Chiefs Jason Whitlock Puts The Hammer Down - Page 6

Titty Meat · 10-08-2012, 04:45 PM

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/w...-cassel-100812

You gotta be f---ing kidding me.

In a society that increasingly supports caged human cockfighting — aka MMA — has a proud history with boxing, cheers lustily whenever fights break out inside a hockey rink and builds Roman Empire-stylized coliseums for football games, a 320-pound, sweet-talking lineman has somehow convinced a segment of America that Chiefs fans are the sick and disgusting bad guys.

You gotta be f---ing kidding me.

You damn straight a small percentage of Chiefs fans cheered loudly when two overgrown Ravens knocked Matt Cassel smooth the hell out. Did we not cheer when Mike Tyson curb-stomped Michael Spinks? Google the knockout work that made Anderson Silva the MMA’s most beloved star and tell me if you hear respectful silence or wild, joyful hysteria?

We love violence and Eric Winston’s hypocritical ass is wealthy because he’s relatively adept at inflicting it. The only thing all that unusual about the smattering of cheers that greeted Cassel’s glazed-eyed trip to the turf is that his hometown fans gave life to the noise. And for that, you can blame Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli, his boss, Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, and the escalating cost of being a sports fan in the era of shopping mall-amusement park stadiums.

Sickening? A smattering of cheers for an injured $66 million quarterback with a rating of 66.2 and a league-leading 14 turnovers?

No. No. What’s sickening is how easily Winston, Kansas City’s right tackle, deflected the national media from the real story. One of the most passionate fan bases in sports — Kansas City Chiefs fans — has been abused so thoroughly the last eight to 10 years that it is turning unruly. What happened Sunday inside Arrowhead Stadium is a result of the Hunt family’s neglect of their fan base. This has been brewing since 1998, since Marty Schottenheimer courageously and justifiably realized he should move on after 10 years in Kansas City. From 1989 to 1998, Schottenheimer and his front-office partner Carl Peterson transformed Arrowhead Stadium from an empty parking lot into one of the coolest, most electric places on earth eight fall Sundays a year. Football Sundays in Kansas City became mini-holidays. The whole town wore red starting on Fridays. Tailgating at Arrowhead Stadium before games was Kansas City’s No. 1 social activity.

I’ve watched NFL games at every venue. Nothing compared to Arrowhead Stadium during the Schottenheimer era. Nothing. The Chiefs never advanced to the Super Bowl, but Kansas City was the NFL’s ground zero. The players, coaches and executives were treated like royalty.

The players, coaches, executives and ownership got spoiled. They didn’t have to win it all to be treated as if they had. The Chiefs haven’t won a playoff game since 1993. That’s right. The Chiefs haven’t won a playoff game in two decades. But the stadium was filled, the parking lot packed and Chiefs jerseys hung in seemingly every Kansas City closet so Lamar Hunt, Kansas City’s Dallas-based owner, allowed Carl Peterson to hang around 10 years after Schottenheimer left, a good five years after it was painfully obvious Peterson’s previous success was a result of Schottenheimer’s brilliance. Most Chiefs fans concluded Hunt would’ve never allowed Peterson to linger for a decade if Hunt lived in Kansas City and felt the pain of each disappointing season as personally as Kansas City residents. Kansas Citians attached their identity to their professional football team. Joe Montana, Marcus Allen and Derrick Thomas made the typical, insecure Kansas Citian feel big time.

LET'S GET NUTS!
NFL fans are a special breed, and they their bring their own brand of craziness on game day.
The stench of Peterson’s last 10 years and Lamar Hunt’s loyalty to Peterson are fueling Chiefs fans lack of patience with their successors, Scott Pioli and Clark Hunt. The situation is further exacerbated by KC’s newly renovated stadium and the elevated cost associated with it. Chiefs fans are paying $27 to park, $200 for a club-level seat, $10 for beer and are watching teams with no reasonable shot at postseason success.

For the most part in today’s NFL, no quarterback equals no shot.

Lamar Hunt and Carl Peterson could never pick a quarterback. In 20 years, they never drafted one in the first round. They preferred to sign someone else’s veteran. Given a choice in the 1990s between benching an aloof, inconsistent and expensive Elvis Grbac and going with locker-room/fan favorite Rich Gannon, Hunt and Peterson let Gannon escape to Oakland, where he won a league MVP award, made four Pro Bowls and one Super Bowl appearance. Grbac eventually bounced to Baltimore and quit football. No one, besides Trent Dilfer, remembers Elvis Grbac.

