Chiefs Ten Things About Today's Game - Page 5

**gblowfish** · 09:39 PM

Ten Things About Today's Game

10. This weekend has been a great time to live in Kansas City. The Royals clinched their second World Series in a row Friday night with a thrilling ninth inning shutdown of Toronto. The weather here is perfect, the trees and turning colors, and as Bill Grigsby used to say "It's a Beau-ti-ful Day for football." When your team is 1-5, you don't expect much. So today was pretty stress free. Nothing really riding on today's game. Pittsburgh is in a fight for the NFC North, so this game meant much more to them. This morning I thought this would be a good time to use the Ten Things to show some of our CPers who don't live in KC, and have never been to Arrowhead, what the tailgate thing looks like. So I took my camera and snapped some pictures as the morning progressed. We'll do a little of that before talking game stuff.

Spoiler!

chiefzilla1501 · 10-25-2015, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I have to agree with George.

This team is the type that has to play sound fundamental football. We can't afford to give up 15 yard chunks at crucial moments in games.

Internalize that rage and use it on the next play.

Meh. To me, it's like a manager that gets ejected to fire the team up. Or a goon enforcing in hockey even if it lands you in a penalty box. Throwing at a hitter even if you know it will get you ejected.

It would be one thing if this was an isolated incident. I don't know if you remember the Denver game where Bronco d-bags were diving on Charles shoulder-first well after he was down on the ground. It happened all game. Alex Smith has taken plenty of cheap shots. It's been happening all year. So yeah, I get GB's comment about taking revenge later... but if the point is to send a message to teammates that you have their back, a 15-yard penalty is just as effective. Either way, I don't think you want to be subtle about it.

chiefzilla1501 · 10-25-2015, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I'm not even going to tell you when it happens. Let you experience the glory of a real WR

Might even make you a retroactive 'Hawks fan.

That is really badass.

But let's be real. It was also good fortune that the play after, Largent had the chance to unload like that. In most cases, to make a big enough noticeable statement, you usually have to take yourself out of the play. And you have to make a hit hard enough to make a statement which, many times, will get flagged anyway.

Rasputin · 10-25-2015, 10:09 PM

I had a great time in Kansas City with my kids this weekend. It was my kids first time at Arrowhead and I think we all had fun. I haven't been back to a game since we got beat by th I don't don't want talk about that. I would have taken my kids to games but the Chiefs have been disappoint over the years so didn't think it be worth it. Howe ever this weekend was and they just happened to win. Really wish we had a better showing of Chiefs fans than Steelers fans. Though look. Me (KC Tattoo) & Red Vador covered a This is Steelers Country banner. How dare they.

Was glad to send the Steelers away with a loss don't come into our house and think you can take over.

At one point they scored a touchdown and I thought it was incomplete because the roar of the crowd was so loud. Geeze. I wanted give my kids the experience of Chiefs fans being loud but we had fun and for that it was worth it.

**Baby Lee** · 10-25-2015, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

That is really badass.

But let's be real. It was also good fortune that the play after, Largent had the chance to unload like that. In most cases, to make a big enough noticeable statement, you usually have to take yourself out of the play. And you have to make a hit hard enough to make a statement which, many times, will get flagged anyway.

Did you miss that it was the same guy who concussed him out of the game, and knocked out two teeth, just a couple of weeks earlier?

Or that he recovered the fumble?

What more do you want out of the guy?

rabblerouser · 10-25-2015, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by gblowfish

I forgot to mention. I waved at Todd Haley after the game, but he didn't wave back.

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The Todd was probably unhappy about his team's lack of offensive output - don't take it personally; The Todd still loves us.

chiefzilla1501 · 10-25-2015, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Did you miss that it was the same guy who concussed him out of the game, and knocked out two teeth, just a couple of weeks earlier?

Or that he recovered the fumble?

What more do you want out of the guy?

Huh? I said it was a badass revenge play by Largent.

I'm saying that to get a legal revenge hit, you're not always going to have that perfect situation teed up for you. So I don't mind taking a penalty if the point is to get a message across.

**Baby Lee** · 10-25-2015, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Huh? I said it was a badass revenge play by Largent.

