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Kansas City, MO —
It’s been a great week, visiting area high school football camps and capping it off with the Kansas City Chiefs’ .-. victory over the Arizona Cardinals at Arrowhead Stadium Friday night.
Despite the recent 103-degree weather, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about football:
n How will Greg Oder’s Blue Springs South football team respond to the pressure that comes from playing as the defending Class 6 state champions with a roster that features countless unfamiliar, yet enthusiastic, players?
n Will Wylson Lamb etch his name in the record books at Blue Springs High School in his lone year as a starter?
n How good with coach Ryan Schartz’s Fort Osage Indians be? They came within a missed two-point conversion – that I will say with my last breath was the right call – of going to the state semifinals last year.
n Will John Crutcher find some magic and get the William Chrisman Bears back on track?
n Will Jeff Tolbert’s Van Horn squad make it to the playoffs for a second year in a row?
As I ponder these questions, the Chiefs have scored two touchdowns on their first two series of the game and look like they are legitimate Super Bowl contenders.
OK, you can stop laughing. I’d settle for a playoff win – something they haven’t enjoyed since 1994 – or enjoying a healthy and respectable season.
Head coach Romeo Crennel is a likable coach who is the total opposite of Todd Haley, a coach who always looked like he was smelling something that had been left in the garbage too long.
Crennel’s enthusiasm seems to be rubbing off on a team that actually made the first quarter of this preseason game fun. Fun and preseason football are two terms you usually don’t find in the same sentence.
With the weather dipping down into the balmy 80s, it feels more like football than a sauna. My favorite time of year is rapidly approaching.
Are you ready for some football?
I sure am.
It’s been a great week, visiting area high school football camps and capping it off with the Kansas City Chiefs’ .-. victory over the Arizona Cardinals at Arrowhead Stadium Friday night.
Despite the recent 103-degree weather, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about football:
n How will Greg Oder’s Blue Springs South football team respond to the pressure that comes from playing as the defending Class 6 state champions with a roster that features countless unfamiliar, yet enthusiastic, players?
n Will Wylson Lamb etch his name in the record books at Blue Springs High School in his lone year as a starter?
n How good with coach Ryan Schartz’s Fort Osage Indians be? They came within a missed two-point conversion – that I will say with my last breath was the right call – of going to the state semifinals last year.
n Will John Crutcher find some magic and get the William Chrisman Bears back on track?
n Will Jeff Tolbert’s Van Horn squad make it to the playoffs for a second year in a row?
As I ponder these questions, the Chiefs have scored two touchdowns on their first two series of the game and look like they are legitimate Super Bowl contenders.
OK, you can stop laughing. I’d settle for a playoff win – something they haven’t enjoyed since 1994 – or enjoying a healthy and respectable season.
Head coach Romeo Crennel is a likable coach who is the total opposite of Todd Haley, a coach who always looked like he was smelling something that had been left in the garbage too long.
Crennel’s enthusiasm seems to be rubbing off on a team that actually made the first quarter of this preseason game fun. Fun and preseason football are two terms you usually don’t find in the same sentence.
With the weather dipping down into the balmy 80s, it feels more like football than a sauna. My favorite time of year is rapidly approaching.
Are you ready for some football?
I sure am.
