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Anybody remember TE Walter White?
Any of you old timers remember Walter White? He played TE for the Chiefs from 75 to 79. I met him last night at the Phoenix downtown.
I vaguely remembered him. Doing a google search, he is ranked the 3rd best TE in franchise history. He had a couple good years with his best being in 76. His 79 season was cut short. Not really sure what happened to him and I didn't want to ask him. He was celebrating his 63rd birthday last night. He looks pretty good but moves like a much older man. I am pretty sure the years of football bring him a lot of pain today. |
He gets out and about in the city a whole lot. I remember meeting him in Springfield when I was in college and we talked Chiefs for a long time. Then later downtown at the Kansas City Club.
Nice enough guy. |
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Barely remember him. Kewl to meet an old Chief though.
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He was very nice to my family. He came to our table and shook all our hands.
Lonnie McFadden asked Walter to get up and sing. He sang the Temptations song "MyGirl" he actually did a great job with it. |
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I didn't remember him playing but I've met him.
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He sells the best meth in the A-B-Q.
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He is the man who knocks.
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He was one of my favorite players at the time. Not a lot to root for on those late '70s teams.
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He stopped in DDC about 11 years ago when I was flight instructing.
He was with Deron Cherry and a former Minnesota Viking. I will need to look at their autographs to see who all was with him. |
Walter White was a decent NFL tight end in his day. Had good size, pretty good hands. He played for some awful Chiefs teams, but was one of the few players who didn't just flat out suck back then. He's been in the Chiefs Ambassadors program for a long time, and is a good representative for the retired Chiefs players. I've met him. Nice guy.
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Not related but I just met rich eisen. Asked if he wanted to run a forty this morning. He declined.
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Also met most of rob riggle's family. Nice people
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he was a really good tight end. I remember him making several place for us and I thought he had a lot of promise, but then he just disappeared. in those days, if you lived outside Kansas City you did not get much information. I presumed that he had some sort of offseason injury or late season injury that ended his career. too bad.
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I'm glad you got the chance to meet him, he sounds like a good guy. I'm also sorry to hear he isn't getting around all that well at this point, but I'm not surprised.
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Never heard of him.
Other than the Chiefs SB teams in the 60's and the documentaries and stories and pics from local Kansas Citians and what the NFL Films show on NFL network etc, I rarely know of any players from the 70's and majority of the 80's up until the late 80's and when Marty and Carl took over. |
Sure do. But those were my radio listening days. No Chiefs on TV up here then.
But I have referred to him several times in the past on here. |
Mr. White comes from a lovely family in Virginia. I got to share a meal with them when my younger brother was in law school there.
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When I see idiot posters in other threads say they'd rather see this team go 2-14 than 10-6, it makes me want to puke. |
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The interesting thing about this list is that there are no offensive players on it, and I think that is what doomed those teams more than anything. Other than John Alt, our best offensive players had a couple of good years, but no long-term career success. Joe Delaney, Walter White, Carlos Carson, Bill Kenney, and those guys never sustained their success, and guys like Henry Marshall and Matt Herkenhoff who played for a long time really weren't top-tier players in the league. They just had no competition for their spots. I really wonder how things would be different if Blackledge had been a franchise guy or if we had drafted Marino. That's the biggest question in this franchise's history. |
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