Chiefs in Preseason Games, Part III

Right now the Chiefs are playing the Browns, and yes I'm peeking in a bit every once in a while to see how things are going. I just saw that Shane Buechele is in, so I'm figuring Patrick won't be playing and that's very good. No injury worries.

It is interesting that in some sense the Chiefs do have a quarterback controversy. Will the backup be Buechele or Blaine Gabbert, both of whom have played splendidly in their times in there this August. Andy Reid has always wanted a guy who's been around awhile, even started for other teams in the past, but I can't see how we can keep leaving Buechele hanging on so far in the back for so long. He does look really good, and always has in his limited time playing exclusively in preseason games.

We'll also get an idea soon about who'll make the final 53, which we all can't deny is kind of a fun thing to vociferously ruminate about. Again, in a week-and-a-half we'll get the Lions to start things off at Arrowhead.

I just wanted to share a few quick things about my post from last time. For each item you'll get the idea of why I'm sharing it.

1. The Reality Show Nonsense. I'd written last time that I'd started to pretty much fast-forward through anything related to Patrick Mahomes' personal/private life in the Netflix series Quarterback. It is simple: it is just none of my business. I'm sorry but watching Brittany Mahomes swear with a very annoying squealing voice is just something no one should have to endure. It is nothing against her, she is likely a wonderful person.

But none of that stuff is any of my business.

In fact, one of the main problems with it is reality shows are never really reality. Anytime the camera and microphones are present around anyone, the way people behave is altered. This is the case even when people are holding up their cell phones with the video app whirring! Especially that! It is like a Hollywood Heisenberg Principle, if you know what I mean, those of you acquainted with physics a bit. We can never really know what these people are really like because Hollywood will always do what it will with that filming and editing to alter things so it can never be truly real. The cell phone camera use and video posting is always taking cyberbullying to newer and newer heights.

2. The NFL does its own judging like madmen. I'd mentioned some of the very ugly things the NFL promotes, which makes me not only not watch any of it except Chiefs stuff but moves me to actively say something about it, at least here in my blog. My point is, wow, I know I'd get a lot of pushback for my open censure of the sodomist stuff (rainbow-colored items showcased to demonstrate support for sexual immorality as represented in all the LGBTQ stuff) and racialist stuff (the gross presumption that white people are all racist resulting in slogans all over the place along the lines of "black lives matter").

Don't be so judgmental! is what I hear so often, but it isn't about being judgmental, it is about a large number of pro football fans being at least a little bit okay with those things.

The reason judgmentalism has nothing to do with it is the NFL goes crazy making sure its players et al are keeping their noses clean. As judge, jury, and "executioner" in a certain sense, it is a government all unto itself, and it comes down hard on players or any other stakeholder who does things they don't like.

I could give any number of examples, a lot of them, but a good one simply for our purposes here relates to the Chiefs new defensive tackle. He got a six-game suspension from the NFL for doing something very bad in a domestic dispute, I think. I'm not sure what it was (again, in a very real sense it is none of my business), it may have been a very bad thing indeed.

Thing is, why isn't this gentleman being prosecuted by legitimate law enforcement if it was so bad? If not, why then is this player being "cancelled" for much of his livelihood?

I've written about this in previous posts, I believe in writing about the Kareem Hunt and/or Tyreek Hill episodes a number of years ago, so I'm not going to get into all of that now. The main point is simply...

People judge. None of us can help it. Anytime any of us opens our mouth we're making a judgment.

So yeah, it does seem that the NFL has been quietly backing away from too much engagement with those sodomist and racialist forces, which is good to see at least in that regard. I'd like to think they are doing so out of deep moral conviction, but I really think it is because they realize too much of their fan base is really not on board with any of it.

Oh the law is a mean taskmaster.

3. We can never keep that law anyway. I can't help but share the solution to all the Hollywood-style deceitfulness and wicked self-indulgence, all of which we all immerse ourselves in some way or another. I can't condemn anyone, some of why again I'm not crazy about looking into athletes' personal/private business. All I can do is hold up the thing that does condemn, and that is the law. I don't think for two seconds any given individual does not see what they do and how much that law condemns them. I am no different -- I too am under its veritable judgment.

The real question is will that given individual go to The One who died to take the penalty for what each of us deserves -- the true and righteous judgment for our deeds, things that have tremendously hurt others, seriously wounded ourselves, and was an offense to our very Father in Heaven who loved us enough to create us, give us life, and put us in a world that if we took decent care of it we'd actually enjoy things.

So yeah, I can't neglect to share Christ even with my readers here. If you already believe on Him, blessings to you. If you don't, please consider it, think deeply about believing on Him and only Him for your deliverance and salvation. Know that He is the narrow road out of all those things I often rail against in my Chiefs blog here, whether is it pro football related or overall society related that weaves its way into our Chiefs/pro football purview.

