Tag: Anniversary

Chiefs celebrate 30 years of play-by-play announcer Mitch Holthus

The #Chiefs celebrated Mitch Holthus’ 30-year anniversary behind the microphone in Kansas City on Tuesday.

Kansas City Chiefs football isn’t nearly as exciting when it is not being called by world-renowned radio broadcaster Mitch Holthus. His iconic “Touchdown Kan-sas City” tagline is beloved by Chiefs fans everywhere, and the team celebrated 30 years with Holthus on the microphone on Tuesday.

Some of the most memorable plays in Chiefs history were narrated by Holthus’ golden voice, and with any luck, fans in Kansas City will continue hearing his broadcasts for another 30 years.

Holthus is a native of Fort Lewis, Washington but attended college at Kansas State in Manhattan. Originally known as the “Voice of the Wildcats”, Holthus started his career with the Chiefs in 1994 and is the longest-tenured play-by-play broadcaster in team history.

Kansas City would be lost without Holthus’ excitement on gameday, and the 30-year milestone he achieved with the team on Tuesday is plenty to celebrate for fans who can’t get enough of his archetypal calls.

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Chargers social media commemorates 16 years of iconic PF Changs tweet

Chargers social media commemorated the 16th anniversary of their iconic PF Changs tweet.

The Los Angeles Chargers’ social media team is known as one of the NFL’s best and made exciting content for fans throughout the 2023 season.

Despite a less-than-ideal result in the team’s only playoff game back in January, the crew is still doing everything possible to keep eyes on the franchise in the offseason.

On Sunday, the Chargers’ social media brought fans back to one of their most iconic messages from before the team got their official Twitter handle: the fabled PF Changs tweet.

For years fans have looked back at this bizarre status update from the previous owner of the account who, evidently, had a hankering for some Chinese food on February 19th, 2007.

While this obviously has nothing to do with football, the infamous tweet has nearly 130,000 likes and over 100,000 retweets on the platform, cementing it as one of the team’s top posts, even if they didn’t technically make it themselves.

On such a momentous occasion, Los Angeles fans around the country should take it upon themselves to hop in the car, find their spouses, and head to a local Chinese establishment for lo mein, egg rolls, and whatever variety of fried-and-sauced chicken looks best.

Patrick Mahomes’ contract with Chiefs still looks like a bargain a year later

#Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes signed his 10-year contract extension a year ago today and it still feels like a bargain for Kansas City.

The Kansas City Chiefs haven’t often had long-term stability at the quarterback position during the history of the franchise, but a year ago today, that all changed.

Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes signed a record-setting 10-year contract extension worth up to $503 million on this day last year. The contract locked him in with Kansas City through the 2031 season, through what should be the prime of his NFL career. He won’t become a free agent until he’s 36 years old. The deal made Mahomes not just the highest-paid QB in NFL history, but also the first athlete to receive a half-billion-dollar contract in all of sports.

Even with it being the richest deal in the league, Mahomes’ contract still feels like a bargain for the Chiefs. How can the richest deal in NFL history be considered a bargain, though? Well, look at the 2021 offseason as an example. The Chiefs structured Mahomes’ contract so that they can clear salary-cap space at will by converting a portion of his yearly salary to a signing bonus. They used that method this year to sign free-agent left guard Joe Thuney, handing him a five-year, $80 million contract, making him the highest-paid guard in the NFL.

Beyond the flexibility that Mahomes’ contract provides, just having the best quarterback in the league on a long-term fixed contract is a bargain in and of itself. All the quarterbacks in the league who will be looking for extensions in the coming years could see their contracts impacted by ballooning salary cap numbers. Those numbers are going to be rise exponentially in 2023 due to the league’s new television deals. Kansas City won’t have to worry about that because it has already locked in its star quarterback.

Sometimes these big contracts for quarterbacks are considered a hindrance to team success, but the Chiefs aren’t going to worry about that with Mahomes’ deal. Its length and structure very much so will help to keep Kansas City in contention for a long time.

