July 14, 2025 • 16 mins
A fun conversation with the radio voice of the Kansas City Chiefs about his decades with the team and their varying levels of success, the pipeline of Huskers to KC, Coach Reid, QB Mahomes, and his event in Omaha next month with Henry Winkler for the Team Jack Foundation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Kansas City has beaten the Houston Texans thirty to nothing
in the wild card weekend, and the Big Red Coach
with the big Red mustache has liberated the Chiefs Kingdom
from eighty twenty eight days in the wilderness without a
postseason win because for the first time in twenty two years,
(00:24):
the Chiefs are headed to the other side of the
river and are advancing in the AFC Playoffs.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That is the play by play voice on the radio
of the Kansas City Chiefs, Mitch Holtis, who is coming
to Omaha here on Thursday, August seventh for and evening
with Henry Winkler, fundraiser for the Team Jack Foundation, certainly
a very recognizable organization charity group here across Nebraska, Big
Red Nation, Teamjackfoundation dot org. For all the details about
(00:54):
joining Henry Winkler, Team Jack and the MC for that evening.
Mitch Holtis from the Kansas City Chiefs who joins us
now on news radio eleven ten kfa B. Good morning, Mitch, Hey,
good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I love you playing that clip because that's one of
the most forgotten times. That was a big moment in
this twelve to thirteen year run we're on because to
win three Super Bowls and have five and six years,
people forget that first playoff victory in over two decades
when they wanted Houston on that day. So I appreciate
(01:28):
you playing that clip because that's one that's kind of
been lost in the shuffle with all this others that's
going on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, that's the first thing I wanted to ask you
about because I had I hope you know, Mike McCartney
there in Kansas City Stadium, voice of Kopfin Stadium, great dude,
good broadcaster in Kansas City. I had him on the
night that the Royals were hosting a World Series game,
and I said, you've been there for a long time
at the k what's the worst it's ever been is
(01:57):
people are paying five thousand dollars a seat to be
there for this World Series game tonight. When you've looked
down from play by play, what's the fewest number of
people you saw? And he said, there was a like
a three hour rain delay in some game against the
White Sox late in the season. The Royals already lost
one hundred and ten games. I looked down after the
rain delay and counted thirty three people in the stadium,
(02:17):
So you've been you've been there the play by play
voice of the Chiefs for how long?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
This is only going to be my thirty second season only, yeah,
only the thirty second season. Feels like my first year though,
feel like a rookie. But yeah, that so perspective is
important to go those twenty two seasons. That a playoff
victory in my first twenty two years. But then you
appreciate when you went three Super Bowls in a span
(02:46):
of you know, when we've gone to five and six years,
and honestly say this humbly, but again its perspective for
the winningest team in all of professional sports since the
beginning of the twenty fifteen season at seventy five percent
win percentage. But when you go all that time, we've
ever had thirty three in the ballpark. But it reached
(03:08):
the lowest of low when in twenty twelve we were
two and fourteen, we were the worst team in the NFL.
One of our players actually murdered his girlfriend, who happened
to be Jamal Charles, our star running backs wife's cousin,
and then he took his life on the steps of
our building. When Javon Belcher had the murder suicide, so
it gets no bleaker than that. And so yeah, if
(03:30):
you're in this long enough, you go through a little
bit of everything. You never want to go through that.
But then to be, oh my gosh on the top
of the summit, like I said, we won Super Bowl
fifty four. That it just gives you. You stay humble,
you stay focused, but you also appreciate what you've got
because it's not always been this way.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, you've been there through some interesting coaches, whether it's
Gunther Cunningham or Dick for Meal and making a retirement
style up in Kansas City. Tell me about Andy Reid
and what his personality is like the people really only
get a chance to see occasionally in a state farm commercial.
Tell me about their coach, Andy.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Reid better than you can imagine. Better than you can imagine.
