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    Whitlock's take on the events from Fox Sports.


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    You gotta be f---ing kidding me.

    In a society that increasingly supports caged human ****fighting — aka MMA — has a proud history with boxing, cheers lustily whenever fights break out inside a hockey rink and builds Roman Empire-stylized coliseums for football games, a 320-pound, sweet-talking lineman has somehow convinced a segment of America that Chiefs fans are the sick and disgusting bad guys.
    You gotta be f---ing kidding me.

    You damn straight a small percentage of Chiefs fans cheered loudly when two overgrown Ravens knocked Matt Cassel smooth the hell out. Did we not cheer when Mike Tyson curb-stomped Michael Spinks? Google the knockout work that made Anderson Silva the MMA’s most beloved star and tell me if you hear respectful silence or wild, joyful hysteria?

    We love violence and Eric Winston’s hypocritical *** is wealthy because he’s relatively adept at inflicting it. The only thing all that unusual about the smattering of cheers that greeted Cassel’s glazed-eyed trip to the turf is that his hometown fans gave life to the noise. And for that, you can blame Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli, his boss, Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, and the escalating cost of being a sports fan in the era of shopping mall-amusement park stadiums.

    Sickening? A smattering of cheers for an injured $66 million quarterback with a rating of 66.2 and a league-leading 14 turnovers?

    No. No. What’s sickening is how easily Winston, Kansas City’s right tackle, deflected the national media from the real story. One of the most passionate fan bases in sports — Kansas City Chiefs fans — has been abused so thoroughly the last eight to 10 years that it is turning unruly. What happened Sunday inside Arrowhead Stadium is a result of the Hunt family’s neglect of their fan base. This has been brewing since 1998, since Marty Schottenheimer courageously and justifiably realized he should move on after 10 years in Kansas City. From 1989 to 1998, Schottenheimer and his front-office partner Carl Peterson transformed Arrowhead Stadium from an empty parking lot into one of the coolest, most electric places on earth eight fall Sundays a year. Football Sundays in Kansas City became mini-holidays. The whole town wore red starting on Fridays. Tailgating at Arrowhead Stadium before games was Kansas City’s No. 1 social activity.

    I’ve watched NFL games at every venue. Nothing compared to Arrowhead Stadium during the Schottenheimer era. Nothing. The Chiefs never advanced to the Super Bowl, but Kansas City was the NFL’s ground zero. The players, coaches and executives were treated like royalty.

    The players, coaches, executives and ownership got spoiled. They didn’t have to win it all to be treated as if they had. The Chiefs haven’t won a playoff game since 1993. That’s right. The Chiefs haven’t won a playoff game in two decades. But the stadium was filled, the parking lot packed and Chiefs jerseys hung in seemingly every Kansas City closet so Lamar Hunt, Kansas City’s Dallas-based owner, allowed Carl Peterson to hang around 10 years after Schottenheimer left, a good five years after it was painfully obvious Peterson’s previous success was a result of Schottenheimer’s brilliance. Most Chiefs fans concluded Hunt would’ve never allowed Peterson to linger for a decade if Hunt lived in Kansas City and felt the pain of each disappointing season as personally as Kansas City residents. Kansas Citians attached their identity to their professional football team. Joe Montana, Marcus Allen and Derrick Thomas made the typical, insecure Kansas Citian feel big time.
    The stench of Peterson’s last 10 years and Lamar Hunt’s loyalty to Peterson are fueling Chiefs fans lack of patience with their successors, Scott Pioli and Clark Hunt. The situation is further exacerbated by KC’s newly renovated stadium and the elevated cost associated with it. Chiefs fans are paying $27 to park, $200 for a club-level seat, $10 for beer and are watching teams with no reasonable shot at postseason success.
    For the most part in today’s NFL, no quarterback equals no shot.

    Lamar Hunt and Carl Peterson could never pick a quarterback. In 20 years, they never drafted one in the first round. They preferred to sign someone else’s veteran. Given a choice in the 1990s between benching an aloof, inconsistent and expensive Elvis Grbac and going with locker-room/fan favorite Rich Gannon, Hunt and Peterson let Gannon escape to Oakland, where he won a league MVP award, made four Pro Bowls and one Super Bowl appearance. Grbac eventually bounced to Baltimore and quit football. No one, besides Trent Dilfer, remembers Elvis Grbac.

    Scott Pioli’s first major personnel decision in Kansas City was giving Matt Cassel a franchise-quarterback contract despite his highly suspicious resume. Cassel never played at USC. He played one season at New England. Cassel is Pioli’s original sin, the mistake that has haunted his four years in Kansas City. Pioli, the Bill Belichick disciple, saw in Cassel the second coming of Tom Brady. Pioli arrogantly and foolishly thought he’d discovered Brady in a bottle twice. Ha.

    This year Cassel has been the worst starting quarterback in football. He’s a turnover machine. He clearly lacks confidence. His arm strength is atrocious. His ball floats up before it moves ahead. He needs to be benched. Pioli won’t allow it.

    Before Sunday’s game, a group of working-class Chiefs fans pooled their money to fly a banner over Arrowhead Stadium demanding that Hunt fire Pioli and bench Cassel. These people love their football team. Clark Hunt lives in Dallas. The fans are spending their money to get the attention of their absentee owner. They’re afraid that Pioli-Hunt is going to be a replica of Peterson-Hunt. Their fears are justified. Pioli is a poor man’s Peterson. Pioli is an embarrassingly insecure version of Peterson, a man with a bloated ego. Pioli masks his insecurity with a false bravado, a dictator’s management approach and a constant desire to manipulate the media into believing he was the brains behind the Patriots dynasty.

