Tradition Tuesday: Keepin' Up Appearances, Tradition-Style

The Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos. We know 'em, love 'em, and hate 'em. All at once. This, Tradition Tuesday, is our weekly state-of-the-rivalry address, wherein we aim to keep The Tradition -- a nine-year-old gig in which The Iron Triangle travels to one another's stadiums and seldom remembers fresh sanitizer for our tongs -- alive and going. This time of year, we can say a few things. They usually have to do with training camp being a couple of days away, draft-pick signings, and schedule analyses.

Today, however, we bring you none of the above. In fact, we're going to look at some highlights. Two come in the form of newspaper excerpts. Two are video compilations of the days of yore. All of them, after the jump.

USA Today is running a feature on the history of all 10 American Football League franchises. The article on Kansas City calls the Chiefs the toast of the league, and has lines such as "the club reeled off an AFL-best 87 victories, won a league-record three titles and developed half a dozen Hall of Famers, all while bringing innovation and integration to the gridiron," and "the Chiefs field a superior product on the field," and, most especially "'Before there was a player, coach or a general manager in the league, there was Lamar Hunt,' late Boston Patriots owner William Sullivan said at Hunt's Hall of Fame induction in Canton, Ohio, in 1972. 'Hunt was the cornerstone, the integrity of the league. Without him, there would have been no AFL.'"

The Denver installment has a few choice lines as well: "'A playbook? 'They put the plays on a blackboard, and you had to copy them. That was it...There weren't any handouts,'" and "'We were like lost souls when we traveled. Everything was second-class,'" and especially "'Kansas City was using three- and four-receiver sets. They were really ahead of the curve. We hated to play them because we had to look at so many formations.'"

Read the piece on the Chiefs here; the Broncos installment is here.

In the world of StubTubes, here's some Joe Montana footage:



And, for every Montana clip, there's an equal and opposite Elway highlight reel. The picture isn't that great, but at least the music makes up for it.



That's it for today. No, seriously. That's it. But join us next week where we'll eat chicken fried steak and eggs in the breakfast nook with none other than Scott Pioli and Brian Xanders. We'll have everything on personnel updates to how general managers like their toast (Editor's Note: For quality purposes, we will reserve the right to omit either or both of those items.).
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Thursday ThumbTubes & YouNails (now with a lazier production team): 4-16-09

Ever find yourself zapped of energy with weeks zipping past faster than you can keep track of? What? Most every day? Well, then. Some ThumbTubes & YouNails oughtta set you straight. Or just make you sleepier.

Several reports from earlier in the week suggested that Milton Bradley was a new man.



He begs to differ. I wonder what his mother thinks. Speaking of mothers:



That ruled.

Last night's game one between the St. Louis Blues and the Vancouver Canucks was one of the rough-and-tumblest, fastest-skating hockey contests I'd seen in many years. It got me even more pumped for the playoffs than I already was,



and then this hit the 'Tubes, leaving me thoroughly unsure if I'm highly aroused, or completely disgusted.

Um, this is nearly five minutes of sheer awesome:



Praise you black-and-silver Jesus for not making me an Oakland fan. And ol' boy there best be thankin' Christ I don't have his e-mail address.

Along the lines of reverence, thank fucking God the new Big Daddy Drew Penthouse column is out.



I feel like it's been three months since the last one was posted. Don't make me, impatient, Penthouse. You wouldn't like me when I'm impatient. And yes, it's SFW.

This video is half awesome, half terrible:



The awesome, I think, is obvious. The terrible is that, had it gone another seven seconds, you would've seen some girls skipping rope, some girls lounging poolside, and some girls baby-oil wrestling, all saying that the House of Georges was their favorite YardBarker Network blog. No kiddin'. Stupid editors.

Continuing the theme of stupid...



You stay classy, Milwaukee.

Then there's this:



All I can say is "tulips on the mound"? Yeesh.

And that's gonna do it. Ran a little shy on 'Nails. Tried to make up for it with extra 'Tubes. Peace out.
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Christmas Eve Tidbits

Happy Holidays from the House of Georges. Enjoy some quick-and-lazy bullet points after the jump.

* Ed Hochuli won't be there on Sunday. Not physically anyway.

* The headline "Broncos on brink of collossal collapse" is some nice nutmeg for that eggnog.