I'm saying that to get a legal revenge hit, you're not always going to have that perfect situation teed up for you. So I don't mind taking a penalty if the point is to get a message across.

My bad, I thought you meant he was 'lucky' to get the hit, not merely lucky to avoid the flag.

And to be fair, your fuller quote was 'badass, but let's be real . . . lucky'

**gblowfish** · 10-25-2015, 10:24 PM

There was another thing I forgot to mention. Remember how in previous weeks Alex kept wandering down to the Defensive bench, sitting there all by himself sulking? None of that today. I don't know if he took it on himself, or if he had a come to Jesus meeting with Andy, but today in the second half especially, he was talking to his O-line and to his receivers and backs while the defense was on the field. They all seemed much more engaged, and it showed by producing TD drives in the second half. That's progress.

**Baby Lee** · 10-25-2015, 10:28 PM

1. More thing from post-game. If there ever was positive bulletin board material, Tomlin's remark about 'the game got tight, and they made the dynamic plays' should be blown up poster sized.

ThaVirus · 10-25-2015, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Meh. To me, it's like a manager that gets ejected to fire the team up. Or a goon enforcing in hockey even if it lands you in a penalty box. Throwing at a hitter even if you know it will get you ejected.

It would be one thing if this was an isolated incident. I don't know if you remember the Denver game where Bronco d-bags were diving on Charles shoulder-first well after he was down on the ground. It happened all game. Alex Smith has taken plenty of cheap shots. It's been happening all year. So yeah, I get GB's comment about taking revenge later... but if the point is to send a message to teammates that you have their back, a 15-yard penalty is just as effective. Either way, I don't think you want to be subtle about it.

I think it's just a matter of being smart. Make your statements between the whistles.

What did we gain by having Fisher go over and jaw at the defender? Do we think West ended up with 10 more rushing yards because he knew Fish Daddy "had his back"? He wouldn't have had the reserves to jump over the goal line without that show of camaraderie? In all likelihood it just cost us yardage and painted a target on Fish's back.

I like my guys to be mean while the ball is live. Take that aggression out on the receiver crossing the middle. Take it out on the QB when you're a free rusher. I can live with those types of penalties because they have lasting effects on the game. The receiver will hesitate to extend himself for the catch after you lay a big hit on him. The QB will get happy feet and miss his reads/throws anticipating big hits.

Rasputin · 10-25-2015, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

1. More thing from post-game. If there ever was positive bulletin board material, Tomlin's remark about 'the game got tight, and they made the dynamic plays' should be blown up poster sized.

"dynamic plays" Are those the plays that the receivers would be so wide open and catch the ball but fall to the ground making the catch and then try get up to run but get tackled?

chiefzilla1501 · 10-25-2015, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I think it's just a matter of being smart. Make your statements between the whistles.

What did we gain by having Fisher go over and jaw at the defender? Do we think West ended up with 10 more rushing yards because he knew Fish Daddy "had his back"? He wouldn't have had the reserves to jump over the goal line without that show of camaraderie? In all likelihood it just cost us yardage and painted a target on Fish's back.

I like my guys to be mean while the ball is live. Take that aggression out on the receiver crossing the middle. Take it out on the QB when you're a free rusher. I can live with those types of penalties because they have lasting effects on the game. The receiver will hesitate to extend himself for the catch after you lay a big hit on him. The QB will get happy feet and miss his reads/throws anticipating big hits.

In most cases I'd agree with you. But again, the offense has been cheap shotted and soft all year long. I don't think an aggressive play later makes nearly the same statement as addressing it right after it happens.

A revenge pitch puts a batter on base maybe gets your pitcher booted. A hockey player revenge hitting a guy gives up a power play. But they're done for a reason. They can get your team charged up. If teammates have each other's back, that's the best way to get them to start playing hard. It may not have gotten West 10 more yards. But I'm sure he appreciated it.

**Baby Lee** · 10-25-2015, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

"dynamic plays" Are those the plays that the receivers would be so wide open and catch the ball but fall to the ground making the catch and then try get up to run but get tackled?

Well obviously we'd add THAT to the bulletin board as well.

Jackass.

