Kansas City Chiefs

It’s A… Strange, Deranged, Insane but… Wonderful Life

LadnerMorse December 3, 2016 No Comments

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It’s A…

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Strange, Deranged, Insane but…

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Wonderful Life

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Sometimes the events of this world are more than a person can take in a week… or a month. I don’t know if it’s the Thanksgiving week hubbub mixed with the hum-dinger in Denver along with the fact that I got married last month… but it’s enough to make my “spin head” (see what I mean).

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Let me say right up front, that I’m personally saddened by the tragic events in Louisiana that led to the death of one-time Chiefs running back Joe McKnight. I am in no way attempting to make light of Joe’s passing but the whole event sure struck me as stranger than fiction. It seems as if Joe was just here and helping the Chiefs win a game… the next thing you know, he’s injured… then off the roster… on with his life… and now gone. Gone completely. We try and make sense of such goings on, but sometimes… and this is one of those times… there is no making sense of such events. R.I.P..

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Injury Issues

I guess injuries sometimes hit me that way too. First, it was Justin Houston… then Phillip Gaines… then Allen Bailey… then Marcus Peters… then Phillip Gaines… then Jeremy Maclin… then Phillip Gaines… then D.J. White… then Phillip Gaines (are you beginning to sense a pattern here?)… and now it’s Jaye Howard. They’ve all spent time on the Injured list and out of action… with Houston, Bailey and Howard spending time on the Injured Reserve list. It causes you to see some of the wisdom in John Dorsey’s draft picks: like Chris Jones or Dee Ford or KeiVarae Russell. Oh, wait… that doesn’t make sense either, does it?

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Eric Berry

It’s hard not to wonder about Eric Berry returning to his home state this weekend in Atlanta, Georgia without wondering if this is the last time he’ll play in a Chiefs jersey while in his old stomping ground. It also makes me wax delirious to think that this time next year Berry could be wearing the jersey of the team he’s facing this weekend. There’s no evidence to say he will, it’s just one of my irrational daydream disasters gone wild.

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Justin Houston

Back to the injury thingy… it’s been absolutely nutty to see Chiefs players going on and then off and then on and then off of the injury list. Justin Houston is a good example. They say that one form of insanity stems from “learned helplessness” because when a person doesn’t know what he/she can count on… she/he just never has anything to feel attached to that to call a trusted reality. Consider Justin Houston. His knee situation appeared to be mishandled last offseason and so he had knee surgery late and virtually no one, including me, thought he could come back this year. Then, as soon as he does come back, the one time anemic Dee Ford, who has turned his career around, gets injured. Then, last weekend Houston comes up gimpy with a shoulder injury, and then this:

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It’s great news… if you are gullible enough to count on “news” per se?

 

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Grand Bridge Opening

Sometimes the world surrounding the Chiefs doesn’t make any sense soooo… we must turn elsewhere for enlightenment. How about the opening of the new Grand Bridge?

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Twitter-isms-ishiness

I stop by Twitter a few times each day but, I know of people who actually seem like they “live there”… and I just don’t know how they do it. The postings there range from culture shock jock craziness to goofy logistical dry-heave-ables to legitimately “possible” Chiefs content. It’s a lot of brain sewage to wade through to get to the actual newsworthy data. Sure the news stream there has become something I can’t, in all good conscience, go without… especially since AO is trying to give fans the up to minute news but, on the other hand… it is often like a horrific accident on the highway… one you just can’t look away from (and feel the need to take selfie in front of).

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The “Great Wall” Between Jeers & Cheers

One phenomenon I can’t get used to is cheering an opposing player’s injury, or being glad that someone else on another team is hurt. I guess having my own dreams dashed because I once stepped in a hole on the football field, to make a fake, forcing my knee to pop out sideways and consequently became a permanent spectator… I guess that makes me wish the best for every player. I’d just much rather see our own team at full strength beating another team at full strength. Otherwise… they should just rename the Super Bowl and turn it into a TV show and we’ll call it, “The Survivor.”

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What? Well C-R-A-P-!

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Officiating or Obfuscating

The referee issues in the NFL are getting worse, not better. I heard a few years back, maybe four years ago, that if you took all the yearly revenue from football, baseball, basketball and hockey then added them together it would equal less than the yearly gross of video game revenues (or, maybe that was pornography). Well, as it turns out, video games made 99.6 Billion dollars in 2015 while the NFL owners split 7.2 Billion in 2015. The point? If you are a video game player, the game never gets it wrong. Not so in the NFL. The very technology that was supposed to “save” the NFL with instant replay, has failed, because the owners have seen fit to leave certain calls in the hands of underpaid, under-trained, over-zealous, semi-professional employees: known in certain prison attire fashion circles as, the referees. From us.blastingnews.com comes an article called, “The NFL Needs to Recognize and Fix It’s Obvious Officiating Problem” in which Andrew Granville wrote,

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“A Broken System. It’s time for fans and teams to stop accepting the current system in place. In week 1, the NFL admitted that there were sixteen calls that could have gone the Jaguars way. Sixteen! And several of those non-calls would have given the Jaguars chances to win the game. In this case, it was the officials, and not the players, who would lose the game for the Jaguars.”

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It’s no wonder fans are changing interests or just doing anything else other than watch a form of “entertainment” that is anything but. The Jaguars game is a prime example and when you consider that one game, that’s right, one game, had 16 admittedly bad calls… sixteen… against just “one” of the teams in that contest… it’s unfathomable that owners haven’t stepped in and torn down the whole system and built something up that takes care of every facet of getting a game called correctly: form a school for officials to a complete technological organization and methodology that can ensure every call is the right one. It’s not like it’s not possible.

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What it really comes down to is this: are the owners willing to do everything that is necessary to ensure that… the winner of a game… is actually… the winner of a game? Until that happens, fans will continue to walk away and walk away unhappy, or happy to be doing whatever else they will be doing with their time.

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More Injuries

Here’s another example of the on-again off-again relationship fans have with injuries:

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Just when the Chiefs are needing the Buffalo Bills to step up and beat the Oakland Raiders this weekend, Sammy Watkins has looked like he wouldn’t be active this week. Now… I guess he’s playing. That is, if you can trust anything that comes out of Rex Ryan’s pie hole… and although you might guess that a whole lot more goes in, than come out… I assure you more comes out. One thing we can be sure of is that there will be injuries:

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The following picture, pretty much describes how I have felt this week: it was a strange, deranged, insane but… wonderful moment.

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I’ll end with this:

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