Exhilarated Chiefs fans seeking deeper faith in this 9-2 team got just that on Wednesday with the news that star safety Eric Berry had returned to practice for the first time since Aug. 11.
It also was welcome news for those of us in the media, pleased both for Berry’s sake and to learn that his team-reported status as “day-to-day” for nearly four months actually was finite after all.
And the fact that Berry was the subject of the first eight questions at coach Andy Reid’s cautiously optimistic news conference reflected the sense of this being a potentially momentous development for a team with legitimate Super Bowl ambitions but gaps in its defensive backfield.