Discuss Thrower · 10-25-2015, 11:37 PM

Since George mentioned it, I'll throw in one of the "buzzkills" of today that I didn't mention in the GDT.

A woman who sits in front of me and Discuss Dad has been taking photos of every home game going back to the 80s. Her camera, while big, hasn't apparently been an issue until today when she was hand delivered by two security officials a "fan code of conduct" citation coupled with a verbal explanation that her camera is "high definition" and therefore not allowed at Arrowhead.

Why this was an issue today of all days is what I can't figure out, especially after the Pioli era where the sideline was patrolled by both CSC contracted fan control personnel (which is to be expected) along with men wearing suits, sunglasses and earpieces. If the Chiefs were ever to have an issue with her camera (which, again, is beyond your standard cellphone shooter or pocket digital camera but definitely not a telephoto lens or some shit you'd expect an average AP scrub to have) it would have been then considering the lengths Pioli went to ensure nobody was committing acts of espionage against the team.

Fitting that this comes about the same day when of the parking lot attendants decided to actually police where Discuss Dad parked his vehicle. A fatbody neckbeard confronted him about his choice of parking location which wasn't blocking the flow of traffic or taking up more than one slot but certainly wasn't in line with the rest of the lot filling scheme where the spaces closest to Kauffman and Arrowhead are first before populating the ones back out toward the gates was suddenly not acceptable after three years of the same procedure of taking a spot near the edge of colored pass lot.

On the one hand, Discuss Dad has absolutely zero patience and assumes people following procedure is a personal affront to him and, as a consequence, he isn't necessarily rational.

On the other hand, the first car to the *same* thing he had tried to do in the lot in that another STH chose to ignore same fatbody neckbeard, and no measure to rectify this policy violation was attempted even after his party had spilled out of their vehicle for tailgating festivities. Discuss Dad and I walked to another tailgate after dad had confronted neckbeard by asking whom he worked for (apparently "The Mexicans" as the neckbeard explained) and spent a good hour there at another slot. We returned to his car to get his phone to see that the first car to ignore the neckbeard by tailgating away from how cars are supposed to be arrayed in a lot was now joined by a handful of other cars whom had apparently also ignored the directives to park in the slots as we were told to.

Again, Discuss Dad doesn't do himself a lot to earn the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the Hellerian bureaucracy that is being a STH, but if what he did in ignoring the parking attendants to get a spot where he can quickly leave the lot is now impermissible even though several other fans were not policed the same way doesn't make any sense given that the other cars were parked in other rows and definitely not in some sort of assigned pattern. In my view, either neckbeard and his other orange safety vested compatriots make everyone abide by the rules (even my dad) or they don't do anything outside of ensuring cars don't take up more than one slot (which isn't anywhere close to what Discuss Dad had tried to do). Like with the lady's camera, I don't understand why today it was an issue when it wasn't so in the previous twenty games or so when ancillary minutiae became a priority to the Pioli regime.

Finally, what was a nice little cherry on top of the least enjoyable KC win since the post-Belcher game against Carolina, was the fact the seats right next to Discuss Dad and I were occupied by three New Yorker Steeler fans -one or two of which decided to crack wise about how funny the name 'Joe Delaney' appeared on a jersey or on the stadium itself. Dad pointed out that he died trying to save kids from drowing and that temporarily shut them up, but I was still left with the impression those three middle aged douches had their heads firmly up their ass to not have enough sense to to withhold commentary about coaches or players that they had no clue about even though they were shelling out a decent amount of cash for seats at a place they'd probably never set foot in. It had been one thing if they were making puns about Nunez-Roches or some shit or even taking shots on Derrick Thomas having multiple children. But making light of Delaney is no different than making airplane jokes at Marshall or clock tower references at a Texas game. It's one thing to talk some smack about current or recent players/coaches/front office personnel, but a completely different thing to talk about long past players that didn't do anything to earn notoriety in that kind of aspect.

Maybe I just expected more class out of middle to upper class citizens from the greatest city in America or whatever. I'm probably in the wrong here.

