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      <title>Another gem from KSK.  As funny as him holding up the Cutler throwback?  Nah.</title>
      <link>http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/6/24/923477/another-gem-from-ksk-as-funny-as</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:05:19 -0000</pubDate>
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&lt;div class="source source-img"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another gem from KSK.  As funny as him holding up the Cutler throwback? &amp;nbsp;Nah.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Off-Topic: OKie Joe's Makes Anthony Bourdain's top 13 places to eat before you die.</title>
      <link>http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/6/10/905244/off-topic-okie-joes-makes-anthony</link>
      <author>Official Arrowhead Pride Parade</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:38:49 -0000</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;From next month's &lt;a href="http://www.menshealth.com/bestfoods/food_features/13_Places_to_Eat_Before_You_Die.php"&gt;Men's Health&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13. Oklahoma Joe's Barbecue (Kansas City)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People may disagree on who has the best BBQ. Here, the brisket (particularly the burnt ends), pulled pork and ribs are all of a quality that meet the high standards even of Kansas City natives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's the best BBQ in Kansas City, which makes it the best BBQ in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anthony Bourdain is the host of the Travel Channel's 'No Reservations.'&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Guess, that leave's 12 more for THE PARADE.&amp;nbsp; St. John's in London is next, our money is that they don't stack up to the Hog Heaven.&lt;/p&gt;

  


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      <title>Overly busy, poor graphic design, sports related?  Yep, this should be coming to the streets of...</title>
      <link>http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/5/18/878637/overly-busy-poor-graphic-design</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 13:11:07 -0000</pubDate>
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&lt;div class="source source-img"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Overly busy, poor graphic design, sports related?  Yep, this should be coming to the streets of brookside soon enough.  We're betting Prime's already pre-ordered&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Off-Season Paradebulation Part III: Uniforms or Jeez Louise Mom!  Stop Calling Them "Costumes"</title>
      <link>http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/5/12/867859/off-season-paradebulation-part-iii</link>
      <author>Official Arrowhead Pride Parade</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 09:43:17 -0000</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154875/he-hate-me.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154875/he-hate-me_medium.jpg" alt="He-hate-me_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.lacrosseallstars.com/storage/he-hate-me.jpg"&gt;www.lacrosseallstars.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;In our continued effort to beat off the off-season doldrums,&lt;a href="http://www.mobydickthemusical.com/images/images_pages/images_4.htm"&gt; Austrian Queequeg style&lt;/a&gt;,(oddly not a &lt;a href="http://www.thebrunomovie.com/"&gt;Bruno&lt;/a&gt; reference), the PARADE is continuing its week-long series.&amp;nbsp; This installment again does its darndest to break down the AP's fanbase, but don't worry, we build them back up at the end.&lt;/i&gt; er not&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Chiefs are trying out some new throwback uniforms this season.&amp;nbsp; While their logo and design has generated a substantial amount of controversy, what perhaps disturbed the PARADE most was the stylistic suggestions some of our right honorable commenters had.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How to put this?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We hate to go back to the East Bound &amp;amp; Down well two days in a row, but Kenny really expresses our feelings on some of our commenter's stylistic opinions all to eloquently &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf9j4QnVK-s"&gt;in this youtube (NSFW language)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For those of you at work, the PARADE merely expressed that some readers may not be intimately familiar with Joyce's interpretation of the hierarcy of aesthetics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;After the jump, some godaful, alright, and stupid ideas.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154938/dallastexanthrowback.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154938/dallastexanthrowback_medium.jpg" height="408" alt="Dallastexanthrowback_medium" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tony Gonzalez looking incredibly pale, visor'd, and playing for the wrong team.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/123380/dallastexanthrowback.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"But PARADE, I'm not a stripper, I've never even been to Daytona, and Joyce's interplay of the Hellenistic clearly throw into question notions of a Thomistic hierarchy of aesthetics!&amp;nbsp; Not to mention &lt;i&gt;Finnegan's Wake&lt;/i&gt;."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are no good answers to those questions, other than that's not how we meant it (although we are impressed by your literary acumen reader) but consider this, consider the "Mama's Family" game 'Raytown is Yours:'&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154960/mamasfamilyps2-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154960/mamasfamilyps2-1_medium.jpg" alt="Mamasfamilyps2-1_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lfMfXER7F-k/SXBEWQCBi-I/AAAAAAAAAAo/vTez5e73yYQ/s320/mamasfamilyps2-1.jpg"&gt;1.bp.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This epitomizes the complete and utter lack of restraint and enthusiasm for gaudy cliches that plagues the Chiefs's homeland.&amp;nbsp; For those of you not aware, the TV show "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%27s_Family"&gt;Mama's Family&lt;/a&gt;" was set in Raytown, MO because upon driving through there comedienne and creator of M.F. Carol Burnett thought it was the most impressive 'white trash' locale in the United States.