    Chiefs fans aren’t having it. They want a real quarterback. They want the Cassel charade to end. Pioli’s stubbornness forced a handful of Chiefs fans to spontaneously thank the Ravens for momentarily ending their Matt Cassel nightmare. I think America will survive.
    It’s easy for the national media to sit on their couches, inside their television studios or on their free, comfy press-box seats and preach polite decency to the working-class folks paying to watch their hijacked football team.

    I won’t do it. I was inside Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday as a Chiefs fan. I’m not the type to boo or cheer. But I want Pioli fired. Eric Winston, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bortnem View Post
    My question is why is KC in the hot seat when some fans possibly cheered (I believe we were cheering for Quinn entering the game) for our horrible QB to be knocked out of the game, when Jaguar fans killed a Bears fan? I have heard very little if anything about this on ESPN or from anyone else.
    Eric Winston is not pleased by this message of hate. In fact it disgusts him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OPLookn View Post
    Eric Winston is not pleased by this message of hate. In fact it disgusts him.
    If you're on twitter there is a parody account of Mr Winston that has sayings similar to that, it's a bit of comic relief as we enjoy rock bottom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Canada View Post
    Why are KC fans on the hotseat? Booing players at charity events, flying banners over the stadium, leaving games in the 3rd quarter, booing players at home. Should they be talking about what great fans KC has?

    At least someone is defending this team.

    I would remind. Fans only have so many ways to express their displeasure with the direction of the team. I personally only find fault with the booing at a charity event or at players' homes (first I have heard of either occurrence). Heck, I do not even see the booing at the stadium as booing at the players. People are booing at the owner, coach and GM. Just like I understand, that even those that were cheering during the Cassel injury were actually cheering for the outcome, not reveling in the individual's injury. That reaction was created by the Owner, GM and HC.

    The one thing I do know is the places that have fans who do not put up with mediocrity (not that there has even been that for the last ten years with the Chiefs) tend to see positive change. That is, they make their voices heard and it does make a difference.

    I would also point out, none of the things described is near as bad as fans from one team killing a fan of another team.

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    I have seen a lot about a fan killing another team fan. And the reason that this isn't as big a story on ESPN is because this was a jealous husband killing another man who happened to a fan of the opposing team vacationing in town coming to see the game. If this would have happened at the stadium or even if there would have been a fight over the teams I could see this .. this one was a man got jealous over his wife talking to another man and without saying a word pulls a knife and kills the other man then walks off.

    This has nothing to do with the team ... If I am wrong someone please correct me.




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    Quote Originally Posted by McLovin View Post
    This has nothing to do with the team ... If I am wrong someone please correct me.
    You're 100% correct. I actually took the time to read the article about it today. News sites always try to sensationalize the story. The killing was not relevant in anyway to the Jags or Bears and didn't really belong in the story.

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    I am thinking that no matter if Quinn or Stanzi pan out or not - it's time to draft our own franchise quarterback.
    SHUT IT

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    Quote Originally Posted by Isawa_mo View Post
    I would remind. Fans only have so many ways to express their displeasure with the direction of the team. I personally only find fault with the booing at a charity event or at players' homes (first I have heard of either occurrence). Heck, I do not even see the booing at the stadium as booing at the players. People are booing at the owner, coach and GM. Just like I understand, that even those that were cheering during the Cassel injury were actually cheering for the outcome, not reveling in the individual's injury. That reaction was created by the Owner, GM and HC.

    The one thing I do know is the places that have fans who do not put up with mediocrity (not that there has even been that for the last ten years with the Chiefs) tend to see positive change. That is, they make their voices heard and it does make a difference.

    I would also point out, none of the things described is near as bad as fans from one team killing a fan of another team.
    Well Said!

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    Quote Originally Posted by #58ChiefsFan View Post
    If you're on twitter there is a parody account of Mr Winston that has sayings similar to that, it's a bit of comic relief as we enjoy rock bottom.
    I am on twitter, but I'm an extremely new user. I think I was the last one to sign up actually. How do I find this parody?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OPLookn View Post
    I am on twitter, but I'm an extremely new user. I think I was the last one to sign up actually. How do I find this parody?
    Under the discover tab type in @notericwinston and choose people instead of tweets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Isawa_mo View Post
    I would remind. Fans only have so many ways to express their displeasure with the direction of the team. I personally only find fault with the booing at a charity event or at players' homes (first I have heard of either occurrence). Heck, I do not even see the booing at the stadium as booing at the players. People are booing at the owner, coach and GM. Just like I understand, that even those that were cheering during the Cassel injury were actually cheering for the outcome, not reveling in the individual's injury. That reaction was created by the Owner, GM and HC.

    The one thing I do know is the places that have fans who do not put up with mediocrity (not that there has even been that for the last ten years with the Chiefs) tend to see positive change. That is, they make their voices heard and it does make a difference.

    I would also point out, none of the things described is near as bad as fans from one team killing a fan of another team.
    I understand that this is the only way of voicing displeasure, but the consequences of voicing that displeasure is negative media attention for every little thing.
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