The dance we shared, 'neath the stars above.
For a moment? All the world was right.
How was I to know, you'd ever say goodbye?
And now, I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end,
The way it all would go.
Our lives? Are better left to chance.
I could have missed the pain,
But I'd have had to miss the dance ...
Holding you? I held everything.
For a moment? Wasn't I the king.
If I'd only known, how the king would fall?
Hey, who's to say? I might have changed it all!
And now, I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end,
The way it all would go.
Our lives? Are better left to chance.
I could have missed the pain,
But I'd have had to miss the dance ...
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So earlier, the thirty one "automatic bids" to this upcoming tournament were announced.
And in case you haven't figured out what this "tournament" is, it's my version of March Madness -- figuring out which Chiefs game from the "Fat" Andy Reid Era, is my favorite one.
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In case you missed them, the 31 "auto bids" are (in alphabetical team order):
* Atlanta "Shane" Falcons (Week Thirteen 2016).
* Arizona "Super" Cardinals (Week Ten 2018).
* Baltimore Ravens (Week Fourteen 2018).
* Buffalo Bills (Week Nine 2013).
* Carolina Panthers (Week Ten 2016).
* Chicago Bears (Week Sixteen 2019).
* Cincinnati Bengals (Week Seven 2018).
* Cleveland Browns (Week Sixteen 2015).
* Dallas Cowboys (Week Two 2013).
* those people (Week Four 2018).
* Detroit Lions (Week Eight 2015).
* Green Bay Packers (Week Eight 2019).
* Houston Texans (Divisional Round Playoffs 2019).
* Indianapolis Colts (Divisional Round Playoffs 2018).
* Jacksonville Jaguars (Week One 2013).
* las vegas raiders (Week Seventeen 2015).
* Los Angeles Rams (Week Twelve 2018).
* Los Angeles "Super" Chargers (Week One 2016).
* Miami Dolphins (Week Sixteen 2017).
* Minnesota Vikings (Week Nine 2019).
* New England Patriots (Week Four 2014).
* New Orleans Saints (Week Seven 2016).
* New York Giants (Week Four 2013).
* New York Jets (Week Three 2016).
* Philadelphia Eagles (Week Three 2017).
* Pittsburgh Steelers (Week Seven 2015).
* San Francisco 49ers (Super Bowl LIV 2019).
* Seattle Seahawks (Week Eleven 2014).
* Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Week Eleven 2016).
* Tennessee Titans (Championship Game 2019).
* Washington Redskins (Week Fourteen 2013).
So now, that each "conference" (aka "team"), has at least one representative in "the dance", it's time to fill out the bracket with the 37 at large bids. As with the actual NCAA tournament, there is no limit as to the number of "teams" a "conference" can send ... but unlike the actual NCAA tournament, I'm not going to bother trying to prevent matchups between "conference teams" before the Sweet Sixteen. If they happen, then they happen.
(Hey, you try to come up with something that might be innovative and possibly fun like this on the fly, and you tell me how well you'd do drafting the bracket. (five for fighting voice) It's not easy to be me, let me tell you.)
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With 31 of the 122 games of the "Fat" Andy Reid Era already in the field, that leaves 91 teams for 37 slots. Some of these we can already eliminate due to "losing records" -- aka, the Chiefs lost the game. (Although for what it's worth, there will be a few losses in the field -- in fact, there's at least three "losers" in the automatic qualifiers (Packers, Rams, Buccaneers). Hey, somebody's gotta be the Prairie View A&M or Sam Houston State who gets hot for three days in early March and somehow gets the auto-bid at 11-24.
Of the remaining 91 contenders, I considered 24 of them to be "at large locks". As in, they're in irregardless of how they performed in their "conference tournaments".
And those 24 at large locks are (this time, in season order):
* las vegas raiders (Week Six 2013).
* Houston Texans (Week Seven 2013).
* las vegas raiders (Week Fifteen 2013).
* those people (Week Ten 2015).
* las vegas raiders (Week Thirteen 2015).
* Houston Texans (Wild Card Playoffs 2015).
* Indianapolis Colts (Week Eight 2016).
* those people (Week Twelve 2016).
* las vegas raiders (Week Fourteen 2016).
* those people (Week Sixteen 2016).
* Los Angeles "Super" Chargers (Week Seventeen 2016).
* New England Patriots (Week One 2017).
* Houston Texans (Week Five 2017).
* las vegas raiders (Week Fourteen 2017).
* Los Angeles "Super" Chargers (Week Fifteen 2017).
* those people (Week Seventeen 2017).
* Pittsburgh Steelers (Week Two 2018).
* San Francisco 49ers (Week Three 2018).
* Jacksonville Jaguars (Week Five 2018).
* las vegas raiders (Week Two 2019).
* Baltimore Ravens (Week Three 2019).
* las vegas raiders (Week Thirteen 2019).
* New England Patriots (Week Fourteen 2019).
* those people (Week Fifteen 2019).
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That leaves 13 spots for 67 teams. Nine of those spots I gave to "should be in the field" contenders -- games that didn't do enough for me to secure an automatic bid or an at-large lock in this field to determine my favorite Chiefs game of the "Fat" Andy Reid Era ... but did do enough to avoid missing the field altogether, or being shipped to St. Louis for the "First Four" round, to see if they can somehow claw their way into the main field out of that hellhole on earth known as the Ed Jones Dome.
Here are the nine "should be in" games, again, in season order:
* Indianpolis Colts (Wild Card Playoffs 2013).
* Miami Dolphins (Week Three 2014).
* Philadelphia Eagles (Week Two 2017).
* those people (Week Eight 2017).
* Dallas Cowboys (Week Nine 2017).
* New England Patriots (Week Six 2018).
* Houston Texans (Week Six 2019).
* those people (Week Seven 2019).
* Tennessee Titans (Week Ten 2019).
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And your "First Four" berths -- the last four in the field -- go to (again, in season order):
* those people (Week Eleven 2013).
* Houston Texans (Week One 2015).
* Washington Redskins (Week Four 2017).
* New England Patriots (Championship Game 2018).
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Those are your sixty eight "squads" fighting for the right to be crowned Stevo's Favorite Chiefs Game of the "Fat" Andy Reid Era. Next up: the Bracket Reveal. I should probably note this might take a bit to put together ... but I am hellbent on getting this thing bracketed, run, and a champion crowned, before Selection Sunday hits us in a little over 150 hours from now ...
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