Originally Posted by RedRaider56:
Oh, I'm planning on it. Chiefs became my new favorite team when they drafted Mr. Mahomes last year.
My wife and I lived in Kansas City for three years in the mid-90's. Loved it so much I refer to it as my adopted hometown. Was a Chiefs fan way before then, however, going back to Super Bowl IV. I thought Buck Buchanan and Bobby Bell were the most dominant defensive players in the AFL.
EJ Holub was a legend and also a Texas Tech alum. I went to junior high and high school with his daughter and we were good friends. I spent a lot of time around Mr. Holub when I was in junior high and would ride my bike over to their house to hang out with Kay, his daughter. The Holubs are awesome people.
As far as the most fun player to watch on that team? Hands down for me was Ed Podolak.
I've been waiting since 1969 for the Chiefs to be a real contender again. It feels like they're finally putting it all together.
Originally Posted by KCrockaholic:
I've found myself rooting for Texas Tech all the time now in different sports just because Mahomes came from there.
Much appreciated! We had a heckuva run this year in basketball--made it to the Elite 8 for the first time in program history. Beat KU at the Phog, which is one HELLUVA feat for any program. Contrary to the media pundits, we have a lot of genuine respect for KU basketball and hold them up as a benchmark for where we'd like to be in the near future.
Our baseball program has made the college world series twice now, and the majority of our players are also Academic All-Americans.
Football is tougher when you play in the same league as OU, Texas, TCU and Kansas State. We'll get there. Kingsbury is young, but he's where he wants to be and us older alumni are patient.
Originally Posted by penchief:
It does sound crazy but I feel the same way. Maybe it's just the fact that he is our own and we can see how good he will be without having to doubt it. That's damn exciting.
But for me it is seeing him do things I haven't seen any quarterback ever do in quite the same way. That pass he dropped in the bucket for a first down while running backwards with Von Miller about to crush him was amazing. How he even saw Robinson at the moment he released the ball is beyond me.
That play showed an example of downfield vision, anticipation, accuracy, and touch (all while under immense pressure) that I can honestly say I've never seen before. I wouldn't trade that for anything right now.
Mahomes' raw gifts and talent are other worldly and the good news is that the surface of those gifts and abilities is only now being seriously scratched. I was telling some fans at a home game in Lubbock during his last season that he was the college football version of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Who knows how good SRV would be today if he hadn't gone down in that helicopter?
Eric Clapton once said that Stevie "never got lost, never stumbled on the guitar, that the music just
flowed from him. Having watched Mahomes for three years, much the same--the game and big plays seem to just flow from him. And best of all, the young man isn't even aware of it--it's just what he does on the field and how he does it.
Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy:
Such a blessing to our city this young man is.
This for most certain. As I alluded to in a previous post, Mahomes saves his swagger for the field. Off the field, he's almost shy. He is a tremendous asset to Kansas City and her surrounding towns as well as the Chiefs.
My wife and I honestly could not think of a better town and team for Pat to have gone to. Kansas City is not an arrogant city like Dallas or Philadelphia or New York. It's not flaky like Denver or San Fran or Seattle and it's not obnoxious like Boston or Oakland.
Kansas City is a working person's town where midwest roots and values still rule the day and where the community takes care of their own and does so with class and genuine empathy. Mahomes fits the town and the town fits Mahomes.
JD
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Originally Posted by JDKinman:
My wife and I lived in Kansas City for three years in the mid-90's. Loved it so much I refer to it as my adopted hometown. Was a Chiefs fan way before then, however, going back to Super Bowl IV. I thought Buck Buchanan and Bobby Bell were the most dominant defensive players in the AFL.
EJ Holub was a legend and also a Texas Tech alum. I went to junior high and high school with his daughter and we were good friends. I spent a lot of time around Mr. Holub when I was in junior high and would ride my bike over to their house to hang out with Kay, his daughter. The Holubs are awesome people.
As far as the most fun player to watch on that team? Hands down for me was Ed Podolak.
I've been waiting since 1969 for the Chiefs to be a real contender again. It feels like they're finally putting it all together.
Much appreciated! We had a heckuva run this year in basketball--made it to the Elite 8 for the first time in program history. Beat KU at the Phog, which is one HELLUVA feat for any program. Contrary to the media pundits, we have a lot of genuine respect for KU basketball and hold them up as a benchmark for where we'd like to be in the near future.
Our baseball program has made the college world series twice now, and the majority of our players are also Academic All-Americans.
Football is tougher when you play in the same league as OU, Texas, TCU and Kansas State. We'll get there. Kingsbury is young, but he's where he wants to be and us older alumni are patient.
Mahomes' raw gifts and talent are other worldly and the good news is that the surface of those gifts and abilities is only now being seriously scratched. I was telling some fans at a home game in Lubbock during his last season that he was the college football version of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Who knows how good SRV would be today if he hadn't gone down in that helicopter?
Eric Clapton once said that Stevie "never got lost, never stumbled on the guitar, that the music just flowed from him. Having watched Mahomes for three years, much the same--the game and big plays seem to just flow from him. And best of all, the young man isn't even aware of it--it's just what he does on the field and how he does it.
This for most certain. As I alluded to in a previous post, Mahomes saves his swagger for the field. Off the field, he's almost shy. He is a tremendous asset to Kansas City and her surrounding towns as well as the Chiefs.
My wife and I honestly could not think of a better town and team for Pat to have gone to. Kansas City is not an arrogant city like Dallas or Philadelphia or New York. It's not flaky like Denver or San Fran or Seattle and it's not obnoxious like Boston or Oakland.
Kansas City is a working person's town where midwest roots and values still rule the day and where the community takes care of their own and does so with class and genuine empathy. Mahomes fits the town and the town fits Mahomes.
JD
Fantastic post sir! Enjoy what will perhaps be the most exciting era of Chiefs football....
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