We Are the Champions

The week of the AFC Championship game saw a lot of Twitter trash talk between Who Dey Nation and Chiefs Kingdom. Not only that, but the guys who get paid way too much money to wear suits and talk about sports all day were spewing nonsense about how the Chiefs were merely a hopeless hot mess against the bold and brash Bengals. I think we all experienced a cathartic sense of schadenfreude when we saw the Bengals forced to eat their words after the stunning Chiefs win.

Sometimes we don’t believe we can win until we do.

Full disclosure, I must admit that I didn’t think the Chiefs would win either. Injuries, both physical and psychological, plagued our team. We were the underdogs in our own stadium, which was assumedly renamed temporarily.

Sometimes we don’t believe we can win until we do.

Isn’t that the truth, though? When I hear that a group of clergies, including our very own MVP Holly, is fighting Missouri’s abortion ban, my immediate response is to doubt that things will ever change in deep red Missouri. The opposing team in this case has a lot of money, political clout, and support from special interest groups. Does our team that relentlessly fights for reproductive justice for all people stand a chance?

The answer to that is a resounding yes. When the odds are stacked against us, we band together, fight for one another, support our team, make changes and adjustments, fall down, and get back up. We may lose a game or two, but we will never stop working, fighting, running, supporting, writing, knocking, calling, marching, and loving until we have championed the cause of justice for all people. We are on the right side of history. We are fighting for good.

And I believe that we will win.

No, scratch that.

I KNOW that we will win.

Kelly is a proud member of Chiefs Kingdom as well as Peace Church. She divides her 24 hours each day into being a teacher, a wife, a mom, and a nervous wreck watching Chiefs games.