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The Chiefs, Romeo, and A Letter to Santa Claus
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12/21/2011 3:38:00 PM
One thing I’ve learned to do more of in recent years is to look at most things in my life with perspective. Take the Chiefs and their win on Sunday against the unbeaten Green Bay Packers.
It was a great win, yes, but it was also pretty much the same group of Chiefs players that has lost five times this year by an average of 27 points. I liked the way Interim Head Coach Romeo Crennel handled the team throughout the week, and I like the way Kyle Orton handled the offense in his first start at quarterback. Perspective tells me I’d like to see the same thing two more times to finish the season.
A one-game win does mean we need to make Crennel our new head coach, nor does it mean we need to make Orton our new starting quarterback. Perspective leads me to this: A letter, included ...
Another Coaching Search For Our Favorite NFL Football Team
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12/13/2011 3:39:00 PM
I've been working in Kansas City and at FOX 4 for 26 years now, and for 21 years here at KPRS radio. I am now getting ready to cover my 8th Kansas City Chiefs Head Coach. From Mackovic to Marty, from Gunther to Gansz. I really liked Herm, but never really got to know Todd Haley. Dick Vermeil had alot of success in the regular season, but he ran of magic dust when it came time for the playoffs. Oh yeah, he only made it to the post-season once in 5 years. Seven head coaches in my more than a quarter century in Kansas City, and the Chiefs are still a franchise lost in the desert looking for the burning bush. They fired Todd Haley on monday, one day after another embarrassing loss in a season full of them. Five times this season the Chiefs have lost by a mile. Five times ...
Stomach-Turning Situation at Penn State
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11/14/2011 9:13:00 AM
If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, please take time to read the 23 page report given by the grand jury in the case of Jerry Sandusky in the state of Pennsylvania.
Sandusky is the former Penn State defensive coordinator who is at the center of the child sex scandal that has cost Joe Paterno, the winningest coach in major college history, his job, along the school president and other high ranking campus officials at State College.
The 23 pages is not a page turner, it’s a stomach turner. At times it’s difficult to read. Even more so, it’s difficult to understand how college administrators and coaches of boys and men could allow such acts to happen, and then to continually happen as they basically turned their heads in denial.
Click here to read the grand jury report. (Warning: disturbing content)
Jerry Sandusky deserves a fair trial. But ...
All For A Chunk of Change
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11/7/2011 11:51:00 AM
Well, Missouri has left the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference. Gone. Soon. And not like a neighbor who’s lived down the street for the last 50 years either. This is a family member moving out of the house. Still part of the family mind you, still blood, but no longer attached at the hip.
Missouri is gone from the region in the way that we’ve known it for more than a century. Missouri is also gone for all intents and purposes, when it comes to the relationship and attachment that we all thought was flesh and bone when it came to Kansas, Kansas State, and the Big 12. And yes, to Kansas City too.
All for a HUGE chunk of change and a bit more security. For those of you who thought money can’t buy everything, rest assured money can buy conference affiliation. Other factors played a part, no ...
Not the kickoff we had hoped for
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9/16/2011 12:00:00 AM
The football season has kicked off for the Chiefs, the colleges and the high schools. And boy don't I long for the days of the NFL Lockout. I know, back then, just 8 short weeks ago, we didn't know if we would even HAVE an NFL season. We knew the high schools and the college games were safe to be played, but as we stand now - on the verge of the Chiefs going to Detroit and having their doors blown off (again), so much seems up in the air for the immediate local football landscape.
Let's start at the top with the Chiefs. The season opening home loss to Buffalo was like staring into the sun for three hours straight. Very hard on the eyes. I was wondering which was worse: Chiefs football in the last year under Herm, the first year under Todd Haley, or that exhibition ...
Let's Get This Party Started (In September)
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8/15/2011 12:00:00 AM
If you're like me, a Chiefs fan, and watched the Chiefs this past friday night against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, you didnt like what you saw. It was bad football for the home team all the way around. Offense, defense, waterboy, everything. I thought ALL 32 teams in the NFL had to participate in the lockout. Was I wrong? The Buccaneers sure didn't look like they'd been in training camp for only two weeks. Either that, or the Chiefs looked like they'd only been in camp for two days. Thing is, and this is the important part: by the end of this week we'll all have forgotten about the Tampa Bay game. Former Chiefs WR Eddie Kennison joined us on FOX 4 during our live pre-game newscast. One famous Eddie saying during our radio days on the HOT 103 was: "It is what it is". And what it was, was an exhibition ...
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OFF TO CAMP
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7/28/2011 12:00:00 AM
It's time to go camping again Chiefs fans, and that is good news for so many reasons. The first and most obvious is: it's football season. And in this country that means more than just kickoffs and first downs and illegal procedure penalties. It means the first day of school is just weeks away. It means the weather is HOT, but soon the leaves will be turning all sorts of colors. And it means the most popular sport in the greatest country in the world is open for business, soon at every level. I considered getting through this without mentioning the word 'lockout', but I can't help it. The off-season work stoppage is one of the reasons this training camp for all 32 teams in the NFL will be so unique. Keep in mind no one had 'any' football practice over the last 5 months at any NFL team facilitY. No ...
All-Star game in KC!
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7/15/2011 12:10:00 PM
I'm wondering how many of us know exactly what next year's Major League Baseball All-Star game will bring to Kansas City? The Mid-Summer Classic was last played here in 1973. Then 'Royals Stadium' was just two years old, and the gem of all major league ballparks. I'm am not sure what the economic impact was on KC at that time, but it had to be no where near what next year's projections are. The Royals will unveil the official All-Star logo early next month, with plans already underway for Kansas City to play host to the best in baseball, and to the world. It'll be the first national sporting event scheduled for Kansas City since the 1988 Final Four. The Royals have already secured more than 3,000 hotel rooms and will need more than 2,000 volunteers. Bartle Hall has already been reserved for the more than 140,000 fans that will ...
This Bubba no Bubba Gump
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6/7/2011 9:00:00 AM
I am trying to remember the last time I was so impressed with a high school athlete. I've seen quite a few in my time, and most of them were high school football players in my home state of Texas. I remember a high school all-star team my junior year in high school that included Earl Campbell, John Jefferson, Tony Franklin and Mike Renfro. They all later played in the NFL, and they all played on a Texas High School All-Star team that LOST, to another team of All-Stars. I was impressed with them all as high schoolers, but my eye at that time was young. Who wouldn't be impressed? My eye now is more mature, and skeptical. And that brings me to Bubba Starling. It was august of 2009, and I was covering a football game between Gardner-Edgerton H.S. and Eudora (I think). Anyway, Gardner-Edgerton had the ball, and ...
The Winningest Royal Ever
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5/26/2011 9:00:00 AM
He was one of those rare athletics that we refer to with either just his first name or a nickname. Splitt. Paul Splittorff was the winningest pitcher in Royals franchise history, and he passed away on wednesday because of complications caused by melanoma. I got to thinking when I first learned of the true seriousness of his illness. His nickname really didn't fit his personality. Paul Splittorff was anything but 'split', as to say he was nowhere near a split personality. In fact, he was a rock solid a person and a man as you'll ever find. There were no two ways to describe him. Not as a pitcher. Not as a broadcaster. Not as a friend. With Splitt you knew exactly what you were going to get. As a pitcher his 166 wins were the most ever by a Royal, and he never lost a post-season start as a ...
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