Because of all the interest in this thread, I've place all of the video content of Patrick Mahomes II's college career, and draft day goodness into a single post that can be found here. Enjoy! [Reply]
Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes is declining to weigh in on this year's presidential race, urging voters in a new interview to do their own research before the election. https://t.co/7ltHzFqs4ipic.twitter.com/dQAAELuNIC
Originally Posted by ThrobProng:
Smart indeed. Most people already know who they're going to vote for, and it's not like either candidate deserves endorsements from anyone.
Quite. Great that he is urging people to vote and to consider what they want but totally understandable to want to sidestep getting involved in any endorsements of a party or candidate.
Both the choices are truly terrible and shocking that the richest country in the world is left with 2 dinosaurs who should be long retired not fighting to be the one with their finger on the nuclear button. [Reply]
Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes is declining to weigh in on this year's presidential race, urging voters in a new interview to do their own research before the election. https://t.co/7ltHzFqs4ipic.twitter.com/dQAAELuNIC
Yep, he’s not lying. I’ve seen social media posts and such. He was definitely at least some sort of Chiefs “fan” prior to Mahomes breaking out. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
God damn, who voted Elvis Grbac as a "sexiest athlete" or did everyone else look like cavemen too?
Story goes that someone suggested "The Chiefs QB" and the folks running the shoot were...idiots.
So they went to Arrowhead and said "Hey, your QB won Sexiest Athlete!" and they were directed to Grbac. It wasn't until the issue came out that someone realized it was supposed to be Rich Gannon. [Reply]
“I was merely an observer,” Jennifer Wulff said when I called. “It was not me!”
Some of this is a little foggy because it has been 22 years since it all went down. For example, Wulff couldn’t remember who was on the cover of the “Sexiest Man Alive” issue that year, but when reminded that it was actually Harrison Ford, she burst out laughing. “Oooh, that was a bad choice, too!” she said. “It was already doomed.”
Wulff was only in her second or third year at People, but she knew how things worked. Every year the magazine put out a “Sexiest Man” issue, so every year the staff writers and correspondents at People had to select not only their pick for the overall Sexiest Man Alive — the guy who would smile on the cover — but also their picks for Sexiest Men in roughly a dozen assorted categories:
Sexiest Rock Star. Sexiest Politician. Sexiest Survivor.
Best as Wulff can remember, all the People staffers and correspondents were on a conference call when someone, somewhere blurted out, “The Kansas City quarterback is really hot.” It was eventually decided that, yes, the Kansas City quarterback would be that year’s Sexiest Athlete Alive.
“Somehow,” she said, laughing more now, “the photos came back and the interview came back,” (even more laughter), “and we were like, ‘What the hell? This is not …'” (a cascade of laughs).
According to Wulff, the photo editors called in the staff to look at the pictures that would run in the magazine, and it didn’t take long for everyone in the room to realize that something had gone wrong. “One of the editors said, ‘This is the guy?’ Then we were looking it up and figured out that it was the other quarterback.”
As in Gannon, Grbac’s backup.
“And then it was too late,” Wulff said. “They felt so bad. We couldn’t cancel it at that point. It would be so mean.”
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
From The Athletic:
Spoiler!
“I was merely an observer,” Jennifer Wulff said when I called. “It was not me!”
Some of this is a little foggy because it has been 22 years since it all went down. For example, Wulff couldn’t remember who was on the cover of the “Sexiest Man Alive” issue that year, but when reminded that it was actually Harrison Ford, she burst out laughing. “Oooh, that was a bad choice, too!” she said. “It was already doomed.”
Wulff was only in her second or third year at People, but she knew how things worked. Every year the magazine put out a “Sexiest Man” issue, so every year the staff writers and correspondents at People had to select not only their pick for the overall Sexiest Man Alive — the guy who would smile on the cover — but also their picks for Sexiest Men in roughly a dozen assorted categories:
Sexiest Rock Star. Sexiest Politician. Sexiest Survivor.
Best as Wulff can remember, all the People staffers and correspondents were on a conference call when someone, somewhere blurted out, “The Kansas City quarterback is really hot.” It was eventually decided that, yes, the Kansas City quarterback would be that year’s Sexiest Athlete Alive.
“Somehow,” she said, laughing more now, “the photos came back and the interview came back,” (even more laughter), “and we were like, ‘What the hell? This is not …'” (a cascade of laughs).
According to Wulff, the photo editors called in the staff to look at the pictures that would run in the magazine, and it didn’t take long for everyone in the room to realize that something had gone wrong. “One of the editors said, ‘This is the guy?’ Then we were looking it up and figured out that it was the other quarterback.”
As in Gannon, Grbac’s backup.
“And then it was too late,” Wulff said. “They felt so bad. We couldn’t cancel it at that point. It would be so mean.”
I love this story every time I read it. And fuck Grbac. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Story goes that someone suggested "The Chiefs QB" and the folks running the shoot were...idiots.
So they went to Arrowhead and said "Hey, your QB won Sexiest Athlete!" and they were directed to Grbac. It wasn't until the issue came out that someone realized it was supposed to be Rich Gannon.
The whole situation is hilarious, but I think the photo makes it so much worse. Who the fuck had him barefoot in jeans with this flirty little smirk? It's just a devastating photo for poor Elvis and the fact that it is attached to one of the most embarrassing stories I've ever heard is just magnificent. [Reply]
Originally Posted by kysirsoze:
The whole situation is hilarious, but I think the photo makes it so much worse. Who the **** had him barefoot in jeans with this flirty little smirk? It's just a devastating photo for poor Elvis and the fact that it is attached to one of the most embarrassing stories I've ever heard is just magnificent.
You had me until "Poor Elvis...". Fuck that guy...It's funny, I remember when that came out. My wife subscribed to People at the time, and she was like...What the fuck?? I remember thinking they must have meant Gannon...hilarious that I was right. [Reply]
Originally Posted by InChiefsHeaven:
You had me until "Poor Elvis...". Fuck that guy...It's funny, I remember when that came out. My wife subscribed to People at the time, and she was like...What the fuck?? I remember thinking they must have meant Gannon...hilarious that I was right.
