We’re three weeks away from St. Joe, folks! The Chiefs 2021 season’s heading for us with all the velocity of a speeding locomotive, and I’m like an eight-year-old kid in November hoping that Thanksgiving hurries up and gets here cause he knows then Christmas is right around the corner.
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Instead of dreaming of a new bike or an Electric Football under the Christmas tree, I’ve visions of double tight end formations, PMII trick plays, Nick Bolton blitzes, and Honey Badger ripping the pigskin right out of the arms of an unsuspecting wideout dancing in my head. ArrowheadOne and writers like David Bell and Laddie Morse serve as my Sears and Spiegel catalogues. Most every day, they, along with a few of our readers, entrance me with all that the 2021 Kansas City Chiefs can be, the intricate ways in which they will accomplish that, and the players who are going to make it possible.
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Alas, just as time waits for no one, it ain’t gonna rush for us, neither. We may as well go on ahead and get at it.
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This Week In Chiefs News
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Mahomes Training Video
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In a new workout video that went viral last week, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes shows that he’s taking no chances with Brett Veach’s totally rebuilt offensive line. I think it’s safe to say that there will be no repeat of the pulverization Mahomes suffered in last season’s Super Bowl.
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Meet Your New 2021 Chiefs
We’ve got some fresh faces in Chiefs Kingdom for the 2021 NFL season.
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Joe Delaney Memorial Highway
Thirty-eight years to the day after Chiefs running back Joe Delaney tragically lost his life while valiantly trying to save three children from drowning in his native Louisiana, two signs now adorn a two-mile stretch of I-435 Chiefs fans drive past two and from Arrowhead Stadium in honor of the courageous superstar.
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Alternate Uniforms?
Chiefs Twitter was all abuzz with talk of an alternate Chiefs uniform this week after the NFL approved alternate helmets for teams wearing throwback uniforms. Don’t get too excited, yet, though, as the rule does not take effect until the 2022 season.
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Is He High or Something!?!
In an apparent attempt to prove Skip Bayless is not the most clueless NFL pundit in sports media, Mark Schofield of Touchdown Wire ranked Travis Kelce as the second best tight end in the NFL, behind the San Francisco 49ers George Kittle.
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In a lame defense of his ranking, Schofield blathered,
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“… while the line between him and George Kittle is very blurry, and the discussion is more of a “1A and 1B” ranking, what is not in dispute is what Kelce offers offensively… Kelce is every bit the matchup nightmare at the position that strikes fear in the hearts of NFL defensive coordinators, with his ability to separate from man coverage whether facing a safety, a linebacker or a cornerback.“
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What in the actual heck is wrong with this dude! Kelce became the only tight end in NFL history to record five consecutive 1,000-yard seasons. Kelce also broke the NFL’s single-season receiving record by a tight end. A record, I might add, previously held by both he and Kittle. Oh, did I mention Kelce is also the only tight end in NFL history with multiple seasons with over 100 receptions?
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Elsewhere Around the League
American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story
The long-awaited Lionsgate film, American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story, will hit the big screen this December. The film will star Zachary Levi as Kurt Warner and Anna Paquin as his wife, Brenda. What I’m really looking forward to, however, is Dennis Quaid as Dick Vermeil. Shooting for the film was in Atlanta, GA and Oklahoma City, OK.
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All was eerily quiet on the Aaron Rodgers/Green Bay Packers standoff this week. Although Rodgers flexed his sportscasting chops hilariously lampooning fellow future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady on the green.
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W h o C a r e s ? !
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Hard Knockin’
For the third time in its twenty-year history, the HBO series Hard Knocks will feature the Dallas Cowboys for the 2021 season. Actor Liev Schreiber will once again narrate the series, set to air its first episode on HBO and HBO Max Tuesday Aug. 10.
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Since the Cowboys are to be featured, I recommend they change the name of the series from Hard Knocks to, Mired in Mediocrity.
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Chiefs Player Tweet of the Week
I wish I had a fraction of the self-confidence the Honey Badger exudes. Deservedly so, I might add. GMFB talks about Mathieu:
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Also in a snub that stings almost as much as Travis Kelce being ranked the second best tight end in the NFL, notably absent from PFF’s top 50 list was Mathieu. Idiots! The lot of ’em!
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Chiefs Fan Tweet of the Week
Those fellas at Arrowheads Abroad (@KCChiefs_UK) are a virtual goldmine when it comes to finding Chiefs fan tweets for my Monday pieces.
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Chiefs Quote of the Week
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“This is so trash man… just let her run!”
– PMII
A riled-up Patrick Mahomes at the decision to ban the USA’s Sha’Carri Richardson from running in the Olympic 100-meter race because of her one-month ban for a positive marijuana test.
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He’s right, too. This country, and the world, needs to get over their puritanical, archaic, absolutely obsolete stance on marijuana. Mary Jane won. Let it go, already!
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Chiefs Blast from the Past
There are a few things in life one never tires of watching. Beautiful sunsets, pretty girls, your favorite movie (Cool Hand Luke), and Derrick Thomas sacking John Elway! As Elway crumpled to the turf, you knew, if only for a second, all was right in the world.
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Random Chiefs Stat of the Week
I reckon I’ll leave this right here, now, “Chris Jones is going to have the best season of his career in 2021.”
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Dad Joke of the Week
Why does the Norwegian Navy have barcodes on their ship?
So when they return to port they can… Scandinavian.
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A Reason To Celebrate This Week
This Wednesday, July 7th, we celebrate a day that’s near and dear to this ex-sailor’s/lifelong drinker’s (forgive me; I repeat myself) heart. July 7th is National Dive Bar day. I love a good dive bar.
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There’s at least one dive bar in every working-class neighborhood in America. On the outside, they’re pretty nondescript, but, if you can find one with an old beer logo neon sign, you’ve hit pay dirt. Bonus points if it’s a Falstaff sign. The inside smells like stale draft beer and the pungent aroma of tobacco. The walls of the place are plastered with pictures of patrons of eras gone by fracassing on Friday nights, and sh*t-kicking on Saturday nights, to boot. These are plastered there with decades of nicotine stains.
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Everyone knows everyone else by their first name, or a well-earned nickname like Tiny for a 300-plus pound dude. The bar-goers are from all walks of life, too. You have doctors, lawyers, laborers, office workers, pimps, and hookers all gathered together to slake their thirst and shake off the dust of the week prior.
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The best dive bars are close enough from home to walk to and stumble back to the house when you’ve had a snootful. We have two were I live, although I only go to either 3 or 4 times a year now. There’s Mike’s Ten Pin on Broadway and Kopp’s Korner at 7th and Spring. Mike’s is a ten-minute walk and a twenty-minute stumble. Kopp’s, a five-minute walk and a ten-minute stumble. These are the types of places you drink with folks you’ll never forget on nights you probably won’t remember.
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I love a good dive bar… oh, did I say that already?
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A Smile To Start Your Week
A Topeka, KS teacher’s alleged prank fart to “lighten the mood” on Zoom cracks her third-graders up! Cracks me up, too!
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I figured our resident ex-educator/editor-in-chief would get a toot out of it.
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[Ex-educator/editor-in-chief’s Note: At least that joke doesn’t stink.]
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Michael Travis Rose — ArrowheadOne
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