Is It Worth a Super Bowl Ring?

"The Japanese camp guards of World War II always chose one man to kill whenever a batch of new prisoners arrived. I always wondered how they chose the man who was to die. I think I would have been good at choosing the person." - Dwight Schrute, "The Office" You know who else would be perfect for that position? Chiefs' general manager Scott Pioli. We are roughly six months into the Scott Pioli era - and his first round of free agency signings and drafting is complete. He still has to sign those picks, but I don't want to get into that right now. What I want to figure out is how we, as Chiefs fans, should feel about this team. Since Pioli took over, he hired Todd Haley as a head coach, traded the best tight end in the history of football, acquired a starting quarterback and linebacker with one draft pick, pissed off some of the best players on the team and has offered little to no information to the public about his plans for the team other than "we may run the 3-4 defense, kind of...maybe.". Overall, I'm happys with most of the moves. Losing Tony Gonzalez was a real ball-buster, but in retrospect, the move had to be made. Similar to when Jared Allen left town, the end result would leave the Chiefs in a lurch, either financially or roster-wise...or both. Both players wanted out of town, and the Chiefs got as much for them as possible. Could the price tag for Gonzalez been higher? Maybe - but we view the NFL through Chiefs-colored glasses. Gonzalez is still performing at a high level, and probably will for another 3-4 years - but Pioli has made a living on trading players who wanted out and were not willing to play for "his" team. Since alienating team and town favorite Brian Waters and trading Gonzalez to Atlanta, Pioli has been perceived by some as either egomaniacal, pompous, arrogant, or just a plain old jerk. You know what? He doesn't care. There's a scene in the movie "Goodfellas" when Henry Hill (Ray Liotta's character) is describing how they did business with the local business owners: "Business bad? F-you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? F-you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning huh? F-you, pay me." That's basically Pioli's philosophy: You don't like what I'm doing? F-you, I'm trying to win a Super Bowl. And you know what? I'll take that right now. This team needed a good high colonic from the top down - and that's exactly what Pioli's doing. It's going to hurt, Chiefs fans - but I trust that the man has a plan and it will pay dividends in the very near future.