Protest Against Chiefs Name Goes National Today

I just saw this on Facebook. Seems the protest against our Chiefs name is, in fact, not just going public but actually going national. From CBS News.

Protest calling for Chiefs to change name and stop using tomahawk chop planned ahead of Super Bowl

A bit of the article:

A Native American rights group is planning a protest on Sunday urging the Kansas City Chiefs to retire the team's name and stop fans from using an in-game tomahawk chop ahead of Super Bowl LV in Tampa.

Alicia Norris, co-founder of the Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality (FIREE), is one of the people leading the demonstration set to take place near Raymond James Stadium, where the Chiefs will play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the championship. Norris told CBS News that the use of the name and chop are "dishonorable and disrespectful."

"The Indigenous people of this land have already had a mass genocide approach with regard to their culture and way of living," she said. "And when you further dehumanize them and objectify them, it just kind of falls in line with that extinction of who they are."

It goes on:

It's not just Native American rights groups calling for the change. The Kansas City Star posted an editorial this week urging the Chiefs to abandon the Native American imagery. With millions set to tune in to the big game, the newspaper's editorial board had a message for people unaware of the Chiefs' traditions.

"For those fans, a message: Many Kansas Citians will cringe along with you when spectators do the chop," they wrote. "We embrace the team's on-field success, but don't think a corrosive chant has much to do with it. It isn't fair to ask groups offended by these symbols to wait even longer for change."

With this, ladies and gentlemen, Kansas Citians--including Chiefs fans, of course--I can tell you, it will only be a matter of time now. Wait for it. The only question is how long it will take but it will be sooner than later. Count on it. Like it, agree with it, understand it or not, the Chiefs will be renamed and soon. It's all but done. You can take that to the bank.

The Kansas City Chiefs are going the way of the Washington Redskins, at least in name.

As our Dad used to say, it's all over but the crying.

It's a Great Time In America!

First, this. All this. Check out all that great news, ladies and gentlemen.

Added to this, Trump will be going through his second--second--impeachment trial in Congress this week.

And then, GO CHIEFS!!!

It's a bee--YOO--tee--full day!!

Have a great, great day, everyone!

Mahomes vs That Other Guy

Want to see a great comparison, one week before the big game?

More stats:

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Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs since 2018:

92.0 PFF Grade (1st)

2,054 PASS YDS (1st)

17 PASS TDs (1st)

Patrick Mahomes has thrown 33 TDs to Travis Kelce since 2018 (playoffs included) Most by a duo in the NFL

Let's do this!

Go Magic!

Go Patrick!!

GO CHIEFS!!!

To All the Blogger/Hater/Non-Believers Out There On Our CHIEFS!!!

SUPER BOWL LIV CHAMPIONS, BABY!!!

Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl 2020 in come-from-behind 

Youngest MVP player in a Super Bowl!!

Patrick Mahomes!!

And Coach Andy Reid wins his 222nd victory on 2/2/2020!!

GO CHIEFS!!!

Chiefs Rightly Get Some Great Press This Weekend

I saw this Associated Press article in today's New York Times. I had to search it out. Turns out, it was all over multiple media sites.

Chiefs Become a Destination For the League's Top Agents

A bit from the article:

The Kansas City Chiefs needed a playmaking safety and signed coveted free agent Tyrann Mathieu.

They needed help at cornerback and signed Bashaud Breeland and Morris Claiborne.

They had to address the pass rush and extended the contract of defensive end Frank Clark.

That aggressive approach to roster turnover speaks volumes about the job Chiefs general manager Brett Veach has done in Kansas City. But it also speaks volumes to the fact that the Chiefs, for years a franchise that struggled to lure top talent on the open market against higher-profile teams, has become a destination for players seeking playoff glory and Super Bowl rings.

"I wanted to come to a team that had great talent, great core players," explained Mathieu, who signed a $42 million, three-year contract in March. "Any time you can play for an organization that has a great history and obviously a great quarterback that's really going to take this league over, really by storm — really this was a no-brainer for me and my family."

