Sunday Night Football

 

He did it! A few nights ago on Sunday Night

Football, our young, Kansas City Chiefs quarter-

back, Patrick Mahomes, had a minute-forty-

three seconds to get the ball from his 25-yard

line to the Las Vegas Raiders goal line.

Chiefs were down 31 to28 in the fourth quarter.

A minute-forty-three, mind you, to move his team

75-yards to a touchdown and their ninth victory of

the season. And they weren’t playing at home either.

Well, by golly the young, talented, calm, cool and

collected Mahomes did it with a last bullet pass to

tight-end Kelce in the end zone with some twenty

seconds to spare. With the point after, Chiefs beat

the Raiders 35 to 31.

I got to thinking perhaps the nearly 500 million

dollar 10-year contract Mahomes signed before

the 2020 season began was well worth it.

You should have seen some of the shit I’ve man-

aged to make it though in my nearly seventy-four

years here on Earth. And I never made more than

30-thousand dollars a year.

With age, money aside, some have come to realize,

you can’t win every game to be played. Mahomes

has his days ahead of him as I have had mine.

Now here I am facing the goal line in life. Poor

young Mahomes has a hell of a lot more game

yet to play. Some of us aren’t in this game for

the money, you know. Hopefully we’ll get to do

the happy dance in the end zone dance when

the time clock runs out.

After that, I’ll be thankful when it’s time to be

inducted into that Great Hall of Fame in the sky,

where I’m most likely to be voted MVP of my life.

                       -30-

Chris Hanch 11-23-2020