&amp;nbsp; No offense to our readers from "The Rat" but the 'Funky Town' (still exists?) watertower never screamed urban chic.&amp;nbsp; Adding the cliche 'Scarface' ripoff was a nice touch though.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Confused yet?&amp;nbsp; Well let's roll out some designs taken from &lt;a href="http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/4/30/860295/new-uniforms"&gt;this post on the new uniforms&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155053/chiefs-cpt.gif"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155053/chiefs-cpt_medium.gif" alt="Chiefs-cpt_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.mghelmets.com/nfl%20concepts/chiefs-cpt.gif"&gt;www.mghelmets.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sorry this comment really couldn't wait until the next ombudsman post:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/4/30/860295/new-uniforms#15067013"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh my god that is the most beautiful thing i have ever seen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i would probably remove my nuts if we could wear those helmets no doubt in my mind take my nuts off for those helmets and uniforms ohh my god&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/a&gt; -The inimitable sexassassin ladies and gents...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While extra credit is given for incorporating the theme of "&lt;a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=truck%20nutz&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi"&gt;truck nutz&lt;/a&gt;" into your enthusiasm, we are amazed that not only SA but many of you support this design.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We're pretty sure some candy paint and an airbrushed La Virgin de Guadalupe downn the middle would be more appealing (no offense SA).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let us try to explain:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155059/miamisharksanygivensunday.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155059/miamisharksanygivensunday_medium.jpg" height="191" alt="Miamisharksanygivensunday_medium" width="197" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; +    &lt;a href="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155062/carrie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155062/carrie_medium.jpg" height="248" alt="Carrie_medium" width="191" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; =&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.jpabranded.com/images/MiamiSharksAnyGivenSunday.JPG"&gt;www.jpabranded.com&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt; via&lt;a href="http://www.jpabranded.com/images/MiamiSharksAnyGivenSunday.JPG"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl0/16/161593/04_2008/carrie.jpg"&gt;images.teamsugar.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;That helmet and presumably any accompanying uniform that would make us look like the Raiders and Falcons had an abomination baby.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let's face it the Chiefs have it pretty rough aesthetically speaking.&amp;nbsp; We're stuck in the Ketchup/Mustard dispenser of life.&amp;nbsp; To top that, we're unfortunately hemmed in by the Redskins, who not only steal every other shade of red or Native American theme, but who try out new designs like the tarted-up NFC whores they are.&amp;nbsp; Not to mention the threat of renewed PC Native American protests keep the intimidating stereotype angle pretty muted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, black does not make everything better.&amp;nbsp; Monster Trucks and wrestling?&amp;nbsp; Yes (&lt;a href="http://www.holytaco.com/ultimate-warrior-makes-his-case-supreme-court-nomination"&gt;although Justice Ultimate Warrior disagrees&lt;/a&gt;).&amp;nbsp; Football?&amp;nbsp; No.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, we're not suggesting imposing our style.&amp;nbsp; It's much easier to criticize others (plus, corduroy and elbow patches would probably restrict the range of motion).&amp;nbsp; But don't you people remember the goth spaceman pajama royals?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155068/kc_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155068/kc_3_medium.jpg" alt="Kc_3_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://espn.go.com/media/pg2/2002/0125/photo/kc_3.jpg"&gt;espn.go.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Goth &amp;amp; Pajama only partially pictured...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now the idea we did like was the possible alternative "Wat Bonnet" helmets, which apparently were once shown on a broadcast in the 80's but have since disappeared forever.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Safe to say you can imagine what we have in mind as a cross between the Michigan Wolverine's helmets and Sundown from &lt;i&gt;Top Gun&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The only possible misinterpretation would be &lt;a href="http://www.geocities.com/my_flags/nfl.html"&gt;this guy's valiant, but clearly erroneous and slightly racist attempt.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155078/ff_32531_l.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155078/ff_32531_l_medium.jpg" height="216" alt="Ff_32531_l_medium" width="231" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://images.footballfanatics.com/productImages/_32000/FF_32531_l.jpg"&gt;images.footballfanatics.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;PLUS this and a whole lot of feathers....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155081/sundown_205.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155081/sundown_205_medium.jpg" alt="Sundown_205_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0uhbIuTPI5k/SUnSihDxzkI/AAAAAAAAABk/FGNFSpJo5e8/s320/sundown_205.jpg"&gt;3.bp.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Would equal awesome.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But that's just our opinion.&amp;nbsp; Let's see what else was suggested...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155084/f818_12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155084/f818_12_medium.jpg" height="250" alt="F818_12_medium" width="330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://i23.ebayimg.com/03/i/001/43/41/f818_12.JPG"&gt;i23.ebayimg.