In fact, that may be the biggest reason everyone seems to want to play in Kansas City: the unique combination of an innovative players' coach in Andy Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahomes, whose record-setting debut as the starter portends postseason success for years to come.

"They've got a good ball club and the best offense in the league," said Claiborne, a former first-round draft pick who signed a $3 million deal late last week.

It goes on.

Yes sir, it's great. We're sitting on the doorstep of what could and maybe should be one stellar football year here in town.

Sure, they lost last night. 

They played their B string, at least. Mahomes played the first half only. The first half of the first quarter.

Stay tuned.

For anyone out there, KC blogger or whomever, who wants to poo-poo this team needs to stay tuned.

They'll likely be eating crow soon enough.

On the Way to the Super Bowl...

Check out the latest article on the NFL playoff games and who may be going to the Super Bowl.

Ranking the possible Super Bowl LIII matchups

In four of these, the pick is our Chiefs, with the number one pick being Chiefs vs. Rams!

16. Colts vs. Rams: Nothing wrong with Andrew Luck vs. Jared Goff, and this would be a fresh matchup. Just not a lot of sex appeal and the Rams have a limited fan base.

15. Colts vs. Saints: Same deal, except New Orleans has a much larger fan base and wouldn’t be far from home. This is also a rematch of Super Bowl XLIV. Blowout potential is higher than you’d like.

14. Colts vs. Cowboys: What we’re saying is there really are no terrible potential matchups left. Nothing wrong with these two teams, and the Cowboys are the Cowboys — very popular and very polarizing. But neither team feels Super Bowl-worthy this year.

13. Chiefs vs. Cowboys: This would be fun, but there’s not much to it and Kansas City would be a clear-cut favorite.

12. Chargers vs. Cowboys: This is basically on the same level as Kansas City-Dallas, except the Chargers are chasing their first-ever Super Bowl on the back nine of Philip Rivers’ career and there’s a better chance this would be a close game.

11. Chargers vs. Eagles: Everything we just said about the Chargers, but now you’ve got the Nick Foles magic and Philadelphia chasing back-to-back championships — something nobody has done in the last decade.

10. Colts vs. Eagles: Andrew Luck and the Colts might be slightly more of a draw than the Bolts.

9. Chargers vs. Saints: Philip Rivers vs. predecessor Drew Brees would be interesting, but I’d be concerned about a potential New Orleans blowout. The Saints would practically be at home against a team that lacks a fan base.

8. Chargers vs. Rams: Even though the two franchises lack large fan bases, a battle between two teams from the same city would be pretty damn fantastic.

7. Chiefs vs. Eagles: Philly going for the repeat against the league’s highest-scoring team in a battle between former colleagues Andy Reid and Doug Pederson.

6. Patriots vs. Rams: Can the Patriots beat the team they defeated in their first Super Bowl in order to win their sixth?

5. Patriots vs. Cowboys: This would be a freakin’ ratings bonanza for CBS. Quite possibly the two highest-profile teams in the NFL, but I’d fear a New England blowout.

4. Chiefs vs. Saints: Patrick Mahomes vs. Drew Brees in a battle between the league’s two most valuable players, and it’d probably be close.

3. Patriots vs. Saints: Tom Brady and Drew Brees are two of the most accomplished quarterbacks in NFL history, and you’d have an interesting dynamic with New England chasing its sixth Lombardi Trophy in essentially a road game only 400 miles from New Orleans.

2. Patriots vs. Eagles: This would mark only the second time in NFL history in which teams met in back-to-back Super Bowls, and this one would be especially intriguing because Philly is once again led by Nick Foles while the Patriots are trying to bolster their incredible legacy.

And the one we really want to see:

1. Chiefs vs. Rams: When they met during the regular season, the two most lethal offensive teams in the NFL only combined for 105 points in the first-ever NFL game in which both teams scored 50.

...with Chiefs going all the way, naturally.

GO CHIEFS!!

Kansas City's Connection to Today's Super Game

All hail, George Toma.

George Toma, 88, to help prepare 

Super Bowl field for 51st time

What a guy.

A bit from the article.

