Kansas City Chiefs play spoiler, ruin Green Bay Packers’ perfect season

The Kansas City Chiefs’ season hasn’t been pretty. Yet, Sunday’s upset of the Green Bay Packers was an early Christmas for Chiefs fans. With a new coach and a new quarterback, the Chiefs put the first blemish on the Packers’ 2011 season and ended a 19-game winning streak.

Countless sports writers and reporters probably dropped the “on any given Sunday” line when talking about the Chiefs’ 19-14 win. The Chiefs didn’t play a perfect game, but we couldn’t have expected them to in a week that saw the firing of coach Todd Haley and the demotion of Tyler Palko. Ryan Succop made four field goals, and so the kicker — and the defense — were the Chiefs’ MVPs. It also didn’t hurt that Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was without his favorite target, Greg Jennings, who sat out with an injury.