Halfcan · 10-26-2015, 09:01 AM

Excellent write up! Thanks for posting this, I skipped the game this week and spent the day touring beautiful sites in Missouri instead. Fort Osage-did a photo shoot for my daughter, her boyfriend and their new puppy. Marshall-had a nice picnic on the square and took shots of the Jim the Wonder Dog park-very interesting story. We listened on the radio as the Chiefs kicked field goals and played liked the Chiefs most of the game.

We were taking a tour of the Bothwell Lodge State Park in Sedalia when my son checked the score and they ended up winning.

This was my favorite game of the year. Being outside and enjoying the amazing Missouri fall weather instead of watching the same ol' Chiefs.

10-25-2015, 05:44 PM
gblowfish Be Kind To Your Pets Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Glorious Independence, MO Casino cash: $16896178 VARSITY	Ten Things About Today's Game Ten Things About Today's Game 10. This weekend has been a great time to live in Kansas City. The Royals clinched their second World Series in a row Friday night with a thrilling ninth inning shutdown of Toronto. The weather here is perfect, the trees and turning colors, and as Bill Grigsby used to say "It's a Beau-ti-ful Day for football." When your team is 1-5, you don't expect much. So today was pretty stress free. Nothing really riding on today's game. Pittsburgh is in a fight for the NFC North, so this game meant much more to them. This morning I thought this would be a good time to use the Ten Things to show some of our CPers who don't live in KC, and have never been to Arrowhead, what the tailgate thing looks like. So I took my camera and snapped some pictures as the morning progressed. We'll do a little of that before talking game stuff. Spoiler! 9. This year Mrs Blowfish and I have been leaving a little earlier than usual to get into the stadium. The roads and bridges around Arrowhead have been torn up, and what used to take about 20 minutes now take me about 45 to 60 minutes to leave home, get into the ballpark, and unpack the car for a "tailgate." First thing I do before leaving home is fly the Chiefs flag. It's not really good luck (at least not this year) but it makes me feel better: Then I make sure I have the tickets and parking pass. "Tickets" are actually little credit cards now. They zap them when you go into the stadium. Once you turn into the Arrowhead Parking Lot, you have quite a gauntlet to run. First, you go through the toll booth. Yes, $30 to park your car: Then you pass other fans that got there early, and are in full party mode: Then you follow the signs to weave your way into your lot. I have a red parking pass, so today I parked in Lot G behind the big scoreboard on the west side of Arrowhead. It takes awhile to wind your way into your eventual spot: l We got in around 10:45, so you don't have long to tailgate. I've got it down to a science, where we can pop open the picnic table, get stuff out and down and good to go in about five minutes. Here my Pal Mr. Doggity is tweeting something while we get the tailgate going: Today we had brisket, pulled pork, pasta salad, chips, black olives, and chocolate cheesecake for dessert. I'm drinking Tank 7. And of course we have a variety of BBQ Sauces. Gates, Firebug and Doggity's BBQ Sauce: The air fills with smoke from all the charcoal grills. It's an amazing scene, and it always smells heavenly. The blimp from the ALCS game on Friday hung around over the weekend; probably to do more blimp duty for the World Series. Today it was flying over Arrowhead in a cloudless sky: 8. OK, so we have a great meal, pack it all up and head into Arrowhead. I didn't take my camera in, because with the security stuff, it's a major hassle now. I did see Eric Hosmer, Sal Perez and Ned Yost up close before kickoff, as the Chiefs invited the Royals players to the game. There were lots of people wearing Royals gear. But what was impressive was the number of Steelers fans. The crowd was anywhere from 30 to 40% Steelers, and there were quite a few empty seats today up in the nosebleed corners. Disappointing but not surprising. A 1-5 start will do that. But the Chiefs fans were the louder of the two fan bases, and it was nothing like the Bears game when Bear fans could be heard above the Chiefs fans. Tony Gonzalez came back for a visit, and chatted with Trent Green, who was on the CBS broadcast today. It was nice to see him in Arrowhead again. There was a guy sitting behind me in a Randall Cunningham Eagles jersey, who said he was visiting from Philly and came to watch Maclin play. I told him Maclin had a concussion and was out. He said "Well, I guess I'll just yell at Andy Reid." I said "get in line...." 7. There was a lot of good and bad today; more good than bad. Anytime you win it's more good than bad. The first half everybody was quite frustrated, because it looked like it was going to be the Cincy game all over again, and we were going to kick field goals and lose. Defense did