[Chief Northman]

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....