Super Bowl LI will be played on artificial turf in Houston, the birthplace of fake grass, but there's still work to be done for George Toma, the veteran groundskeeper who has helped prepare the field for each of the first 50 Super Bowls.

Toma, who turns 88 on Feb. 2 but continues to work as a consultant for the NFL, watched from the sidelines as an all-star crew of groundskeepers from other NFL teams applied logo designs to the stadium end zones, one of the many tasks that will occupy hundreds of workers leading up to the game Feb. 5.

"This is one of the best artificial fields that we've played on," Toma said of NRG Stadium's new field, which was manufactured by TurfNation of Dalton, Ga., 90 miles northwest of Atlanta.

While discussing some of the innovations he has helped bring to field preparation, such as using lasers to ensure straight lines and splash guards for use by field painters, Toma also took a moment to recall the first Super Bowl in 1967 between the Chiefs and Packers.

He said he stood next to two Packers equipment managers, a father and son, speculating on what Green Bay coach Vince Lombardi would do the next day to beat Kansas City.

And what a history he has not just in his industry but with this biggest of all NFL games.

This man has helped prepare every 

Super Bowl field 

Everyone should have work they do they enjoy, they love, like this and this man. It's not wonder he's still going strong at 88.

Thanks for all you do, Mr. Toma! And thanks for representing Kansas City and doing it so well!

Links:

Did You Know There Is A MLB 

Groundskeepers Hall Of Fame?

George Toma inducted in the Major League 

Baseball Groundskeeper Hall of Fame

KC legend Toma earns groundskeeping honor 

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The Super Bowl Ad They Wouldn't Show

The Super Bowl ad they wouldn't show----but should.



We took their land from them and we took their food and their culture and religion.

Then we gave them guns.  And alcohol.

"Redskins" has got to go.

Link:  Change The Mascot - Launched By The Oneida Indian Nation

The Super Bowl: Imagine

And/or poverty.

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.

Kansas City Chiefs History: On this day

On Jan. 15, 1967, the first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10.

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

How did I miss this one?

Well, that was fun

We love wierd but fun, right?

One finger, much bigger celebrity

I don't know about you but I was one of the estimated 111 million people worldwide who watched the Super Bowl last evening and I watched most of the whole thing. It was a good, close, fighting, scrapping game and you couldn't tell how it would end. I also watched the halftime performance. I thought it was great, if wildly decadent and that Madonna's entrance as a Greek (or was it Roman?) goddess was hilarious and maybe even a poke in the eye of the whole Super Bowl extravaganza with her maybe having fun with the modern-day gladiator aspect of it. Who knows? What we do know is that one of the performers--I refuse to name her here or put up her picture so she doesn't get yet further notice--"flipped off" the audience with that one middle finger. And with that one finger, she attained exactly what she wanted, too. Huge headlines. Lots of talk. Her name everywhere. Well, everywhere but here. It seems she took the old quote by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, that is "Well-behaved women rarely make history," to its extreme. I expect, in the future, at this same venue--and perhaps others--we'll have lesser-known performers trying to do more of the same, and for the same reason.

In case you missed Clint Eastwood's Super Bowl commercial

Now, as I've said here before, could we stop being this political party or that one, all be Americans again and work together as one country, one people and solve our problems? Please? New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said virtually the same thing today on NBC's "Meet the Press" from Indianapolis at the Super Bowl:

Enjoy your Super Bowl, y'all

For tomorrow's big game: the best and worst Super Bowl Foods

From Men's Health Magazine and Yahoo! Health: http://health.yahoo.net/experts/eatthis/best-and-worst-super-bowl-foods

Welcome to Super Bowl Week

Like it, love it or hate it, it's here--Super Bowl Week. It will be chockablock with announcements, advertisements, news mentions and more all week so get ready. We're familiar with this, of course. One of those annual media events. So here goes. Unfortunately, our own Chiefs didn't get even remotely close to the playoffs, let alone the actual game itself. So it goes. There's always next year. (Yeah, right).

On this day, 1967

ON THIS DAY:

On Jan. 15, 1967, the first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10.