Chiefs announce 2024 training camp practice dates
By Myles Simmons
PublishedJune 17, 2024 01:43 PM
Training camp is coming soon for the two-time defending Super Bowl Champion Chiefs and the team announced its practice schedule on Monday.
The Chiefs will once again return to Missouri State University in St. Joseph, Mo. for their camp that will include many opportunities for fans to attend.
While most sessions are free and open to the public, three practices will require a $5 ticket to attend — including the first training camp practice on Sunday, July 21.
Kansas City is limiting attendance, so a reservation is needed even for free practices. There will also be a limit on how many free practices a fan can register for and how many tickets can be reserved for each session.
Tickets for the $5 and free practices will be available starting at 10 a.m. CT on Thursday, June 20.
In all, the Chiefs will hold 17 practices open to the public plus another two exclusively for season-ticket members.
You can visit the Chiefs’ website for more information on reserving tickets to the summer practices.
Chiefs DT Isaiah Buggs faces another criminal charge
By Mike Florio
PublishedJune 16, 2024 12:28 PM
The Chiefs’ unusual offseason continues.
PFT has confirmed that defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs has been arrested, again. This time, he’s charged with domestic violence/burglary. (Ryan Phillips of Tuscaloosa Patch had it first, as best we can tell.)
Court records show a $5,000 bond. It’s not clear whether he has been released from custody.
Buggs was charged last month with a pair of misdemeanors in an animal cruelty case. His lawyer argued that the prior charges were part of an ongoing “subversive campaign” to force the closure of a hookah lounge Buggs that owns in Tuscaloosa.
The 27-year-old Buggs was a sixth-round pick of the Steelers in 2019. He has spent time with the Raiders and Lions. He joined the Kansas City practice squad in January, and has since been signed to the 90-man roster.
The Chiefs have had multiple off-field issues this year, led by eight pending felony charges against receiver Rashee Rice arising from a street-racing incident in Dallas.
Missouri, Kansas close in on tug of war for Chiefs, Royals
By Mike Florio
PublishedJune 15, 2024 03:24 PM
A border war might determine the future home of the Chiefs, and the Royals.
As explained by John Hanna of the Associated Press, an age-old rivalry between Missouri and Kansas could become the battleground in a tug-of-war for Kansas City’s NFL and MLB teams.
The Kansas legislature starts a special session on Tuesday. They hope to issue bonds that would be paid off with money from sports betting, the Kansas Lottery, and tax dollars generated in and around the new venues.
The emerging competition, sparked by April’s failure of a ballot measure to extend a sales tax in Jackson County, Missouri that would have paid for a new baseball stadium and a renovated football stadium, will work to the benefit of the two teams. Absent the state-vs.-state dynamic, the teams might have to leave the area to get the free money they want for new stadiums. This allows them to not relocate.
The effort could break an “uneasy truce” (as described by Hanna) that was reached in 2019, after Missouri and Kansas spent “hundreds of millions” to attract businesses to one state or the other.
The Chiefs have a lease at Arrowhead Stadium that runs through 2030. Nothing stops them from striking a deal to cross the border as of 2031.
Whether it’s a good expenditure of taxpayer money doesn’t matter. If Missouri and Kansas end up competing for the Chiefs (and/or the Royals), the teams will end up winning. Either way, they’ll get a sweetheart deal. The only question is on which side of the border they’ll be playing their games.
Matt Araiza appears to win Chiefs’ punting job
By Michael David Smith
PublishedJune 15, 2024 09:16 AM
Matt Araiza, the strong-legged punter whose career was derailed by a sexual assault accusation, appears poised to win the Chiefs’ punting job for the 2024 season.
The Chiefs cut punter Ryan Rehkow, which leaves Araiza as the only punter on their roster. It’s still possible that the Chiefs could bring in another punter to compete with Araiza, but it looks like Araiza is going to be the Chiefs’ punter when the regular season starts.
Araiza won the Bills’ punting job as a rookie in 2022, but when news surfaced that he had been accused in a lawsuit of gang rape while he was in college, the Bills cut him and he was out of the NFL for more than a year. Araiza was never criminally charged, and the accuser later dropped her lawsuit.
At San Diego State, Araiza was widely regarded as the best punter in college football, winning the Ray Guy Award and setting a new NCAA record by averaging 51.2 yards per punt. Araiza also handled kickoffs and field goals in college.
With the off-field issue that ended his tenure in Buffalo behind him, Araiza now has an opportunity to show what he can do in the NFL. If he’s as good as he was in college, he should be one of the best punters in football this season.
Yes, the Chiefs’ new Super Bowl ring has a typo
By Mike Florio
PublishedJune 14, 2024 10:42 AM
It’s not the first time we’ve seen a Chiefs-related typo. Or the second. But this one is going to be hard to fix.
PFT has confirmed that the apparent typo from the graphic of the team’s new Super Bowl ring, as posted on the team’s website, appears on at least one of the actual rings.
Which likely means it appears on all of them.
On the inside, the ring lists the scores of the games the Chiefs won in the playoffs. It includes the seeding of each opponent, presumably to brag a little but about beating both No. 1 seeds.
The problem is that the Dolphins are listed as the No. 7 seed, when they actually were the No. 6 seed.
I have no idea what if anything can be done to fix this. I’ve got a feeling that it’s not going to be rectified.
It also would be interesting to know who takes the blame for this one. When things are going great, the spotlight gets crowded. When something like this happens, the buck gets passed around like a doobie at a Grateful Dead show.
