KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- For the first 20 or so minutes of Sunday's AFC Wild Card game between the Steelers and Chiefs, it looked like this game might be the most hotly-contested game of the NFL's opening weekend of the playoffs.
The game was a scoreless tie through one quarter, and the Steelers defense looked more than equal to the tall task of slowing an explosive Chiefs offense.
But after failing to score on its first five possessions, the Chiefs got rolling late in the second quarter, putting on a show so explosive they literally ran out of post-touchdown fireworks at Arrowhead Stadium, as Kansas City scored on six-straight possessions in a 42-21 rout of the Steelers here in what will be the final game of Ben Roethlisberger's 18-year career.