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;YOUURRR KANSAASSSS CITTTTYYYEEE ICE CAPAAAAADES&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gary Glitter approved.&amp;nbsp; Next?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155090/haleydallastexans.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155090/haleydallastexans_medium.jpg" height="726" alt="Haleydallastexans_medium" width="346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/Stonelion_2006/HaleyDallasTexans.jpg"&gt;i66.photobucket.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;What is it we like about this photo?&amp;nbsp; Oh yeah, Dwayne Bowe still plays for our team.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Actually, there's a lot to like once you get past the Texas emblem.&amp;nbsp; The gray facemasks are cool, the less than fire-engine red isn't bad, and it's pretty simplistic.&amp;nbsp; All and all, not bad.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Buuuuut PARAAAADE, that's Texas!&amp;nbsp; I live in Missouri OR Kansas OR Iowa OR Oklahoma OR some other godforsaken place in the Octo-state area.&amp;nbsp; They can't do that, it's unkansascitian!"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Apparently, there's been a whole talk radio jihad going on about the logo on the throwbacks.&amp;nbsp; This brings up a very important point.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TALK RADIO MAKES NORMAL PEOPLE THINK F*CKIN STUPID THINGS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now not to pass judgment, perhaps some of our readers frequently listen to talk radio, perhaps some even call in.&amp;nbsp; We personally, once had a summer job where all our trucks only had AM radio and listened to hours and hours of talk radio.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here's the question, have you ever listened to talk radio and thought 'that's really stupid and wrong what they're saying, I should call in and tell them why?'&amp;nbsp; Of course, that's the point of talk radio.&amp;nbsp; Have you ever not called in, and then a day later thought about it, and regretted it?&amp;nbsp; No.&amp;nbsp; Why?&amp;nbsp; Because it's meaningless mouth masterbation into the AM ether that's why.&amp;nbsp; No one cares, nothing ever results from it, in the entire history of radio exactly ZERO POINT ZERO ZERO revolutions, revolts or other meaningful actions have occured because of radio.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Radio did get a kid trampled trying to buy KISS tickets (and that was FM).&amp;nbsp; Other than that, kaput.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, pause for a second, and think about what's really going to happen when the Chiefs wear these throwbacks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When they play the Broncos everyone will obsess about how ugly Denver's throwbacks are, when they play Dallas it'll look like that olde tymey baseball Conan sketch, and ultimately there will be some bad jokes about America's team.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Other than that, absolutely nothing will change.&amp;nbsp; If you're that terrified of it, listen to it on radio and act it out with Starting Line-Up figurines.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155105/9643_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155105/9643_1_medium.jpg" alt="9643_1_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://i10.ebayimg.com/08/i/001/2f/ce/9643_1.JPG"&gt;i10.ebayimg.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As an added bonus, we're going to go ahead and say &lt;a href="http://www.georgeblowfish.com/Chiefspage7.html"&gt;George from George Blowfish &lt;/a&gt;is wrong and that the retro, go-go look would be a good throwback for the Chiefs cheerleaders as well...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155117/90schicks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155117/90schicks_medium.jpg" alt="90schicks_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.georgeblowfish.com/90schicks.jpg"&gt;www.georgeblowfish.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;George seems to be mixing his decade's a bit much, to appreciate the hipster appeal here, also he seems to be a fan of a simpler appeal from a simpler time...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155129/georgebrett.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/155129/georgebrett_medium.jpg" alt="Georgebrett_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://royalsblog.kansascity.com/files/images/georgebrett.jpg"&gt;royalsblog.kansascity.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Which has its points as well.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Apologies for coming to you so late this afternoon, maybe the greatest movie ever will make up for it....(NSF 1980's W)...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Off-Season Paradebulation Part II: Mockity Mock Mock &amp; Scott Pioli</title>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Or "&lt;i&gt;Piolileo Piolilei, Renaissance Man.&lt;/i&gt;"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/152506/galileo01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/152506/galileo01_medium.jpg" height="268" alt="Galileo01_medium" width="215" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/152509/scott-pioli.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/152509/scott-pioli_medium.jpg" height="268" alt="Scott-pioli_medium" width="203" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Orrrr, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 'In Pioli We Trust.'&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;In what is hopefully the second installment of a week-long series, &lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3559277130695557449"&gt;Christiane Amanpour style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;, we will try to help ease the suffering of Chiefs fans through the off-season.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In a move no doubt consistent with&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/5/8/851189/off-season-ombudsmanulation-you"&gt;the PARADE's earlier attempt at alienating our valued readers&lt;/a&gt; we mock the concept of mock drafts and general draft adulation while splitting the difference on our new, unfortunately stereotyped, Piolverlordi's draft.