"On the other hand, a great many people doubted that it would mean anything significant when he did so."

That's a rather odd statement. Touchdowns are seldom meaningless and regardless of score no defender wants his guy to catch one. Plus, Gonzalez entered the season only needing 2 to break the record. (It's actually somewhat surprising it took until week 6 for him to do it.) Granted, the Chiefs were supposed to stink, but in today's NFL where 8-8 will either make the playoffs or be on the verge of doing so, he was almost certainly going to get the record before the Chiefs were hopelessly out of things.

Re: 1

I think he just means we knew Tony Gonzalez would break the record, we just thought he'd do it playing for a crappy Chiefs team which would already be out of playoff contention. Clearly that statement is not true...so far.

Re: My previous message

Sorry, Sundown, I misread what you wrote, clearly you did get the point. I still think the comment was warranted though

"That’s a rather odd statement. Touchdowns are seldom meaningless and regardless of score no defender wants his guy to catch one."

Unless they're Miami Dolphins defenders, who apparently have incentive clauses in their contracts to allow as many TD catches as possible.

After watching Hard Knocks, I didn't think KC would win a game this year--yeah, I'm stunned they have 3 already!

And DolFan, I'm starting to see a certain similarity to your posts in all threads.
;-)

#6: Hey, when your team is bad they're bad, no sense being a homer about it.

You should see what I say about them on the Dolphins board I post at :-)

6.
On a positive note, the Dolphins got themselves a shiny new kick returner!