On the Chiefs, Looking to August

MSN News ran this today under the headline

32 players whose NFL careers can either flourish or falter

Kansas City Chiefs – OT Eric Fisher

The No. 1 overall pick from 2013 looks to build off of his first season as Alex Smith’s blindside protector. In 2014, Fisher allowed seven sacks and 24 hurries. Kansas City’s

offensive line needs to be anchored by Fisher as they allowed overachieving center Rodney Hudson to depart in free agency.

 

 

 

 

The NFL, taxes and WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING?

I won't even ask, I'll just say it--this makes no sense whatever.

Not only is the NFL a huge profit maker but the owners are, every one of them, multi-millionaires or multi-billionaires.

Why in God's name do we let these filthy rich moochers not pay any taxes whatever?

To whom does this even remotely make sense?

When they want their stadiums redone and updated and made more luxurious--again, mostly for the wealthy, with their skyboxes--they come to the county and city and state with their hands out, wanting money and then they're non-taxed, too?  Last time around, they asked for, no, blackmailed us for one quarter of a billion dollars.  And they got it.  We gave it to them.

And think about it, too.  It goes further.  Each and every one of the franchises is a monopoly, for God's sake. They have a monopoly on this sport in their area, they make millions, if not billions and we let them be tax exempt.  This is better than the big church scam.

This sh*t's gotta' stop.  And we're just the ones to do it.

The biggest thing on Super Bowl Sunday

The scumbag, billionaire owners of the monopoly NFL teams pay no taxes.

Let that sink in.

Not for profit my ass.

Did you know this about the NFL?

Does any of this make any sense?  Well, does it make any sense except to the very wealthy owners of these teams?  

Keep in mind, too, each team is a monopoly.

On top of this obscenity, when they want their stadiums updated, first they go to each area with their respective hats out, asking their city/state/county for money to do so, followed closely by threatening the area with leaving.

And all the owners are billionaires in their own right.

This is crazy.

Let's not let them do this to us any longer.

Let's get THIS party started.

Write your government representative now:

Contacting the Congress: A Citizen's Congressional Directory

Thank you, in advance.

Breaking: Clark Hunt makes big Chiefs move

Breaking sports news:

In an effort to both win more games and cut team expenses, Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt announced today he would be cutting the team in half, firing the entire offensive team.

Mr. Hunt was quoted, saying "It's our defense that's winning the games anyway so we figured this was an excellent move all around.

More at 6 and 10 tonight.

The Difference Between the Royals and the Chiefs

One owner knows his game AND wants to win.



The other wants a profit center.

Hopefully not the start of a trend for thinking of Kansas City

There is a big story on MSN news right now about a guy who got a big KC Chiefs tattoo:

Dear God, let's not let this be the beginning of the way this area is thought of or remembered.

Story:  Whoa!!! Kansas City fan goes all-out with a huge scalp tattoo

Kansas City--and Lamar Hunt--getting some attention and kudos on the 'net

Seen last evening, after the Super Bowl ended, on Yahoo! News:

Why the Super Bowl uses Roman numerals

Which linked to this:

The Super Bowl and Roman numerals: A match made in Kansas City

And the story:

NEW ORLEANS – It is the most American of occasions, the showpiece of the most American of all sports, so why does the Super Bowl use Roman numerals to denote its grand event every year?

No other major American sport uses the Roman counting system, one formerly familiar to school kids around the country but now essentially obsolete to the iPad generation. Yet the Super Bowl persists with the tradition, has no desire or plan to change it, and the ancient characters will continue to appear just as they have since 1971.

That was the year when what was supposed to be Super Bowl 5 became Super Bowl V, at the insistence of pioneering sports entrepreneur Lamar Hunt, the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs and one of the most significant figures in the growth in the game’s popularity.

The Baltimore Colts emerged victorious that year, outlasting the Dallas Cowboys 16-13 thanks to a winning field goal in the dying seconds.

Lamar Hunt (Getty Images)

Lamar Hunt was a man with plenty of ideas, most of them good. It was he who also coined the term Super Bowl ‐ coming from the children's toy, a "Super Ball" – and his numbering concept was considered successful enough to retain. The system has even been retroactively incorporated for Super Bowls I through IV.

"It was his brainchild," said Bob Moore, historian for the Chiefs. "I think people felt from the start that it had something to it, even if they couldn’t quite put their finger on exactly what it was. Before long it was just part of it. Now it wouldn’t be the same without it."

Hunt, who died aged 74 in 2006, was a stakeholder in seven different sports franchises and has been inducted into eight different ‘Halls of Fame’, but amid his multitude of achievements he was, according to his son, Clark, to be particularly proud of suggesting Roman numerals for the Super Bowl.

"It has been in place ever since," NFL official historian Joe Horrigan told Yahoo! Sports. "It is part of the Super Bowl culture, it is an established part of the magic of the Super Bowl.”

No discussions have been held to consider changing to a more common numbering system even with Super Bowl 50, sorry, Super Bowl L, just three years away.

"If you asked me to count up using Roman numbers I wouldn't even know how to do it," said San Francisco 49ers safety Donte Whitner. "But it's a good thing. It's the Super Bowl, man."