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First a brief disclaimer for those draftniks who consider this so much heresy:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Look a lot of things are fun while not particularly fulfilling, and as a football fan you can't expect every other football fan to share your particular fan peccadillos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Put it this way, if having you team win a regular season game is like finding out a close friend is gonna have a baby, don't expect us to throw you a baby shower just because you bought a playboy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;But that's just how WE feel, maybe after the jump it'll make sense?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154276/melkiperjr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154276/melkiperjr_medium.jpg" alt="Melkiperjr_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://assets.espn.go.com/espnradiostations/i/chicago/lovechild/melkiperjr.jpg"&gt;assets.espn.go.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The face of evil?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No doubt, we understand the legions of draft fans that trot out the usual litany of justifications for loving the draft: it's middle of the off-season, I want to know what my team's doing, and the ever popular 'successful teams build through the draft.'&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All of those are pretty good reasons to care &lt;i&gt;about&lt;/i&gt; the draft.&amp;nbsp; Although the last is an incredibly annoying cliche: "well, duh if you look at Indy &amp;amp; the Pats but Jerry Jones and the Redskins would kindly suggest you blow that out your pajama-hole."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More importantly though, it's not a matter of caring about the draft that bothers us.&amp;nbsp; It's the constant obsession, mock drafts, and expression that you're not a true football fan unless you have a draft day experience.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyone who questions the severity of that statement need look no further than our dear friend and blogfather Chris who suggested he might rather watch the draft than the Super Bowl.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgDaVLCaBzQ"&gt;Kenny Powers (@the 2 min. mark)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154291/picture_4.png"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154291/picture_4_medium.png" alt="Picture_4_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/90005346/Picture_4.png"&gt;s3.amazonaws.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"I like watching real sports not trying to be the best at predicting what other people are gonna do."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not to mention the combine.&amp;nbsp; Sweet jebuz if that's not some of the most nonsensical bullsh*t we've ever seen.&amp;nbsp; You're going to take NFL recruiting, which has reached the degree of low-level international espionage at this point, and try to boil it down to what amounts to some glorified speed-dating conferance in Indiana?&amp;nbsp; To quote one PARADE-y lady, upon seeing the combine "oooh dance draft monkeys, dance!"&amp;nbsp; Moving on...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What bugs us most is the concept of "mock drafts."&amp;nbsp; Not so much the "fun of it" aspect, which is well and good, but the fact that professional sports journalists do it and expect them to be taken seriously.&amp;nbsp; Let's step away from this a second.&amp;nbsp; Take NCAA Basketball brackets, a similarly futile but entertaining exercise in soothsaying.&amp;nbsp; There is at least a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.blogofstupidity.com/archive/2006/03/23/odds-of-a-perfect-ncaa-bracket/239.html"&gt;1 in 18.5 quintillion&lt;/a&gt; mathematically certain chance that you will pick a perfect bracket.&amp;nbsp; Whereas, it is a virtual certitude no one will ever 'perfectly mock' the draft.&amp;nbsp; Moreover, the highly subjective and common draft day trade virtually guarantees not being able to even get the order right.&amp;nbsp; So why?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;In the interest of full disclosure here, we'll point out we participated in the AP (mercifully only 2 round) draft the past two years.&amp;nbsp; But on the same note we've represented the Dan Snyder&amp;nbsp; and the Redskins each year, giving us essentially carte blanche.&amp;nbsp; "Oh they went with the DE?&amp;nbsp; I thought drafting Snuffaluffagus out of Sesame Street Tech with 35 mil guaranteed up front was a lock."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well the best argument we've heard is that as we get older and spend far more time talking about and thinking about than actually playing football, the strategy aspects become more entertaining.&amp;nbsp; The same goes for the fantasy football argument that it makes regular fans, better fans..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.coolminiornot.com/store/shopimages/HFH023_1.jpg"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HILARIOUS NSFW FANTASY FOOTBALL IMAGE HYPERLINK!!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154300/jesus-football.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154300/jesus-football_medium.jpg" alt="Jesus-football_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://jwoodard.best.vwh.net/images/jesus-football.jpg"&gt;jwoodard.best.vwh.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Why is that kid tackling Jesus?&amp;nbsp; What's wrong with him?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But really?&amp;nbsp; Is that any excuse for saying you'd rather see male physical attributes and iffy college comparisons evaluated than seeing professionals violently attack one another in attempting to establish their superiority?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We're not saying you can't enjoy the draft or fantasy football or Madden or even collect &lt;i&gt;NFL: The Gathering&lt;/i&gt; cards, just admit that it's part of the Geekification of football.&amp;nbsp; And even that's okay by us up until the point it obscures the actual sport.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Except for maybe Madden talk, that sh*t's just annoying).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But the emphasis on the draft has gotten out of hand.&amp;nbsp; These are rookies, they're not supposed to be good, they're supposed to be good in 2-3 years.&amp;nbsp; The Chiefs supposedly "won" last years draft.