KC Confidential

The Kansas City Chiefs were talking just two more seasons and they’d be a Super Bowl contender. That after last year’s division title. The Royals – who everyone, including me, pissed on – came in last. And while recordwise they’re still a poor team (bottom five) THEY’RE STARTING TO WIN.

I actually believe with Eric Hosmer, this team will contend for the division next year…finally.

If – and only if – David Glass goes out and buys at least two or three pitchers. One big time starter, a solid starter and a good reliever. If so, the Royals will battle to win the title for the first time in nearly 30 years. A great player raises all ships and Hosmer is a great player.

On the other hand, the Chiefs have to start over.

They are now where the Royals were, one of five worst teams in the NFL. They have nothing.

First, they need to get a new head coach.   According to insiders – his closest media pals – Haley knows he’s getting fired. He knows it may come in a few weeks. Jim Zorn will likely be the temp coach, but he’s unlikely to remain head coach next season.

So who do we hire? Brother, that’s a tough one.

None of the big name guys in the NFL want this job. Forget Bill Cowher, unless he’s also the GM and gets paid a boatload.

Hey, sounds good to me.

GM Scott Pioli has done nothing for this club either. Except act like a pompus ass with Todd.

We need a new quarterback. Matt Cassel is toast. Too slow, no arm, often hurt. He’ll be hurt again and out soon. And the players don’t respond to the guy. He looks great in his uniform. Man, he’s as handsome as Tom Brady. But that’s where the similarity ends. We got fooled. He’s just average at best. He’s gone.

I hope pompus Pioli is going to let him go and NOT TRY AND PROVE HE WAS RIGHT BY WASTING ANOTHER SEASON ON MATT. The FRANCHISE needs a franchise quarterback, not Matt. In fact he likely won’t start anywhere, he will back someone up, like TOM BRADY.

We need to buy offensive lineman, defensive lineman – and oh brother – it’s a mess. We should let go Tyson Jackson and maybe Glen Dorsey. They’ve both tanked. Average is not what we want or need. We need to find a couple KILLER defenders so the others will rally around them. Like when we had Derrick Thomas and Neil Smith.

In three years the Chiefs have gone nowhere.

This team is no better – and maybe worse – than Herm Edwards sorry group. As I said then, few of these players will be in Kansas City in two years – five or six tops.

There is no TEAM, just players wanting to get paid.

They have all quit. Just playing for jobs and hoping to be traded like Brian Waters to New England. He was basically fired, just like Joe Montana. They bring you in say, you can quit or we can fire you, which is better for you in the media? They fired Joe for Steve Bono.

There is one former Chief smiling right now and that’s Brian Waters. He started with Tom Brady Monday night. They won. Tom threw for over 500 yards. Waters must have thought he died and went to NEW ENGLAND.

He did.

America elected Barack Obama as its first black president three years ago…

And for those of us not married to a political party, you have to say he’s done a nice job, Barack. Sure, he’s made mistakes, but overall he’s helped keep us out of a depression, the wars are ending, the stock market has been mostly stable. Sounds good.

So have blacks in America changed?

Not much. They were excited about Obama until he won. As a comedy club owner I can tell you I heard a boat load of jokes from black comics during and just after the election.

"What will be our excuse to not work? White man won’t hire us; we’re black and nobody will give us a chance."

Then Obama became president and there were no more excuses, right? Wrong.

Three years later I hear very few Obama jokes from black comics – almost none. Why? HE’S NOT ONE OF THEM. He speaks English better than most people. He’s a great speaker. Brilliant. Even if you don’t like him or his politics, you have to admit that.

Yet most young blacks don’t give a damn that we elected a black man as president.

He ain’t ganged up; he ain’t hip hop. So he ain’t black. His dad’s not in prison either. They don’t relate to him as they did Marion Barry in DC. Blacks loved the "Barry."

Crime in America is still heavily black. Some stats, CNN says one out of three black males are in prison or under federal/state supervision for criminal convictions.

In 2000 the population was 282,000,000: 194 million of which were white, 33 million black, 35 million Hispanic and 10 million Asian. Ten percent of all blacks use illegal drugs and 9.5 percent of whites. This is the number one crime. However 4,618 out of every 100,000 blacks are in prison or jail as opposed to  773 whites. Today 1.5 million black children have a parent in prison.

Obama’s from Chicago where 55% of the city’s blacks are convicted felons. Damn.

In short, no, crime has not gotten better. In fact, in most big cities it’s worse since Obama came to power.

