AFC Update

Yesterday, the Kansas City Chiefs playing at home, raised their record to (8-0) with another “no cover” victory, this vs the Cleveland Browns.

Kansas City has only two major league sports teams, the baseball Royals are the other, and each has won but one title.

The Chiefs’ title was in the 1969 season. The Royals lone title, was clinched exactly 28 years ago yesterday on October 27, 1985.

Despite their great start, the Chiefs are still a pretty big long shot to win their second title this season.

That evaluation takes little away from the (8-0) Chiefs but is a testament to the strength of their division rival Denver Broncos.

Early in the third quarter in a game at Denver between the Broncos and Washington Redskins, it looked as if the Chiefs would gain a game on the high powered Broncos. At that point, the Redskins led (21-7).

It was not to be as the now (7-1), Broncos scored the game’s final 38 points and won (45-21). Thus the Chiefs lead in the AFC West is one game and anticipation is growing for the two Broncos vs Chiefs battles.

The two teams will play twice in a 2 week, 3 game span. The first tilt is in Denver on November 17th.

Elsewhere three teams are huge favorites to win the other three AFC divisions. One (the Indianapolis Colts) did not play and had achieved that status the week before when they upset Denver while division rivals Tennessee (Titans) and Houston (Texans) lost.

All three of those teams had byes yesterday while the powerful San Francisco 49ers dealt the other AFC South team, the (0-8) Jacksonville Jaguars a (42-10) loss in a game played in London, England.

Yesterday, both the New England Patriots and Cincinnati Bengals had  impressive victories and gained ground on all three other teams in their divisions.

The Pats, favored by six points and down by 14 points at the half, roared back to win (27-17) vs division rival, Miami (Dolphins).

The win raised their record to (6-2) good for a two game lead in the AFC East. The other two AFC East teams,the Jets and Bills  lost to the Bengals and New Orleans Saints respectively.

The Bengals ripped the still second place team in the AFC East, the New York Jets. “Cincy” gained ground on the Browns, Pittsburgh  Steelers and idle defending Super Bowl champion, Baltimore Ravens.