I've been around. I was seven years of Bill Snyder
at k stage. The same kind of guy. Because these
are Bob Devany Tom Osborne type guys, right, they are transformational.
Now let's take Andy Reid though, because he's way underappreciated.
(04:32):
He is really close to being on Mount Rushmore of
NFL head coaches and somebody may have to come out
of there, but the fact that he will be very
soon the winningest playoff coach in NFL history. He's fourth
all time in victories, the only coach that's had one
hundred wins of two different franchises. And right now, the
only guys that would surpass what Andy Reid has done
(04:55):
would be Bell Belichick and kind of Don Shula. Like
he's zooming past Tom Landry and George Hallis and the
other big names Vince Lombardi, sorry Packer fans, and he
Reid is zooming past these guys. But we don't talk
about it in those terms because Andy's not a self promoter.
(05:16):
He kind of kind of dumbs it down, so to speak.
He's making fun of himself with cheese burgers and you know,
taking on state farm commercials, somebody taking his nuggets or
he's taken past nuggets. But really the guy is wicked smart.
He is completely transformed a region what I love and
I you know, I grew up on the Nebraska Kansas border,
(05:38):
so I got a pretty good idea of the passion
of fans in the state of Nebraska or in western Iowa.
But what Andy Reid has done has transformed all that
job if Andy did with Nebraska football. So we underappreciate
Andy Reid's impact globally and for sure in this region
because he redefined the Chief's kingdom and that includes Omahawk, Council, Bluffs, Lincoln,
(06:03):
in all points southeast and west.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, we can take Belichick off that list. He only
did that because of Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
We can.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Andy Reid has done it with two different teams, two
different franchises, a whole different sets of players, and he's
not weird with a weird college age girlfriend. So I
think Belichick comes off. Andy Reid is atchton Stone there
and we're talking with Mitch Holtis. He is the MC
for an evening with Henry Winkler will tell you more
(06:31):
about that in just a moment. He's also the voice
of the Kansas City Chiefs. What about that pipeline from
Nebraska football to all the great players that have played
at Kansas City just during your time there. We got
a nice I twenty nine pipeline going here.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, and that pipeline is warmed up by the fans
because they don't have to change their polo from Saturday
to Sunday. And we're going to turn into the We'll
turn into Lincoln here in that opening game because US
are hosting Cincinnati at Gaha Field at Arrowhead Stadium, and
people have not been to Kansas City for a football game.
(07:07):
Will go, Man, I feel like I'm a memorial stadium
in Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
But no.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
We've had a great pipeline of players. The leading one
is Will Shields. The fact that he's probably the best
right guard. Again, another underappreciated player in the Pro Football
Hall of Fame who was amazing at Nebraska, but he
was actually better as a pro than he was in Lincoln.
And the fact that to go fourteen years and be
(07:33):
at a play at a premier level and to be
in the Pro Football Hall of Fame is pretty awesome.
But you can go down through the years and I'm
going to lease them out here, but Jeff Kenny or Garfield,
We've had guys that have worn the end but also
traded it in for the Arrowhead with the interlock in kc.
We're proud of our Nebraska players and even proud of
guys like Mark Bulrichter who played at Hastings College and
(07:57):
Bose tied for the longest pass play history at ninety
nine yards against the Chargers, right, and he played collegiately
at Hastings College. So we're proud of all our ties
to the Cornhusker State.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Sure, let's not leave Neil Smith off that list as
we're we're going to Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, I knew I was going to leave. But ye,
Neil's right behind Will and he really really pretty close
and then he just lost his mind and played for
the Broncos at the end of his career. But forgive him.
I've forgiven Neil for.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
That absolutely well. I once saw Neil Smith at a
charity event carrying a giant gingerbread house he'd won from
that event, and I said, hey, Neil, what are you
going to do with that gingerbread house? He said, I'm
going to eat it in the car on the way home,
and I think he probably did. So it's always great
to see our Hoskars playing in the Red on Sundays
(08:49):
after they've left here. You've got what I imagine is a
really solid Kansasity Chiefs team that's got a little chip
on their shoulder coming back to play here this season.
