We Can Build on This

Over at ESPN, Bill Simmons ranked the Kansas City Chiefs 27 on his Power Poll with this:

Every Sunday, when something horrible happens with the Chiefs, I text my friend Mike Lombardi, "We can build on this!!!!!!!!" and he texts back, "Let's build something together!" It's our little running joke. Three reasons I'm telling you this: First, I think I've sent that text on eight Sundays this season (and none of them were forces; there was a legitimate reason each time). Second, I had never sent two "We can build on this!!!!!" texts in the same game until Week 15's ubercollapse against San Diego. And third, usually the only variation of the joke is the number of exclamation points … but after watching Herm Edwards' team blow two timeouts with an 11-point lead, give up a score, blow the onside kick, give up the go-ahead TD, drive back to field-goal range before running out of timeouts and then hook the potential game-winning field goal in the blink of an eye, I actually changed my second text to, "For G~d's sake, we can build on this!!!!!!"

I thought it demanded a little improvisation. I hope Edwards doesn't mind. But then I realized something: There was a lesson there. See, we can build on this. Whether it's football, the "we can build on this" joke or anything else, we can always build on this. I'm starting to think Edwards is a genius.