Chiefs fans it's time to stuff the ballot box!
 

I've checked the ESPN 50 states in 50 days poll sites & have found these poll questions relating to the Chiefs. I'm surprised that neither Iowa or Arkansas have any Chiefs options on their poll....interesting. :hmmm:




Kansas:
http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sports...?event_id=1377

Missouri:
http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sports...?event_id=1386

Nebraska:
http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sports...?event_id=1442

Oklahoma
http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sports...?event_id=1450

Heh.

3) Favorite pro team?
62.8% Kansas City Chiefs
22.1% Kansas City Royals
5.1% St. Louis Cardinals
4.9% Denver Broncos

Wheres one for colorado, would like nothing better then to put the broncos last for spite...

Just click on any of the link on the top, and on the right, there'll be the pop-down and just click Colorado there.

How could Ozzie Smith only have 8.6% of the votes for Best in-state pro career?!?! I'm sorry, but even if you're not a Cards fan, he was one helluva short stop.

Because most of us voted for george ****ing brett...

Yeah, I noticed that. :rolleyes:
I voted for Ozzie. I lost interest in the Cardinals after he retired.

I think it is a easy decision, Brett played his entire career here.. Had better stats... Just because he ozzie had glove alone should catapult him above brett??? Why does Oz deserve it more then Brett??

Sorry, I just grew up being a Cardinals fan. Never really have been into the Royals. That, plus I figured everyone would vote for Brett. I was just surprised Ozzie was as low as he was.

No, you are right, ozzy should be higher up... Just not past Brett :p

I'm surprised Nelly is as high on the list as he is too. Must have a lot of younger people submitting answers. To think that people might vote for him over Mark Twain, John J Pershing, Harry Truman, etc.

And, of course, over 50% voted for Arrowhead. FIRST DOWN KANSASSSSS CITYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah it was hard, but I voted for Twain over Truman...

As a Cardinals fan I don't know how you would not vote for Stan Musial over Ozzie Smith, facing facts those two should get the majority of votes from Baseball fans, kind of leaves Ozzie Smith out in the cold.

Same here.

Shhhhhhh!!!! I actually might have. I overlooked his name until I was viewing the results. Would have been a tough one. I'm just an Ozzie fan. I guess sometimes you have to put loyalties aside though.

Just thought Bob Gibson was the good choice as well.

Yeah, but you're like 300 years old.

People under 50 might recognize the name, but odds are, even if they're Cardinal fans, they won't know much about him unless they're really hardcore into the history of the game, his last game being, what, 40 years ago? Same as Tigers fans and Al Kaline, for instance, even though he's more recent.

Okay, am I just slow today? Don't answer that. Wasn't Vlib Vlad last night? When was the name change?

****ing insanity.... :shake:

Vlib Logiclost?

ROFL

Not a Mark Twain fan? Or just view political figures as more important than great authors?

Now if I can get him to take the V out of his name so I can rule my Letter category with most posts..

It was Patteau's idea and I liked it and went with it.

Yes I was, I asked the mods to change it in a PM last night and they got around to it this morning.

Vlib...glib.

Very subtle.

Thanks. Glad to know I'm not losing my mind. Although I did buy a t-shirt the other day that says: I'm out of my mind. Please leave a message.

Gibson another great one for Card fans. Helping Brett as the Royals fan really have no split allegiance to worry about.

That Patteau is a never-ending source of humor...

I LIKE it!

How can one lose....

Boy. Don't make me...

How could I make you? I'm older, yes. But not that much older.

Hey, I'm not saying Twain wasn't a great writer or an influential one.


On one hand you have a former National Gaurdsman, Senator, he desegregated the armed forces, passed executive orders to forbid racial discrimination in Federal employment, dropped the bomb (ending WWII), and part of one of the most famous "lost then won" elections of all time.

On the other hand we have a gentleman who wrote stories...

:hmmm:

I tried reading some Twain last year. Just couldn't get into it.

And is considered by many (all over the world) to be the last man of letters the US has produced in it's short history. Your left-handed compliment is way off-base here. Mark Twain was and remains an American treasure...

And you call yourself a goddamned would-be writer. Hang your fucking head in shame, scribbler...you know not of what you speak.

Easy. I said "I couldn't get into it". I didn't say "Twain's not good". I'm assuming it had to do with the mindset I was in at the time; I wasn't in a place where 19th century literature really seemed thrilling. I wouldn't have found H.G. Wells interesting at that juncture, either. So I read something else.

And fuck you, frankly. Who the hell are you to make value judgements on me or anybody else?

True. But it's like voting for Joe Montana or Hank Williams Sr. over Patton...

And right back at you, slick. I can spot a Twain-hater from a fucking mile away. Go back to moaning about your ex-wife--it's what you do best. I will say that reading your whiney posts gives me a new appreciation of Chiefs4Me, though...

Uhh. Okay. If that's what you want to think. Makes no difference to me.

He doesn't write complicated, out there, sci-fi, war of the worlds type of stuff.

Good. Then we can assume you'll shut your fucking mouth about it.

