WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER4, 2002
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5B
Chiefs facing slew of injuries
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Remove the two best players from a mediocre defense and what do you get?
The Kansas City Chiefs.
The team that yielded a generous 5,304 yards and 344 points a year ago lost linebacker Donnie Edwards, who defected to San Diego, and safety Jerome Woods, who broke his leg in the preseason.
The only upgrade for a defense in need of help looks like rookie tackle Ryan Sims, a 315-pound North Carolina product taken with the sixth pick. But by the time Sims set foot on the practice field last week after missing the preseason in a bitter holdout, he
was more like a 330-pound North Carolina product.
The Chiefs may ask for a twogame exemption on Sims that would allow him to practice but not count against the 53-man roster.
Another question is how well first-year starter Mike Maslowski does as the replacement for Edwards. Replacing Woods will be 10-year veteran Jason Belser, who was slated to be the backup at both safety positions.
The Chiefs could have a powerful offense in coach Dick Vermeil's second year.
Priest Holmes, last year's NFL rushing champ, has looked good all summer. So has newcomer left tackle Willie Roal. A seven-time Pro Bowler, Roaf came to the
chefs for a fourth-round draft pick following major knee surgery.
It may all come down to Trem Green. Still nursing a surgically repaired knee, Vermel's hand-picked quarterback led the NFL with a team-record 24 interceptions last year.
Another key newcomer is WR Johnnie Morton, who had four 1,000-yard receiving seasons the past five years.
"The day he throws three interceptions, I will believe in Trent Green because next week he'll throw four touchdowns," Vermeil told about 400 people at the Chiefs' annual kickoff luncheon. "They will be a good football team and you will enjoy watching them play."
Wisconsin town quiet without Bears
The Associated Press
For a few weeks each summer, football transformed Platteville, Wis., from a town of 10,000 to a bustling city. Cars were backed up for more than a mile, hotels were packed as far away as Dubuque, Iowa, and the wait at a downtown restaurant lasted more than four hours.
This year there's no waiting. And no Bears either.
After an 18-year stay in the southwestern Wisconsin city, Chicago's football team skipped town for a more fan-friendly environment in Bourbonnais, Ill.
"It feels empty this year," said Boomtown Grill manager Robert Fish. "You're just used to this time of the year being packed. It just has that feel, that excitement."
Platteville, as La Crosse and Stevens Point before it, is facing life after the Cheese League, a group of NFL teams that sought Wisconsin's cooler summer
weather as a destination for their training camps.
River Falls is the only Wisconsin city playing host to an out-of-state team, celebrating its 12th summer with the Kansas City Chiefs. But even the Chiefs — who have an option to leave next summer — could succeed to recent political pressure that has forced some teams to move their camps closer to home.
That's what happened in La Crosse after the 1999 season. The New Orleans Saints, who were seeking more local funding and a new stadium, bolted for Thibodaux, La.
"It's not like the humidity has decreased in Louisiana," said Tom Tourville, La Crosse Area Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director. "That's just how the nature of pro sports has changed in recent years. It's nothing the community did badly; the politics changed back at home."
At the height of the Cheese
League in the mid-1990s, state officials estimated it brought up to $20 million in local revenue generated from hotel and restaurant sales as well as the use of dorms and training facilities at the host universities. A study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls Survey Research Center last year showed the Chiefs bring in more than S2 million annually to the community.
Bears officials estimate about 100,000 fans came to the team's new training camp site this year, which was more than they ever attracted in Platteville.
"The real impact is yes, the dollars." Tourville said. "But the ability for your town to be able to market itself as a summer training camp site for a national team is immeasurable."
La Crosse city and university officials are mailing marketing brochures to NFL teams in an attempt to woo one back. Tourville said.
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