You are more than welcome to email me too! I'd love to interact with you about those things, here is my email address.

Bless you, and go Chiefs!

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Chiefs in Preseason Games, Part II

PART TWOOO, "Chiefs in Preseason Gaaaames!" Being sarcastic, there with the fake flourish, trying to make it all seem more meaningful. (Part One was just me yesterday saying all I really care about in the preseason is seeing that Patrick Mahomes got through it injury-free, that was it.) 

I mean really, don't we all want to make great regal pronouncements RIGHT NOW about what's going on with the Chiefs? I do admit it can be fun, though, but let's face it, it is all not really any big deal. 

In fact, none of what we all observe and pontificate about at any time regarding the Chiefs is any big deal. Even the Super Bowl is just part of the entertainment showcase, nothing more. Is there some grand transcendent meaning to any CHIEEEFS SUCCESSSS? I can't say there isn't, really. There are indeed many good things about Chiefs things and rooting for them and sticking our noses into what's going on with them as our heroes demonstrating great feats of daring-football-do so we can get that feeling of greatness and wonderfulness vicariously through their exploits because - yeah - ahem -- our own lives can be pretty blyechh.

I just felt like blogging a bit to add some thoughts related to this whole sports thing. I've been peeking at a book called Easy Money by Ben McKenzie and I love it, simply because he gets deep into the very truthful veritable transcendent ontologically provable truth that anything crypto is just a wickedly fraudulent scam. I'm an economics teacher and I like this kind of blistering truth-telling, good for him. I've always taught my students that Bitcoin is just a bunch of computer numbers that too many people want to make seem like something of value when they are not, and that all Bitcoin holders are doing is trying to hoodwink others into thinking they're something so they can make out. Crypto-hustlers anybody are simply engaging in criminal racketeering, nothing less. 

Not going to get deep into all the arguments for or against it now, my point in sharing this is because this book Easy Money shared with me a pretty horrific thing that major league baseball did related to crypto. I'd never known about this thing because as I've shared a number of times before in this blog effort, I don't pay a lick of attention to anything sports except Chiefs games. That's it. Once again, some things certainly get picked up by my sports radar, and I do peek in a bit more when one of my fave teams does well, such as when the basketball Warriors won it all year-before-last, I went ahead and watched much of that.

Other than that, for the most part. I know nothing. So I picked up this little fact about baseball, that the umpires had advertisements on their uniforms, in great big fat letters: FTX.

Oh my. I did not know this. Sure enough, I peeked around and there they were, all of them sporting an ad for basically a criminal operation. FTX by the way was the crypto exchange that collapsed after being exposed as one of the worst Ponzis in the whole thing. Now they are all Ponzis, every one of the crypto enterprises especially Bitcoin is, don't get me wrong -- it is just right now too many powerful people somewhere are convincing enough people they aren't. Again, lots of things to be said that just aren't right now.

But that major league baseball went so long with this FTX advertising going, and what is so ironic is that the ads were on the umpires. These are the very people holding the honor and duty to be objective and fair and just and righteous and true and all the rest of it.

What does this have to do with the Chiefs?

Sadness is what it has to do with it.

The Chiefs are just as much a part of all this crap as major league baseball umpires. I've already written about how much they've joined everyone else in promoting all this horrific sodomist and racialist stuff. I've already called out the unabashed relationship the NFL has with its gambling syndicates like Fan Duel and Draft Kings.

Really, doesn't NFL football have advertising connections with anything crypto? I have to say I've far too often seen that commercial with film star Matt Damon plugging crypto amongst all the brave adventurers through history. There is even a basketball/hockey arena in Los Angeles called "Crypto.com" Those naming rights are worth millions of dollars. Ahem, whose money is that?

What does this have to do with the Chiefs? This isn't anything new to share or anything, it really isn't. I will always love my team, and the game they play. Big-time organized, and yes televised sports is a good thing for ___, ___, ___, and ___. You can fill in the blanks for any of the fine legitimate reasons we can enjoy those games.

But wow is it contaminated, and in writing about it here, I'm just calling it out -- just riffing with some what-I-do-consider quite meaningful things for everyone to consider. Yes I do hope 100 million people read these things, stop buying into the crypto crime syndicate, and the full integrity of pro-sports-anything including Chiefs things can be restored.

I happened to see there is a Netflix feature on the baseball steroids thing, and I don't have an opinion one way or the other about it, but what I did think about was this:

Me: Get on board with abandoning crypto as a rip-off scam so it won't poison professional sports.

Someone else: Stop your moralizing, don't be so judgmental.

Me: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens should be in the Hall of Fame. 

Someone else: Whaddya mean? They did a bad thing!

Me: Who's being judgmental now?

