Here we are again. It's January and that can only mean one thing. It's time for the Kansas City Chiefs to begin their playoff push on the way to successfully defending their Super Bowl championship. I, for one, am excited. That goes without saying. However, I'm also excited to announce that Ellie and Ethan are joining me in my excitement this year. That's definitely cause for excitement if I do say so myself.
As Ellie gets older, it's actually really fun to see her excitement for watching the Chiefs grow each year. I think part of the reason is that she sees Bethany and me getting excited for games and she wants to be included in that. She's certainly doing her part to be included in all of the fun too.
At the start of each Sunday (or whatever day the game takes place), we continue our tradition of hanging our "Red Friday" flag up in the window for all of the neighbors on our street to see and/or ignore. That's not the only tradition that must take place though. We also have to listen to "Take Me Home, Pat Mahomes" at least once.
For the record, I would go on record as saying that Ellie is likely the only four year old who knows every word to that song. In years past, we would listen to the War Chant and do the Tomahawk Chop. As time went on though, I began to feel a little bad about doing the Chop with my kids hence our move to "Take Me Home, Pat Mahomes".
Ethan for his part is getting excited too. For one thing, whenever the "Red Friday" flag is unfurled, he immediately starts jumping up and down yelling "Chiefs!". He also does the same thing whenever he sees the Chiefs, or if I'm being honest, any other football team on television. It also bears mentioning that we have already read our library copy of "The Year the Kingdom Rose Again" approximately 15 times since picking it up on Saturday.
As you can probably guess after everything you read above, our house is very excited for Chiefs playoff football. Unfortunately, this past weekend only served to disappoint as the Chiefs had a first round bye. Actually, "disappoint" isn't the correct term. For one thing, the Chiefs had a well-earned bye week in which the team could rest up and get healthy before their first playoff game. Secondly, Ellie and I began what we hope is a new tradition and watched a NFC Wild Card game together, live on Nickelodeon.
Yes, you read that correctly; I did say Nickelodeon. As in the children's network. The home of SpongeBob SquarePants, Paw Patrol, and a number of other iconic cartoon characters. For the first time, Nickelodeon aired a kid-friendly (well, mostly kid-friendly except for one ill-timed slip of the tongue by Cordarrelle Patterson) version of the broadcast complete with new announcers, graphics, and slime cannons.
Ellie, for her part, was completely and utterly enthralled by the broadcast. Not only were there cameos from some of her favorite cartoon characters but the slime cannons were a big highlight for her as well. For the record, there weren't really slime cannons. Instead, the effect was completed via computer graphics. That didn't make it any less cool though. Ellie would spend practically the entire game begging for touchdowns just so she could see the slime "erupt" in the endzone.
Truth be told, a part of me is a little bit sad that the Chiefs' playoff game won't be broadcast on Nick. It was actually really fun to see her learning all kinds of things about the game seeing as how the broadcasters explained everything in a kid-friendly way. I also enjoyed how a game pitting the Saints and the Bears of all teams held her attention like very few do. We even cast our vote for the NVP (Nickelodeon Valuable Player) together.
For the record though, we didn't not vote for the eventual "winner" of Mitchell Trubisky though. That just would have been cruel. #DaddyWrite
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