Alright, Chiefs Kingdom! We’ve finally got ourselves a victim list for 2021. Arrowhead Stadium promises to be packed once more. And, like Coach Reid, we look forward to the challenge.
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Let’s Get At It!
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This Week In Chiefs News
A Chief Comes Home – Chiefs legend, and future Ring of Honor inductee, Tamba Hali, signed a one-day contract last week to retire a winner, or a Chief, if you like (the words are interchangeable now). Thank you Mr. Hali, for many glorious memories.
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Veach Loots Vikings For Former First-Rounder – While Vikings, historically, are renown for their pillaging and looting, it was our own Chiefs GM Brett Veach who plundered the purple Norseman for their 2018 first-round draft pick, cornerback Mike Hughes, and a 2022 seventh-round draft pick. In return, the Vikes get the Chiefs 2022 sixth-round selection.
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Ragnar Lothbrok would be ashamed of you Ostman. Ashamed, I say!
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Eric Gallops To Indy – Former Chiefs offensive lineman Eric Fisher, released by the Red and Gold in March, inked a one-year, $9.4 million deal with the Indianapolis Colts, We wish Fisher and the Colts well next season … until the playoffs, that is.
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And The Chiefs Next Victim Is… along with the rest of the NFL, Chiefs Kingdom learned of the teams they most decimate on the road to their third Super Bowl appearance next season. The most exciting matchups for me, besides the usual cellar-dwellers of the AFC West, are the quarterback duels on tap. Week one has Mahomes facing his former Texas Tech backup, Baker Mayfield when the Cleveland Browns visit Arrowhead. The next week, we’re headed to Baltimore to visit Michael Vick 2.0, aka Lamar Jackson, and his Ravens. Josh Allen brings his bad-luck Buffalo Bills to KC in week five. Should he still be a Green Bay Packer, we’ll see Aaron Rodgers at Arrowhead One in week nine. Dak Prescott and the eternally mediocre Dallas Cowboys will be our week 11 victims. Finally, “Grandpa Ben” Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers get dished up a good-old-fashioned butt-kicking the day after Christmas in week 16.
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David Bell and Laddie Morse surprised ArrowheadOne readers with an outstanding article featuring breakdowns of each game just about an hour after the schedule release last Wednesday. Definitely check it out, if you haven’t already!
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Playing In A Full House with a Full Deck – Grand news! Last Tuesday, the Chiefs announced that Arrowhead Stadium — I just ain’t saying the full name — will be at full capacity for all games in the 2021 season. Even better, with a real offensive line, Patrick Mahomes and crew, along with some stellar Veach-leached draft picks and free agents, we’re also playing with a full deck this year. It’s gonna be lit!
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After a yearlong wait, we finally get to see Chiefs football as God meant it to be watched!
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And The Hits Just Keep On Coming – Not that he needed another award, but the Laures Sport for Good Foundation gifted Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes the Laures Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year. The award, “… awarded to the sportsperson or team whose performance as a newcomer suggests the greatest potential for an outstanding career or to an established sportsman or sportswoman who produces a significant step-up in class to a considerably higher level of sporting achievement,” recognized Mahomes for his breakout 2018 season.
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Elsewhere Around the League
And To Think, He Could Have Been A Chief (SMH) – Kudos to Seattle Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf who ran 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, finishing 15th out of 17 in event. For context, the Chiefs chose Mecole Hardman 56th overall in the 2019 NFL draft. The Seattle Seahawks nabbed Metcalf a few picks later, 64th overall, with the last pick of the second round.
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2021 NFL Schedule Chock-Full of Revenge Games – I’m not sure who put together the 2021 NFL schedule, but they should’ve titled it Revenge-Fest 2021! This season has more games with bad blood in them than a Thanksgiving dinner with the Hatfields and McCoys.
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Let’s look at the top five hate-fests in store for NFL fans:
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- The Super Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tom Brady visit his old boss, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots in week four. I feel for the referees, who’ll have no clue who they’re supposed to cheat for in this one!
- Castoff ex-Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff and his Detroit Lions will visit his replacement Matt Stafford at SoFi Stadium in week seven.
- The hapless Houston Texans travel to Arizona to face ex and embittered teammates DeAndre Hopkins and JJ Watts when they face the Cardinals, week seven, in the Arizona desert.
- Jameis Winston has a chance to redeem himself against the team that gave him the boot, when the New Orleans Saints host the Buccaneers in week eight.
- Cam Newton will face off with his ex-love, the Carolina Panthers, when the New England Patriots visit Charlotte in week 9.
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While these games ain’t real football — that is Chiefs football — they’re better than reruns… and with more drama, too!
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It’s 4:45 AM, Monday, 16 May 2021 – … and Aaron Rodgers is still a Green Bay Packer. He ain’t a happy Packer … but, he is a Packer. Meanwhile, the Broncos still suck.
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Chiefs Player Tweet of the Week
It looks as if the emergence of Byron Pringle late last season, the Chiefs signing of Notre Dame alumni Chris Finke, and drafting of Cornell Powell in the fifth round of this year’s NFL draft has finally ignited the boosters of our Jet! I reckon time will tell.
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Chiefs Fan Tweet of the Week
Arrowheads Abroad@KCChiefs_UK, I like the way you think!
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Chiefs Quote of the Week
” … we’ll have to be ready for that one.” – Chiefs head coach Andy Reid on the much ballyhooed Week 9 matchup between Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers… that is, if he’s still a Green Bay Packer….
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Chiefs Blast from the Past
On December 15, 2003, in a week 15 game against the villainous, much-hated (deservedly so) Oakland Raiders, the Chiefs torched the Raiders 56-31. Many an NFL fan still refers to that NFL week 15 Sunday as the day Jamaal Charles broke fantasy football. The electrifying Chiefs running back scored five touchdowns that day. Even Raiders fans were excited and happy for their lifelong rivals, as evidenced by the double one-finger salute (1:12 mark), agreeing with Chiefs Kingdom and signifying that both the Chiefs and Charles are #1.
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Random Chiefs Statistic of the Week
Don’t look back, Mr. Kenney or Mr. Smith, Patrick’s gaining on you, but fast! Trent, if I were you, I wouldn’t get too comfortable, either.
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Dad Joke of the Week
At any given moment, the urge to sing, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight“
is just a whim away, a whim away, a whim away, a whim away …
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A Reason To Celebrate This Week
— National Rescue Dog Day —
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This Thursday, May 20th, marks National Rescue Dog Day. It’s a day set aside since 2018 by Tails That Teach to celebrate those lovable, four-legged, furry creatures that adopt us humans into their always-lovable, oft-times-hectic, forever-faithful lives.
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Both Mrs. Rose and my lives are infinitely better since Riley Rose and Lexie Rose (the little girl) adopted us. Both are shelter dogs and die-hard Chiefs fans (although Riley runs and hides in the bathroom when I yell at the refs during Chiefs games).
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Any dog owner will tell you, it’s not us hoomans who rescue these pooches. Rather, it’s they who rescue us. Hence, the reason to celebrate National Rescue Dog Day … every day.
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A Smile To Start Your Week
In keeping with this week’s celebration theme, Chiefs Kingdom, I sincerely hope your week makes you as happy as this doggo on a slide.
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Michael Travis Rose — ArrowheadOne
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