Mark Adickes is going to beat up the four people that put Bartee ahead of him in the voting.

From this list I chose:
Allen
Alt
Anders
Arbanas
Bell

This is a little difficult, because I wasn't really paying attention before 1987.

And I will cop to homerism for my Anders selection. I was really rooting for him for (it seemed like) three preseasons, only to have him get injured and not play much. When he finally got in there, he was very steady. Darn his tendon for ruining his tail back experiment.

Hey Rain Man.

I've decided to tell you who the all time greatest Chiefs are to save you some trouble.

Starting with number
5-Otis Taylor.
Big, strong, fast receiver who made every catch imaginable.
Priest, if he can stay healthyand continue to produce at the level
he has will slide in here, especially if he can help produce a SB.

4-DT
His ability to get to the QB and create turnovers was second to none.

3-Buck Buchannon.
Revolutionized the DT position.

2-Bobby Bell
Was the most athletic player ever to put on a Chiefs uniform.
A run stuffer. Outstanding in pass coverage. And if utilized more as a
pass rusher, he would have been among the best ever.
Think Lawrence Taylor, without the drugs.

1-Willie Lanier.
Was the heart and soul of some great KC defenses.
One of the top 3 MLB ever to play the game.
Smart team leader and just a ferocious hitter.

I have a feeling that several of those guys will move on to the next round, sidewinder.

Thanks, I lost that website in the great harddrive crash of oughtfive.

As great as any Chiefs-related post ever on this BB. Rep.

It was hard to choose just 5....

I can see a possible problem with your poll's Rain Man(btw, I have been enjoying them)....you are sure to run into a alpha break where the voting for just five Chiefs is going to be harder than this. What I'm saying is that someone of lesser ilk might make the top 50 over someone who would be more deserving. I don't know if you'll run into an alpha break where there could be more than five, but it's a definite possibility.

an alpha break?

is that like a cousin to alpha male? :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

Great Point

Thanks FC.

I really debated on posting that or not.
I didn't want to step on Rain Man's polls.

But the possibility that KCChiefs1 raised occured to me, as well as the possibility that some of the truly great Chiefs of the 60s and 70s that the younger crowd never saw would not make it to the final voting.

I think most of the older crowd would agree with my top 5, even if they don't necessarily agree with the order.

The only "bubble" pick is Otis, and that's because of the accomplisments that Priest has already achieved.
I just felt he needed to produce and stay healthy for a couple of more seasons to bump Otis.

Yeah, that's certainly a potential issue. I'm having people vote for their top five, but I may take more or less than five from any particular poll. After worrying about this myself, my initial solution is that anybody receiving more than 10 percent of the votes (which in this case would equate to votes by more than 50 percent of the people since each person gets five votes) will go on to the next round. On this particular poll, that works out to five people.

I might just see how the polls work out and take the natural breakpoint, too.

A high school QB, Bell was also our emergency QB. He looked good running back interceptions too. Anybody know the height and weight of Bell and Lanier?

Willie was 6'1" and 245 lbs.

My initial guess is that Lanier was about 6-1, 245, and Bell was 6-3, 235. Let me see if I can find it.