The fans love it too, according to a small sampling of opinion gathered on the streets of New Orleans on Wednesday afternoon.

"I don’t think you need anything to make the Super Bowl even more dramatic," said mother of three and Saints fan Ree Nygren. "But it does add something to it, it is kind of cool and timeless and important-sounding. There is no point in changing it, although it won’t be quite the same once it become Ls rather than Xs."
So, hey, if we--Kansas City and our Chiefs--can't get remotely close to the playoffs, let alone the Super Bowl, at least we can get some national recognition from and after the game, eh?

USA Today comes to the same conclusion as the rest of us

Among the rest of USA Today's evaluation of NFL Sports for this weekend's games in Friday's paper is the fact that the Chiefs are in a bad way and that things need to chage:

As chill in air grows, hot seats come out

8:24PM EDT October 25. 2012 - Firing season has started early in the NFL this year. Less than a week after Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid dismissed defensive coordinator Juan Castillo, the Carolina Panthers dumped general manager Marty Hurney on Monday.

And the season hasn't even hit halftime.

More changes are coming. That's a fact of life in the pressurized, win-now NFL, where patience seems to be more a liability than a virtue.

Scott Pioli and Romeo Crennel, Kansas City Chiefs. While Chiefs owner Clark Hunt has not sent any public signals suggesting his brain trust is in jeopardy, fans are getting restless amid a 1-5 start. There's a Save Our Chiefs site on Twitter with 70,000-plus followers. Will fourth-year GM Pioli get another offseason to draft the quarterback of the future? His 2009 trade for the quarterback of the future, Matt Cassel, has been a bust.

Crennel is just in his first full season, but his fate is likely tied to Pioli's.

Hope for a good game and outcome this weekend. One of the only teams that stink as bad as the Chiefs lately is the Raiders.

Link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/columnist/2012/10/25/coaches-on-the-hot-seat/1659169/

Kansas City Chiefs fans hit new low

There's been a controversial issue for years for and about Kansas City NFL football fans, what with their repeated ending of the national anthem with "...and the home of the Chiefs!" instead of the actual "...and the home of the brave" as they should.

Then, there's been the fact that they did the "tomahawk chop", which was considered disrespectful of Native Americans.

But all that went out the window today when Chiefs fans in the stadium outdid themselves.

When quarterback Matt Cassel was hit in the game today against the Baltimore Ravens, suffering a concussion, too many in the audience broke out in a stadium-rattling cheer.

Tacky.

Truly a new low.

Link: http://www.kmbc.com/sports/Chiefs-OT-Eric-Winston-blasts-fans-who-cheered-Cassel-injury/-/11664276/16891856/-/8h9kae/-/index.html

Peyton Manning: What'd I say?

Froom The Star today: Report: Manning has narrowed his choices (And we are not on the list). Link: http://chiefsblog.kansascity.com/?q=node/1977

Chiefs: Okay, it's official (update)

An article online and at The Kansas City Star says Clark Hunt makes it official--the Chiefs are, in fact, trying to get Peyton Manning to come here to quarterback for the Chiefs. (link below0. A couple things come to my mind. First, to an extent, good for him/them. I guess. If it's to win games and at least get in the playoffs, if not the Super Bowl, then great, that's what we fans want. Unlike the Royals--the cheap, gross, disgusting Walmart of the MLB--who simply want to sell tickets, make an obscene profit and go home, we'd like to win a lot of games and go at least most of the way, if not all the way to the end of the season. My seoond thought is, I--and likely a lot of us--hope this isn't, in fact, just another Joe Montana ploy to fill seats because it would do that, certainly. (I say that and it did seem as though it was about filling seats and selling tickets but at least we did go 17-8 with "Boradway Joe"). Third and final thought--I just don't think he--Mr. Manning--is going to want to come here. I may be wrong, we have a lot in common, in some ways, city-wise, compared to Indianapolis, but not team- and football-wise. I don't think we have the money to buy Peyton Manning, nor, worse yet, the will to win. I'd love to be wrong on both counts, but especially that last one. I hope Clark Hunt and the Chiefs really, really care most about winning. I think they do. We hope they do. We shall see. Links: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/09/3480067/clark-hunt-says-chiefs-are-after.html; http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/09/2682926/report-12-teams-including-miami.html. UPDATE: Report: Peyton Manning meeting with Broncos, then Cardinals and Dolphins. What's that tell you? Link: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/report-peyton-manning-meeting-broncos-then-cardinals-dolphins-185853576.html

The difference between the Royals and Chiefs

Both are professional sports teams, of course--one in Major League Baseball, the other in the National Football League. Both have stadiums on the East side of the metropolitan Kansas City area. Both played their respective games in town yesterday. But the similarities seem to end there. The real difference between these two local sports teams is that the Chiefs football team is owned and run by a family and organization that knows and loves their football game--and wants to win. The other one is owned by a penny-pinching retail family and chain. Links: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/13/2221984/lightning-strikes-chiefs-make.html http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/13/2221607/as-3-royals-1-monday-sept-13.html