2 dvd set-The complete history of the Kansas City Chiefs out tommorow

[Joe_Camel]

FYI http://www.amazon.com/NFL-History-Ka...6439172&sr=1-1

[Skip Towne]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I'm really torn now.

However, I did just order the Chiefs one, and I have room for more than one passion in my life.

I also ordered the classic Meat Loaf album, "Midnight at the Lost and Found". Helloooooooo, 1983.

Two out of three ain't bad.

[ChiefsFan4Life]

I just got this in the mail today and watched it - I would say for 20 bucks this is definitely worth a pickup for any Chiefs fan

[Ultra Peanut]

Originally Posted by KcMizzou

I don't have my copy yet. (ordered from Amazon) But, I'm quite sure I've spent 20 bucks on worse DVD's.

Would anyone like to buy a copy of "Alone in the Dark", "The Wicker Man", or "Eragon"?

OH GOD BEES NOT BEES OH MY EEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYESSSSSSSSS

[Rain Man]

I bought this when it came out, but I was busy at work and set it aside and then forgot about it for a while. I found it again a couple of weeks ago and watched every inch of it. A few notes:

1. Overall, I was quite pleased with it. It had lots of footage that I've never seen before.

2. One of the most entertaining parts for me was seeing all of the past players that I enjoyed watching. They'd show a clip of Hank Stram, and you'd see this behemoth walk by, and I'd be like, "Hey! That's Buck Buchanan!" They had a great clip of John Mackovic drenched in the locker room as part of what I presume was the celebration for breaking the 15-year playoff drought. Behind him, you can see Stephone Paige cheering, and it made me grin.

3. It was ludicrous that they didn't cover the entire period from the early 70s to the Marty era. They didn't give any coverage at all to great players like Art Still, Gary Green, and the dream backfield of Cherry, Burruss, Lewis, and Ross. Those were lean years, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be covered, and there were still highlights.

4. Speaking of highlights, the show specifically avoided losses. It covered, for example, our wins over Pittsburgh and Houston in 1993, but then never mentioned what happened afterward. It mentioned our 13-3 seasons in 1995, 1997, and 2003, and then blithely went forward. While painful, the memories of those playoffs are nonetheless an important part of Chiefs history.

5. I love Marty like a brother, or at least an uncle who could never win in the playoffs. Nonetheless, I have to note that he gives the worst inspirational speeches ever. They showed several of his locker room speeches, and every one of them made me think, "That's it? That's the best he could do?" One example clip showed him with the Chargers, and at the end of the game (apparently before a bye week), he said, "Men, I want you to remember one thing before you leave. One thing only. (Dramatic long pause.) Charger pride." Charger pride? That's it? That's the key message? Maybe I'm not the winningest active coach ever, but they were always kind of lame.

6. Two Chiefs that I learned more about and got a lot of respect for were Jerry Mays and Robert Holmes. These guys were a little before my time, so I didn't really know much about them. Mays was a really good defensive end, and Holmes was really pretty incredible, one of those running backs who appeared to be almost impossible to bring down.

7. Bobby Bell hit like heck, and Jim Lynch was really fast. I remember these guys from when I was a little kid, but it was fun to see them again from a more knowledgeable perspective.

8. The show didn't cover the offensive line nearly enough, in any era.

9. B.C. Christopher, the corporate sponsor of the Chiefs' 1969 highlight film, really is getting a lot of return on that investment. 40 years later, I'm still seeing their ad.

10. I couldn't believe that they didn't show the second-greatest Chiefs play ever (after Taylor's Super Bowl touchdown). They didn't show Keith Cash nailing the Buddy Ryan poster. I loved that play more than any other I've ever seen.

11. There was a hilarious little clip about Vermeil. He and the other unit coaches (Saunders, Robinson, and Gansz, Jr.) made a surprise visit to a Chiefs sports bar in Philadelphia in 2002. (They stopped showing Robinson after they went into the bar, so I'm guessing that he was ejected, or perhaps had to flee for his life.) Anyway, as they were showing up, Vermeil was telling the other coaches about an experience he had once where this blind woman cooked him dinner. It turned out that the woman's brother was a gambler, and Vermeil got a call from the league telling him to cease and desist. So he's in this sports bar chatting with the fans, and the central fans are the two owners of the sports bar. At one point, one of them says, "Hey, you know my cousin. She's blind, and she made you dinner once."

12. I really wish they would do something like walk through every player in the Chiefs' history, and show a short highlight. Yeah, I know there are a zillion former players, but hey, I'd buy DVDs that showed such clips. As it was, they showed a lot of clips of various Chiefs stars (and particularly coaches), but I didn't get to see very much (if anything) of guys like Barbaro and Dino Hackett and Todd McNair and Art Still and Rich Baldinger and Danan Hughes and Louis Aguiar.

[Hammock Parties]

It's a great DVD set. I posted about it a few weeks ago.

[kcfan82]

Nice, I'm picking up 2 for dad and my brother in law.