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Football Sunday Afternoon

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With the NASCAR event out of the way for this week, I’m rejoicing in the fact that the early game of the CBS NFL doubleheader in our region features the Kansas City Chieves.1

We don’t see many AFC West games in these parts; even rarer is an appearance by the Chieves. They’re playing Cincinnati, a 3-2 team.

Even with the Chieves’ 2-3 record, MLB and I will be cheering them on like it’s the AFC Championship game.

Oh, and they’re playing at Arrowhead Stadium, too.2 It’s always great to see stuff from back home, and wish we were there.
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Update: Cincy is only 1-3. Totally blew that one, didn’t I?

1 It’s OK for a Chiefs’ fan to call them the Chieves.

2 Our only trip to Arrowhead was to attend Willie Nelson’s Picnic, back in our days of youthful exuberance.

A Fitting Tribute

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Chief Zee, the Washington Redskins’ mascot for the last 29 years, was absent from last Sunday’s FedEx Field season opener. He was in Dallas, at Texas Stadium, home of the arch rival Dallas Cowboys. It was for a good and noble cause, though:

Turns out he was in enemy territory — Texas Stadium — to honor the godfather of superfans, Wilford “Crazy Ray” Jones. Crazy Ray died in March after 44 years of rooting for the Dallas Cowboys, and Chief Zee escorted Jones’s widow onto the field in Sunday’s pregame ceremony. It was only the second time in 29 years that the Chief missed a Redskins home game; the last was in 1981, when his father died. “The only thing that would keep me away was the death of my father or Crazy Ray,” he told us yesterday. “We became like brothers.”

Had I been watching the Dallas game, I’d have gotten choked up for sure at seeing the ceremony.

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Sportin’

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Man, what a great time of year. This afternoon, University of Nebraska football. A squeaker, 20-17, for the Big Red.

Tonight, the Chevy Rock & Roll 400 from Richmond. SWMBO and I had season tickets for RIR for a couple of years; Richmond is a great facility,and a highly recommended race venue.

As we age, however, we can’t stay in an $89/night1 Hampton Inn, and venture to a track in daylight, only to leave in the dark, and be at the Waffle House at 3AM for two nights in a row (Busch & Cup Race).

But aging has its benefits, too; tonight we have the Sharp AQUOS, DirecTV, and HotPass.

Not to mention, Corky’s ribs, imported via QVC. And Shiner’s. Mmmm … Shiners.

Enjoy your weekend.

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1 Conveniently priced at $170 on race weekends

RIP, Wilford Crazy Ray Jones

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Via The Fat Guy comes news of the death of Wilford “Crazy Ray” Jones, the greatest unofficial mascot to ever tread the sidelines.

Whether or not you’re a Dallas Cowboy fan, you have to admit they’ve had their share of iconic personalities. And Crazy Ray was right there amongst them. Go on over to TFG’s place, and follow the link to the article about CR’s life and times.

RIP, Crazy Ray.

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No Monk

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I don’t bleed burgundy and gold, and if it weren’t for Joe Gibbs, wouldn’t care a fig for the Washington Redskins. But for Art Monk to be passed over in the NFL Hall of Fame voting yet again, just isn’t right.

Helmets off to the new inductees. Maybe Art can join them next year.

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Happy Kansas Day

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On this date in 1861, the State of Kansas was admitted to the Union. I looked at last year’s Kansas Day post, and every sentiment I expressed there still applies.

I’d love to be back there again, to live out my remaining days amongst salt of the earth people, to be able to see the Chieves and Jayhawks without paying out the wazoo for some sports package. I’d love to be able to drive to my maternal side of the family for their annual October dinner. I’d love to live in a place that’s a real community, where people look out after each other without being overbearing buttinskis. I’d love to live in a place where Friday night high school football is the event of the week. I’d love to live in a place where wheat fields wave like the sea. Did you know there are more colors of green and gold in a wheat field than you ever imagined? I ‘d love to see a sunset that stretches for miles across the sky. I’d love to be there in pheasant season, and know some hunters who share their bounty (SWMBO and I have had some magnificent pheasant out of our smoke pit).

Man, I miss all that.

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The Faulkneresque Bowl

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In trying to find my Kansas Jayhawks basketball game tonight, I stumbled across a football bowl game. I know nothing about the teams, Northern Illinois and Texas Christian, and am not disparaging either of them. Going to post-season bowls is a Good ThingTM.

They were playing in, take a deep breath, the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl.

In San Diego, natch. NASCAR in all its glory hasn’t rendered a name such as this. Follow that name up with “presented by Ford Credit”, and you’d have the real deal.

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It’s Only a Game

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The NCAA’s campaign against “politically incorrect” team mascots and logos has hit a little snag in North Dakota, where a judge has blocked the banning of the name North Dakota Fighting Sioux.

From the article, this gem of illumination from the NCAA:

The NCAA, which designed its policy to avoid a confrontation in court, issued a written statement saying it still expected to prevail.

“We are disappointed in the preliminary ruling but will continue to defend the NCAA’s right and responsibility to enact guidelines in the best interest of our member schools, our student-athletes and our fans,” the statement said.

This probably means that at best, the NCAA is scared shitless of lawsuits against them; at worst, that their desire is to achieve a homogenous clump of schools, each with about zero distinguishing characteristics. As far as the student-athlete label goes, everybody knows that’s utter nonsense. The late, great, Paul “Bear” Bryant summed it up best years ago with these words:

It’s pretty hard to rally around a math class.

Indeed.

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