&amp;nbsp; Where'd that get us?&amp;nbsp; 2-14 and a bunch of question marks.&amp;nbsp; Now, this is admittedly somewhat spurious, the draft does matter and so does drafting well.&amp;nbsp; However, the concept of the "immediate impact" player has really outgrown its use.&amp;nbsp; Look at these players: Reggie Bush, Adrian Peterson, Matt Ryan, Joe Flacco and Vince Young.&amp;nbsp; All were high impact rookies at highly visible positions.&amp;nbsp; Any of them "change the game" or win a Superbowl?&amp;nbsp; Nope.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is part of why we'd love to see Matt Ryan crash and burn this season, the other is that ridiculous NFL network ad in reverse slow motion trying to sell their ugly hats.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154321/p5729702reg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154321/p5729702reg_medium.jpg" alt="P5729702reg_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://spln.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/p5729702reg.jpg"&gt;spln.imageg.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;How could Curry possibly be less than a pro bowler in that accoutrement?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This brings us to our next two points: A. 'Don Pioli' is a stupid nickname and B. we won't know the success or failure of this draft until 2011.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not to sound like a typical Mile High Report Fan Post, "hey guys trading our franchise QB and &lt;a href="http://www.milehighreport.com/2009/4/27/856849/broncos-draft-best-of-the-west"&gt;getting another RB instead of defense&lt;/a&gt; is just another masterstroke in &lt;a href="http://www.milehighreport.com/2009/5/10/871531/the-josh-mcdaniels-story-through"&gt;McDaniel's&lt;/a&gt; GENIUS plan to &lt;a href="http://www.milehighreport.com/2009/5/4/864503/the-distance-you-throw-the-ball"&gt;fake out&lt;/a&gt; the whole NFL, and &lt;a href="http://www.milehighreport.com/2009/5/8/870157/wherefore-yoga-et-tu-hoodie"&gt;he wears a hoodie&lt;/a&gt;, like Belichick, ZOMG!!!," (apologies to MHR for the cheap shot), but we do feel objectively Pioli's track record has merited allowing for player maturation rather than demanding media-annointed "draft wins" like last year.&amp;nbsp; (For our MHR visitors, please contain any vitriol, a "McGenius" post&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That said, there's a short leash for turning this thing around quick.&amp;nbsp; The stockpiling of a 2nd rounder and 3-4 conversion sounds good right now, but if the Chiefs don't break out of the AFC West basement and Curry and Gonzalez are in next year's Pro Bowl, it won't feel very good.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But before getting too heavy, can we move to ax the 'Don Pioli' moniker?&amp;nbsp; Yes he is a large, folicilly-challenged, gentleman of Italian-American decent, AND sir eccles Godfather photoshop is awesome (and should still be used regardless).&amp;nbsp; But, as evinced by his stylish eyewear and affinity for walks in Loose Park, he is clearly a Renassaince Man, and not a cartoonish mafia thug.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154327/da-vinci.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/154327/da-vinci_medium.jpg" height="301" alt="Da-vinci_medium" width="197" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://suffonsifisms.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/da-vinci.jpg"&gt;suffonsifisms.files.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;DaVinci, also a Parcell's man, fact.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moreover, it looks like Pioli's making an effort to slim down.&amp;nbsp; So sure, if you want to use the 'Don Pioli' nomenclature in regard to the new "Red Curtain" of secrecy, so be it.&amp;nbsp; But we can to better by our new benefactor.&amp;nbsp; After all, Haley's not going to be feeding the media any warm and fuzzies by looks of it anytime soon.&amp;nbsp; *Fingers crossed on the LJ Haley impression follow-up!*&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Back to the 2009 draft.&amp;nbsp; Again, not to sound too Pollyanna, but we're willing to wait and see.&amp;nbsp; GM, Coach, DC, D scheme, new LBs (not to mention QB) is a lot to change to expect them all to work.&amp;nbsp; But the draftboard is a far different piece of paper than the depth chart, and long-term success has far more to do with the latter than the former.&amp;nbsp; Also, we get the impression that the Chiefs got passing grades from a lot of media draftniks if for no other reason than out of league respect for Pioli.&amp;nbsp; We suspect Tyson Jackson shooting up all the last minute draft predictions may have been more of a Pioli effecting the media's perception than vice versa.&amp;nbsp; Regardless the perceived "reach" in Jackson will be a great GM measuring stick in 2-3 years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course, by then some third or fourth round pick will be blowing the competition away, and we'll all look like idiots.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yay!&amp;nbsp; The Draft!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It's over!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And now for something completely different, the Starz Network has a new show produced by KC native and Chiefs fan Paul Rudd.&amp;nbsp; It's called &lt;a href="http://www.starz.com/originals/PartyDown"&gt;Party Down&lt;/a&gt;, and it's getting it done son, straight. getting. it. done.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VflIdXP46RU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VflIdXP46RU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh, and just in case you thought you could encounter anything mentioning the NFL Network and the draft without hearing this, you were wrong:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height="340" width="560"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WLsWkTkO0F0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WLsWkTkO0F0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="340" width="560"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feel free to wipe the tears from your brown eyes in the comments...&lt;/p&gt;
  


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      <title>Off-Season Ombudsmanulation: "You Have No Fear of the Underdog, That's Why You Will Not Survive."</title>
