Kansas City's scariest award

I always thought it was a sin to encourage mediocrity and high school football should be ignored since so few players from Kansas City go very far with the sport and only end up prematurely crippling themselves.

Still, the Simone Awards are a long standing Kansas City tradition and they are basically regarded as this town's Heisman Trophy.

Local sportscasters are supposed to pretend to care about the ceremony and I always thought it was a tad unfortunate that nobody informed the winners of this honor that colleges squads were full of similar prize winners who played in more competitive divisions in Oklahoma and Texas that far eclipse Kansas City's tiny talent pool.

Anyhoo, while I was watching the ceremony on TV I noticed a really odd statue out of the corner of my eye. I figured that they weren't giving away midgets so it was probably some sort of weird figurine.

Turns out that a few local high school football players who have excelled this year were awarded with 1/4 life-size replicas of former Chiefs greats for which the trophies were named.

As you can see from the photo above . . . THE AWARDS ARE SCARY AS HELL!!!

I'm pretty sure that when no one is watching the trophies come to life and play football among themselves while cursing their maker.

I don't even think it's fair they give these awards out to high school students because they're bound to scar them for life or at least give them bad dreams until college.



I played high school football, I was horrible, nobody ever thought about giving me an award and now I realize they did me a favor by not only discouraging any pipe dreams but also by ensuring that I wouldn't have one those insane-Chucky-looking-trophies hiding somewhere in the basement.