Tradition Tuesday: April Showers

We here at the House of Georges remain steadfast in our insistence that the rough focus of this blog centers on the rivalry between the Kansas City Chiefs (wept about by yours truly) and the Denver Broncos (hurrahed by Cecil and Old No. 7). One of these days, the Chiefs might sniff the Super Bowl, which would afford us the luxury of evening out the delegation.

Eight years ago, The Tradition was born. It's one in which Bronco fans travel out to the Truman Sports Complex with their team, and Chief lovers return to the Rocky Mountains with theirs. We tailgate -- that is, consume ridiculous amounts of smoked meast and PBR cans, Peppermint Schnapp's-laden hot chocolate, if it's a Wives Game -- we talk massive amounts of shit, occasionally, our wives get assaulted by rival fans, and we almost always watch the visiting team lose. It's a grand old time.

Here at the HoG, we're going to keep The Tradition going with Tradition Tuesday--a weekly state-of-the-rivalry address.

It's chilly and wet outside, but warm and fuzzy on the inside, this wild eighth day of April. As mentioned, the Kansas Jayhawks are champions, and the Kansas City Royals, are, at this very moment, four outs away from winning back-to-back home openers. And, that most recent out came at the cost of GayRod's fourth strikeout of the afternoon. Good, good times, kids. In pigskin news, however, all energies are focused on the draft. Well, except mine, that is. Some Chiefs and Broncos tidbits, just after the jump.

Both clubs, while secretly holing up in their respective secret draft caves, are also focusing on getting their rahs and their rees in a row. Kansas City has already selected its squad of gals, and Kyle over at BroncoTalk, shows us that Denver is close to doing the same. A few interesting notes regarding the mile-high cheerleaders include the notion that the cheerleader calendar is available before the final cuts have been made, and a look at this page suggests that the Broncos have only had cheerleaders for 15 years. Huh? Really? Who roamed the sidelines with chaps and pom-poms before 1993? A bunch of white horses? Bucket men? I don't get it.

Either way, both teams have some work to do inside the gridiron if they wish to challenge the always-gay San Diego Chargers for AFC West bragging rights. Bob Gretz hints, and I would agree, that it'll all start with some protection for Brodie Croyle and Larry Johnson. That of course, comes in the form of an offensive line. Speaking of those Chargers, Denver has been focusing on strengthening its defensive side of the game, and former Bolt Marlon McCree thinks he's a big part of the solution.

Perhaps the pre-season games, assuming some of the newer faces to these clubs log some time in them, will be an indicator of successes, and/or failures. The Broncos will travel to Houston to face former Offensive Coordinator Gary Kubiak and his Houston Texans, host the Dallas Cowboys featuring Terrell Owens, and the Brett Favre-less Green Bay Packers, then travel to the desert for some football Arizona Cardinals style, whatever that means. The Chiefs, however, have no pre-season it would appear. Their Web site, though, displays some upcoming rule changes the NFL will employ.

And that's all I have to say about that.