a great job holding the Steelers to only three points in the first half. -By the way, I wanted to mention to you guys watching at home on TV. When you yell stuff at your TV like "THROW THE BALL IN THE FRICKIN' END ZONE" believe me, I have your back at Arrowhead. I'm within shouting distance of both Smith and Reid, and I say exactly what you are saying at home. This play with less than a minute in the first half is why Alex Smith is so frustrating. Chiefs get the DJ pick, get set up down to the Steeler 30 yard line. We run a play and it's 2nd and one. We just need one more decent pass to get a reasonable field goal attempt for the Brazilian Midget, who's been pretty good this year. Instead, Alex does the ONE THING you can't have, a sack. View My Video We have to burn our last time out, and on the third down play, Alex can't hit an out route. So a 47 yard field goal goes to a 54 yard field goal, and the Midget misses. I told my friend Mr. Doggity if we keep kicking field goals, we were gonna lose. And luckily in the second half, the offense decided to start driving for seven instead of three. Not settling for three in the second half is what won the game, along with the defensive effort. 6. Defensive effort was more like what we've been expecting earlier in the year. Hali had one of the best games of his career. He got two big sacks in the second half, including the game clincher that let KC get the ball and kill the clock: View My Video Hali's career had registered a sack against every team in the AFC except Pittsburgh before today, and in this game he got two big ones. He's been a great player for us, and even though he's clearly in decline, it was great to see him shine one more time. Derrick Johnson also had a great game today. He made a very athletic pick to stop one Steeler drive; and tipped the pass the bounced around and ended up with Eric Berry for the other pick today. DJ also pass defended the tight end very well, and Berry played a great game, making a 4th and one tackle on run support to snuff a Pittsburgh drive in the second half. It was really a thrill to see Berry play more like his old self, and I'm sure Hali, DJ and Berry enjoyed sticking it to their old coach Todd Haley. 5. Smith didn't play well in the first half, but played much better in the second half. His passing was erratic in the first half, but got more accurate as the day went on. Kelce and Wilson both had more than 70 yards receiving, most of that on YAC. Kelce has been playing hurt. He probably broke his nose against the Vikings last week, and he came off the field a couple times today after taking hard shots to compose himself. But the dude is a warrior. Smith spread the ball around to seven different receivers, threw for around 250 yards, had one TD and no picks. He was only sacked twice, although one of those sacks was costly because it took the team out of field goal range right before the close of the first half. KC was above 50% on third down conversion, first time that's happened this year. Pittsburgh was 20% on third down and only converted on fourth down one of the two times they tried it. I don't think Tomlin respected our defense much. Today the defense was up to the task, and thankfully didn't crumble this time in the fourth quarter at home. 4. The offensive line did a much better job today. The Canadian Doc played better at guard, but he may be an injury concern. He came off the field in the third quarter holding his arm and shoulder low. He went back in, but it wouldn't surprise me to see him on the injury list. WTF is Eric Fisher doing taunting anyone? That was an amazingly stupid penalty. He runs up, taunts a Pittsburgh defensive back -who he didn't even block-, does it after the play, and does it standing right next to a ref. Hey Mr. Number One Pick: keep your cake hole shut, and just pancake the guy the next time you see him on a sweep. Grow up, already: View My Video 3. Sean Smith was making me crazy today. He made a few nice defensive plays, but on others he looked totally disoriented and lost his guy. In the second half, he has a pick thrown right to him in the end zone and he flat drops it. Three plays later, Jones throws his only TD pass in the same corner of the end zone. Then Smith has a clear and stupid penalty on a fourth down play to sustain Pittsburgh's last drive. Luckily, Hali got his strip sack a few plays after that. Abdullah has been missing tackles again. The long run Bell got down the side line (Chiefs gave up 121 yards rushing to Bell today) was because Abdullah went flying past Bell and whiffed on the tackle. Abdullah was beat on the Bryant TD catch too. Peters may have dislocated a finger in the first half. He came off the field and went straight to doc, and it looked like the doc snapped the finger back in place. That had to hurt like a bitch. Peters taped it up and went right back in. I think he's a tough guy, and will be a very good player for us down the road. 2. Andy called a better game today, especially with no Charles and no Maclin. West rushed for over 100 yards and had his first NFL TD. Conley had 63 yards receiving and got his first NFL TD as well. Ware saw the field and had a couple carries. Nelson and Peters both played on pass coverage. So the young guys contributed. Reid got TDs in the second half instead of playing for field goals. It was nice to win one at home, and send all those garish black and gold wearing Steeler fans back to Pittsburgh. Have fun with negotiating all the road construction on I-70 from here to Western Pennsylvania. Oh, and as I was writing this, I watched Matt Casshole throw a pick six to the Giants. So I'm having a really enjoyable Sunday. 