Happy Monday, Chiefs Kingdom. While you spend the day remembering and memorializing the brave men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice of devotion in defense of our great nation, showing the world your expertise on the grill, and enjoying your family and friends, let’s take a quick look back at the week that was in Chiefs Kingdom and elsewhere in the league.
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On today’s AO journey, we’ll also pay tribute to those who’ve fallen in defense of our nation, along with my usual potpourri of piddling parcels of pithiness. Let’s get at it.
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This Week in Chiefs News
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Chiefs Wrap Up First Week of OTAs – Photos
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NFL Investigating Disturbing Discrimination Claims by ex-Chief
Ex-NFL player and former Chiefs assistant coach Eugene Chung revealed last week that he was told he was “not the right minority” and that he was “really not a minority” while interviewing for an NFL coaching job this offseason. Chung, however, declined to name the team he was interviewing with. Shortly after learning of Chung’s statements, the NFL promised action. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement,
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“We will review the matter. That comment is completely inappropriate and contrary to league values and workplace policies. The NFL and its clubs are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all personnel in a manner that is consistent with our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.”
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The former NFL lineman is of Korean descent, and was only the third person of Asian descent to play in the NFL when drafted in 1992. If true, finding out the offending team will be interesting.
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K.C. Updated PreSeason Schedule Released
When the NFL initially released the 2021 NFL preseason schedule, a majority of dates and times were still to be determined, league-wide. They’ve finalized the schedule. Below is the Chiefs 2021 preseason schedule. Of particular note is all Chiefs games are evening games and only one game is at Arrowhead Stadium.
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Ex-Chief, and NFL Trailblazer, Joins the Chiefs Coaching Staff
On Tuesday of last week, former Chiefs wide receiver L’Damian Washington disclosed that he’d be joining the Chiefs staff thanks to a fellowship. Washington played for various teams in the NFL, CFL, AAF and XFL from 2014 through 2020. Washington is leaving his position as the Missouri Tigers Director of Player Development to join the Chiefs.
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Just a day later, on Wednesday, former San Francisco 49ers assistant coach Katie Sowers announced via Instagram that she was also joining the Chiefs to coach this summer. Sowers made history when, in 2019, as as full-time 49ers assistant coach, she became the first woman to coach in a Super Bowl in their loss to the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV.
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Both Washington and Sowers are joining the Chiefs via the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship, a tool for up-and-coming minority coaches to get hands-on coaching experience in the NFL. Supported by all 32 NFL teams, the program brings in the aspiring minority coaches to observe, learn, and coach for the duration of a team’s training camp.
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Elsewhere Around the League
Unified Training Camp Dates
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New 2022 Salary Cap
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Full Capacity Stadiums & Training Camp
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HBCU Combine
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Adam Vinatieri Retires
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Aaron Rodgers Saga
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Chiefs Player Tweet of the Week
It’s rare when a player’s quality on the gridiron is equal to or surpassed by the quality of their character. Fortunately for Chiefs Kingdom, Veach and Reid’s squad is full of them. Case in point is Tyrann Mathieu.
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Chiefs Fan Tweet of the Week
That’s an awful lot of shade to throw in a desert… but, it’s as appreciated as it’s deserved.
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Chiefs Quote of the Week
“I think we can be better in the red zone. It’s up to us to keep guys out of the end zone, and it’s going to give our team a better chance to win if we can force teams to throw the ball in the red zone, as opposed to running the ball. We’ve been focusing on it and that’s an area I’d love to see us be better at moving forward.” – Safety Tyrann Mathieu discussing the Chiefs defensive backs
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Chiefs Blast from the Past
Sometimes, special teams make all the difference. Let’s hope Chiefs special teams coach Dave Toub can channel his inner-Frank Gansz this season. He’s certainly got a potential gunner in Zayne Anderson.
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Random Chiefs Statistic of the Week
It’s boggles my mind that no Chiefs running back, save for Marcus Allen (and let’s be honest, his best years were when he played for that despicable team with ugly colors that recently moved to the middle of the desert), is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Based on his numbers and his invaluable impact on the Chiefs, I believe a compelling argument exists for Jamaal Charles’ induction. What about you?
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Dad Joke of the Week
My great uncle died making butter on his farm last week.
It was a really tragic churn of events.
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Reasons To Celebrate
Remember and Honor This Week
Today, on this most solemn of American holidays, as we remember,
honor, and commemorate our heroes who died in defense of our nation
over the past two-and-a-half centuries, let’s look at four very different,
yet uniquely American service members who made the supreme sacrifice.
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Douglas Munro
Signalman First Class Douglas Munro was a United States Coast Guardsman assigned to Naval Operating Base Cactus at Lunga Point Guadalcanal during WWII. In September 1942, during the Second Battle of the Matanikau, Petty Officer Munro led the extrication of a force of Marines when the Japanese overran their position. While piloting a Higgins boat to shield a Marine-filled landing craft from enemy fire, a Japanese bullet struck him in the skull, killing him. The landing craft he’d been shielding successfully escaped and all Marines onboard saved.
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Petty Officer Munro is the only Coast Guardsman ever to receive the Medal of Honor. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt posthumously presented the military’s highest honor to the petty officer’s parents in May 1943. The signalman also received the Purple Hear. Petty Officer Munro is the only non-Marine to have his name enshrined on the Wall of Heroes of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, VA, just outside of Quantico.
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Dan Bullock
Dan Bullock was a Private 1st Class in the United States Marine Corps who served during the Vietnam War. Pfc. Bullock arrived in country in May 1969 and assigned as a rifleman in 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon, Company F, 2nd Battalion 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, stationed at An Hoa Combat Base. Less than a month after arriving in Vietnam, Pfc. Bullock and three of his fellow marines were occupying a bunker near the base airstrip when a North Vietnamese sapper unit attacked the four Marines, tossing an explosive device into their bunker. None of the Marines survived.
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Unbeknownst to the Department of Defense and the U.S. Marine Corps, the young Bullock was only 14 years old when he enlisted. Bullock altered the date on his birth certificate to list his birthdate as December 21, 1949, successfully duping the Marine recruiters. At age 15, he is the youngest U.S. serviceman killed in action during the Vietnam War.
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Isaac Davis
Captain Isaac Davis was a gunsmith, hailing from Acton, Massachusetts. Like many patriots at the start of the American Revolution, Capt. Davis joined his local company as a minuteman. During the first battle of the war, the Battle of Concord, the captain and his company were selected to lead the advance on the British Regulars. During the advance, Capt. Davis was one of the first to fall, pierced through minuteman’s heart by steel from a Redcoat’s musket.
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Capt. Davis was the first American officer to die in the American Revolution. He served as the model, via photographs of his descendants, for The Minute Man sculpture at the Old North Bridge in Concord, MA.
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Sharon Ann Lane
First Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane worked as an American nurse at the 312th Evacuation Hospital in Chu Lai, Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War. Dedicated to her duties, 1st Lt. Lane, would often spend her off-duty time ministering to her wounded comrades despite working five 12-hour shifts per week. It was while performing these duties that she perished when Viet Cong rockets rained down on the 312th.
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1st Lt. Lane was buried with full military honors, posthumously receiving the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star with a “V” for valor. She is the only American service woman killed by enemy action in Vietnam, and the only American nurse killed by hostile fire.
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A Smile To Start Your Week
It’s people like this fella who both restore and sustain my faith in humanity.
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Michael Travis Rose — ArrowheadOne
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