KC Sports Thoughts 1/9/06

• The Chiefs had their press conference today to announce the hiring of Herm Edwards. There's quite a bit of ill-will toward Edwards in the national media for getting out of his contract with the Jets. Carl Peterson simply robbed the Jets blind, tampering with a coach that was under contract with two years left and only paying a fourth round pick for him. I think the Jets must have wanted out and were willing to take something over nothing.
• I like Edwards but a lot of people don't. Some think he was disloyal and a malcontent and a crony of Carl Peterson, which means nothing will really be new here. On that note, some folks don't think he'll truly be in charge here and they are waiting to see if he'll get his own coaching staff or be stuck with Vermeil's staff. In the end, I think Chiefs fans are only slightly less discontent than Eagles fans, the worst, most fickle, fans in the NFL.
  
• The KC Brigade (our new Arena League team that we stole from New Orleans – is there a theme here?) is scrimmaging with another team today. Their first home game is Feb 12 and I can't wait to actually see one of those games live. It would be reeeeally neat.
• Some friends at church admitted that they skipped Wednesday night church to go to a KU basketball game. Grrrrr… You had KU tickets and didn't take me with you?! I was actually offered KU football tickets from someone at church and had to turn them down in order to have Thanksgiving with my in-laws. Life is not fair.
• Quinn Snyder, MU's punk-kid basketball coach, criticized KU's star freshman basketball player Brandon Rush, saying that the University of Missouri wouldn't recruit a great but troubled player like Rush because, get this, "we have standards." Quinn said this. Seriously. By the way, a search of google news for "Quinn Snyder," "Missouri," and "standards" got zero hits.