This was back in the simpler — some might say “better” — days before a quote like this would have caused a social media 9-1-1 meltdown. Marty Schottenheimer was coaching the Chiefs, and he’d left a little too much time on the clock for his old nemesis, John Elway, and Elway had nearly pulled off another of his last-second comeback specials.
Nearly, but not quite.
And so Marty was in a particularly chatty mood the next day, talking to a small cadre of writers about clock management.
“Here’s the thing, if I’m being very honest,” he said. “Guys like you, people like a lot of our fans, you become familiar with things like end-of-the-game clock stuff quicker than a lot of coaches. Every game you watch is in context. And the younger ones, they play hundreds of games on that … what’s the video game?”