As some of you may or may not know, I am onsite for today's game in Kansas City against the Chiefs. Mrs. Odin and I checked in late yesterday evening to our hotel near the stadium. The view from our room is great; both Kaufman Stadium (home of the up and coming KC Royals) and Arrowhead Stadium are clearly visible from our hotel room. Here's a shoddy camera phone pick, just to give you an idea. (I'll post the good pictures from our digital camera either later tonight or when I get back to Manhattan)



Last night was a lot of fun as we just hung out at the local bar housed within the facilities of the hotel. Three things immediately stand out to me:

1. There are a lot of Dolphins fans in town for this game, at least from what I can tell from the limited view I've had so far. The bar last night was packed with pretty much nothing but Miami fans - and that's great to see. I don't expect us to take over the stadium, but I don't think it outside the realm of possibility to see a 25% / 75% split among fans, particularly if it remains as cold as it is.
2. Zach Thomas, far and away here at the hotel, remains the most popular Dolphin in terms of jersey representation. I've seen about 12 Thomas Jerseys, a couple of Ricky jerseys, and even a Stoyanovich jersey. I'm surprised that I haven't seen a Brown, Porter, or even Marino jersey, at least not yet. For the game today, I'll be rocking the '84 Marino throwback in Aqua.
3. It's hard to understate just how cold it is today. I went outside briefly and immediately came back inside. I don't think it will affect our team all that much, this type of weather is really what they've been built for. It's also breezier than you might think - from the outside it doesn't look like there's a lot of wind, but when you get out in it, it's certainly cold. Honestly, I think the weather might affect the Chiefs more, as they're a spread team now, and I don't know how Thigpen is going to handle the cold.

Mrs. Odin and I had planned on walking to the stadium, but our hotel actually offers shuttle service to the stadium starting at 10:00 a.m. - so we will probably take advantage of that and stay out of the weather as much as possible. We're still going to head over to the stadium around 11:00 or so - that way we can get a little bit of tailgating in before the game starts.

I'm excited to see the game tonight, I've been up for over 2 hours, couldn't sleep because I'm so wound up. This is my favorite type of game, because I absolutely love this kind of weather - our high school state championship game was played in identical conditions - and can't wait to see the game today.

I'll be back later with post game thoughts, and I'll try to collect my thoughts on what I saw live and how it differed from what all of you saw on TV.