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Chiefs aim to energize discouraged loyalists
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — While getting ready to play host to the 0-2 San Diego Chargers, the 0-2 Kansas City Chiefs got a bit of good news.
Pro Bowler James Hasty, the mainstay of an inexperienced secondary and possibly their most valuable defensive player, did not injure his toe as badly as first thought.
Hasty was on the sidelines Sunday when the Indianapolis Colts came back in the fourth quarter and scored in overtime to beat the Chiefs 17-14.
"James Hasty's injury is
"James Hasty's injury is not as critical as we thought," said coach Gunther Cunningham. "He should be OK, hopefully by Wednesday."
Cunningham continued defending a youthful team that ranks near the bottom of
the league in total defense and offense.
"There are many positive signs," he said. "The young players are starting to arrive. They're getting better week by week. And the veterans that we signed are starting to understand our assignment plays. I think it's just a matter of time before we put the kind of football team on the field that we want to put on there, and I'm sure all our fans are looking forward to seeing."
Nevertheless, there also are signs that Chiefs fans, among the most loyal in the league, have
become restless. The typical sellout crowd of nearly 80,000 in Arrowhead Stadium shocked coaches and players at the home opener against Indianapolis by booing Kansas City's third play from offense.
It's not what the Chiefs expect from a fan base that has led the league in home attendance for six straight years while being treated to 63 home victories in the '90s.
"They have a right to do whatever they want." Cunningham said. "The frustration we can't get it done better than we did. That's our most important charge, to worry about ourselves and give them a good game and treat them with the respect they deserve."
A major problem in losses of 27-14 to the Colts and 17-14 to the Titans has been a lack of offensive punch. The Chiefs have only scored three offensive touchdowns, and one of those followed Hasty's interception and long runback on Sunday.
Ontensively, it's a matter of getting timing down with some of the new people in there. And Arrowhead does play a factor because fans here are unbelievable. There's no place like it," Cunningham said.
"We need to give them a couple of good games and get them back being the type of fans we like and the type of team they like."
but Cunningham insists Arrowhead has not lost its aura.
"It's just a matter of us getting on the winning track and letting them know we're building a good football team here," he said.
Stan 'The Man' Musial inducted into state's hall of fame yesterday
Cardinals coach honored in Missouri
The Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — St. Louis Cardinals' Hall of Famer Stan "The Man" Musial yesterday joined former President Harry Truman, cartoonist Walt Disney and broadcaster Walter Crankle as a member of the Hall of Famous Missourians
A bust of the baseball star was unveiled following a spirited rendition of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" by Musial during a Capitol Rotunda ceremony attended by more than 300 well-wishers, politicians and state workers.
"I am proud to be honored by my people from St. Louis and Missouri," said Musial, who met Truman, Disney and Cronkite during his career with the Cardinals.
Musial said he wanted his bust to be a source of inspiration to those who saw it.
"Sports gives us an opportunity for a great way of life, and I was glad to become a big-league ballplayer because it was a dream," he said.
Musial, who retired in 1963 after 22
years with the Cardinals, is the first sports figure and only the second living person to be inducted into the hall, where 22 well-known Missourians have been honored since 1982. Cronkite was inducted last year.
Musial's Missouri connection dates to 1941, when he played briefly for the Springfield Cardinals in the old Western Association before moving that same year to the malora.
Musial, 79, who still lives in the St. Louis area, bused in about 150 friends for the event. Also on hand was former Cardinals great Lou Brock.
"He was my idol," Brock said during the ceremony where Cardinals' broadcaster Jack Buck was host.
Longtime teammate and roommate Red Schoendienst joked that he knew Musial better than anyone after their years on the road together.
"They don't call him Stan "The Man" for nothing." Schoen迪恩斯 said. "He wears No. 6 on his uniform, but he's No. 1 in my heart."
Musial, who played outfield and first base, was named to 24 All-Star teams, received three Most Valuable Player awards, hit 475 home runs and had 3,630 hits. He finished his career with a lifetime
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The Donora, Pa., native also served as general manager of the Cardinals in 1967, the year the team beat the Boston Red Sox in the World Series.
Gov. Mel Carnahan said Missouri was happy to claim Musial as its own.
"Stan was everything a baseball player should be, then and now," Carnahan said.
Musial was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.
Dewey Carlstom, a fan of Musial's who was celebrating his 50th birthday yesterday, showed up in a Cardinals ball cap and t-shirt to honor him.
The Hall of Famous Missourians is overseen by House Speaker Steve Gaw, D-Moberly, and Funded through private donations. The bust was sculpted by William J. Williams of Lafayette, N.Y., who has created all of the sculptures in the hall.
"He's meant the world to me since I was 7 years old and saw my first baseball game," Carlstrom said.
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