Exactly. It just depends on your area of interest. I thought they should have kept it with sport figures myself. Why throw in authors, actors and politicians?

I mean, he's not as good as Stephen King or....OH! Those Harry Potter books....or.....um.... :hmmm:

He also didn't write "How Becky Thatcher Got Her Groove On"...

Looking at the question again it says "Favorite" and not "Most Influential" or "Most Significan" or anything like that.

So my crying is moot... :rolleyes:

True, but he was still pretty good...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is one of my favorite early SF books.

And I read as much Twain as anybody else in high school. I thought last year I'd try to refresh my memory, see what it said to me as an adult. But, as I said earlier, I couldn't get into it. That's not all that unusual; I'm having the same trouble right now finishing a novel called The Sword of the Lictor. Sometims I go through phases where I just don't have the patience to read more serious literature, so I'll back away and read something lighter. Saying I couldn't get through it was a statement about me, not about it. Eventually I'll give it another go, when the time seems right.

Come to think of it, it probably doesn't help that I started reading it at the same time the last Dark Tower book came out. I have a hard time concentrating on anything else when I get my hands on a new book. Now that I'm finished with Harry Potter and don't have anything new on the docket until the Knife of Dreams in October, maybe now's a better time.

Why don't you just shut it before you make an even bigger ass out of yourself, douche-for-brains.

Solid.

I thought it was pretty weak, actually. Not my best work.

Boys, boys, boys.... :shake:

Can't we all just get along? OPinions are like azzholes. Everyone's got one. If they don't, then they are full of $hit. If you don't like someone's opinion, just keep moving until you find one you agree with.

No, actually it was pretty good, and it had the ring of accuracy to back it up...

This one surprised the hell outta me!


4) Favorite state team?

50.0% Kansas State (football)
41.7% Univ. of Kansas (basketball)
3.7% Wichita State (baseball)
2.4% Kansas State (basketball)
2.2% Univ. of Kansas (football)

Yeah, but my heart just wasn't in it. No real "oomph" if you know what I mean. Felt flat and uninspired.

I used to be so much better at this when I could stay pissed off for more than three seconds. Oh, but there I go again, about to start moaning about the divorce.

I'd love to see the Chiefs beat the Cowboys in Oklahoma!

3) Favorite pro team?

41.9% Dallas Cowboys
18.8% St. Louis Cardinals
16.1% Kansas City Chiefs
15.5% Texas Rangers
4.0% Dallas Mavericks
3.7% St. Louis Rams

Oh, you want some?! Bring it on!

Ummmm....no thank you. I'm not half as witty as they guys on here.

Heh, better you than me, I guess. I gave up bitching (but I used to bitch--Hypocrite, I am!) about the ex on this board some time ago. It just doesn't do me or anyone else any earthly good, so far as I can tell.

All I do now is breathe in, breathe out....let it all go...

...and hope that c*nt slides under a gas truck and tastes her own blood before she dies...

Chiefs are the top team in 3 states. Booyah!

Who is the Royals 2nd best player behind Brett?

Didn't realize there were this many Packer fans in Nebraska either....


4) Favorite pro team?

24.4% Kansas City Chiefs
21.9% Green Bay Packers
18.2% Chicago Cubs
10.5% Denver Broncos
9.9% Kansas City Royals
8.0% St. Louis Cardinals
3.7% Los Angeles Lakers
3.5% Colorado Avalanche

Amos Otis?

1) Most memorable sports moment?

51.2% Kansas State upsets top-ranked Oklahoma 35-7 in Big 12 title game (2003)
37.4% Danny Manning leads University of Kansas to NCAA basketball title (1988)
3.4% Jim Ryun becomes first high-school to break 4:00 minute mile (1964)
2.8% Kansas loses to Syracuse in NCAA basketball title game (2003)
2.1% Kansas loses to Univ. of North Carolina in triple-OT in NCAA basketball title game (1957)
1.8% Wichita State wins College World Series (1989)
0.7% University of Kansas defeats St. John's to win NCAA basketball title (1952)
0.5% Claflin native Jackie Stiles breaks NCAA career women's basketball scoring record (2001)

How is a conference title more memorable than a national title?

I don't even think about it anymore unless somebody brings her up or tells a story that reminds me of her. And I'm pretty apathetic about her even then. I'm glad she's gone, and I think it's been as good for her as it has been for me. I caused her a lot of grief. I'm not nearly as bitter as I make myself out to be sometimes, though. But it's an shtick I've been doing forever, and like all old habits...

Hey Skip....who did you vote for in Arkansas?


3) Favorite pro team?

29.1% Dallas Cowboys
28.8% St. Louis Cardinals
12.8% Atlanta Braves
7.4% Green Bay Packers
6.8% Tennessee Titans
5.9% New Orleans Saints
3.3% New York Yankees
3.2% St. Louis Rams
1.5% St. Louis Blues
1.1% New Orleans Hornets


Why aren't the Chiefs a choice????????

Half of us aren't half as witty as we think we are.


As for 2nd royal behind Brett, I could see Amos Otis. What about Frank White?

