Nicholas Alan Clayton
I may have been living outside of the States for years now, but that has only grown my Chiefs Pride. I am a journalist by trade and a Chief by blood. Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, I was reared on Chiefs football and Jayhawks basketball. I am currently the Caucasus correspondent for Mergermarket, a part of the Financial Times Group.
So, after Paddy put together a great piece on the crucial offseason question: “If Chiefs Were Characters from the Wire,” I felt it necessary to move this important thought-experiment beyond the realist,…Read More
For many of you reading this, the prospect of taking a job or traveling for an extended period of time far from Chiefs nation mid-season is likely terrifying.
Fear not.
As an experienced expat fan, I…Read More
I should preface this post by saying that I do not reside within the cerebral cortex of Romeo Crennel and Brian Daboll. I do not know that they will do any or all of these things, but I do think that…Read More
This week, I went back to watching the Chiefs’ 2011 game tape. While I had been primarily focused on losses to examine areas the Chiefs needed to improve, I had been saving one particular game as a…Read More
First off, an explanation of how I am approaching this: I don’t look at this list as the 10 most productive players necessarily, but rather how important they are to the team and how much their loss…Read More
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It’s that time of year – the time of year when there’s not really much to talk about in football,…Read More
Like many of you, I was very skeptical when the Chiefs signed RB Peyton Hillis this March to a one-year,…Read More
Note: For Internal Use Only. Coaches, players and fans of the Raiders, Chargers and Broncos are not…Read More
(Hindsight is … Complicated Part II, for Part I, click here)
To me, among the most intriguing Chiefs…Read More
With four days to the Draft, we still have no idea who the Chiefs are going to pick first in the Draft.
I…Read More
It’s time for me to get off of my Poe soapbox.
I have loved the discussion we have been having on…Read More
Can anyone out there remember an offseason like this? There have been more Earth-shattering developments…Read More
Free agency is always a nervous time for a Chiefs fan.
As has been the M.O. of the Pioli regime, KC…Read More
Maybe it’s because I spent some time in Washington following the Redskins, maybe it’s because I…Read More
Over the past several weeks, we’ve talked a lot about it without coming out and saying it: this year’s…Read More
Look, the Combine is what it is: a track and field competition when the sport is neither track nor field.…Read More
According to Brian Williamson of ESPN.com, the Chiefs have $62 million in cap space going into the 2012…Read More
Yes, I know the Patriots lost, but if the Chiefs truly are going to follow the Patriots Way, then there…Read More
Well, no one saw this coming.
Basically, Addicts, if it weren’t for the perspective of Phin Phanatic’s…Read More
The 2011 season turned the entire AFC West on its head, multiple times. All four teams, which have had…Read More