See, a bazillion people have been told, "Be judgmental about steroids." Maybe that's legit, that's fine. But in the same breath they are told, "Don't be judgmental about crypto and if anyone is they're just mean." Again it is exceptionally reasonable how rotten crypto is, as well as how rotten are the gambling connections and the sodomist and racialist promotions that smother us as we watch these affairs. What is objectively true about these things? Can we indeed judge righteous judgment about those things, as Jesus says we can in the seventh chapter of John's gospel?

The other reason I mention the Netflix steroids show is that I'd imagine it would get deep into the personal life of someone like Barry Bonds. Huh. This started to concern me when I was watching the Netflix series on the NFL quarterbacks, one of whom was our own beloved Patrick Mahomes. I was watching this thing and realizing that, while it may have been okay for Mahomes to officially sign off on allowing us all such open access to his personal life, I was not okay with that.

It just got to a point when as a viewer I became very uncomfortable watching the things he did privately with his wife, family, and friends. Sorry, but none of this is my business. I felt like a salacious voyeur -- wow here's my football hero PATRICK MAHOMES and I get to be his really good friend and be like his good buddy right there with everyone hanging out and listening to his wisdom and and and...

And it just wasn't right.

All the actual football game stuff? That's cool. What he did in games and on the sideline and what he blurted and all of that, I really don't think that was any big deal. But always showing his family reactions and what they did in and around anything Mahomesesque, not so cool. A little bit of that is okay I guess, such as when a young major league hits his first-ever home run and the camera pans to his mom and dad for their reaction, that to me is barely okay, but then again, why should I even see who they are? For anything? Why should a bazillion others, many of whom do not have any of these people's best interests in mind -- why should they see who these people are and what they do? Really?

I know for decades this has really been the reality of a televised society, I get that. It is even worse now with web and cell phone and social media technology. With super-fast information processing and super-advanced graphic imagery that many foolishly call "A.I." it is virtually impossible to escape having everyone everywhere know who you are are where you are and all that.

It is extraordinarily frightening.

And very much why I do take this forum, for however many will come across it, to share some things related to morality and decency and respect that can be attached to this really neat thing we call the Kansas City Chiefs.

Why not? Why not speak about them? Why not make our Chiefs fandom and whatever it is related to Chiefs success something that is ultimately, transcendently, and eternally respectful and meaningful? That all of these people really actually in their hearts and souls actually stand for good things, for the benefit of anyone who tunes in however they do?

Some may say, "Hey, how can you say you don't want to see into their personal lives but then rail against gambling and crypto and all those other things? What if they choose to do that in their personal lives? You wouldn't know about it if they do it, right?"

I get that, I do. I've said before that my own Chiefs fandom gets the best of me sometimes. I just want the Chiefs to win, and a running back could be a serial killer as long as he scores 100 touchdowns for us. Yeah, I confess, that I'd even think that is disturbing. But that is much of the point, right?

The key difference is that the NFL and all the entities associated with it, like the Chiefs, do make pronouncements about their affections openly. Most of those things are fine -- "Maybe you'd like to consider driving this very nice touring vehicle." Some of those things, however, are rotten. 

Sure I could just cut out the whole thing -- why watch? Why say I enjoy it when there is the objectionable ugliness? Again, I like the Chiefs and football. But let's face it, there are those things that make for integrity and character and good things that anyone and everyone expect from these people. That today's information technology world makes that whole thing so crazy now does affect what we think and do with it, and I confess I struggle with it, sure.

This doesn't mean we can't hold true to good things, lift them up, share their meaning especially in forums like a simple pro football blog. All of this, really, does make all the musings about who our backup quarterback is really going to be something that is authentically enjoyable.

I can't deny that there is much, much fun in trying to figure out who makes the 53-man roster and where they will succeed most. It is amazing what Brett Veach and Andy Reid have done to form this football team. Indeed you can read about all those things much more at places like Arrowhead Pride, which I think is a terrific site except I really don't like how much too many of the AP people so unjustly disrespect Clyde Edwards-Helaire. But then, that's their take, I get it.

Maybe some of them will get on board with making happen the substance of my takes. That'd be cool, for the Kingdom, and for much more beyond just pro football.

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Chiefs in Preseason Games

Just a quick heads-up for my faithful readers, thanks for you readership first of all, and second of all I'm just not that interested in writing anything about preseason games. 

Well, except for one thing. It is the only thing I examine whenever I peek at anything that happened in a Chiefs preseason game.

Did anyone of note get injured?

And yes, most specifically, did Patrick Mahomes make it through the game without issue in this regard?

Tonight he did, so we're still good. It seemed like everyone else did too, so that's good.

From what I've gathered from previous third preseason games, I get the idea that none of our key starting players will be in this upcoming and last one.

Tonight we beat the Cardinals, next week we play the Browns, then in a week-&-a-half on Thursday night we kick off the NFL season against what-I'm-told is a somewhat improved Lions team.

Okay, so until then!...

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