There, I said it…
Was talking to Wild Bill Nigro the other day and we agreed that if Craig Glazer was alive today, he would have long since fired up his chainsaw and written at least a half dozen columns predicting the doom and gloom for the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl chances.
Long as we’re on the subject, as an aside, he’d undoubtedly have suffered some major gambling losses betting on the team. He’d be reminding us dismissively of how bad KU football still is (and Bill Self will soon be gone), how K-State is a “nice little team” that nobody outside the area gives a second thought to, and he’d be on the MU Tigers bandwagon, especially given their reasonably winnable remaining games.
Ah, but all that college ball would pale in comparison to the dashing of his Chiefs hopes.
Cuz Craig would have been riding that bandwagon from the get-go…just like about everybody else in this town with a hankering for pigskin, beer and politically incorrect football cheers.
I told Nigro the other day that the Chiefs were risking quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffering an even greater injury by playing him his with that bad ankle.
For which they got basically nothing but back-to-back losses at Arrowhead.
Speaking of Nigro…
After texting me a half dozen or so images of animated ghosts with captions like, “I see dead people” and saying the Scribe was “trying to make a comeback thru” me – he posed the question: “Who do you think Craig’s hitting on in the after life?”
Don’t have an answer for that one, but the lesson to be learned for anguished Chiefs fans is something like, “Don’t count your chickens until the eggs are hatched.”
Because at this stage of the game, the entire Kansas City is in peril.
As Craig liked to say, “Think about it.”
The poor, pitiful Kansas City Star has been trying to milk the Chiefs season with podcasts and full page ads bragging about how they’re the shit.
Now they’re left tap dancing with lame headlines like, “The 2019 Chiefs will be defined largely by how they cope without Patrick Mahomes”
Local sports talk radio ratings may suffer too, because who wants to listen to a bunch of crybabies, wring their hands about the one that got away, and asked dumb questions like, “Why is Bill Nigro the starting quarterback this week?”
Yeah, times are tough here in the Cowtown and to the extent that there may be an afterlife – even for a Jewish kid like Craig Glazer – it’s all but certain that it’s a gloomy one given the sad state of our forlorn Kansas City Chiefs.
What’s that expression again?
Next year…
“Chiefs Super Bowl Dreams Fading Fast”
– comfort in times like these: “it is not worth the bother of killing yourself since you always kill yourself too late” – EM Cioran; endemic the desperation, unrequited the satisfa.
A 50th verse same as the first, unlike swiss clockwork the Chiefs have not been right twice, Superbowl’s lifetime; “wasted days and wasted nights” now numbering 18,177 since ‘this is our year’ was, in fact.
Ne’er an optimist nor pessimist be… realist.
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Look at them broads!! Craig was The Man!
Yeah and Woodside will never be the same!
Photographic proof that a few dollars can buy almost anything
F Glazer/Harley, the guy who in this room, said he knew where my daughter worked on the Plaza and indicated that he would go “see her”. He was a fuckin piece of %#*&.
Met Glazer many times, he never, NEVAR said shit to me to my face, but threatened my family under his Nom De Plume.
COWARD scum bag liar, piece of shit.
Wish he was still alive.
Easy Chuck…there is some new evidence as to whom I think you are referring…as in Harley…
It’s starting to look like the obvious maynnot have been quite so obvious…
Stay tuned
It looks like the Chiefs will only need to make it to 8-8 to make the playoffs this year with the 3 other scrub teams in their division. Hell, rest Mahomes until the week before the playoffs, start him in week 17 to get the rust off and then roll!
Yeah, sounds like anything is possible…
But do you now think – and do the masses who all but assumed the Chiefs would not only go to the Super Bowl – but in all likelihood win it -that this is still possible?
Plus now we have another worry with Mahomes, and this is the question of is he going to be a durable quarterback a la Tom Brady and John Elway or will be be another Joe Namath, with flashes of greatness with the specter of injury and fragility hanging over his head, each and every game?
To be honest I think you’re looking at it more honestly than most fans. I think it’s going to come out that Super Boy isn’t so tough after all and will battle one injury after another. Knees and ankles outside of a good arm are the other two main things a good quarterback has to have in good health to be great.
What I can’t seem to grasp is why do you take what’s supposed to be a long term investment in a player and try to ruin their ability to play more than a season or two by pushing them to play while injured. No good of that ever happens.
I have suffered from weak ankles all my life and was why my football playing ended as a young teenager and last year I was hit with a knee injury that one was more age related than Mahomes has been but it has completely reshaped my ability to get around today pain free. Sure a lot of rehab made it better but it wasn’t no two or three weeks worth of stuff. Sorry but I don’t see anyone rather you’re a million dollar plus quarterback or not going back onto the field and being 100% after dislocating your knee cap in 3 weeks. He’ll be an easy target for the opposition defense to attack and they will know just where to attack on Mahomes. These players may share some comradery off the field but the minute the ball snaps all friendships end for the next few seconds. That alone would make me lay in bed at night wide awake worrying about the next hit and you have to know unless he is totally a masochist, Mahomes is doing the same. He suffered real pain that night on the field as all the photos have shown and that’s something the normal mind never forgets.
Good points all, Super..
But hey, better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Chiefs fans have (finally) had their time in the sun and however long it lasts, doesn’t diminish the thrills that have inspired them so passionately!
Again Dave this is an article about the Chiefs; ergo, Pat Mahomes, not you. Don’t you dare equate yourself to Mahomes. You barley share the same genus. Your ankles and rehab experiences are utterly irrelevant here. You have nothing to add. Quit making every story about you.
Thats your opinion, how ever irrelevant as it may be. I noticed you didn’t seem to mind Chuck addressing his issues. I used personal experience to lay the foundation in making my point as to just what “Mahomes could” be facing physical wise as I can relate to those conditions in a way unlike you who just seems to use hate to make theirs. Another point is I was replying to what Hearne said more than to what the stories main focal point was about. But at least I do know the difference between Barley and Barely the same as I would know how to correctly use genus to make a point. In this case Mahomes, Hearne and even I would share the same genus. But then do you?
Let the record show thaT SUPER DAVE – NOT I – IS POSING THAT QUESTION