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BadgersWire Throwback: Corey Clement leads the Eagles to a Super Bowl victory

What led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl title was Wisconsin product Corey Clement’s explosion on the national stage, the former Badger

Three years ago today the Philadelphia Eagles captured the first Super Bowl victory in their franchise’s history with a 41-33 victory over Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.

The story of the game was backup quarterback Nick Foles outdueling Brady, the sport’s greatest player of all time. What led the Eagles to that point, though, was Wisconsin product Corey Clement’s explosion on the national stage.

Related: Full-season statistics for every former Wisconsin Badger in the NFL

Clement played four years in Madison, totaling 39 games, 576 rushes, 3092 yards, 36 touchdowns, 29 catches, 279 receiving yards and 2 receiving touchdowns. His most dominant season was by far his last, a year which saw the New Jersey native carry the ball a whopping 314 times and rush for 1375 yards and 15 touchdowns.

But he wasn’t selected in the 2017 NFL Draft, so if it wasn’t for the Eagles signing him as an undrafted free agent I would not be telling this story today.

It took this long in the piece for me to admit that I am from Philadelphia and am a huge Eagles fan. That said, though, even myself as a Badger fan did not foresee Clement cracking the running back rotation heading into the year.

Want it summed up perfectly? Eagles writer Shamus Clancy did exactly that.

Anyway, Clement entered the big game with less than 80 touches and wasn’t a huge part of their offensive game plan.

Against the Patriots that changed, and he instantly became a Philadelphia legend. He came up huge in pivotal moment after pivotal moment, though never did so carrying the football.

That’s right, he became WR Corey Clement—catching four passes for 100 yards that included an impossible 22-yard touchdown.

He was the only Eagle with more than 100 scrimmage yards, broke open when the team desperately needed a play and helped the world understand what being a Wisconsin running back is truly about.

I said it earlier, but it was a game-changing play after game-changing play.

I could go on and on about what he meant to the 2017 Eagles and their Super Bowl victory, but you get the idea.

Badger fans (including myself) celebrate their NFL stars including Russell Wilson, T.J. Watt, J.J. Watt, James White, Melvin Gordon, Jonathan Taylor, Joe Thomas and Ryan Ramczyk.

But on the three-year anniversary of the 2017 Super Bowl it’s necessary to look at one of the unsung Wisconsin products in the NFL that instantly became a hero on the world’s biggest stage.

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June 4, 1974: The date the NFL awards Seattle a franchise

The Seahawks recently celebrated a birthday (of sorts) – June 4, 1974, the date the National Football League awarded the city a franchise.

June 4 is a day Seattle Seahawks fans everywhere should celebrate, or at least crack open a beer to say cheers, as it is a sort-of birthday for the team.

On June 4, 1974, the National Football League awarded the City of Seattle its 28th franchise, which would have its inaugural season in 1976. The news of professional football coming to Seattle was the culmination of several years worth of work trying to acquire a team, dating back to even the late 1950s.

What was once a long-held desire soon appeared to be within grasp, thanks to the 1970 NFL-AFL merger which was looking to expand the league. With the possibility of acquiring a team seeming to be growing, Seattle businesses and community leaders worked tirelessly in the early 1970s to ensure this would finally become a reality.

Their hard work paid off on June 4, 1974. The NFL was finally coming to the Pacific Northwest, and the league hasn’t looked back since.

Of course, the iconic nickname of the team didn’t come into fruition until the following year, when out of 20,000+ entries in a public naming competition, the name “Seahawks” was selected.

Despite considerable struggles in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, the Seahawks in the 21st century have become one of the league’s more consistent, and most recognizable franchises. Of course, all the success the team – and 12th Man – has enjoyed in recent years wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work in the ’70s to convince the NFL to come to the Emerald City in the first place.

From all of us at the SeahawksWire team, cheers to June 4!

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