, like that last spare rib on
the buffet table, the ball slipped between the paws of the onrushing, drooling fat guys...
and fluttered down to a seated Gonzalez. As Chris Berman stated on NFL Primtetime
(the ONLY studio show worth watching, by the way), "Gonzalez, with
both cheeks in bounds, makes the catch!"
Gonzalez's catch not withstanding, KC had very few highlights. Griese looked lead-
footed on a few plays, and surrendered a couple of sacks to KC's defense. KC Coach
Dick Vermeil insists that this Chief team is "three years ahead of where the Rams
were, when I took over". It's important to note that Vermeil also belived
Lawrence Phillips would be a premier NFL runningback when he took over the Rams.
Former Bronco bane, Marvcus Patton was pretty silent. Patton, who
intercepted Gus Frerotte to seal last year's KC win at Mile High, also
returned a John Elway pass for a TD in the 1991 AFC Championship game in Buffalo. (or was that
Carlton Bailey..I get 'em mixed up)
Announcers mentioned that Patton's mother played professional football, making
25 dollars a game. We've been hearing this story for a few years now,
but it got me thinking: where was this women's football league...and did it involve
baby oil or pudding?
With O'Neal in the record books and the Chiefs quelled for awhile, the Broncos now head up to
Washington to check in on Trent Dilfer and the Seahawks. In the past six seasons, the only
time Denver has lost in Seattle was when they had Chris Miller at quarterback. Unless
Steve Beurlein makes a miraculous recovery from the IR list and surplants
Griese, Frerotte and JJ on the depth chart, it's a positive outlook for next week.
FINAL CUTS
Terry Allen was briefly HAPPY. He scored a TD for the Ravens on Sunday, but was then
molested by THREE gay mascots in the endzone. Each femmy-looking
plush raven was complete with bandana and cape.
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If the Dodge Ram is the "new mayor of truckville", would that make the Dodge Dakota
the deputy mayor of truckville?
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Winky's was a Wendy's-type fast food franchise from the East coast. One of their featured
items was "pizza in a cup", and their slogan was
"Winky's makes you happy to be hungry!"! I'm not sure if they're still around, but if they
are, they need to get Carolina's Chris Weinke as their spokesman. "Weinke makes you
happy to be hungry"....||...
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