News sole purpose is to create controversy.... Dont worry about it. You have to remember Pioli is working the media behind the scenes and portion of this fanbase. We just have to stay focused and on our deadlines.

The more they rebuttal our efforts the more foolish and desperate they look.

IF you dont think we are getting to them. Watch what the Chiefs coaches are wearing on sunday. IF they have on Red shirts after wearing black most of the season. Our message is being heard, sharply being heard.

Just be patient and stay the course....

Good point. I can't wait to watch this game, hopefully there will be some good shots of the blackout fans on TV.

Yeah.....completely ignore the fact that we're planning on donating money to charities.....or that we have in the past.

Some clueless ****ing sheep right there.

Can somebody with power post a criteria that they deem the banner ideas should adhere to? There have been a ton of really good, some damn good ideas, that are flat out ignored or brushed over.

I'm not trying to piss anybody off, I am simply trying to figure out what people need to do to get better ideas in the air. I personally am disappointed that we are going to end up flying the same banner again this week. It seems like this week, with it being the blackout game, which has been wonderfully executed up to now, there should be a new or better message than one that has already flown.

I am sorry if I stepped on some toes, just my worthless $.02. And I don't have a great banner idea, but I wish there were a way to call more attention to this publicly:

No pissing off happening.

The problem was partly due to the short week and party due to my sifting through posts to find the suggestions that were put out. Our time was limited due to having a short week after the MNF game so we were not able to go through the process like we did the last banner coming off the bye.

I sifted through the suggestions and put up the 4 that people seemed to talk about the most as good ideas.

I have posted requirements in the past but here they are again.

* 42 characters max not including spaces (but the shorter the better)
* Nothing calling for a specific GM or Coach or calling out any player save Cassel
* Don't invoke Lamar's name. Does no good to slap Clark across the face with his dead father's name.
* Must be something that everyone will understand (get the gleam is something most of us know but not everyone will get it)
* Must end with saveourchiefs.com

I am sorry to have disappointed you bowener. :(

Thank you very much for your response, Capone. And I am not disappointed by you, but disappointed that the process didn't seem to work for the better this time around. I understand why it didn't. I just wish we could streamline this a bit to make things easier for you, and better overall for getting the right/best message out.

Posting them just in here has to be a bitch for you to sift through and find, so there is always going the bureaucratic approach and creating more paperwork, i.e., a thread dedicated to only new banner ideas, but that just sounds like a bad idea since we all know it will ultimately become a convoluted mess. Any ideas on a better way to do this? Maybe getting people involved on facebook and twitter would be a good idea. It would give you fresh insights/ideas, but mostly it would have people cranking out a lot of funny shit you can't say, but may be true, especially on twitter.

PUCK FIOLI - SAVEOURCHIEFS.COM #chiefsbanneryear

edit: Hell, you could donate a blackout shirt to the best twitter idea you get for next weeks banner maybe...

Just making sure I have this correct. 42 characters max. saveourchiefs.com is 17 characters, thus leaving 25 characters for the actual message.

- saveourchiefs.com = 18 char

Ah. Forgot the dash. So, 24 characters for the message.

Just curious why you personally like saveourchiefs.com over @saveourchiefs or #saveourchiefs?

I would assume because a majority of people understand the whole website thing better than a twitter account or twitter hashtag.

Pest has it right.

everyone understand .com = website. there are a lot of people out there that don't have the foggiest idea what twitter is how to to find us on it even if they could make it to twitter.

Alright, understandable then.

The new FIRE PIOLI flyer/sign.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7yebuuqvp...re%20Pioli.pdf