Wednesday, August 08, 2007

It's a Hard Knock Life

Airing on HBO tonight is "Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Kansas City Chiefs."
The show took four seasons off after teams were reluctant to consent to allowing the kind of access necessary.
The first season was with the Baltimore Ravens after they won the Super Bowl. Nothing will ever top the incredible confluence of circumstances that led to having Shannon Sharpe, Tony Siragusa and Ray Lewis on the same team at the same time. And Ray Lewis gets third billing. The most memorable moment of course was after Siragusa (Goose with 2 Os) locked the tight ends in their trailer. That led to Shannon Sharpe uttering these immortal words "I want my restitution Goose. I hate that Goose. Fat ass Goose." At least I think that's how it went.
The Chiefs may not even reach the level of the diminished second season which featured the Dallas Cowboys and Dave Campo in a wet suit ("swimming with killer whales, now that's gangsta"). Though they did have the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader tryouts running concurrently with the director of the squad telling the girls they were fat and not to wear their "thongs."
But with Herman Edwards, who is a complete idiot, but a funny idiot, the Chiefs season should be entertaining. If you are expecting the season to rival the Ravens year, then you are setting yourself up for disappointment, but I urge you to watch and I'm pretty sure we'll get a couple of gems from Edwards, we'll see some cool training camp stuff and meet at least one Chief that is funnier than we thought he was.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks Paul for the tip...I saw it last nite and liked it and their new QB :) (sorry)