Full disclosure, I’ve by no means been on board with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. Certain, they had been, for some time, the most effective crew in America, with a younger and thrilling generational expertise underneath middle and a head coach who by no means had to answer for anything as a result of he wears Hawaiian shirts, has a humorous mustache, and struggled with masking. Certain, it was unattainable to make it by means of a Sunday with out seeing Patrick Mahomes or Travis Kelce a number of instances each business break, however I survived the period of Aaron Rodgers’ low cost double-check, so I figured I might survive this, too.
Recently, although, any grace I had for the Chiefs (and their followers) has run out. And whereas Kansas Metropolis itself is a superb city that everybody ought to go to (I spent a month there one weekend), the sense of entitlement, the followers refusing to surrender the chop and the booing of the Black National Anthem have all begun to tarnish no matter tolerance I had for Reid and firm.
We are able to begin with Mahomes’ large mood tantrum on nationwide TV after yesterday’s 20-17 loss to the Payments, all as a result of 1) the officials correctly pointed out that Kadarious Toney lined up off-sides and a couple of) each Mahomes and Reid imagine that they’re purported to get a mulligan when that occurs. They’re, in spite of everything, the Chiefs.
“Usually I get a warning before something like that happens in a big game,” Reid said after the sport. “A bit embarrassing in the National Football League for that to take place. I didn’t have a protractor out there, but a bit embarrassing.”
Really, it’s way more embarrassing for the league so that you can divulge to the world that you simply’ve been getting warnings on issues that must be penalties, Andy. And do you actually imagine the refs owe you a “warning” and a do-over on what could possibly be a game-winning drive after the two-minute warning? You already know who by no means will get warnings when guys are offside? The Chicago Bears. I do know as a result of I watch them shoot themselves within the foot each week (apart from yesterday!) with penalties, and so does each different fan of a crew that isn’t a perennial Tremendous Bowl contender.
Right here’s what referee Carl Cheffers said in a pool report, clarifying that “no warning is required.”
“Ultimately, [players] are responsible for wherever they line up. No warning is required, especially if they are lined up so far offsides where they’re actually blocking our view of the ball. We would give them a warning if it was anywhere close but this particular one is beyond a warning.’’
Indeed. People in the nose bleeds could see how far offside Toney was and for Mahomes and Reid to stomp around, and yell and do everything but lay an egg over not getting special treatment is deeply unattractive.
Speaking of stomping around, let’s take a look at how beloved Golden Boy quarterback Mahomes handled adversity. First this:
And then this:
“Worst f***ing call I’ve ever seen.” Actually, Patrick? Did you miss Calvin Johnson’s “no catch?” How about Dez Bryant’s? What about final week, when Packers’ Jonathan Owens was flagged for hitting you, Patrick, while you were still in bounds? I don’t recall you or Reid belly-aching about that one, which was truly embarrassing for the league. Go cry about it to Jake from State Farm.
All of Reid and Mahomes’ grousing ignores the extraordinarily apparent proven fact that, regardless of having the most effective QB of his technology on the sphere, the Chiefs’ play calling seems an terrible lot just like the Bears’ play calling from 2018 to 2022. I’m wondering what the frequent denominator could possibly be? (Shock, it’s Chiefs OC Matt Nagy!)
And whereas we’re as regards to overexposure, we’d be remiss if we didn’t focus on Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. Just a few weeks again, I yelled at everyone for blaming the Chiefs’ tough offensive play on Swift, and I stand by that. Irrespective of who she is, she’s entitled to go watch her boyfriend play soccer with out the remainder of the world considering she is someway liable for the mediocre offense. And I stand by that. However to the NFL, in terms of Taylor and Travis, I feel I communicate for all of us once I say we’ve had sufficient. By no means in my life have I seen a digicam pan to a participant’s girlfriend or spouse each time he’s concerned in a play. If Swift is bringing younger girls to soccer, nice! But it surely’s an excessive amount of at this level. I don’t care about these individuals almost as a lot as you assume I do. I don’t care that Taylor borrowed Brittany Mahomes’ purple coat for the sport. I don’t care that Taylor is hanging out with Donna Kelce. And I actually don’t must see Jackon Mahomes whooping it up in a skybox whereas charged with aggravated sexual battery. Sufficient.
(By the way in which, the restaurant the place Jackson Mahomes allegedly assaulted the proprietor? It shut down because of the controversy, and Mahomes denies the allegations.)
I’m not even going to enter Kelce completely butchering “Fairytale of New York” and all of the those that now seek advice from the beloved Pogues’ classic as “That Kelce Christmas Song,” as a result of I’m not in a adequate place, mentally, to debate it. (However right here’s a video of mourners within the aisles at Shane MacGowan’s funeral final week).
All the things that when had America cheering for a crew from the heartland now has us cheering for whoever performs the Chiefs, together with the Buffalo Payments, for crying out loud. The Chiefs have was a bunch of entitled, whiny, crybabies who’re in our faces day by day of the week. They are saying you both die a hero or dwell lengthy sufficient to turn into the villain and that’s precisely what’s occurred to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