1. Next up, an 8:30AM game in London. I haven't had a beer before 8AM for a long time, but looks like I've got one in my future on November 1. I understand if you go to London to watch the Chiefs, Clark Hunt will buy you a pint at the Chiefs official pre-game tavern party. Looks like I'll be having a Bass Ale in my living room here in KC instead. It was good to win today. It's like, you know, better than losing? I'm not all that excited, because we beat a team's third string QB, and if not for three turnovers -and Pittsburgh does not turn the ball over often- it's a much closer contest. 2-5 is still disappointing, but not as bad as 1-6 would have been. And the World Series starts here Tuesday night. I wouldn't miss that, even for a trip to Europe! Last edited by gblowfish; 10-25-2015 at 09:39 PM..
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10-25-2015, 10:09 PM	#63
Rasputin Tip of the hat LIV Champs Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: ks Casino cash: $235421	I had a great time in Kansas City with my kids this weekend. It was my kids first time at Arrowhead and I think we all had fun. I haven't been back to a game since we got beat by th I don't don't want talk about that. I would have taken my kids to games but the Chiefs have been disappoint over the years so didn't think it be worth it. Howe ever this weekend was and they just happened to win. Really wish we had a better showing of Chiefs fans than Steelers fans. Though look. Me (KC Tattoo) & Red Vador covered a This is Steelers Country banner. How dare they. Was glad to send the Steelers away with a loss don't come into our house and think you can take over. At one point they scored a touchdown and I thought it was incomplete because the roar of the crowd was so loud. Geeze. I wanted give my kids the experience of Chiefs fans being loud but we had fun and for that it was worth it.
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10-25-2015, 10:24 PM	#68
gblowfish Be Kind To Your Pets Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Glorious Independence, MO Casino cash: $16896178 VARSITY	There was another thing I forgot to mention. Remember how in previous weeks Alex kept wandering down to the Defensive bench, sitting there all by himself sulking? None of that today. I don't know if he took it on himself, or if he had a come to Jesus meeting with Andy, but today in the second half especially, he was talking to his O-line and to his receivers and backs while the defense was on the field. They all seemed much more engaged, and it showed by producing TD drives in the second half. That's progress.
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10-25-2015, 10:28 PM	#69
Baby Lee Supporter Join Date: Aug 2000 Casino cash: $8028275	1. More thing from post-game. If there ever was positive bulletin board material, Tomlin's remark about 'the game got tight, and they made the dynamic plays' should be blown up poster sized. __________________ We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics - E.W.
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10-25-2015, 11:37 PM	#74
Discuss Thrower "You like to drink?" Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: "I like to drink." Casino cash: $-170000	Since George mentioned it, I'll throw in one of the "buzzkills" of today that I didn't mention in the GDT. A woman who sits in front of me and Discuss Dad has been taking photos of every home game going back to the 80s. Her camera, while big, hasn't apparently been an issue until today when she was hand delivered by two security officials a "fan code of conduct" citation coupled with a verbal explanation that her camera is "high definition" and therefore not allowed at Arrowhead. Why this was an issue today of all days is what I can't figure out, especially after the Pioli era where the sideline was patrolled by both CSC contracted fan control personnel (which is to be expected) along with men wearing suits, sunglasses and earpieces. If the Chiefs were ever to have an issue with her camera (which, again, is beyond your standard cellphone shooter or pocket digital camera but definitely not a telephoto lens or some shit you'd expect an average AP scrub to have) it would have been then considering the lengths Pioli went to ensure nobody was committing acts of espionage against