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      <author>Official Arrowhead Pride Parade</author>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/144950/zach.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/144950/zach_medium.jpg" align="center" alt="Zach_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Primes had us under the gun* for a while for the "official ombudsman post" but frankly, we're not quite sure how to do this.&amp;nbsp; We mean, we certainly can make fun of what gets posted.&amp;nbsp; But we're not intentionally cruel, it's just not in our nature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So to explain that more clearly, we'll relive our hatred of ombudsmen in general, act like a total hypocrite, and work in some strong to medium strong interweb humor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh and &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/toapPARADE"&gt;we're on Twitter&lt;/a&gt; bringing the pain, Peter King ignored our benevolent Roasterie Rec so all we can say is expect thunder fat man, but it's the lightning that's gonna get ya.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*&lt;i&gt;Conversely, we've had Prime under the gun for getting on this podcast idea off the ground.&amp;nbsp; So far all we have is 8 minutes of us sounding like Napolean Dynomite, Prime complaining about chicken fingers, and generally a lot of swearing about technological ignorance.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p&gt;First, a little tale about ombudsmandry. (pardon the extensive history of the interwebs)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As some of you may be aware, the &lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/5045976/nfl-season-preview-kansas-city-chiefs"&gt;PARADE has been linked to some dubious authorship&lt;/a&gt; over at the website &lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/"&gt;Deadspin.com&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Also, &lt;a href="http://www.sbnation.com/users/HIV%202%20Elway"&gt;commenter of note&lt;/a&gt;, '&lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/search/HIV2ELWAY/"&gt;HIV 2 Elway&lt;/a&gt;' has been a staple over there along with a commenter named '&lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/search/otto%20man/"&gt;Otto Man&lt;/a&gt;' and together they've collectively made up the Chiefetariat at the site.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Those not familiar with Deadspin's commenter policy, in its heyday it was a meritocracy of sorts.&amp;nbsp; Those who got in early or managed to "audition" enough funny or obscene comments were granted commenter handles/avatars/nicknames (whatever).&amp;nbsp; Prior it was an open door policy and currently it has digressed into an amorphous multipage babble/babel with a few &lt;strike&gt;pathetic&lt;/strike&gt; stalwart high quality commenters hanging on.&amp;nbsp; (This is not a condemnation of the change in editor from &lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/385770/bissinger-vs-leitch"&gt;Will Leitch&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadspinleitch/3025447052/in/set-72157608964333144/"&gt;A.J. Daulerio&lt;/a&gt;, we actually think Daulerio is much funnier, just more of a hit or miss type than Leitch's consistent buy gossipy snark).&amp;nbsp; But we digress...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The upshot of all this, was we arrived pretty late to the Deadspin commenter party.&amp;nbsp; We had a handle for a brief period via Deadspin's &lt;a href="http://gawker.com/"&gt;Gawker Media&lt;/a&gt; sister political site &lt;a href="http://wonkette.com/"&gt;Wonkette.com &lt;/a&gt;for a while, but generally didn't comment enough to keep from getting purged.&amp;nbsp; Then we grew quite enamored with the oft-linked spinoff-site "&lt;a href="http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/"&gt;Kissing Suzy Kolber&lt;/a&gt;" which was formed by a small junta of Deadspin commenters known as the "&lt;a href="http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/?s=gay+mafia"&gt;Gay Mafia&lt;/a&gt;."&amp;nbsp; This ultimately led us back to attempt "auditioning" for yet another Deadspin commenter handle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At this same point Deadspin had recently anointed their first ever ombudsman: Rob "Rock me like a" Iracane.&amp;nbsp; Now we'll withhold judgment as much as possible lest is sound like so much sour grapes.&amp;nbsp; To his credit his ombudsman posts were headlined by this awesome graphic:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/151987/screamfoolscream4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/151987/screamfoolscream4_medium.jpg" alt="Screamfoolscream4_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2007/08/screamfoolscream4.jpg"&gt;cache.deadspin.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Course, we prefer &lt;a href="http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/images/deadspin/2008/09/sightingskendra1051207vt6.jpg"&gt;the one Daulerio picked our for our story&lt;/a&gt;, but that's neither here nor there).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And in the interest of fairness, he did have some good posts about &lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/267708/that-girl-in-the-t+shirt-ads-is-just-not-that-into-you"&gt;the snorg-t's girl&lt;/a&gt;, mocking &lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/271906/nobody-cares-about-your-fantasy-team"&gt;personal references to fantasy teams&lt;/a&gt; in comment threads, and generally mocking lost AOL commenters whose posts come out like all-caps laden tourettes punctuationless asperger's word spasms (and not the cool &lt;a href="http://www.sbnation.com/users/sexassassin"&gt;sexassassin&lt;/a&gt; kind either).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In a series of comments which were clearly so hilarious we've forgotten all about them we managed to attract the attention of Mr. Iracane.&amp;nbsp; Yes, we made&lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/310827/introducing-rejected-commenter-theater"&gt; the (first?) ever rejected comment theatre&lt;/a&gt;...&amp;nbsp; To be fair, Mr. 'cane did not even pay us the respect of including whatever hilarious tidbit we instilled, but rather we had not yet developed the third person PARADE entity, and, well, we'll let his words speak for themselves:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finally, I'd like to spotlight someone who I rejected based solely on his or her commenter name of choice, &lt;b&gt;SuckItIcarane&lt;/b&gt;. I ain't got no quarrel with people who want to take a jab at me, but can you at least spell my goddamned name right?