Scott Pioli’s first major personnel decision in Kansas City was giving Matt Cassel a franchise-quarterback contract despite his highly suspicious resume. Cassel never played at USC. He played one season at New England. Cassel is Pioli’s original sin, the mistake that has haunted his four years in Kansas City. Pioli, the Bill Belichick disciple, saw in Cassel the second coming of Tom Brady. Pioli arrogantly and foolishly thought he’d discovered Brady in a bottle twice. Ha.

This year Cassel has been the worst starting quarterback in football. He’s a turnover machine. He clearly lacks confidence. His arm strength is atrocious. His ball floats up before it moves ahead. He needs to be benched. Pioli won’t allow it.

PAIN TRAIN
Injuries are a part of football, but these players have been hit particularly hard.
Before Sunday’s game, a group of working-class Chiefs fans pooled their money to fly a banner over Arrowhead Stadium demanding that Hunt fire Pioli and bench Cassel. These people love their football team. Clark Hunt lives in Dallas. The fans are spending their money to get the attention of their absentee owner. They’re afraid that Pioli-Hunt is going to be a replica of Peterson-Hunt. Their fears are justified. Pioli is a poor man’s Peterson. Pioli is an embarrassingly insecure version of Peterson, a man with a bloated ego. Pioli masks his insecurity with a false bravado, a dictator’s management approach and a constant desire to manipulate the media into believing he was the brains behind the Patriots dynasty.

Chiefs fans aren’t having it. They want a real quarterback. They want the Cassel charade to end. Pioli’s stubbornness forced a handful of Chiefs fans to spontaneously thank the Ravens for momentarily ending their Matt Cassel nightmare. I think America will survive.

It’s easy for the national media to sit on their couches, inside their television studios or on their free, comfy press-box seats and preach polite decency to the working-class folks paying to watch their hijacked football team.

I won’t do it. I was inside Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday as a Chiefs fan. I’m not the type to boo or cheer. But I want Pioli fired. Eric Winston, too.

A Salt Weapon · 10-08-2012, 05:41 PM

A perfect article. Thanks.

**bevischief** · 10-08-2012, 05:41 PM

Pioli we are coming for you.

Red Beans · 10-08-2012, 05:44 PM

He's usually a turd, but goddamn... Whitlock you rocked it man! Cheers, and I apologize for allthe hate. We need your continued support moving forward! There's a plate of ribs in it for you, on me. Just keep churning this shit out!

Hammock Parties · 10-08-2012, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by crispystl420

I wonder what kind of inside info he had?

The luncheon with Pioli and Haley.

And he knew people in the biz who knew things about Pioli.

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 10-08-2012, 05:49 PM

I was really hoping you'd lay into these frauds. The Facebook page for the Chiefs had a post today tyat said "Chiefs fans are the greatest". I was enraged. Those PATronizing, disingenuous, passive aggressive ****s. Great job. I love you Jason Whitlock.

Richard_Cuckold · 10-08-2012, 05:52 PM

Great article & spot on.
Thanks for the link.

**alanm** · 10-08-2012, 05:53 PM

Jason, I retract every bad thing I've ever said about you after reading and disagreeing with a lot of your articles. But damn if you didn't nail it on the head this time.

FAX · 10-08-2012, 05:55 PM

Excellent job, Mr. jwhit. Excellent job.

You hit all the right notes and the result is a chorus of frustration and sports-fan angst.

Hopefully, this piece will siphon off some of the poison that's flooded the national media and, if so, you are owed a debt from every Chiefs fan who smashes a Jim Beam bottle over their own head on Sundays.

FAX

**wazu** · 10-08-2012, 05:56 PM

Wow - nice! Gotta give jwhit credit. He was the first person in any media anywhere to sound the alarm on Pioli.

**alanm** · 10-08-2012, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAX

Excellent job, Mr. jwhit. Excellent job.

You hit all the right notes and the result is a chorus of frustration and sports-fan angst.

Hopefully, this piece will siphon off some of the poison that's flooded the national media and, if so, you are owed a debt from every Chiefs fan who smashes a Jim Beam bottle over their own head on Sundays.

FAX

Hopefully a empty bottle.

**Tribal Warfare** · 10-08-2012, 05:59 PM

**notorious** · 10-08-2012, 05:59 PM

Thanks Jason.

**notorious** · 10-08-2012, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wazu

Wow - nice! Gotta give jwhit credit. He was the first person in any media anywhere to sound the alarm on Pioli.

Hell, he is still the only one.

There were a few of us here that didn't like Pioli, but we had no power, and of course nothing to lose.

Jason Whitlock put it on the line extremely early. He knew Pioli was a control-freak turd, wrote about it, and took the flak with class.

I am very happy that he still cares to check in and even defend the very people that were throwing insults at him 3 years ago. That takes a lot of character.

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 10-08-2012, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by notorious

Hell, he is still the only one.

