2010年7月26日星期一

Kansas City Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt

The new Kansas City Chiefs jerseys are located in Kansas City, Missouri and play their home games at Arrowhead Stadium, which has 75,383 seats. The Kansas City Chiefs are owned by Clark Hunt, their General Manager is Scott Pioli and they will be coached this year by Todd Haley. The oddsmakers at BODOG.com have the Kansas City Chiefs jerseys listed at 50 to 1 odds to win the 2011 AFC Championship.

"They made it plain very early in the off-season that things were going to be different," said Chiefs guard Brian Waters. "That came with the guys they added to the coaching staff. As a player, you look at those men and their careers and you can't help but be excited."

The first step on that is to see how the cold-weather Super Bowl goes Dwayne Bowe in an outdoor stadium. If the league has a good experience in New York, then there will undoubtedly be many communities to come back and ask for a cold-weather Super Bowl, and we would certainly be on that list.'' -- Kansas City Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt, to the Kansas City Star, on his desire to get a Super Bowl in Kansas City.

Hunt won't be alone. If it's anything other than a raging blizzard on Super Sunday 2014 -- when the game is played in northern New Jersey -- you'll have five owners knocking on Roger Goodell's luxury box, saying, "We're next!'': Pat Bowlen (Denver), Dan Snyder (Washington), Hunt, Jeff Lurie (Philadelphia), and hmmm, let me think -- well, Paul Allen (Seattle) won't knock on the door, but he will e-mail Goodell.

Of course, none of those cities would draw the attention and the Derrick Johnson money that New York will, especially not Kansas City. And once the league realizes what a blizzard does to an event's buzz, I doubt another cold-weather city will host the game anytime soon.

If they do, for some reason, start passing around the Super Bowl like weed on Snoop Dogg's tour bus, then it sure seems like the cities King mentioned -- plus the Bay Area and a bunch of other shinier locales -- would be ahead of KC in line. Especially considering that the state just jettisoned the favorite entertainment option of Super Bowl-bound men: lap dances.

The Kansas City Wizards entered the match with a record of 4-8-4 while Manchester United suffered their first loss on their pre-season tour of North America. The Wizards will now break for the All Star week.

Wichita soccer fan Joey Mashaw is a huge Manchester United fan. "Having Manchester United tour in the states is wonderful. It just goes to show how much the U.S. has advanced in the eyes of the world as far as soccer--the world's biggest soccer club came here to play," said Mashaw.

Manchester United captain Ryan Giggs agreed that American soccer is definitely on the rise. "You can see it in the standard of the teams, the standard of the national team, the interest within the crowd and the fans," he said.

The Wizards took the lead early in the match when midfielder Davy Arnaud beat an offside trap by United and took a great pass from Kei Kamara. Arnaud dribbled into the penalty area and found himself one-on-one against backup keeper Ben Amos. Arnaud calmly slotted the ball into the lower left corner and the Wizards led 1-0.

There was some controversy in the 41st minute as United's Dimitar Berbatov received a pass from Ryan Giggs. The Wizards' Jimmy Conrad took Berbatov down inside the box and received a red card. Replays showed that Conrad actually got to the ball ahead of Berbatov. Nevertheless, Berbatov converted for United on the penalty kick to even the score and the Wizards played the rest of the match down a man.

Forward Kei Kamara scored the game-winning goal moments later, heading in Ryan Smith's corner kick over Amos and off the underside of the crossbar. The ball landed just inside of the goal line, giving the Wizards a 2-1 lead just before halftime.

The second half of the match was played with a furious pace that featured several near misses. But the Wizards held on with only 10 men to notch the victory.

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