the team. Fitting that this comes about the same day when of the parking lot attendants decided to actually police where Discuss Dad parked his vehicle. A fatbody neckbeard confronted him about his choice of parking location which wasn't blocking the flow of traffic or taking up more than one slot but certainly wasn't in line with the rest of the lot filling scheme where the spaces closest to Kauffman and Arrowhead are first before populating the ones back out toward the gates was suddenly not acceptable after three years of the same procedure of taking a spot near the edge of colored pass lot. On the one hand, Discuss Dad has absolutely zero patience and assumes people following procedure is a personal affront to him and, as a consequence, he isn't necessarily rational. On the other hand, the first car to the same thing he had tried to do in the lot in that another STH chose to ignore same fatbody neckbeard, and no measure to rectify this policy violation was attempted even after his party had spilled out of their vehicle for tailgating festivities. Discuss Dad and I walked to another tailgate after dad had confronted neckbeard by asking whom he worked for (apparently "The Mexicans" as the neckbeard explained) and spent a good hour there at another slot. We returned to his car to get his phone to see that the first car to ignore the neckbeard by tailgating away from how cars are supposed to be arrayed in a lot was now joined by a handful of other cars whom had apparently also ignored the directives to park in the slots as we were told to. Again, Discuss Dad doesn't do himself a lot to earn the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the Hellerian bureaucracy that is being a STH, but if what he did in ignoring the parking attendants to get a spot where he can quickly leave the lot is now impermissible even though several other fans were not policed the same way doesn't make any sense given that the other cars were parked in other rows and definitely not in some sort of assigned pattern. In my view, either neckbeard and his other orange safety vested compatriots make everyone abide by the rules (even my dad) or they don't do anything outside of ensuring cars don't take up more than one slot (which isn't anywhere close to what Discuss Dad had tried to do). Like with the lady's camera, I don't understand why today it was an issue when it wasn't so in the previous twenty games or so when ancillary minutiae became a priority to the Pioli regime. Finally, what was a nice little cherry on top of the least enjoyable KC win since the post-Belcher game against Carolina, was the fact the seats right next to Discuss Dad and I were occupied by three New Yorker Steeler fans -one or two of which decided to crack wise about how funny the name 'Joe Delaney' appeared on a jersey or on the stadium itself. Dad pointed out that he died trying to save kids from drowing and that temporarily shut them up, but I was still left with the impression those three middle aged douches had their heads firmly up their ass to not have enough sense to to withhold commentary about coaches or players that they had no clue about even though they were shelling out a decent amount of cash for seats at a place they'd probably never set foot in. It had been one thing if they were making puns about Nunez-Roches or some shit or even taking shots on Derrick Thomas having multiple children. But making light of Delaney is no different than making airplane jokes at Marshall or clock tower references at a Texas game. It's one thing to talk some smack about current or recent players/coaches/front office personnel, but a completely different thing to talk about long past players that didn't do anything to earn notoriety in that kind of aspect. Maybe I just expected more class out of middle to upper class citizens from the greatest city in America or whatever. I'm probably in the wrong here. __________________ Chiefs 2016 Opponents: Home: JAX, TEN, NO, TB, NYJ. Away: HOU, IND, ATL, CAR, PIT Chiefs 2017 Opponents: Home: BUF, MIA, PHI, WSH, AFC North. Away: NE, NYJ, NYG, DAL, AFC South
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10-26-2015, 09:01 AM	#75
Halfcan In Search of a Life Join Date: Aug 2005 Casino cash: $7327995	Excellent write up! Thanks for posting this, I skipped the game this week and spent the day touring beautiful sites in Missouri instead. Fort Osage-did a photo shoot for my daughter, her boyfriend and their new puppy. Marshall-had a nice picnic on the square and took shots of the Jim the Wonder Dog park-very interesting story. We listened on the radio as the Chiefs kicked field goals and played liked the Chiefs most of the game. We were taking a tour of the Bothwell Lodge State Park in Sedalia when my son checked the score and they ended up winning. This was my favorite game of the year. Being outside and enjoying the amazing Missouri fall weather instead of watching the same ol' Chiefs.
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