KANSAS CITY - Andy Reid's detractors have accused him of coaching in a fog before, of not being properly mindful of time or timeouts.
Sunday night in his Kansas City Chiefs' 18-16 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Divisional Playoffs, Big Red found himself literally standing in a fog, the coach a scarlet-windbreakered sideline beacon visible from the higher seats through rolling banks of mist.
The game was switched from an early-afternoon start to 7:20 p.m. Central Time because of a feared ice storm that ended up delivering a lot less than promised - an apt metaphor, perhaps, for the AFC West champs, favored by a point to a point-and-a-half, but destined to chase the Steelers most of the night.