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Because nothing spells unpretentiousness like getting bent out of shape over misspelling your silly sounding last name huh Robbie?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But, alas, yes it was us who misspelled said ombudsmoniker, and not even ironically like some of the PARADE's &lt;a href="http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2008/9/17/616775/the-parade-is-starting-the"&gt;more bizarre meta-jokes&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps the best thing to come out of the whole affair was &lt;a href="http://deadspin.com/310827/introducing-rejected-commenter-theater?t=2661784#c2661784"&gt;commenter Chamomiles Davis seizing upon the "make it rain" phenomena&lt;/a&gt; so popular at the time:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'm Icarane, (I'm Icarane)&lt;br /&gt; I'm Icarane on them hoes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So there you have it, your ombudsman (despite not actually having any real ombudmatorial power?) and author dear reader was once a rejectable, indeed rejectED, commenter just like everyone else.&amp;nbsp; But c'est la blogfrica...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Besides, who came out the winner there?&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://walkoffwalk.com/"&gt;That guy writes some unfunny blog about BASEBALL&lt;/a&gt; that has none of the panache of &lt;a href="http://www.royalsreview.com/"&gt;Royals Review&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; And after Leitch left Deadspin and he's off on his own, well, let's just say the AP has more Twitter followers than him.&amp;nbsp; Not to mention that as Primetime has pointed out the causal relationship between the AP's popularity and hits combined with UC's approval pretty much makes the PARADE the "funniest most popular thing on the interwebs ever."*&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What can we say?&amp;nbsp; We are. A. Giant tool.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, with that in mind we bring you some of the best, worst, and generally remarkable comments we could find.&amp;nbsp; (We may try to make this a monthly thing if you guys can keep huffing and commenting for us).&amp;nbsp; Also, don't be offended if you make this section for the "wrong" reasons, because A. that's awesome B. we're not too cool to ban anybody right now and if anything 'keeping it real enough' secures your place in the AP canon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Without further ado, zee komments:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;[alright slight ado, unsurprisingly Prime and our's favorite comment comes from prolific up and coming (zing) commenter, and enemy to punctuation everywhere: sexassassin]:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/4/14/837680/nfl-schedule-leaks-chiefs-to-host#14163374"&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;True story I went to build a bear with my x girlfriend a while back
&lt;p&gt;and i made a bear when you push its hands it says fuck the raiders fuck their life fuck what they stand for and fuck the nfc hahahah. the guy at build a bear was like trying to take it away from me but i told him it was a personal message and I didnt want him to hear so they sewd it in the bear wheres chucks has a small chief jersey and has small black pants its sick. just thought i would share this story cuz i hate the nfc and the raiders.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-This comment regarding the NFL schedule leaks (what else duh?) is, how you say, a masterpiece.&amp;nbsp; Not only does it demonstrate the depths of mental illness and depravity our commenters are capable of, but the complete NFC non-sequitur... well, if you ever are medicated for that condition Mr. Assassin, you are doing the world a disservice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/4/13/834207/women-have-greys-anatomy-men-have#14119790"&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;I no What Im Do What About You
&lt;p&gt;Im just a teen in you all no how teens like to go out have they girl friends in wont to sneak in have ### we i told my girl it aint gone be that cuz i will be at the house with food my dad is gone make in eat in look at all the new CHIEFS in when we not on the clock i will get on my commputer pull up Arrowheadpride.com talk to you guys in i will be looking up highlights of guys we pick that i dont no about&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-We're not going to put this in the "good" or "bad" section, just suffice to say new AP commenter &lt;a href="http://www.sbnation.com/users/Da%20Chiefs%20Guy"&gt;Da Chiefs Guy&lt;/a&gt; is clearly familiar and proficient in the style of &lt;a href="http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2009/04/the-words-of-marshawn-lynch-and-ee-cummings-mashed-up-at-last.html"&gt;E.E. Crunkings&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Apparently, this was a post on &lt;a href="http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/4/13/834207/women-have-greys-anatomy-men-have"&gt;Grey's Anatomy or something&lt;/a&gt;, anyway we couldn't find the link, but somewhere we believe (Texas Chief?) threw down a solid translation of DCG.&amp;nbsp; Anyway, this is far and away one of our 'realest' commenters lately and we're hoping DCG makes this column again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/3/28/813622/kc-to-trade-first-round-pi#13495307"&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;You're getting my hopes a little too high
