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Here's an excerpt from a section about the Chiefs: The color of blood surrounds you inside...

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Here's an excerpt from a section about the Chiefs: The color of blood surrounds you inside Arrowhead Stadium. It drips from the fixtures of the place and from the seats in the stands and most especially from the people who occupy them on game day -- splashed on teh Chiefs coats and Chiefs caps and Chiefs jerseys. It feels like you're in the deep end of a pool of red, and isn't red the perfect color for a football team? The color that's associated with energy, courage, war, danger, strength, power, determination, and passion? The color that sparks emotion? That enhances our metabolism and raises our blood pressure? That's used in several national flags because of its connotation of fierce pride? ... And inside their place of pilgrimage, an older white man in a red windbreaker, who would years later wind up making wine in Napa Valley, stood in the middle of mostly young black men and led a battle cry. "It so well defined what we have to do today," Dick Vermeil howled. "We gotta go to work. "All right. Offense?" "GO TO WORK!" the players say in unison. "Defense?" asks Vermeil. "GO TO WORK!" "Special teams?" "GO TO WORK!" "Coaches?" follows Vermeil. "GO TO WORK!" "Let's go," Vermeil urged. "Let's go. Huddle up."

NFL Unplugged: The Brutal, Brilliant World of Professional Football Very well put together book that gives a glance into behind the scenes of the NFL.