From the stats I looked at, crime overall is worse. Sure the economy is a big part of that. But blacks just don’t relate to the president. He doesn’t feel their pain – he’s more worried about white people’s plights. They like his wife better.

Still Black America will vote for Obama, but they won’t be as enthusiastic as last time.  A few less will go out of their way to vote. He didn’t really give them what they wanted or needed. Most blacks are not in the stock market so they don’t feel they’ve gotten much from the president.

Maybe his new JOBS PLAN will give them some relief.

It’s a $447 billion plan. Thirty-one million people watched Obama unveil it last week. But 56.5 million people watched him announce Bin Laden was dead and 95% of all those viewers were white.

Maybe we’ll see some positive changes over the next five years under this president if he’s reelected.

I hope so; its a tough road. Always was, always will be – fight on!

Now everyone’s lined up behind your humble scribe…

To be blunt, nobody saw the Chiefs as one of the worst in the league. Except me. I broke it down for you weeks ago as to why they would struggle. After a preseason – which I explained DOES matter when your team lacks confidence and talent – they got jacked by everyone’s second team and went 0-4.

Yeah, it mattered.

There are stats about teams where it doesn’t, but with teams that finish 2-5 like the Chiefs it does.

We have lost, including preseason, 7 in a row with 3 regular season (including the play off game) blow outs. To Oakland, Baltimore and now the lowly Bills.

Things that we talked about before: Haley is almost sure to be fired during or after the season. Likely during, as the Chiefs will win maybe a game if that by mid season. Clark Hunt will be forced to fire Haley to show the fan base he’s doing something.

Haley will take the blame for most everything, even though that falls on Scott Pioli and Hunt almost as much.

They brought in NO HELP (CHEAP). WE REBUILT THE STADIUM. They made terrible draft picks with the exception of one or two – like the now likely to not ever be what he was Eric Berry. Yes, we lost our most talented player, possibly forever. And our tight end is likely gone for good.

Did KK, Soren or even my buddy Nick see this coming? Uh, no. I went on radio and KC Confidential and made it clear that this was a CLOWN ACT, not a team "trying to get better."

Is it me or are you sick of hearing, trying to get better?

Matt THE FRANCHISE Cassel is close to the end of his Chiefs career. It’s ikely that that in a week or two he’ll leave with some injury never to wear the Red again.

He wants out; he hates it here and has NO involvement with this city. None. Worse than Joe Montana.

Here’s your three year starting quarterback who is on almost no radio ot TV shows, at no events and clearly is NOT happy here. He’s been playing for a check and his own glory. To survive and to go to another team as a starter. But now that he’s below average that may never happen. Matt is an eight year 31 year old, now a bit damaged quarterback with not much upside.

Folks, we screwed the pooch. We have to rebuild and start now. Let’s see if Ricky Stanzi is the man. He will start, as I said a few weeks back, very soon. That might not be a good thing with this horrible offensive line, but he could get some excitement back in a team that has already quit.

The team does not believe in Haley. Now the radio guys are saying, Scott and Todd are on the outs. Todd is almost surely gone during or after this season. The experiment didn’t work with Todd and Matt. Sorry.

OK, so I was 100 percent right on the Chiefs…

No need to dwell on that now, we’ve plenty left to worry about. Vegas was a nice time. My trip out sucked but the four days there were fun. Rio has great pools and a nude private pool. The new thing is semi-nude dancers in every ultra lounge bar and in casino bars for the first time.

New hotels come and go – they open big, then die way down. The new three hottie hotels are, of course, Encore (a couple years old but upscale and classy with great food). The newest is the spectacular Cosmopolitan – wow, eye popping! And lastly, Aria with one of the top new clubs, XS

Again big bucks for everything, drinks start at fifteen bucks.

Full comps are tough at newer hotels. Staff changes translate into there being no true pit boss to call – they’re all corporate. 

They judge you by what you spend (lose) and you need to be a six figure gambler to get their attention.

Seven figures for comp, whatever-you-wants. Of course, at lesser hotels its easier. Celebrities can get some things, but not like the good old days when a somebody was worth having in the hotel – they need the money today.

Vegas is busy to decent on weekends and slow on weekdays, but so is America.
 
My gal pal Gina, the actress, stopped by Vegas to say hi and hang out a bit. She just finished having a couple nice parts in TV/Film including Clint Eastwood‘s "Hoover."

There are lots of better looking girls out here – more than normal – young ones at the pools.

As in my photo, sometimes what you see in Vegas needs to stay here…

"I like Big Butts, I can’t say why" – well not that big – damn.