Gotta Love Joe Posnaski

. . . Still, it was worth hoping that the Chiefs would not become a laughingstock. The hope lasted exactly five plays … and then on second down and 10, Chiefs starting quarterback Damon Huard ran off the field. . . .

. . . That turned out to be Marques Hagans, a 5-foot-9 wide receiver from Virginia. Well, he was a receiver and a quarterback at Virginia. He was drafted by St. Louis in the fifth round last year (as a receiver, of course). He got released last year. So, to sum up, the Chiefs had a receiver that the St. Louis Rams cut who was now lined up at quarterback.

Hagans ran the ball, but the Chiefs’ Dwayne Bowe — no doubt as baffled as the rest of us — shifted illegally, the play was called back, and the whole thing was best forgotten, kind of like a bad dream. The Chiefs wouldn’t let it alone. Four plays later, Huard ran off the field again, and this little wide-receiver dude came back on the field, and this time ran for 2 yards. And it counted. . . .

. . . Instead, they left Thigpen out there to roast. You know how physicists figured that if Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt had gone all-out at the Olympics, he could have run the 100 meters in an astonishing 9.55 seconds? Well, those same physicists figured that if the Oakland defenders could catch, Tyler Thigpen would have thrown eight interceptions Sunday. . . .

. . . Embarrassed was the word of the day. At some point during the Chiefs Comedy Hour, management flashed on the scoreboard that they are right now taking orders for season tickets in 2009. Apparently, that was the big punch line.

Punchless Chiefs have become a punch line