The Chiefs took a gut punch in their home opener
Tony Gonzalez dunked the football. The crowd booed lustily. And then it was just a case of playing out the string Sunday afternoon. The Atlanta Falcons steamrolled the Kansas City Chiefs 40-24 in a game that played out in familiar fashion for the fans in red.
The story, as it has been for the past several seasons, was about which players the Chiefs were missing rather than who was on the field. The Chiefs, like many other teams that threaten to hover around .500, simply can’t overcome the loss of more than one of their stars in a game. With Tamba Hali serving a one-game suspension and Brandon Flowers and Kendrick Lewis both out with injuries, the defense didn’t have enough to stay with Atlanta’s pair of talented wideouts: Julio Jones and Roddy White.
