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My LAL (Life After Lombardi)

Posted on February 8, 2020March 9, 2020 by Mama

Wow, what a crazy week here in Kansas City! What started with three and a half hours of holding my breath ended with a joyous celebration the likes this city hasn’t seen in 50 years. When the Chiefs won the Super Bowl Sunday, it was an incredible feeling that I really didn’t (and still don’t) have the words to describe.

As a Missouri marriage transplant, I quickly adopted the nearest sports teams as my own and have been an avid Chiefs and Royals fan for almost 17 years now. I was just over a month old and living in Tulsa the last time the Chiefs won the Super Bowl so I had no idea what to expect, nor did most of the people I know. Let me just tell you, this city lit it up Sunday night (both literally and metaphorically). When the Chiefs came from 10 under in the fourth quarter and the clock ticked down to zero, the fireworks started flying. Apparently there were so many explosions that they registered on the weather service radar. That’s pretty cool.

After the team returned to town, the city capped off the celebration with a gigantic Super Bowl parade (frigid temps and snow flurries included). Of course I bundled up myself and my son and we celebrated the Chiefs alongside one million of our closest “friends.” Thankfully we were at the beginning of the parade route, before the whole thing got wild. Next time, and there will be a next time, there should probably be a PG-13 or R rating assigned to that whole crazy affair.

The entire event from ballgame to finish was pretty much surreal, and I just had to take a quick moment to congratulate the Chiefs before moving on with my LAL (Life After Lombardi). Great job, guys. Let’s do it again next year!

Perks of Preseason Football

Posted on August 11, 2019August 11, 2019 by Mama

Yes, we are officially trying to cram as much fun into the last few days of summer vacation as humanly possible, so when my son and I were offered tickets to last night’s Chiefs preseason football game while we were still making our way home from a four-day trip to Branson we naturally said yes without hesitation.

Quilting and Football

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Mama

Who says quilting and football don’t go together? It was Second Saturday Sewing at church this weekend, so I dragged out my quilt, on hiatus throughout the holidays, and began again the laborious task of quilting by hand. It’s slow going, but I’m doing it as tribute to my grandmother, Nannie, with whom I was lucky enough to quilt on occasion. I’m even using her quilting hoop for the task — somehow I just feel a bit closer to my grandma with every little (some smaller than others) stitch.

So I’m sure you’re wondering where football comes into all of this. . . Shortly after returning home from quilting, the Wildcard playoff games began, with my Kansas City Chiefs (notice I’m wearing red) kicking off the first of several weekend games. I do love me some football, especially when the home team is playing, but that can be three hours of accomplishing little else while the pigskin gets tossed about. So I decided to set up my quilting rack, now at hand, right in front of the TV and knock out two kinds of fun at the same time.

My husband gave me a hard time and called me granny more than once (maybe it was the reading glasses), but the Chiefs won (breaking a 22-year playoff win drought), so he better hope I’m up for quilting again next weekend.

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