As bad as the mounting losses were for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2012, nothing on the field compared to the tragedy involving linebacker Jovan Belcher off of it. Belcher murdered his girlfriend and committed suicide, leaving his daughter an orphan in the process. While the Chiefs players were hit the hardest by this devastating [...]
A Fort Worth judge dismissed a custody case involving the orphaned daughter for Kansas City Chiefs LB Jovan Belcher according to the Star-Telegram. Judge Jerome Henningan decided Texas was not little Zoey Belcher’s home state, meaning the case will be handled exclusively in Missouri. Custody of the infant was originally given to Jovan’s mother Cheryl [...]
Unfortunately this is something we all knew was coming as soon as news broke that Kansas City Chiefs LB Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself, leaving little Zoey Belcher an orphan: A heated custody battle. Custody of the four-month-old was originally given to Jovan’s mother Cheryl Shepherd, who was in the house when [...]
Did you know the Kansas City Chiefs are 5.5 point underdogs Sunday when they head to Cleveland to take on the Browns? Do you care as little about it as I do? I sat down to write about their trip as dogs and how they are 2-3 against the spread on the road this season. [...]
Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt spoke on the field before Sunday’s game against the Carolina Panthers with ESPN’s Ed Werder about the incredibly difficult task facing his franchise following the tragedy involving Jovan Belcher. “What a tremendous tragedy in the fact that it happened at our training complex,” a somber Hunt said. “And our [...]
The Kansas City Chiefs and Carolina Panthers will play Sunday afternoon as scheduled, despite the terrible circumstance surrounding the death of Jovan Belcher. After news broke of Belcher’s murder of his girlfriend before his suicide at the Chiefs practice facility, the league had informed the Panthers they should prepare to keep their travel plans to [...]
It’s a sad day in the history of the Kansas City Chiefs. Jovan Belcher, a 25-year-old linebacker, shot and killed his girlfriend and then drove to Arrowhead, where he turned the gun on himself. According to The Star the first shooting happened just before 8 a.m. at a home near 54th Street and Chrysler with [...]
The Kansas City Chiefs final injury report for Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons was released on Friday and the good news is there weren’t any new names included. The bad news is that it still has four starters. Of those first team players — Jovan Belcher, Brandon Flowers, Derrick Johnson and Kendrick Lewis — [...]
The Kansas City Chiefs were back on the practice field Thursday in preparation for Sunday’s matchup against the Atlanta Falcons, but were down one player from Wednesday. Not only did a seventh player — LB Jovan Belcher — from the Chiefs defense land on the injury report, but it makes five starters now ailing. Add [...]
The Kansas City Chiefs will have Jovan Belcher back in 2012 after the LB signed his restricted free agent tender for $1.927 million. The team tendered Belcher at the second-round level, so while he was free to sign a deal with another team, the Chiefs would have received a second-round pick if they let him [...]
