Goodell is going to try to show up David Stern's stupidity, it looks like.

Although if the players want to play, go for it. It should probably be up to them. I don't think the game should be postponed permanently... but they've moved games around for hurricanes before. I get the amount of money involved. They could move it to Monday night, or even Monday afternoon if they want. The game is going to be like a funeral anyway. The fact that this happened at the team facility and in front of the people who are involved in this game makes it a different beast.

seriously. lets just move on. this is a rapid fire thread and constantly being posted on. my incorrect ideas are no longer relevant. here, have some rep.

Condolences to both kassandra and Jovans families. I feel for that baby. Such a beautiful childs life changed and she'll never know why.

I know man, priorites.

Seriously though. I don't see how anyone could possibly justify not postponing or cancelling the game tomorrow.

Jesus. This was the 2nd murder-suicide within the organization in the last 3 months. I never heard about this one.

http://www.bobgretz.com/chiefs-footb...r-suicide.html


http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...uicide/1249665

More details from SI.com about the possibility of cancelling tomorrow's game:


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...&sct=hp_t11_a0

Chiefs player involved in apparent murder-suicide at team facility

Tragedy struck in the NFL early Saturday morning with the news that a Kansas City Chiefs player committed suicide at the team's Arrowhead Stadium practice facility, after shooting and killing his girlfriend at home a short time earlier, SI.com has learned.

The player who shot himself is fourth-year linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25, Kansas City police have confirmed. There are no other known injuries at the Chiefs facility.

The Chiefs released a statement saying: "We can confirm that there was an incident at Arrowhead earlier this morning. We are cooperating with authorities in their investigation.''

According to police, Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend, 22, at home around 8 a.m. CT, with the woman's mother present and a witness to the murder. Belcher then drove to the team facility, where he later shot and killed himself in the parking lot of the team complex, in front of GM Scott Pioli and coach Romeo Crennel, as well as other team personnel. A KCPD spokesman said Pioli and Crennel tried to talk to Belcher, who thanked the men before taking his life. Belcher and his girlfriend had a three-month-old child.

The Chiefs (1-10) are scheduled to play at Arrowhead Stadium Sunday at noon CT, against the Carolina Panthers (3-8). One league source in the NFL office said officials were still trying to decide Saturday morning whether the game will be played on Sunday as scheduled. He said his guess was that the game would not be postponed or canceled, due to the complications of when to re-schedule the game in the remaining weeks of the season, or how a cancellation might affect the other 30 teams in the league in terms of competitive fairness.

"There is a ripple effect,'' the source said. "It's not simply two teams affected here. I'm not sure in recent history we've ever just canceled a game. But what's under consideration are all the factors involved if they don't play, when do they play? It's a pretty tight schedule to try and make a game up at some later point. These things have to be thought through. Nobody wants to play a football game right now if you're a Kansas City Chief, but what does that do to the other 30 teams? It gets a little complicated from a schedule standpoint and a competitive standpoint.

The league source said the NFL did not feel it was mandatory to make a decison in regards to the game before Carolina boarded its mid-day flight to Kansas City. "If the Panthers have to fly back from Kansas City without having played the game, it's not that big of an issue to deal with,'' the source said. "We'd rather take the time to think through all the ramifications.''

Kansas City mayor Sly James said that he's spoken with the Chiefs, who believe the game Sunday should be played.

Belcher was a fourth-year reserve linebacker who went undrafted out of the University of Maine in 2009. He signed with Kansas City as a collegiate free agent after the draft. As details of the shootings continue to come in, a Chiefs team source said Kansas City officials are still in the early stages of dealing with the tragedy.

RIP to the Girlfriend and the poor child that will never know it's parents.

yep totally agree

See post 210.


You've been shitting on this tradegy all day, why should I feel sorry for you?

Bar none. Plus, I think as of today this is going to be the lowest point in Chiefs franchise history when we look back.

1 win season
1st overall pick
0 wins at Arrowhead
Active player commits suicide in team Parking lot in front of HC and GM.

All firsts. Clark must clean house and start ALL over. :(

Your first 2 sentences are contradictory. If the NFL cancelled or postponed the game right away, the players don't even get a say in it. They have to proceed as if they will play, and give the players a chance to figure out what they want to do.

could the chiefs just tell goodell to go fuck himself on this whole playing tomorrow? i mean obviously the team would be incredibly fined, but not as much as the lost revenue of just delaying it a day.

To me it just doesn't matter much. If they postpone it, I totally get it. If they play, I totally get that too. I don't feel very strongly either way on this one.

Such a cute baby

This is so sad. Not a huge fan of Belcher, but he was a member of the family I love, that being the Chiefs.

When ESPN finally released his name, I literally started crying. I feel horrible for the families of the victims, especially the child left behind.

Not sure how I feel about Belcher. I feel sorry for the man and what was going on in his life to lead to this, yet I am outraged by his actions

What a horrible day.

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