Grab Your Gold Gloves! The Chiefs are Going to London!

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Chiefs News

This week the Chiefs found a new way to disappoint their fans by announcing one of their home games will be in London next year against the Detroit Lions.  Chiefs president Mark Donovan said, "We wanted to make sure we played the high powered Lions offense on field turf at a neutral site instead of utilizing our unparalleled home-field advantage.   We have the best fans in the NFL and we were trying to find new ways to crush their hearts. Taking away a home game is a big win for us."

Justin Houston is on pace for record setting season and with his contract ending this year he is in a position to sign one of the biggest contracts ever for a defensive player.  Rather than sit back and wait the Chiefs were proactive and offered a contract extension to Anthony Sherman (literally who?).  People all over Kansas City who have never played football are saying, “Oh my gawsh!  He is the heart of the offense!! Literally beastmode!! Jamaal Charles would not even be alive without Shermanator!”  When asked about the Sherman contract Andy Reid called a timeout, threw his challenge flag then said, “Jackstack for sure.  Best beans I've ever had.  Ribs?  Ribs, I would go with Oklahoma Joe’s.”

After a dismal 0-2 start the Chiefs are on pace to have a standard Chiefs winter with either a collapse in December and narrowly missing the playoffs making fans spend the offseason thinking about the Titans game, the 2 red zone chokes in Denver that led to 0 points or the clutch interception thrown by Alex Smith in San Francisco late in the 4^th quarter.  If they do make the playoffs it should be interesting to see if it ends with a beatdown like the Ravens gave them in the 2010 season or a collapse for the ages like last year in Indy.  Either way, don’t make Super Bowl plans and be thankful at least the Chiefs won’t drag us through the postseason to the bottom of the 9^th in game seven of the world series  with a runner on 3^rd to see Salvy end it in the most anti-climactic foul ball possible.

Royals News

Gold Gloves were awarded to 3 Royals this week, Salvador Perez (C), Alex Gordon (LF), and Eric Hosmer (1B).  Madison Bumgarner said he will use their Gold Gloves as urinals because he won the World Series and that's what really counts.  

Ned Yost is a finalist for AL Manager of The Year which could possibly put him in a category with former Royals Manager Tony Pena who won the award in 2003 then lost 104 games in 2004 and resigned midseason in 2005.  It should be exciting to see if Yost can follow those footsteps.

The Royals are going to hang a new AL Pennant flag in left field because they lost to the Giants and don't get to hang a World Series Champion flag.

College Sports

Kansas guard Connor Frankamp announced this week he will be transferring from Kansas to get more playing time.  In an effort to convince him to stay Bill Self called in former Kansas guard and National Champion, Sherron Collins to have a talk with him.  After spending time together in an elevator to show Connor what Kansas Hoops is all about, Frankamp confirmed his decision and plans on transferring to either Bucknell, Bradley, Northern Iowa or VCU.

NFL News

Commissioner Roger Goodell who is desperately trying to restore the NFL’s image offered a plea deal of sorts with Adrian Peterson and Ray Rice to re-enter the league.  They will be security this weekend in Washington beating up anyone protesting the ‘Redskins’ name.