(I almost said Fred White)

Looks like a KSU vs KU battle going on in Kansas. :cuss:

George Brett
Mike Sweeney
Frank White
Amos Otis

They are the only Royals to have appeared in five or more All-Star games. My vote would be Frank White though.

It's right between California and Connecticut...

:harumph:

Wow the last time it started to get this way around here we started the DC Forum, what are we going to do this time?

Because the National Title is tainted with the NCAA violations KU incurred afterward................just a guess

That's one way of looking at it. Plus IIRC, wasn't OU a 2 TD favorate aganist KSU that game? That was the year where everyone was boasting "OU, the best team ever in NCAA history" before KSU f**ked them up.

Yes, they were being touted as such before K-State exposed their weakness against the blitz on Offense, as well as no running game whatsoever. LSU picked up on that in the NCG and completely shut them down.

They were big time frauds, as is/was White

ROFL.....everybody needs to let off a little steam every now and then...:p

It's hot, it's summer.....people get cranky.;)

and you have permanent PMS.............

Looks like Cardinal fans are up to no good!

3) Favorite pro team?

44.2% St. Louis Cardinals
43.3% Kansas City Chiefs
5.5% Kansas City Royals
4.2% St. Louis Rams
2.8% St. Louis Blues


4) Favorite Missouri team?

39.9% St. Louis Cardinals
37.6% Kansas City Chiefs
7.3% University of Missouri (basketball)
4.8% University of Missouri (football)
4.4% Kansas City Royals
3.6% St. Louis Rams
2.4% St. Louis Blues

here's the latest poll numbers:

3) Favorite pro team?

44.1% St. Louis Cardinals
43.3% Kansas City Chiefs




4) Favorite Missouri team?

40.0% St. Louis Cardinals
37.8% Kansas City Chiefs

FULL results:

1) Most memorable sports moment?

48.9% Kansas State upsets top-ranked Oklahoma 35-7 in Big 12 title game (2003)
39.1% Danny Manning leads University of Kansas to NCAA basketball title (1988)
3.5% Jim Ryun becomes first high-school to break 4:00 minute mile (1964)
3.1% Kansas loses to Syracuse in NCAA basketball title game (2003)
2.1% Wichita State wins College World Series (1989)
1.9% Kansas loses to Univ. of North Carolina in triple-OT in NCAA basketball title game (1957)
0.7% University of Kansas defeats St. John's to win NCAA basketball title (1952)
0.7% Claflin native Jackie Stiles breaks NCAA career women's basketball scoring record (2001)

2) Favorite sport?

48.2% Football
41.2% Basketball
6.5% Baseball
1.6% Soccer
1.4% Auto racing
1.2% Golf

3) Favorite pro team?

64.0% Kansas City Chiefs
21.2% Kansas City Royals
5.1% St. Louis Cardinals
4.7% Denver Broncos
2.7% New York Yankees
0.9% St. Louis Rams
0.9% Denver Nuggets
0.6% St. Louis Blues

4) Favorite state team?

47.7% Kansas State (football)
43.5% Univ. of Kansas (basketball)
4.1% Wichita State (baseball)
2.4% Univ. of Kansas (football)
2.3% Kansas State (basketball)

5) Best rivalry?

44.6% Univ. of Kansas vs. Univ. of Missouri (basektball)
30.7% Univ. of Kansas vs. Kansas State (football)
14.0% Univ. of Kansas vs. Kansas State (basketball)
4.4% Univ. of Kansas vs. Univ. of Missouri (football)
3.3% Univ. of Kansas vs. Univ. of Oklahoma (basketball)
2.9% Wichita State vs. Oklahoma State (baseball)

6) Best homegrown product?

54.3% Barry Sanders (football)
19.9% Lynn Dickey (football)
7.0% Tom Watson (golf)
4.8% Jim Ryun (track and field)
3.8% Maurice Greene (track and field)
3.4% Walter Johnson (baseball)
2.9% John Riggins (football)
2.0% Jackie Stiles (basketball)
1.9% Lynette Woodard (basketball)

7) Best college or pro athlete?

48.2% Wilt Chamberlain, University of Kansas
28.4% Mitch Richmond, Kansas State
8.5% Gale Sayers, University of Kansas
8.3% Lynn Dickey, Kansas State
5.2% Danny Manning, University of Kansas
0.7% Lynette Woodward, University of Kansas
0.7% Al Oerter, University of Kansas

8) Best basketball coach who was born or worked in Kansas?

30.3% Dean Smith
28.5% Phog Allen
20.6% Larry Brown
11.5% Roy Williams
9.2% Adolph Rupp

9) Favorite personality or historical figure?

51.5% Dwight Eisenhower (general, politician)
17.1% Bob Dole (politician)
8.6% Kirstie Alley (actress)
7.9% Amelia Earhart (aviator)
5.7% Charlie Parker (musician)
5.5% George Washington Carver (educator)
2.9% Melissa Etheridge (musician)
0.8% Gwendolyn Brooks (poet)

10) Have you been to Kansas?

92.6% Yes
7.4% No