The Morning Fix: Super Bowl Edition

And it now includes five members of the Kansas City Chiefs – more than any other franchise in the NFL. Waters joins Len Dawson, Willie Lanier, Derrick Thomas and Will Shields as winners of the trophy that symbolizes on-field excellence and community service. (Complete Man of the Year List below.)

“Brian is a deserving man with what he’s done for his communities in both Texas and Kansas City,” said Lanier, who attended a Friday press conference where the three finalists were introduced. “His credentials are very impressive.”

Man Of The Year #5 … Game-Day Cup O’ Super Bowl-BobGretz.com

“It’s a credit to the great career he has had and specifically to the things he has done off the field,” said Hunt. “It’s very easy as a professional athlete to get focused on yourself and maybe your team’s success, but Brian has chosen to go a different path, which is to think about those who are less fortunate, specifically children, and to find myriad ways to reach out to them and make a difference in their lives.

“It is something as an organization and a family we really encourage in our players. We feel blessed to have had so many of our players recognized by the league for their contributions.”

A Waters-shed moment for the Chiefs-The Red Zone

“To think we were part of that and what jump-started what this is all about today…” reflected Dawson, the game’s MVP when the Chiefs shocked heavily favored Minnesota 23-7 on Jan. 11, 1970, in New Orleans.

“No one would have dreamed in those days it would be this kind of spectacle.”

Chiefs helped make Super Bowl the spectacle it is today – KansasCity.com

Everyone has a vote in baseball, so everyone feels empowered to speak their mind. A small group of handpicked selectors — 44 — of varying degrees of qualifications choose who goes into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That group pretty much pledges not to criticize each other publicly. And the sports writers who are not among that group and someday hope to be realize they better not offer a word of criticism.

It’s an un-American process. It’s a journalistically unsound process. It’s a cowardly process. It’s a process that if practiced by the institutions journalists allegedly cover would have newspaper editors joining Sarah Palin at the national Tea Party.

It’s a process — in these economically tough times — ripe for corruption. It’s a process that mostly serves the egos of the selectors.

Process for voting on football hall is broken – KansasCity.com