Arrowheadlines: Chiefs News 2/5
by NJ Chiefs Fan on Feb 5, 2010 6:29 AM CST
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PrintGood Morning AP. We're getting ready for 8-12 inches of snow here over the next 24 hours. It always amazes me how the bread/eggs/milk disappear. I guess everyone makes french toast when snowed in?
"These guys are nuts," The Capitalist said. "They get 60 percent of the NFL revenue and they think that’s their right? Where is their risk? The owners assume all the risk."
I reminded The Capitalist that the football players more than any other team sport, risk their bodies in playing the game.
"It’s not like they aren’t getting paid," The Capitalist nearly shouted. "How many 23 or 24-year olds are making two or three million dollars a year? They get paid quite well for their risk."
Yes they do, and owners make a lot of money themselves. The golden goose landed on pro football some 20 years ago and continues to punch out eggs filled with riches. The owners have seen the value of their franchises rise remarkably in the last 20 years. The players union says those values are up 500 percent. The players are getting 60 percent of the league’s gross revenues. This coming season, the minimum salary for rookies is $320,000. A three-year veteran has a minimum of $545,000.
Everybody has gotten rich and the fans have gotten poorer.
The Golden Goose May Die … Friday Cup O’ Super Bowl from Bob Gretz
Clark Hunt has said it many times since becoming chairman of the Chiefs: He believes in building the team through the draft.
Hunt and the Chiefs may have little choice this year. The NFL’s owners and players are heading into the final year of the collective-bargaining agreement, and new rules will govern the free-agent market when it opens March 5.
Teams won’t be limited by a salary cap, but a limited number of players will be available. Nobody is certain how things will unfold, but it doesn’t appear teams will be able to load up on free-agent talent.
New rules may curtail Chiefs’ free-agency shopping from KC Star (H/T to OCF in Fanshots)
The early list has 11 Chiefs as restricted free agents and seven as unrestricted. That group includes seven players who finished the 2009 season as starters.
RESTRICTED FREE AGENTS – G Andy Alleman, RB Jackie Battle, QB Brodie Croyle, QB Matt Gutierrez, LB Derrick Johnson, LB Corey Mays, OT Ikechuku Ndukwe, C Rudy Niswanger, OT Ryan O’Callaghan, FS Jarrad Page and RB Kolby Smith.
UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS – SS Mike Brown, WR Chris Chambers, WR Terrance Copper, TE Sean Ryan, OL Wade Smith, OLB Mike Vrabel and WR Bobby Wade.
A Look At Chiefs Free Agents from Bob Gretz
Join the Kansas City Chiefs at their annual Draft Day Party on Thursday, April 22nd at the Chiefs Indoor Practice Facility located at the Truman Sports Complex. This is your chance to meet and greet current and former Chiefs players, with special appearances by the Chiefs Cheerleaders and KC Wolf. This year, the first round of the draft has moved into prime time on Thursday night.
Doors will open at 4:00 PM with "Voice of the Chiefs" Mitch Holthus providing commentary along with Chiefs players and personalities throughout the evening. The draft begins at 6:30 p.m. (Central) live from New York, with the Chiefs scheduled to make the fifth overall selection in the draft. Don’t miss the excitement of the Chiefs 2010 Draft Day Party.
Join the Chiefs for the 2010 NFL Draft from The Mothership
I'll put the Griefs "officially tortured" pedigree up against just about anyone. We're not talking about the Saints or Lions here -- this is a franchise that from the early '90s through the mid-aughts put together numerous winning seasons, including three 13-3 seasons and a nine-year run (from '89-'97) of consecutive winning seasons. Playoff record over that time? 3-9. This is a team that, for the better part of two decades, gave you hope and reason to cheer nearly ever year but once playoff time rolled around failed to deliver time after time and seemed to take a certain macabre joy in repeatedly kicking its fans in the plums.
Since 1969 season: AFC championships: Broncos 6, Raiders 4, Chiefs 0. Super Bowls titles: Raiders 3, Broncos 2, Chiefs 0.