There were a few of us here that didn't like Pioli, but we had no power, and of course nothing to lose.

Jason Whitlock put it on the line extremely early. He knew Pioli was a control-freak turd, wrote about it, and took the flak with class.

I am very happy that he still cares to check in and even defend the very people that were throwing insults at him 3 years ago. That takes a lot of character.

Abso****inglutely. That's why the dude is a pro. He's earned this public dick sucking.

htismaqe · 10-08-2012, 06:13 PM

This is an absolutely AMAZING article. Anybody notice that he didn't once really mention that he was right about Pioli? That he didn't use this as an "I told you so" moment?

I've never been kind to Whitlock - he comes here infrequently and usually does so for attention (or to get everybody stirred up) and is gone before anybody can respond.

But this time he's put it on the line and put his money ($600!) where his mouth is.

I honestly feel like he's one of us now more than ever before.

10-08-2012, 04:45 PM
Titty Meat Inmem 2.0 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: My house Casino cash: $-1012442	Jason Whitlock Puts The Hammer Down http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/w...-cassel-100812 You gotta be f---ing kidding me. In a society that increasingly supports caged human cockfighting — aka MMA — has a proud history with boxing, cheers lustily whenever fights break out inside a hockey rink and builds Roman Empire-stylized coliseums for football games, a 320-pound, sweet-talking lineman has somehow convinced a segment of America that Chiefs fans are the sick and disgusting bad guys. You gotta be f---ing kidding me. You damn straight a small percentage of Chiefs fans cheered loudly when two overgrown Ravens knocked Matt Cassel smooth the hell out. Did we not cheer when Mike Tyson curb-stomped Michael Spinks? Google the knockout work that made Anderson Silva the MMA’s most beloved star and tell me if you hear respectful silence or wild, joyful hysteria? We love violence and Eric Winston’s hypocritical ass is wealthy because he’s relatively adept at inflicting it. The only thing all that unusual about the smattering of cheers that greeted Cassel’s glazed-eyed trip to the turf is that his hometown fans gave life to the noise. And for that, you can blame Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli, his boss, Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, and the escalating cost of being a sports fan in the era of shopping mall-amusement park stadiums. Sickening? A smattering of cheers for an injured $66 million quarterback with a rating of 66.2 and a league-leading 14 turnovers? No. No. What’s sickening is how easily Winston, Kansas City’s right tackle, deflected the national media from the real story. One of the most passionate fan bases in sports — Kansas City Chiefs fans — has been abused so thoroughly the last eight to 10 years that it is turning unruly. What happened Sunday inside Arrowhead Stadium is a result of the Hunt family’s neglect of their fan base. This has been brewing since 1998, since Marty Schottenheimer courageously and justifiably realized he should move on after 10 years in Kansas City. From 1989 to 1998, Schottenheimer and his front-office partner Carl Peterson transformed Arrowhead Stadium from an empty parking lot into one of the coolest, most electric places on earth eight fall Sundays a year. Football Sundays in Kansas City became mini-holidays. The whole town wore red starting on Fridays. Tailgating at Arrowhead Stadium before games was Kansas City’s No. 1 social activity. I’ve watched NFL games at every venue. Nothing compared to Arrowhead Stadium during the Schottenheimer era. Nothing. The Chiefs never advanced to the Super Bowl, but Kansas City was the NFL’s ground zero. The players, coaches and executives were treated like royalty. The players, coaches, executives and ownership got spoiled. They didn’t have to win it all to be treated as if they had. The Chiefs haven’t won a playoff game since 1993. That’s right. The Chiefs haven’t won a playoff game in two decades. But the stadium was filled, the parking lot packed and Chiefs jerseys hung in seemingly every Kansas City closet so Lamar Hunt, Kansas City’s Dallas-based owner, allowed Carl Peterson to hang around 10 years after Schottenheimer left, a good five years after it was painfully obvious Peterson’s previous success was a result of Schottenheimer’s brilliance. Most Chiefs fans concluded Hunt would’ve never allowed Peterson to linger for a decade if Hunt lived in Kansas City and felt the pain of each disappointing season as personally as Kansas City residents. Kansas Citians attached their identity to their professional football team. Joe Montana, Marcus Allen and Derrick Thomas made the typical, insecure Kansas Citian feel big time. LET'S GET NUTS! NFL fans are a special breed, and they their bring their own brand of craziness on game day. The stench of Peterson’s last 10 years and Lamar Hunt’s loyalty to Peterson are fueling Chiefs fans lack of patience with their successors, Scott Pioli and Clark Hunt. The situation is further exacerbated by KC’s newly renovated stadium and the elevated cost associated with it. Chiefs fans are paying $27 to park, $200 for a club-level seat, $10 for beer and are watching teams with no reasonable shot at postseason success. For the most part in today’s NFL, no quarterback equals no shot. Lamar Hunt and Carl Peterson could never pick a quarterback. In 20 