Talk about what we can expect from Kansas City this
year and whether or not your quarterback is fat.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Well, he ain't fat now, I mean, you know why
I asked that. Oh, I know, believe me. I know
if anybody saw the Quarterback Series from a couple of
years ago, the original one. I know there's a new
one out now, but if anybody saw that original Quarterback Series,
they had Kirk Cousins, Marcus Mariota, and Pat On there.
(09:30):
They saw Pat's workout regimen. I mean he would work
out here. I'm in our practice facility today. He would
work out here and then go work out with his
own trainer, who is like Navy seal guy. Pat is
actually in way better shape than people realize. And if
you look at what he has been able to do
(09:50):
and take hits and play through pain, and I mean
he's just emotionally and mentally superb. And then physically he
is underrated in how tough this I is so and
again he's being You got to compare him to the
greatest that have ever played, all the way down from
I mean all the great ones you can think of.
Pattis or passed many of them. Now, only three super
(10:13):
Bowl championships, but he's not done yet. So he's behind
Brady's seven. But if you look at his playoff record,
Pat seventeen and four his first twenty one games, that
blows away even Brady's first twenty one playoff games. So
this team what's interesting. When you get blown out in
the super Bowl, you're thinking, Wow, is there a hangover issue? Well,
I haven't since that at all, because the infrastructure of
(10:35):
this team is so very strong. And then two, the
one blessing of that would be that the bright lights
got pushed off of us for a while. I mean,
everybody's watching every single thing we did when we're going
for a three peat, But now people are we're kind
of going under the radar again. This has been an
outstanding spring and summer. If we get all our receivers
(10:56):
healthy enough again, you got Rashie Rice, with Xavier Worthy,
with Hollywood Brown Kelsey slim down and ready to go.
We've added guys in this draft class. Our speed will
be much better, and I think our defense has a
chance to be even better. So this is a Chiefs team,
although we may not go fifteen and two that they've said,
(11:17):
and I would turn somebody. We have a podcast that
I do here called Defending the Kingdom. And if people
are driving around on all council bluffs are in your
great signal. Just to listen to that, because we do
the one we did last week or week before before
the plant shut down here was it never happens. Everybody
wants to think that last year is going to be
(11:38):
this year. Oh the Chiefs, they're not going to win
nine to one possession games again, Well, maybe we don't
win by one possession, maybe we win by two. And
I give reasons of why that could be the case
that you asked, and I would tell you that this
team is ahead of schedule. This Chiefs team is ahead
of schedule and flying under the radar because they're going
to come roaring out of the gay to be punching back.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well, it's been funny how much people been counting out
the Kansas City Chiefs, even early in seasons when they've
gone on to win the super Bowl. And if Mahomes
needed any extra motivation, some blow hard talk radio host
who's a friend of mine by the way, calling him
fat in an embarrassment. I think Mahomes will take that
(12:20):
and the super Bowl disappointment and be ready to go
here this NFL season. It'd be great to watch, always
great to listen to you on the play. Mitch, been
a fan of your broadcasting for a very long time,
and many of the guys you've worked with were coming
up on the third anniversary of losing the great Lynn Dawson,
(12:41):
who was in the booth with you for so many years.
But I want to talk about someone that you'll grace
the stage with here in Omaha on Thursday, August seventh,
the fundraiser for the Team Jack Foundation, and all the
details for in Evening with Henry Winkler, m seed By
Mitch Holtis are on that website Teamjackfoundation dot org. Can
I say, Henry Winkler, are you more of a Fonsie
(13:02):
guy or his work in like Barry and Arrested Development
or all of it.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
No, he's the Fawns. It's the Fawns all the way.
And he's a big Chiefs fan. You know that he
and Pat hung out. That's a couple of years ago.