Readers respond: We're tortured, too! from ESPN
There were once three very talented brothers, Dennis Darling, Devaughn Darling and Devard Darling. Devaughn and Devard became high school and college standouts in American Football.
With a bright future promised, Devaughn collapsed and died following a workout with the Florida State Seminoles. Then, there were two talented brothers.
Devard transferred from Florida State to Washington State and continued to excite football experts. He opted for the National Football League with one season left in college and went to the Baltimore Ravens in the draft. He was on the Ravens' roster from 2004 to 2007 and then joined the Kansas City Chiefs, his present team.
What's happening with Dennis Darling? from The Nassau Guardian
Maybe there is hope for Todd Haley and the Chiefs. Just look what Sean Payton has done for the New Orleans Saints.
Haley has followed much the same path as Payton. Both worked for Bill Parcells in their formative years as coaches, including 2004-05 in Dallas, where Payton was offensive coordinator and Haley was a passing-game coordinator/wide-receivers coach.
Both were offensive coordinators in Super Bowl losses — Payton with the Giants in 2000, Haley with the Cardinals last season. Payton took over as head coach in New Orleans in 2006; Haley went to Arizona as offensive coordinator in 2007 before coming to the Chiefs last season.
That’s where the similarity ends for now.
Right path leads Saints coach to title game from KC Star
Player Tweets
almighty31 on skype talkin 2 my homie @Mycurtis watch out for her nxt yr on the court. Univ of Houston> Transfer rules r somethin else
almighty31 RT @Mycurtis Talking to "THE MAN" from THE Valdosta State! on skype @almighty31 <<<< Yes i am the Face of VSU
almighty31 who wants 2 do abs wit me?
almighty31 i should of went 2 MIAMI
JarradPage44 NO!!! to everyone that said go to sleep. I go to bed late and workout early. Lol. @itsarush I can't go to that class. Lmao
Media and Fans
ArrowheadPride @Adam_Schefter And I saw Marcus Allen playing in a flag football game down here in Miami yesterday...he can still dive over the pile.
jesseparkes: @fb_outsiders Which explains why the NFL chose "The Who?" for halftime. RT @tuffyr Like reminding people the Chiefs exist.
BrianMcGannon: Just realized the most expensive Chiefs ticket costs as much as the cheapest Bears ticket. I'm going to miss you, KC...
billfix: @Adam_Schefter Chiefs got a bunch of guysbpast prime: Allen, Montana, Moon, Rison
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Morning NJ. Hey I watched the NFL channel this morning. Lombardi and Steve were talking
about the CBA. There seems to be a little sliver of hope for an agreement on the horizon. A sliver mind you. All signs still point towards a no CBA year. But there apparently has been some progress made. I only caught the tail end of it, so I do not want to misquote anything. It just seems like it’s going to be in Football’s best interest to get this done. Owner’s and players alike.
Yeah,
Whitlock has an article like that on FOX Sports (link here) along the same lines. Too much money being made to let it fall apart. I meant to link it above and totally forgot this morning.
by NJ Chiefs Fan on Feb 5, 2010 8:30 AM CST up reply actions
On Gretz article, I have just this to say for now:
Watching the players attempt to paint themselves as underprivileged populists is going to be very, very nauseating.
by burntorangehorn on Feb 5, 2010 7:27 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
I think there should be 3 reps for these meetings
The Owners Rep because they pay for everything to make a team.
The Players Rep. because they are the ones putting there ass/health on the line in the name of sport and entrainment.
And The Fan’s rep. Without the fans the other two don’t have anything, but yet are expected to pay higher and higher for things like Tickets, Parking, and Concessions. Add in the fact that never before have the Fan’s been represented in such meeting and are the most effected by the other two’s agreement, or lack of an agreement.
is it me? or isn't about time the Lamar Hunt trophy belonged to His team?
This Chiefs team is closer to a new expansion team than it is a playoff contender, your expectations should match that.
