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Brett and Dawson are safe until the end of time. Mahomes can/will knock Watson off that list at some point if he wins as much as a single SB. If Gordon displaces anybody there is has to be DT and I'm just not seein' it. Frankly, Lamar Hunt belongs over Watson right this very minute (and there's an argument for displacing Thomas with Watson). So at some point you're gonna end up with 3 Chiefs up there with Brett, Dawson, Mahomes and Hunt.
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05-10-2019, 09:11 AM | #1202 | |
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05-10-2019, 10:05 AM | #1203 | |
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If both the Chiefs and Royals are good, I think this is still a football town. I grew up in KC from the early 80s to 2000 and they were never simultaneously good, so it's a hard argument to get a real answer on. Perhaps I'm colored by my formative years having a shit baseball team in town. But to my eyes, Hunt has meant more to the NFL than Kaufmann meant to MLB and ultimately the Chiefs mean a little more to the community than the Royals do. As such, I give Hunt a nod over Kaufmann. Though you could make an argument for both over just about anyone.
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05-10-2019, 10:10 AM | #1204 | |
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And I still believe Kansas City, at its core, is more a baseball town than a football town. |
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05-10-2019, 10:21 AM | #1205 | |
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05-10-2019, 10:24 AM | #1206 | |
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Kaufmann's meant so much to KC because of Kaufmann pharmaceuticals was printing money for a long time. It's predominantly other business interests that have given him the impact on the community he had. Hunt, OTOH, is a sports figure and little else. I know its parsing it thin and perhaps its an impossible distinction to draw, but I think that if you're talking about a KC Sports Rushmore, it's difficult to give Kauffman 'full credit' for all the things he has done in town when it was primarily interests outside of sports that allowed for them.
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05-10-2019, 10:25 AM | #1207 |
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05-10-2019, 10:25 AM | #1208 | |
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05-10-2019, 10:27 AM | #1209 |
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How many ****ing kids in KC play hundreds of God damn games year round for baseball and how many kids play football. There is your answer right there.
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05-10-2019, 10:34 AM | #1210 |
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05-10-2019, 10:35 AM | #1211 |
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not many 2 maybe?
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05-10-2019, 10:37 AM | #1212 | |
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The Royals were ultimately a victim of the systematic reconfiguration of baseball, while the Chiefs got popular at a time when revenue sharing and a salary cap were beginning to have such a large impact on the sport. I believe if you put the Chiefs and Royals under the same systems (either baseball's or footballs), the majority of KC fans would flock to the Royals, assuming an equal playing field for all the competitors. That's just my personal belief, though, but it is shared among many Kansas City sports fans that I associate with. Baseball has a LOT of history and ties to KC, all the way back to the post-depression era. Long before Hunt ever moved his team here. |
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05-10-2019, 10:41 AM | #1213 |
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Negro League museum has something like more people go through that place than other places combined
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Look, no one is arguing that the NFL isn't more popular than MLB, it obviously is. I just think, if they were given a level playing field, baseball would win out over football in Kansas City. Especially when you consider all the history with baseball here. But that will never happen and MLB will probably never be more popular than the NFL again, so it is what it is. |
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05-10-2019, 10:42 AM | #1215 | |
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