He was on the field as so far we've played
the Chargers, and I mean he's wearing Mahomes jerseys. And
who was he on with Kimmel or somebody late night
talked and all he talked about was Patrick Mahomes. So
(13:30):
if you and I are infatuated with the Fawns. Then
he's infatuated with Patrick Mahomes. But Henry's a huge Chiefs fan,
and so it'll be fun to have him. And then
the cause is and I can't even find an adjective
that would be big enough to characterize, you know, the
Team Jack Foundation. What they do, I mean, brain cancer
(13:52):
and children is just it's just hard to explain. And
the fact that there has been so much of it,
and when you look at these statistics in the state
of Nebraska, it's alarming. But the Team Jack Foundation has
seen victories. And sometimes when you're battling something is devastating
and is brutal as brain cancer, you count victories in
(14:15):
little ways. And so there's been some breakthrough in research
and we've seen some victory in kids where it's not
necessarily a death wish for them. So it's an awesome cause.
Fat Brain Toys is my brother actually works for him
here in Kansas City, and they're incredible people. I mean,
it's just Omaha is such an entrepreneurial place. I brag
(14:38):
about it all the time, with all the fortune five
hundred companies that you have and all the business success
that is in that city and the region Council bluffs.
But then the entrepreneurial ability in that city blows me away.
And that includes the folks that Fat Brain Toys, but
the fact that they are so involved with Team Jack. Again,
(14:59):
you're looking for little victories in a really, really challenging
battle against a devastating disease.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, well said, you're a true pro, Mitch, And they
got the right MC for this event. It's Thursday, August
seventh at the Scott Conference Center at Sarbon Village, one
of the great new UNO properties there at sixty fourth
and Pine. All the details are at Team Jack Foundation
dot org. And you know how important Jack Hoffman, the
Hoffman family and the Team Jack family are and have
(15:28):
been for so many years to Husker Nation here across Nebraska.
It is so great to have you here in Omaha.
You're welcome here anytime, and we'll look forward to seeing
you on Thursday, August seventh. Mitch Holtis, Voice of the
Kansas City Chiefs, Thanks so much for the time today.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, thanks, and I love to I get up there
more than you know. But full disclosure here, you know
I always look for an air name, right, Yeah, And
I kept Holt this because it's such a big nick
name in Nebraska and they have all the money. The
Nebraska holpos is that I really was thinking of Ralph Mouth.
I thought, what a great air name. Let's go to sports.
Here's Ralph Mouth.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Well, I think you made the right decision, you know.
Plus if you're if you're like me, you got to
go with your your regular name. Otherwise you forget, you know,
what your real name is and your radio your your
fake radio name is so uh, just just Mitch Holtis
sounds great, got a great ring to it. I think
you're gonna go place this kid.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
All right, but you know fine Stun said, don't use
Ralph Mouth. It's been used, so yeah, use it.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yes, all right, Mitch, thanks so much and good luck
this upcoming Kansas City Chief season.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Will be paying attention here on news radio eleven ten
kfa B again that website for an evening with Henry
Winkler as Team Jack Foundation dot org and Henry Winkler
himself would be on with us here back on the
program at ten oh five on Wednesday. Scott Boys, News
Radio eleven kfa B
Scott Vordiez.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Kansas City has beaten the Houston Texans thirty to nothing
in the wild card weekend, and the Big Red Coach
with the big Red mustache has liberated the Chiefs Kingdom
from eighty twenty eight days in the wilderness without a
postseason win because for the first time in twenty two years,
(00:24):
the Chiefs are headed to the other side of the
river and are advancing in the AFC Playoffs.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That is the play by play voice on the radio
of the Kansas City Chiefs, Mitch Holtis, who is coming
to Omaha here on Thursday, August seventh for and evening
with Henry Winkler, fundraiser for the Team Jack Foundation, certainly
a very recognizable organization charity group here across Nebraska, Big
Red Nation, Teamjackfoundation dot org. For all the details about
(00:54):
joining Henry Winkler, Team Jack and the MC for that evening.