years, they never drafted one in the first round. They preferred to sign someone else’s veteran. Given a choice in the 1990s between benching an aloof, inconsistent and expensive Elvis Grbac and going with locker-room/fan favorite Rich Gannon, Hunt and Peterson let Gannon escape to Oakland, where he won a league MVP award, made four Pro Bowls and one Super Bowl appearance. Grbac eventually bounced to Baltimore and quit football. No one, besides Trent Dilfer, remembers Elvis Grbac. Scott Pioli’s first major personnel decision in Kansas City was giving Matt Cassel a franchise-quarterback contract despite his highly suspicious resume. Cassel never played at USC. He played one season at New England. Cassel is Pioli’s original sin, the mistake that has haunted his four years in Kansas City. Pioli, the Bill Belichick disciple, saw in Cassel the second coming of Tom Brady. Pioli arrogantly and foolishly thought he’d discovered Brady in a bottle twice. Ha. This year Cassel has been the worst starting quarterback in football. He’s a turnover machine. He clearly lacks confidence. His arm strength is atrocious. His ball floats up before it moves ahead. He needs to be benched. Pioli won’t allow it. PAIN TRAIN Injuries are a part of football, but these players have been hit particularly hard. Before Sunday’s game, a group of working-class Chiefs fans pooled their money to fly a banner over Arrowhead Stadium demanding that Hunt fire Pioli and bench Cassel. These people love their football team. Clark Hunt lives in Dallas. The fans are spending their money to get the attention of their absentee owner. They’re afraid that Pioli-Hunt is going to be a replica of Peterson-Hunt. Their fears are justified. Pioli is a poor man’s Peterson. Pioli is an embarrassingly insecure version of Peterson, a man with a bloated ego. Pioli masks his insecurity with a false bravado, a dictator’s management approach and a constant desire to manipulate the media into believing he was the brains behind the Patriots dynasty. Chiefs fans aren’t having it. They want a real quarterback. They want the Cassel charade to end. Pioli’s stubbornness forced a handful of Chiefs fans to spontaneously thank the Ravens for momentarily ending their Matt Cassel nightmare. I think America will survive. It’s easy for the national media to sit on their couches, inside their television studios or on their free, comfy press-box seats and preach polite decency to the working-class folks paying to watch their hijacked football team. I won’t do it. I was inside Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday as a Chiefs fan. I’m not the type to boo or cheer. But I want Pioli fired. Eric Winston, too.
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A Salt Weapon Starter Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Alaska Casino cash: $-840000	A perfect article. Thanks. __________________ If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
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bevischief .... Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Somewhere Kansas Casino cash: $7749352 VARSITY	Pioli we are coming for you.
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Red Beans Not dead yet... Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Indian Creek Casino cash: $1679903	He's usually a turd, but goddamn... Whitlock you rocked it man! Cheers, and I apologize for allthe hate. We need your continued support moving forward! There's a plate of ribs in it for you, on me. Just keep churning this shit out!
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10-08-2012, 05:52 PM	#81
Richard_Cuckold Banned Join Date: Sep 2012 Casino cash: $10004900	Great article & spot on. Thanks for the link.
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alanm Feeling Victorian Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Nebraska/Wyoming/Colorado Casino cash: $-113564	Jason, I retract every bad thing I've ever said about you after reading and disagreeing with a lot of your articles. But damn if you didn't nail it on the head this time.
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FAX testing ... 1, 2, 3 Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Tennessee Casino cash: $6753759	Excellent job, Mr. jwhit. Excellent job. You hit all the right notes and the result is a chorus of frustration and sports-fan angst. Hopefully, this piece will siphon off some of the poison that's flooded the national media and, if so, you are owed a debt from every Chiefs fan who smashes a Jim Beam bottle over their own head on Sundays. FAX
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wazu ... Join Date: May 2002 Location: Kansas City, MO Casino cash: $-1507705 VARSITY	Wow - nice! Gotta give jwhit credit. He was the first person in any media anywhere to sound the alarm on Pioli.
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htismaqe 'Tis my eye! Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Chiefsplanet Casino cash: $8179900	This is an absolutely AMAZING article. Anybody notice that he didn't once really mention that he was right about Pioli? That he didn't use this as an "I told you so" moment? I've never been kind to Whitlock - he comes here infrequently and usually does so for attention (or to get everybody stirred up) and is gone before anybody can respond. But this time he's put it on the line and put his money ($600!) where his mouth is. I honestly feel like he's one of us now more than ever before.
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