Kansas Crimson

The statement and decision were unusually firm, hard and swift for an organization that, as one of the AFL’s founding teams, is typically content to stand behind the league’s decisions. Team chairman and CEO Clark Hunt is a league man, someone who often thinks about the best interests of the shield. In many ways, it wouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone around here to see the Chiefs let Hunt linger on the NFL’s exempt list until the league made a decision about what to do with him.

But the Chiefs didn’t do that.

Consider the fact the Chiefs already employ Tyreek Hill — who once pled guilty to punching and choking his pregnant girlfriend, but did so before he was drafted in 2015 and has, by all account, been contrite. It would be negligent to overlook how the presence of Hill — a game-changing, hard-to-replace talent who almost certainly would have received a massive contract extension sooner rather than later — may have contributed to this decision. Same goes for the team’s history with former linebacker Jovan Belcher, who killed his girlfriend before killing himself at the team’s practice facility in 2012.

Had they gone soft on Hunt, the Chiefs, who currently sit atop the AFC with a 9-2 record, would have been seen as a team with an indifferent attitude about violence against women. They would’ve likely been mentioned every time another team took a chance on an uber-talented player with that background, just as the Washington Redskins did this week after its waiver claim on Reuben Foster.

And considering the significant amount of goodwill the Chiefs had to expend locally when they selected Hill in 2015 — much to the uproar of many fans who cited it as an insensitive attitude toward the Belcher shooting — there’s no way they were going to tie themselves to that narrative.

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:50 pm So, he will be a Raider on Monday?

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:22 pm I honestly believe that the Chiefs are legit on this.

lobster wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:58 pm

ousdahl wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:39 pm
God damnit.

Yes. And there goes our super bowl chances.

lobster wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:53 pm

holidaysmore wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:45 pm So the hotel’s policy is that they wouldn’t release the video to the NFL and that the local authorities wouldn’t either. So someone at that hotel got paid for leaking it to TMZ?

That's the most frustrating thing here. This could have been made news last season and then we could have at least tried to prepare for his absence. Now we are out one of our most essential players at one of the worst times.

Cascadia wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 1:35 am KC should go after Le’Veon Bell in the off-season.

Gutter wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 8:06 am

lobster wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:53 pm

holidaysmore wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:45 pm So the hotel’s policy is that they wouldn’t release the video to the NFL and that the local authorities wouldn’t either. So someone at that hotel got paid for leaking it to TMZ?

That's the most frustrating thing here. This could have been made news last season and then we could have at least tried to prepare for his absence. Now we are out one of our most essential players at one of the worst times.

Yeah, I mean it's all about making you and others happy as football fans and the timing sucks so that's why you're upset - and who the fuck cares about what Hunt did - and fuck the girl/s and the hotel for releasing the video too.

P.S. It was "made news" before the season started. It was know he was accused and the Chiefs obviously gave him the benefit of the doubt and/or didn't give a shit.

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:50 pm So, he will be a Raider on Monday?

Gutter wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 8:16 am There ya go 2coach. You "had no idea this incident even happened" - even though it was made public back in February. So despite it briefly being made public back in February - it was it kind of swept under the rug until this week. Go figure - right?
NFL = BIG money business. Also = "zero tolerance" when it comes to "domestic violence".
Tough for all parties when there is a "star" player involved.

Geezer wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:36 am It was reported that the NFL made multiple requests to Cleveland P.D. and were denied.

Geezer wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:36 am It was reported that the NFL made multiple requests to Cleveland P.D. and were denied.

shindig wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:17 am I'm also surprised the Chiefs front office didn't do their due diligence after the incident occurred in February? Sounds like they just took Kareem's word and moved on. You would think they would have requested the police report and any video from the hotel to support or dispute his statement. Something just doesn't add up here.