Kansas City Area football fans- Will Shields appearance
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At the annual Kansas City Toys for Tots charity flag football game in Overland Park,KS on 13 November at 11:00, Blue Valley Sports Complex. Will Shields, a future NFL Hall of Famer, will be signing for fans that donate a new toy or make cash donation at the game. Apparently there will be other former Chiefs there signing as well. The game itself will be made up of some of the local college alumni. Looks like a good time for family for people on a budget. I'll be there!
Edited to add: The event benefits Toys for Tots!
Edited to add: The event benefits Toys for Tots!
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Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
<< <i>At the annual Kansas City Toys for Tots charity flag football game in Overland Park,KS on 13 November at 11:00, Blue Valley Sports Complex. Will Shields, a future NFL Hall of Famer, will be signing for fans that donate a new toy or make cash donation at the game. Apparently there will be other former Chiefs there signing as well. The game itself will be made up of some of the local college alumni. Looks like a good time for family for people on a budget. I'll be there!
Edited to add: The event benefits Toys for Tots! >>
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<< <i>12 Pro Bowls in 14 seasons actually. He made 223 consecutive starts for the KC. He is also on the NFL all decade team for the 2000's. Oh, he was the 2003 Walter Payton Man of the Year for his charitable foundation. Offensive linemen aren't typically in the limelight. It isn't surprising you aren't familiar with him. >>
Didn't realize he had that many PB's....I missed a good share of the later 90s in about everything chasing meteorites, but surely you didn't know 223 consecutive starts by memory? (Meaning Google or wiki doesn't make one more or less familiar with someone.)
When he had 5 or 6 PB's, I had him sign a KC hat and asked if he could write a Pro Bowl inscription. Which he did, along with the years he had been to it at that point....but he missed a year. I reminded him and wrote a big "&" and included the date.
My other Shields story is less flattering. I had a Chiefs helmet with like 35 signatures on it, and he was the only one at the basketball game that had not signed it. They sign for like an hour after the game, so I move over by Shields and hang back a little and let the kids fight for autograph space. After about 40 mins. I inched my way near him...and he simply did not want to sign my helmet. We had made eye contact a few times, so he knew I was patiently waiting, but for some reason intentionally kept ignoring me. Then his Sharpie stopped working and he looks around for one, so I hand him mine. He signs for everyone else and it is past an hour now, and then he starts to just hand my sharpie back...so I am like, can you sign the helmet. And Shields is like "Didn't I already sign that?", but pretty rudely. I was like, if you signed it, I wouldn't be trying to get your signature on it. So then he signed it...and kept my sharpie. I imagine something else was bothering him that day, maybe some other adult was rude to some kid in front of him or something.
Anyway, Shields is a great guy and like I noted showed up several times to our fire fighters charity, and as the OP noted, is still doing KC related charity work.
Good luck with your Toy Run Overland Park. We had ours this weekend and had a record turnout. Here it is the one day of the year that bikers, the police and the Marines (who organize it), are friends and working on the same cause.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.