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Originally Posted by TwistedChief
To be honest, I really do think your issues are unfair. The guy had just inherited the team from his father who was one of the most respected people in league history. I'm sure there was some learning curve and I'm sure there was some time where he was trying to find his equilibrium in terms of being hands on/hands off.
Let's just play revisionist history and say within the first few years of his controlling the organization, he meddles in the everyday player personnel decisions like who is starting at QB. He then gets a reputation for that sort of behavior. You might like it because you want your owner to visibly care, but when it's 2013 and we need a new GM and head coach, do you think Reid and Dorsey go to a team with an owner like that? I think doubtful.
I think it would be difficult establishing a balance between being a fan and being an owner. Because like it or not, as an owner, you can't act or respond to things like a normal fan without potential consequences down the road.
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I stipulated that I was probably being unfair, but those were my genuine feelings. And we all know that I wasn't alone in thinking cHunt was only concerned with the bottom line. CP has had a roller-coaster relationship with Clark.
And I have no idea how my comments got twisted into me wanting to violate his personal space or his privacy. What I wanted was an owner who was passionate about the team from my city.
Clark has taken a lot of heat on CP, and to look back now and say that it was undeserved is just revisionist history. There was a time that some people on this board were convinced that he would rather own a soccer team, which he owned 2 at the time, than the Kansas City Chiefs.
Lamar was a very low key guy, and he let the franchise get stagnant in the late 70s through nearly all of the 80s. Marty was passionate, and his theatrical style of inspiring and motivating players was the perfect complement to Lamar's soft spoken nature. But when Lamar was interviewed, his eyes twinkled, and he always had this look of wonder about him when talking about the Chiefs.
He did go out and aggressively get the hot GM prospect in Scott Pioli, and then together with Pioli they went out and got the hot coaching candidate, straight off the sidelines of the Super Bowl. But then Clark went back into his autopilot mode, and kinda let Pioli bully him.
It took banners from SOC to prompt Clark into action, and who knows how long he would have stood on the outside doing nothing but counting money if those banners had never been rage-created by an angry, frustrated fan base.
And to his credit, he made changes and this time secured the head coach that he knew and respected, and then hired the hot GM candidate.
On the surface those moved say "I am doing everything I can to bring a Championship to this city" but if you look under the surface, the Pioli/Haley and Reid/Dorsey hirings effectively ensured that the bottom line would stay profitable.
Adding to the cHunt-Profit narrative is the fact that he stood by and watched Pioli and Haley take turns hammering this franchise into the ground. In my opinion, he may have watched that show for quite some time if SOC had not been created.
I know that Reid is once again the toast of the town, because Mahomes, but while improving the win/loss ratio for regular season games, Reid was proving to be inept in winning games in the playoffs, even surrendering two of the biggest second half leads in playoff history. But once again, Clark had hired a coach that would ensure regular season ticket sales would remain high, and he was content to stay on the sideline counting money.
It took, the once-in-a-generation talent of #MVPM2 to stand out to Veach enough on film that he spammed Andy Reid for a couple of years, and it took the intelligence and charisma of #MVPM2 to convince Reid that he had finally found a QB that he absolutely had to have, and it took Reid, Veach, and Dorsey to convince Clark that #MVPM2 was worth the draft picks and the money the 10 slot would cost.
And again, on the surface this could have been explained away as Clark making moves that increased his bottom line while giving the appearance of wanting to win.
And that is why the interview after the Colts game last week was so important to me, and probably important to other fans who felt as I did as well, because he was no longer cHunt who was ok with losing as long as profits stayed high, but in that moment he became Clark Hunt, who cried because he had finally delivered a home playoff win to this city. And he became Clark Hunt, the boy who was finally getting a chance to bring the trophy named after his father back to the this city and these fans.
Those tears, and the ever so slight crack in his voice, proved that winning did matter after all.
As fans, we want an owner that wants to win as badly as we do. If we didn't care about having a winning team, what would be the point of even being fans?
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