I predict the Chiefs trade down from the number 5 pick.
i think both sides r way to greedy
The players are making good money. All they need to do is set up the money like the nba they are screwing everything up giving young rooks keys to the city why do you have to pay these guys big cash it makes no sense your drafting a player. The only ones who should b receiving big cash is free agents. That’s it. Case closed. And as for the owners well they have bills they have to pay and I can understand that. But they should kick back to the fan experience lower ticket prices. Snack stand prices. And lower parking.
FOUR F'S FIND UM FEEL UM FUGUM FORGET UM.
by sexassassin on Feb 5, 2010 10:16 AM CST via mobile reply actions
If the NFL goes the way of MLB, I won't be watching.
I stopped watching MLB after the last work stoppage, and lo and behold, life went on. I can this heroin habitat that is called the NFL just as easily if they can’t figure out how to maintain a competitive playing field.
ya if the nfl goes mlb im ouut
I mean baseball is a joke. There are like ten teams right now going to spring training soon and they already know they have no shot in hell at making the playoffs. And they know they can’t get free agents they can make crazy trades they r handcuffed. If the nfl does that to the chiefs it would be hard to watch.
FOUR F'S FIND UM FEEL UM FUGUM FORGET UM.
by sexassassin on Feb 5, 2010 10:24 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Actually
Baseball’s got a very diverse group of teams that show up in the playoffs. The only teams that generally have no shot at the playoffs every year are the Royals, Pirates, Rangers, Reds, and Nationals…which is a result of those teams being run by cheapskate morons (yes, the Royals owner is a cheapskate and Dayton Moore is a moron)…and I’d argue that a team run by stupid people doesn’t have any business being in the playoffs to begin with.
Hell, even the Brewers and Twins have made the playoffs recently, and their media market is as small as the Royals’. Actually, the Brewers is smaller because they don’t have much of a following outside of Milwaukee because of the Twins and the Chicago teams.
Personally, I’d love to see football go to the baseball model of free agency.
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and another thing
The players are always saying wellwe have no health coverage for the guys that are retired I don’t know where that cash is coming from or if they expect owners to pick up that tab. But if the owners have to pay tysonjackson millions of dollars before he’s taken a snap and complaining that joe shmo who retired 20 years ago aint geting shit. Its like how can the nfl fork out that cash when they r paying these player waaay to much.
FOUR F'S FIND UM FEEL UM FUGUM FORGET UM.
by sexassassin on Feb 5, 2010 10:20 AM CST via mobile reply actions
Greed is so ugly. From the owners side, when they lose money, do the players
contribute to help cover the losses? Just think, if Hunt and the other owners, took all of their money and invested it in some other areas, in many cases, they would be better off. Many owners, own these teams because they love football just like a lot of players have admitted, they would play even if the big salaries were not there.
Hunt's not likely to suffer a broken neck either.
Cottam on the other hand…
by NJ Chiefs Fan on Feb 5, 2010 11:58 AM CST up reply actions
NJ, if that's an overarching concern, then ...
Cottam (using your example) shouldn’t be in the game … a construction worker can suffer a broken neck in an accident, you or I could get that or other injuries from getting hit by a car
I won’t argue that there’s no risk on the field, there is and we’ve seen it happen, sadly … but please, it’s a SPROT, it’s a GAME … oh wait, it IS a business after all, isn’t it? and the top 1st round picks get HOW MUCH MONEYbefore they’ve even played one down in an NFL game??? (I have more ?‘s and several !’s if it will help make my point more clearly)
BOTH sides are greedy bastards … and I think we all know that
"I shall conquer untruth by truth" - Mahatma Gandhi
Whilock Rocks!
hi, Mo!
5 minutes!!!
+1 Personally, I've never heard or read anything that indicated that the Hunt's were
greedy or selfish people. In fact, if true, all I’ve ever heard is that they are excellent business people, they truly care about their community and their people at all levels. OH, btw Mr. Hunt, we deserve 60% of your income and if you have any losses, that’s your problem. The players are going to loose a lot of fans if they don’t handle this better. See MLB.
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