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Stram was the happy warrior, and NFL Films proves it
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For the last week, "The NFL Network," the cable television station, has been running the famous film of Hank Stram at work in Super Bowl IV. That's the one that followed Stram up and down the sideline in New Orleans' old Tulane Stadium as he urged his players to "matriculate the ball up the field, boys," cackling away as his underdog Kansas City Chiefs pounded the Minnesota Vikings. full story... |
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A new Crosby show
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Maybe Roscoe Crosby will find his way to Kansas City after all.
Crosby, a former Royals prospect, held a private workout for a scout from the Chiefs and representatives from 17 other NFL teams last week, his agent, Kevin Parker, said Friday.
Once the No. 1 wide receiver prospect in the nation, Crosby is now known in Kansas City for baseball and the career that never really happened. Read More ... |
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Despite injury, NFL.com lists Holmes #2 back in NFL
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#2 Priest Holmes, Chiefs: When healthy, still at the top of his game. source... |
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Chiefly Ignored: Kansas City on the Outs?
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Last season, one AFC West team came out of nowhere to shock the league with a surprising ratio of wins to losses, leaving pundits fumbling over their preseason predictions. The same club led the West — and the NFL — in total offense, with the league's best offensive weapon on crutches for half the year. Amid a series of crippling injuries, the team still managed to produce two 1,000-yard receivers and three runners with at least 500 yards and 8 touchdowns.
So why did the Kansas City Chiefs miss the playoffs? Why did the team pegged to grab 12 wins put up a mediocre 7-9 while the upstart San Diego Chargers steamrolled the division? full story... |
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Maslowski works it out on his own
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The compulsion to call Mike Maslowski has hit the old coach a couple of times, especially in the summer in Wisconsin, when the afternoons have a sticky two-a-day feel and the Chiefs are inching closer to training camp.
Roland Christensen stops and puts the phone down.
“I know he’s having trouble,” Christensen says. “I don’t want to impose on him too much.”Read More ... |
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Chiefs training camp preview
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REPORT DATES: Rookies July 28th, Veterans July 28th
SITE: University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI
CAMP OBJECTIVES: Revamping the long-suffering defense will be job number one for the Chiefs, and a number of reinforcements have arrived to aide in that process full story... |
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USA Today; Chiefs' Knight and Surtain a "notch below" elite
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The trade of a second-round draft pick for two-time Pro Bowler Patrick Surtain gives Kansas City defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham ready-made corner-safety chemistry that should upgrade the left side of the league's 32nd-ranked pass defense. Surtain, an eighth-year corner, has exceptional ball skills as his 29 interceptions, including four last season, attest. He's paired with strong safety Sammy Knight, Surtain's teammate for two seasons in Miami.
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Pete Prisco: Chiefs' Knight most overrated on team; Pro Bowl Guard most underrated
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Underrated: Brian Waters, guard
Fellow guard Will Shields and tackle Willie Roaf get all the attention on the Chiefs line, but Waters is right there with them. Waters may have actually outplayed Shields last season.
Overrated: Sammy Knight, safety
If the Chiefs think Knight is going to help them improve their defense, they're woefully mistaken. He is too slow in coverage and that shows up far too much. Sure, he makes some nice plays at times, but he gives up a bunch, too.
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What T.O. could learn from Tony G
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Maybe Terrell Owens ought to discuss his pro basketball future with Tony Gonzalez. You know, as one Pro Bowl receiver with hoops dreams to another.
Owens recently spoke with the NBA’s Sacramento Kings about joining their team in the Las Vegas summer league. Owens apparently doesn’t have much else to do these days. He’s holding out in hopes the Eagles will renegotiate the seven-year, $49 million contract he signed before last season, his first in Philadelphia.
This holdout can’t but help make you think about Gonzalez’ stint in the Southern California Summer Pro League in 2002. The Pro Bowl tight end was negotiating a new, long-term deal with the Chiefs that summer.Read More ... |
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For Stram, the NFL media was never a nuisance
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I've often wondered how Hank Stram would have fit into this modern world of the NFL, this era of the buttoned-up coaches who might see fit to hold two or three 20-minute press conferences a week, who put their assistants off-limits, who act like they're finding a cure for cancer. He probably would have laughed himself sick.
"Come over here, siddown, what do you want to know?" Full Story... |
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Stram, Buck clicked on Monday nights
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Hank Stram made it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach, but to many NFL fans he was equally well known for his work as the adroit analyst on "Monday Night Football" radio broadcasts.
Stram worked on CBS, alongside play-by-play announcer Jack Buck, for 16 seasons_from 1978 to 1995, minus two years NBC had the package in the mid-1980s. That gave them a longer run than any team ever to broadcast "MNF" on radio or television.Read More ... |
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Stram's legacy will be his passion for the game
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Hank Stram will be remembered as a Pro Football Hall of Famer, a squat, animated coach who guided the Kansas City Chiefs to a remarkable upset victory in Super Bowl IV.
Beyond that, though, he was just a guy who loved football.
Stram, 82, died Monday after a long fight with diabetes. He made suburban New Orleans his home after John Mecom ended his two-year run as the Saints' coach in 1977. He never coached again, but his legacy stayed intact. Most of all, he was never embittered.Read More ... |
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Stram helped to legitimize AFL
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Hank Stram, who added color and celebrity to NFL coaching, died Monday at age 82 after a long illness.
