Chiefs - Least attractive NFL team

[TrebMaxx]

Don't really know what to make of this.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31751_16...tionContent.12

By any statistical measure, the Buffalo Bill are coming off an ugly 2010 season, going 4-12 and finishing last in the AFC East.

But by college researchers' calculations, the Bills are far from ugly - in fact they are the most attractive team in the NFL.

That's right. The Bills have been deemed the handsomest squad in the league, according to a study commissioned by the Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper asked researchers at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania to analyze the facial structure of 320 NFL starters - five players on offense and five on defense. The owner and head coach were also put under the microscope since they were considered by the newspaper to be "two of the most-photographed personalities on any team."

WSJ: The NFL's Best-Looking Team

A computer program sized up the photographs in terms of facial symmetry, which is widely viewed by researchers as a barometer for attractiveness. After scanning the images, the Bills were rated the "hottest" team, while the Kansas City Chiefs were deemed the least attractive.

As the Journal notes, the Bills were awful last year and the Chiefs were a playoff team. So being tall, dark and handsome in real life may actually mean you are overmatched, underwhelming and ugly on the gridiron. As the newspaper notes: "Teams with particularly attractive players might be guilty of favoring people who are more presentable than talented. Jennifer VanGilder, a professor of business economics at Ursinus who oversaw the research, said the lure of hiring pretty faces is unconscious. 'People are drawn to more symmetrical objects.'"

Amazingly, quarterbacks did not rate as the most attractive in the study. That distinction actually went to kickers. So step aside Tom Brady, Mark Sanchez and Drew Brees. The ladies actually prefer Stephen Gostkowski, Nick Folk and Garrett Hartley.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31751_16...#ixzz1XNJbYNT3

[DMAC]

Originally Posted by ReynardMuldrake

I would like to hear that story. So they booked a photoshoot with the wrong quarterback? Did they not realize the team had more than one?

Here ya go...

http://deadspin.com/5302475/the-sad-...-athlete-alive

This is an epically comical story courtesy of SI's Jeff Pearlman, that includes the following absurd characters: Rich Gannon, Elvis Grbac, the Kansas City Chiefs, and a dim-witted People magazine photographer. Prepare to feel life-long sympathy for Grbac.

Pearlman's yarn:

One of my favorite all-time stories is about Elvis Grbac (left), Rich Gannon (right) and People Magazine's Sexiest Men issue from 1998. It is both outlandish and 100-percent true.

Back in the day I knew many People staffers, and they were all cool, fun, intelligent-and woefully ignorant about sports. Every year, in planning the Sexiest Men issue, People's editors would ask a bunch of us at Sports Illustrated for suggestions and insight. In 1998, for a reason I'll never understand, they decided not to seek out help.

The magazine chose Rich Gannon as its Sexiest Athlete. At the time, Gannon was a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. Still a couple of seasons removed from his golden tenure with the Raiders, Gannon was 33, handsome and likable. In other words, a solid choice. Yet People, being People, simply informed the photographer assigned to the piece that the Sexiest Athlete was the Chiefs' quarterback. Hence, he took pictures of the Chiefs' quarterback. Well, one of the Chiefs' quarterbacks: Elvis Grbac.

Yup.

The pictures made their way back to the New York offices, and editors were dumbfounded. This was their Sexiest Athlete? Yet upon learning the truth, no one with the magazine had the heart (guts?) to tell Grbac that an unfathomable mistake had been made. As a result, Elvis Grbac reigns as People's 1998 Sexiest Athlete.

The article's final line says it all: "His personality makes him sexy."

Amen.

[whoman69]

Originally Posted by frazod

Well, they match up well with our cheerleaders.

No, our cheerleaders have squarer jaws.

[whoman69]

Originally Posted by DMAC

Here ya go...

http://deadspin.com/5302475/the-sad-...-athlete-alive

Maybe that explains Marty putting Grbac in for the playoffs. He was just confused about who was the actual QB.

[TrebMaxx]

I think the study actually uncovers part of the "right 53" formula.

[KCFalcon59]

Originally Posted by alpha_omega

Sounds like CBS News should stick to news.

They're not good at that either.

[DMAC]

Originally Posted by whoman69

Maybe that explains Marty putting Grbac in for the playoffs. He was just confused about who was the actual QB.

I was laughing. Now I'm mad.

[Bearcat]

CBS News and the WSJ?


Keep this crap on GQ.

So being tall, dark and handsome in real life may actually mean you are overmatched, underwhelming and ugly on the gridiron.

[Fansy the Famous Bard]

Well, our hottness factor went up 10-fold when Shaun signed with Tennessee.

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Keep this crap on GQ.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by DMAC

Here ya go...

http://deadspin.com/5302475/the-sad-...-athlete-alive

That is hilarious, I didn't know that. At the time, I couldn't figure out how Elvis had won that honor, now I know. It makes a lot more sense, thanks.

[Hammock Parties]

we have the cutest kicker

[Imon Yourside]

This has to be the dumbest bit of 'news' i've seen all day. I guess CBS was having a hard time coming up with something.

[boogblaster]

ugly is better .. left alone ....

[memyselfI]

Ladies, don't despair. Our Sporting KC soccer team makes up for this.

FTR, Tyler Palko, with his long hair, isn't bad to look at. Neither is Matt Cassel.

[ModSocks]

Originally Posted by Gif Horse

we have the cutest kicker

OMG DREAMY