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Chiefs Asked a High School for Equipment as a Back-Up Plan

Interesting last minute back-up plan that the Chiefs developed this past weekend for their missing equipment situation:

Link to full article: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/c...didnt-show-up/

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Since there was no guarantee that the equipment was going to make it back to Gillette Stadium on time, the Chiefs came up with a contingency plan: They were going to borrow helmets from a local high school team.

It wasn't an ideal plan, but for the Chiefs, it was better than forfeiting. Once that plan was hatched, Masconomet Regional High School Athletic Director John Daileanes got a mysterious call from a representative of the Riddell Helmet company on Sunday asking for an interesting favor.

"He told me, 'I really don't have too much time to talk," Daileanes told the Metro West Daily News. "'But a bunch of the Kansas City Chiefs helmets and shoulder pads and other equipment are in Newark, New Jersey right now. There's a big snafu. I need to get down to Masco, and if it's possible could we use your helmets for the game?'"

There's actually a good reason the Chiefs wanted to borrow the helmets from Masconomet, and that's because the school's logo is eerily similar to Kansas City's. If the Chiefs had been forced to wear the Masconomet helmets, it wouldn't have been completely noticeable to viewers at home (Both teams wear a red helmet with an arrowhead decal, but Kansas City's arrowhead has a KC in the middle while Masconomet's has an "M").

If you're wondering whether or not a high school helmet would fit an NFL player, Daileanes had that same thought.

"They had a contingency plan in place to use our helmets. Who knows whether or not these helmets would even fit properly," Daileanes said. "There's a way to kind of make them fit. But I don't know. It would have been great. I just wanted to see one random Masco helmet. I thought that would have been pretty classic, but it never came to fruition."

In the end, the Chiefs didn't have to wear the high school helmets, because their equipment ended up arriving at Gillette Stadium about an hour before kickoff thanks to a police escort.

It brings up several questions.

1) How awesome would that be?
2) Would the NFL have allowed it?
3) Would Massholes have burned the place to the ground?

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With all the crap that went on this off-season about approved helmets I don't see anyway the NFL would have allowed that. Hell, most of the helmets are custom fit. Can you imagine the shit storm that would've happened if a player got hurt wearing a HS helmet?

Crazy. Doubt it would have actually worked. I find it odd that we couldn't store shit at the stadium because of a high school football game.

Yeah, that would have been pretty cool. It would have been evidence in some CTE lawsuits down the road, but it would've been cool.

Oh, and it's 100 percent that it was intentional by the Patriots or some braindead 'patriots fans' who work at the airport. This type of stuff doesn't happen when ethical teams are playing. It always happens in Patriots games and always tilts in the Patriots' favor. Equipment is missing, radios don't work, fire alarms go off in team hotels...come on. Their cheating has moved far beyond competition and now lives in the realm of evil and malice.

The league would have postponed the game until the equipment arrived... The shit storm a forfeit would have caused would have been devastating for the league.

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Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief (Post 14650096)

The league would have postponed the game until the equipment arrived... The shit storm a forfeit would have caused would have been devastating for the league.

The shit storm by Bill would have been funny if the game would have been postponed...

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Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 14650093)

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Awesome! Wish it would have happened but the NFL would probably have made us forfeit anyway

In other news - The Pats claim to have No Knowledge of the equipment heist and then add "they were just doing their jobs!"

Can have rain delays but not equipment delays because of human error.

:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by KC Tattoo (Post 14650147)

Can have rain delays but not equipment delays because of the Patriots attempting to cheat again.

:rolleyes:

FYP

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Originally Posted by UK_Chief (Post 14650127)

Awesome! Wish it would have happened but the NFL would probably have made us forfeit anyway

They’d reschedule. No way would they forfeit a team.