&lt;p&gt;If we got a first round pick, Mack in the second, and Brinkley in the third Pioli would have to get a restraining order against me because I would be dead set on driving up to arrowhead and kissing him right on the mouth. I&amp;rsquo;d even bring my wife and kids along with me so he&amp;rsquo;d know it wasn&amp;rsquo;t a sexual thing.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-From &lt;a href="http://www.sbnation.com/users/KCporkchop"&gt;KCporkchop&lt;/a&gt;'s hypothetical reaction to a potential draft day scenario, which for the sake of his marriage, thankfully did not come to fruition (don't get him started on Trent Green [hilarious self-referential hyperlink generously ommitted]).&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;It's like sometimes you say something to modify what you just said, but then it ends sounding even worse than what you originally said... AHH, KRAYYYMERRRR!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/152242/backdrop_001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/152242/backdrop_001_medium.jpg" alt="Backdrop_001_medium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ypE2lEH8BZg/SYVmKnKC5WI/AAAAAAAAAac/Iud7e7OurKU/s400/backdrop+001.jpg"&gt;4.bp.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-We're gonna include this late entry from &lt;a href="http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/5/5/865803/chiefs-classic-picture-competition#15296629"&gt;Patrick Allen in the Chiefs Classic Picture Competition&lt;/a&gt; if for no other reason than to generate some synergy with &lt;a href="http://www.latfh.com/"&gt;LookAtThisF&amp;amp;ckingHipster.com&lt;/a&gt; (NSFW title, its tumblr bro, they don't censor like us).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/5/6/867096/who-wants-a-wolf-pack-t-shirt#15349809"&gt;I go into Trader Joe&amp;rsquo;s now and am lost.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Annnnd &lt;a href="http://www.sbnation.com/users/DThomasReigns"&gt;DThomasReigns&lt;/a&gt; for the sycophantic win.&amp;nbsp; Nothing like finding out the PARADE governs you're grocery shopping decisions.&amp;nbsp; We'll try to work up a honest to goodness PARADEBULATION to cap off what will hopefully be a 5 part series next week.&amp;nbsp; For now, Trader Giotto's Pizza Crust... no pictures so we'll show the frozen 3-cheese option, which is eminently meh in comparison to our homemade ricotta sauce with proscuitto and brie...recipe forthcoming...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/152245/three-cheese-pizza-box-500x375.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/152245/three-cheese-pizza-box-500x375_medium.jpg" height="257" alt="Three-cheese-pizza-box-500x375_medium" width="341" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.daemonsfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/three-cheese-pizza-box-500x375.jpg"&gt;www.daemonsfood.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We're sure we're missing tons of great comments, Prime didn't really excel at being an ombudslacky insofar as originally all his hyperlinks only linked to the attaching story, thus leaving the specific link in question on occasion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Prime: "you get those links?"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PARADE: "yeah you mean the ones where sexassassin says something dirty, KCShuffle says something bizarre, Lanier63 makes a joke about being old, DThomasReigns makes a self-referential AP joke, and UC totally clown suits someone... yeah, mighta seen one like that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Prime: "Oh, okay good."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Please feel free to volunteer your own, mock us, and hyperlink freely in the comments section (if we're not too lazy we'll try to make fun of those too).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And for the source of our title here's Spoon's 'The Underdog' for your listening pleasure:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;*Actual Primetime quote&lt;/p&gt;
  


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      <title>Too easy?</title>
      <link>http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/5/7/867830/too-easy</link>
      <author>Official Arrowhead Pride Parade</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 07:24:13 -0000</pubDate>
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&lt;img alt="Travishenrybio" src="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/fan_shot_images/48373/travishenrybio.jpg" /&gt;

&lt;div class="source source-img"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Too&amp;nbsp;easy?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Chiefs Sign Former Bengals Center UFA Eric Ghiaciuc?</title>
      <link>http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/4/30/860827/chiefs-sign-bengals-center-usfa</link>
      <author>Official Arrowhead Pride Parade</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:52:43 -0000</pubDate>
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&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/KC_Chiefs1"&gt;Chiefs Sign Former Bengals Center UFA Eric&amp;nbsp;Ghiaciuc?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;div class="description"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Via the &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/KC_Chiefs1"&gt;Chiefs' official Twitter page&lt;/a&gt; and the second story on the &lt;a href="http://www.kcchiefs.com/default.asp"&gt;mainpage at kcchiefs&lt;/a&gt;.com (But it leads to a dead link).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;...more to come, but for now here's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ghiaciuc"&gt;Ghiaciuc's bio&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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      <link>http://www.royalsreview.com/2009/4/24/851264/god-must-hate-the-kansas-city-ham</link>
      <author>Official Arrowhead Pride Parade</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:58:55 -0000</pubDate>
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&lt;div class="source source-img"&gt;&lt;p&gt;God must hate the Kansas City Ham&amp;nbsp;Fighters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>The PARADE's Twitter feed</title>
      <link>http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/4/18/843895/the-parades-twitter-feed</link>
      <author>Official Arrowhead Pride Parade</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:48:57 -0000</pubDate>
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&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/toapPARADE"&gt;The PARADE's Twitter&amp;nbsp;feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;div class="description"&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Which presumably the AP neither denies nor admits endorsing... tweet at your own risk.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase Gheorghe Muresan '&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9uaDiRlLBQ"&gt;want to tweet like me?&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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