Missing in action as Super Sunday approaches, the one and only Kevin Kietzman…
That’s right.
With the Chiefs about to take the main stage at country’s largest sporting event, KC’s premier sports talker of the past 20 years is nowhere to be found.
Frankly, it’s unthinkable.
And something no local sports fan might have imagined prior to the you-know-what hitting Kietzman’s fan last summer. Because love him or hate him, that Kietzman would be both out-of-sight and out-of-mind as the biggest moment in modern day Kansas City Sports is about to go down, is difficult to get one’s head around – even after seven months.
So where’s he hiding out?
Not on any Facebook page I could find… including one dedicated to his, uh, legacy, Kevin Kietzman = Terrible Radio. The site’s mission: “Dedicated to communicating how bad Kietz is at creating non-sensationalized radio.”
Fair enough.
Still with KK in something approaching deep cover – aside from a few innocuous tweets – it’s mostly crickets.
“Anyone care to predict what the Grammys ratings will look like tomorrow?” Kietzman tweeted.
And, “What a mess in Lawrence,” he tweeted after the recent KU-K-State basket-brawl.
How bad did Kietzman go down?
This headline from the New York Post sums it up:
“Kansas City radio host uses Andy Reid’s dead son against him.”
Has former Entercom radio honcho Bob Zuroweste heard anything?
“Not a peep,” Zuroweste says. “He’s nowhere to be found. And judging from the ratings, his leaving didn’t hurt WHB much. Here’s the ratings trend for the last three months of 2019; a 3.8, 3.6 and a 3.9 share for WHB. And 2.8, 2.2 and 2.7 for 610 Sports.”
Is it weird to think of a Chiefs Super Bowl sans Kevin Kietzman?
“Nah, I don’t think it’s weird,” Zuroweste says. “I just think he’s done in Kansas City – he was toxic waste – and people just want to get rid of toxic waste. That’s what happens when people lose their jobs in the media, they drop off the face of the earth.
“I’ve been retired for five years and I’ve dropped off the face of the earth. I don’t have a dog in this hunt. All I have are my opinions.”
What might Zuroweste say to Kietzman if he could?
“I don’t know what to say. Sayonara?”
Let the record show that Kietzman turned down job offers from Z on three occasions.
This is the interview that matches the picture above that Hearne posted.
KK, poor guy, grovels.
It is tougher to watch than Greg Norman folding up at the Masters.
Don’t you mean Patty Sheehan folding up at the ‘90 US Open?
https://www.kctv5.com/news/kevin-kietzman-i-am-not-resigning/video_13dd92c1-db3e-54b3-8135-fb6aa2b952c0.html
Sorry, duh…, I forgot to post the URL.
Until you brought it up, I never even had a fleeting thought about KK not being around for the Superbowl. Face it, KK was an arrogant dick. Nothing about his sport “takes” were unique, original or cutting edge. He threw shit out and hoped some of it stuck somewhere. Trying to shame Andy Reid as a lousy parent because his son had an addiction problem is some low shit coming from a guy that was banging the help while still married. Until you are a parent of a child that battles addiction, shut your self-absorbed mouth. You know nothing. LESS than nothing. KK got everything he deserved. In spades.
See the above explanation of what Kietzman contends hje was saying.
Big Jim, swinging the hammer HARD. And he’s exactly right. KK was a small time sportsradio shock jock. His schtick was to play both ends against the middle. On one hand, he’d rile up the kU folks by baggin on them…but then bring them right back into the fold by trashing Mizzou during their move to the SEC. Even his fellow ‘Taters couldn’t stand him half the time, but yet they had to tolerate him because he was the only guy in town who would bring on Tater relics like Jim Colbert on the air. All he cared about was getting the local rubes fired up enough to post about him on message boards. Tigerboard, Jayhawk Slant, PowerCat Illustrated…whatever. He followed the old Vince McMahon mantra…any publicity is good publicity. But since he had no real depth of talent, when the mob finally came for him, he had no one to defend him..because he’d alienated EVERYONE. As Jim said..he got what he deserved. Good riddance to an asshole.
Now, now, Guy…
Tis the season of forgiveness and loving mankind, isn’t it?
OUCH!!!
I just remember when the Chiefs drafted Mahomes this genius failed on them for doing it and said there was already a better quarterback still in college..Guess who he said that was???..Mason Rudolph…what a arrogant jerk he was…