Believe it or not, Chief’s chief feels your pain
Nobody feels the pain of Kansas City Chiefs fans more than their owner. I know that, but I also know that the CEO of our football team is a private man, not very accessible to the public.
So as a public service, I called up my old buddy (we go back to our college days) and asked him a few questions. Now I can’t officially confirm that the man I talked to is the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, but I can tell you that he lives in Dallas, and his last name rhymes with Punt.
Here goes:
Me: Hey Clarkster. How’s things?
CKH: Tankinator, what’s up dude! Still drinking those Meister Braus?
Me: No, I’ve moved on to the Natty Lites. But I got some questions about them Chiefs.
CKH: Oh. (Cough.) I love my Chiefs. What do you want to know?
Me: How are you taking their 1-5 record?
CKH: Very hard. In fact, when I got the call last Sunday that they’d lost to Tampa I was out mowing the grass, and I couldn’t even go on. Had to make the wife finish it. Not good.
Me: Fans are calling for the head of GM Scott Pioli. What do you say?
CKH: Scott is a great Chief, and he also knows the Patriot Way, which is something I think we can all respect, unless you’re a communist. If you look at the big picture, things started heading south when we lost the “Chiefs and Chopper” ads. I still find myself saying it now and then, mostly late at night. So if you really want to pin this on anybody, talk to Price Chopper.
Me: What is your assessment of the Chiefs right now?
CKH: To be honest, I think that’s a personal question, so I’ll defer it to the management team. Of course they won’t tell you anything either, unless they want to get fired.
Me: What’s your next move with this team?
CKH: Move? We’re not moving. We like Dallas. Remember that game when the boys wore the old Dallas Texan helmets? I hear that was very popular. My dad would be proud.
Me: Speaking of your dad, what would he have to say about this team?
CKH: He’d probably ground me. But you know, in his later years he spent a lot of time with his soccer stuff. In fact, I think he’d be real pleased with that Sporting KC team. They’re doing pretty good, don’t you think?
Phil Cardarella
7 months, 1 week agoBrady Quinn conducted a seminar on why Matt Cassel is not the Chief’s problem. Nobody — not even Tom Brady or Payden Manning — can hike, block, pass and catch the ball himself. Balls that get fumbled by backs are NOT the QB’s fault. Once the QB gets a ball to a reciever, it is the receivers who has to catch it — or at least not let the defender do that.
I saw Brady play for Notre Dame — where he had receivers who caught the ball and running backs who held on to it. He never had the talent to work with that he has here when he was at Cleveland — but it does little good to be the most talented guy in the league to fumble or deflect a pass the should be caught.