* Evidence of more RBBAWB going on in Denver's backfield.

* Other Denver roster action.

* As Cecil once said, "Strength of schedule is a retarded stat."

* Arrowhead Pride's been doing a phenomenal job researching potential Chiefs GM candidates. Examine their work here.

* Last but not least, This Old Chief over at Arrowhead Addict is feeling some brief, but genuine cheer.
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Spying on the Enemy: Week 15, Chargers @ Chiefs

Last year, I had no luck rounding up a fan to interview for "Sleeping with the Enemy." One week, I got in touch with this kid, and we set the thing up, and he no-showed. By the time the second Chiefs-Chargers game rolled around, I decided to blow the whole thing off. That turns out to be a lot less work, and works out well with my strong desires to be lazy. I'm sure I could've contacted someone and put something together for this year's November 9 game in San Diego, but I was super-occupied with a giant case of lazy. Now I'm just continuing a theme. Maybe this will be the new fad: not interviewing Chargers fans. Who knows. I do have one buddy that's a fan of the Bolts, but he's, uh, in the can with 10 years on his shelf. So instead, I'll just peek in on some other Charger bloggers and see what they're up to, after the jump that is.

Chiefs Gab has put together one of those handy injury report thing-a-ma-jigs.



If you're not familiar with the sustained excellence that is the San Diego franchise, you could always catch up with some epic Chargers history.



Ultimately, it's probably best to stick with current San Diego topics, though. That of course means spending some time with Marmalard, that "lights out" douche clock, and the visored one.

We've always joked that Chargers fans are gay. Well, it's no longer a joke. I mean really, really gay. Kinda seems as if some of the folks that cover them are, too. I suppose it's quite possible that the entire city is, but that wouldn't do much in the way of explaining all of the breeding out there.

And I don't even know what's going on here.



Here, however, are some interesting numbers in Chiefs-Chargers history. And here are some of the ladies that root for the Bolts.

SignOnSanDiego is at least focusing on a couple of the Chiefs' better players in '08. They also think highly of KC's chances in 2009.

Can't think of that perfect Christmas gift? Check out the variety here. Also, don't forget about the musically gifted.



There's a dude that's been blogging Bolts since 1995. His modern-day lineup looks like it's 13 years old. But at least it's got a totally awesome classic rock song attached to each post. I'll be visiting those pages frequently as I'm always hankerin' for some Argent or Thin Lizzy.



This cat's calling for a 26-10 Chargers victory over the Chiefs, and a Carolina Panther win against Denver, 31-20.

Wow. Turns out that Chargers bloggers are not near as lazy as I am. Go Broncos Chiefs!
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Baseball in the Daytime: 8-17-07

Two daytime matchups of interest today in Major League Baseball. We're officially halfway through August and playoff baseball is barely around the corner. As pennant races tighten up, each contest becomes crucial, as does saving the arms of your rotation, middle relievers and bullpen.

In totally unrelated news, the Boston Red Sox, who host the somewhere-in-California Angels in a double header today, announced yesterday that they would be calling up minor league top prospect Clay Buchholz. The youngster comes in with eight wins and a 2.15 ERA in time split between AA and AAA ball for the Sox farm clubs.



Buchholz gets the nod against three-game winner Chris Bootcheck, which will prove to be a lengthy afternoon/evening for both clubs. You can likely tune into this matchup somewhere on the satellite radio networks or, if you're lucky, on DirecTV. We'll await the return of trusty Old No. 7 for details on gametime frequency. I can, however, tell you that the first pitch is slated for 12:05 CDT.

The other bout today will feature two surging clubs from the inferior league, also known as the NL. This matchup between Cecil's Cubbies and the moronic fans of the team that calls St. Louis home kicks off at 1:20 Central and pits six-game winner Rich Hill against the Cards' Braden Looper, who boasts 10 victories thus far. That game is likely on the good ol' WGN for the regular-cable subscribers out there. Chances are it can be found elsewhere on the radio and satellite frequencies as well.

The recent train wreck of baseball exhibited by NL-Central-leading Brew Crew leaves the Cubs a mere half game out of first with the Red Birds two notches behind them. It was already hot in the midwest but this matchup'll sprinkle a little lighter fluid on the post-season fire. Dig in.
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