Personable and dapper, Stram recognized and exploited the power of the media in drawing attention to the upstart American Football League. His Kansas City Chiefs played in the first Super Bowl against Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers.Read More ... |
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Being loyal to a fault made Hank a great man
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The first thing they teach you about obituary writing is this: You are celebrating a life. You don’t dwell on the failures, the regrets, the hard losses. No. This is not the time for all that. Focus on the triumphs. Describe the sunshine. Capture the legacy. That’s obituary writing.
Hank Stram had all sorts of triumphs and sunshine in his 82 years on earth. There’s enough to fill an entire newspaper. Still, on this Independence Day, the day when Hank Stram died, I cannot help but think of his final, haunting days in Kansas City.Read More ... |
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Chiefs’ greats praise beloved coach
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The note was on Jan Stenerud’s staircase Monday morning, a reminder for when he woke up and got the paper.
Call the Strams.
Stenerud doesn’t write himself notes. But something compelled him Sunday night because he had to talk to Hank Stram. They used to chat every month, the kicker and his coach, but lately things were different. Stram was old and sick. He’d drift off and lose track.Read More ... |
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Legendary Chiefs coach changed face of pro football
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Hank Stram’s greatest legacy as a coach was as an innovator.
Breaking the mold from the staid, predictable style that NFL teams played for 40 years, Stram devised wrinkles that produced three AFL titles and two Super Bowl appearances for the Chiefs/Texans franchise.
“I don’t know if there is anything ever new in football, but we were doing things in the ’60s that teams are doing now,” said Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson. “Hank came up with so many new twists and doesn’t get the credit he deserves."Read More ... |
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Stram strode the sidelines of NFL history
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Hank Stram played central roles in four of the most memorable games in pro football history:
■ The Dallas Texans’ 20-17, double-overtime victory over Houston in the 1962 AFL championship game.
■ The Chiefs’ 35-10 loss to Green Bay in Super Bowl I, the first meeting between the two leagues.
■ The Chiefs’ 23-7 upset of Minnesota in Super Bowl IV, the last game before the merger of the two leagues.
■ The Chiefs’ 27-24 double-overtime loss to Miami on Christmas Day 1971, still the longest game in NFL history and final game at old Municipal Stadium.Read More ... |
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KC Sports Legend Hank Stram Dies
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Hank Stram, who took the Kansas City Chiefs to two Super Bowls and was known for his inventive game plans, died Sunday at a hospital in suburban New Orleans, his son said. He was 82.
Stram had been in declining health for several years and Dale Stram attributed his father's death to complications from diabetes. He died at St. Tammany Parish Hospital, near his home in Covington, across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans. He had built the home during his two-year stint as coach of the Saints and he retired there.Read More ... |
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More mainstream praise for Chiefs off-season moves
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Everyone in the league knew the Chiefs needed defense, and in Kendrell Bell, Patrick Surtain, Sammy Knight and Carlos Hall — if they all can stay healthy — the Chiefs certainly found it. Not to mention first-round pick Derrick Johnson, my pick for Defensive Rookie of the Year. Source... |
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CBS Sportsline KC Rundown
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The Chiefs drew widespread and deserved criticism in 2004 for essentially playing a pat hand with a defense that was one of the league's worst in 2003. Rather than opting for new players, they retained almost all of their existing ones and slipped to rankings of 31 in total defense and dead last in pass defense in 2005. Few people, however, have complained yet after the Chiefs have taken the same approach to their offense.
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Merrill: With Ambrose agreeing to deal, Chiefs unlikely to sign Law
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He's 34 and far removed from the buzz of sports radio, but Ashley Ambrose won a unanimous vote last week when he worked out in Kansas City. And that was good enough for the Chiefs.
Ambrose agreed to terms of a one-year contract Friday, filling a much-needed hole in the secondary and seemingly ending any chance of the Chiefs acquiring pricey free agent Ty Law.Read More ... |
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Chiefs sign 7th rd pick OT Parquet to a 2 yr deal
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CHIEFS AGREE TO TERMS WITH SEVENTH-ROUND PICK T JEREMY PARQUET
Jul 01, 2005, 12:50:59 PM
Kansas City Chiefs President Carl Peterson announced on Friday that the club has agreed to terms of a two-year contract with 2005 seventh-round draft choice (238th overall) T Jeremy Parquet. He is the first 2005 Chiefs draft choice to reach a contract agreementparquet2 with the club. As per Chiefs policy, no other terms of the agreement were made available.Read More ... |
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Chiefs Sign AMBROSE!
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Today, July 1st, the Kansas City Chiefs have agreed to a one-year contract with Ashley Ambrose. The signing of Ambrose almost certainly means the Chiefs will give up on the Ty Law race. Law, who is comming of a severe foot injury, is struggling to acquire a top-dollar contract with an NFL team.
Ambrose will add depth to a cornerback position that has lost Julian Bottle for the 2005 season and could possibly miss starting cornerback Eric Warfielf for the first quarter of the 2005 season.
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DJ the motivational speaker
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When LaDainian Tomlinson and Derrick Johnson meet on October 30, it will be in the context of an AFC West battle between Tomlinson's San Diego Chargers and Johnson's Kansas City Chiefs.
But on Thursday, the two Waco ISD products shared the stage together as football players who also desire to be role models for a younger generation of athletes. Full Story... |
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