He did, his wife is from the Ann Arbor area and he moved here in 1999
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DGAF who was playing for the Chiefs! It was a huge win and we are 1-0!
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That.
Mike Trico can go around my neighborhood picking dog shit up–by his mouth.
Tirico lives here and he even spoke on it. Sad he used a poor choice of words on it. In my opinion he was in the moment and was giving some Chiefs fans some discourse. He just wasn’t thinking.
Mike Tirico is one of the best - from the original SC crews - and he loves it here. He called the game with Jansen last week.
Tirico has earned a pass from me.
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He never said anything about us missing Jamo did he!!
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The only asterisk is the one the Lions shoved up KC’s ass.
Exactly.
If KC wins, he doesn’t say “asterisk” because Williams (our lone player who can open up the field) is out.
It wasn’t a very well thought out statement on his part. Probably just needs to keep the Lions name out his effin mouth
More fuel for the fire! That’s what he did. Don’t get complacent.
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Campbell is typically known for his long-winded responses, often delving into significant detail when addressing questions. However, that wasn’t the case when asked for his thoughts on Tirico’s comments. On this occasion, Campbell opted for brevity in his response.
“Well, is there an asterisk next to our 1-0?” Campbell quipped during a Friday afternoon conference call.
Whew. Straight to the point, right?
Dan is the Man.
Tirico didn’t get much support from his media peers in that regard:
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No offense to Mike Tirico, but this is a ridiculous thing to say after a team wins We have teams with 10 guys on IR every year in the NFL (in later weeks of a season), you never hear someone try to take a win away by saying “Asterisks” - guys didn’t play
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Tirico responds:
“If you have a problem with the word ‘asterisk,’ that’s a very legitimate complaint,” Tirico told The Detroit News on Friday afternoon, between prep meetings for his work on Sunday’s broadcast of the Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants game. "However, it should be in context.
“If you want to take out the middle of the comment and make it the whole comment, then you don’t understand properly how to attribute things.”
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That’s when Tirico said, in full:
“We saw the Chiefs go into Foxborough in 2016 (editor’s note: it was 2017) and win on Opening Night, and that announced to everyone that the Kansas City Chiefs were going to be a factor,” Tirico said during the NBC telecast. “This has an asterisk because of no Chris Jones and no Travis Kelce, but after what you saw at the end of last year and what you saw tonight, the team in blue and silver is for real.”
The problem with his argument is they he assumes every team is healthy with all of their players for every game. Teams play games on scheduled dates with the players that are available for those dates. Absolutely no asterisk.
No asterisk for me. Our OL would have handled Jones without cheating. CJGJ/Branch would have handled Kelce.
Maybe they make a few more plays but maybe we do too if we have JAMO opening up the field. They certainly couldn’t have sent blitzers or doubled ARSB like they did with JAMO in there instead of the Jones JR.
IS Tirico saying with Kelce and Jones they go undefeated??? or do all their losses come with asterisks
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Trico is a DICK !
A lot of people mention that the Lions did not have Jamo but fail to point out that Mosley didn’t play either, that counts too but gets overlooked
It was just a completely unnecessary statement for him to make. Everyone knows that Kelce and Jones didn’t play. So what? Maybe if Ragnow has 10 working toes he’s blowing guys off the line left and right, more than he already is.
I like Tirico, think he’s a classy guy and good sportscaster. With that being said, yeah, that was dumb.
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Sorry Frank. Didn’t want it to come out that way.