Mitch Holtis from the Kansas City Chiefs who joins us
now on news radio eleven ten kfa B. Good morning, Mitch, Hey,
good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I love you playing that clip because that's one of
the most forgotten times. That was a big moment in
this twelve to thirteen year run we're on because to
win three Super Bowls and have five and six years,
people forget that first playoff victory in over two decades
when they wanted Houston on that day. So I appreciate
(01:28):
you playing that clip because that's one that's kind of
been lost in the shuffle with all this others that's
going on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, that's the first thing I wanted to ask you
about because I had I hope you know, Mike McCartney
there in Kansas City Stadium, voice of Kopfin Stadium, great dude,
good broadcaster in Kansas City. I had him on the
night that the Royals were hosting a World Series game,
and I said, you've been there for a long time
at the k what's the worst it's ever been is
(01:57):
people are paying five thousand dollars a seat to be
there for this World Series game tonight. When you've looked
down from play by play, what's the fewest number of
people you saw? And he said, there was a like
a three hour rain delay in some game against the
White Sox late in the season. The Royals already lost
one hundred and ten games. I looked down after the
rain delay and counted thirty three people in the stadium,
(02:17):
So you've been you've been there the play by play
voice of the Chiefs for how long?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
This is only going to be my thirty second season only, yeah,
only the thirty second season. Feels like my first year though,
feel like a rookie. But yeah, that so perspective is
important to go those twenty two seasons. That a playoff
victory in my first twenty two years. But then you
appreciate when you went three Super Bowls in a span
(02:46):
of you know, when we've gone to five and six years,
and honestly say this humbly, but again its perspective for
the winningest team in all of professional sports since the
beginning of the twenty fifteen season at seventy five percent
win percentage. But when you go all that time, we've
ever had thirty three in the ballpark. But it reached
(03:08):
the lowest of low when in twenty twelve we were
two and fourteen, we were the worst team in the NFL.
One of our players actually murdered his girlfriend, who happened
to be Jamal Charles, our star running backs wife's cousin,
and then he took his life on the steps of
our building. When Javon Belcher had the murder suicide, so
it gets no bleaker than that. And so yeah, if
(03:30):
you're in this long enough, you go through a little
bit of everything. You never want to go through that.
But then to be, oh my gosh on the top
of the summit, like I said, we won Super Bowl
fifty four. That it just gives you. You stay humble,
you stay focused, but you also appreciate what you've got
because it's not always been this way.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, you've been there through some interesting coaches, whether it's
Gunther Cunningham or Dick for Meal and making a retirement
style up in Kansas City. Tell me about Andy Reid
and what his personality is like the people really only
get a chance to see occasionally in a state farm commercial.
Tell me about their coach, Andy.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Reid better than you can imagine. Better than you can imagine.
I've been around. I was seven years of Bill Snyder
at k stage. The same kind of guy. Because these
are Bob Devany Tom Osborne type guys, right, they are transformational.
Now let's take Andy Reid though, because he's way underappreciated.
(04:32):
He is really close to being on Mount Rushmore of
NFL head coaches and somebody may have to come out
of there, but the fact that he will be very
soon the winningest playoff coach in NFL history. He's fourth
all time in victories, the only coach that's had one
hundred wins of two different franchises. And right now, the
only guys that would surpass what Andy Reid has done
(04:55):
would be Bell Belichick and kind of Don Shula. Like
he's zooming past Tom Landry and George Hallis and the
other big names Vince Lombardi, sorry Packer fans, and he
Reid is zooming past these guys. But we don't talk
about it in those terms because Andy's not a self promoter.
(05:16):
He kind of kind of dumbs it down, so to speak.
He's making fun of himself with cheese burgers and you know,
taking on state farm commercials, somebody taking his nuggets or
he's taken past nuggets. But really the guy is wicked smart.
He is completely transformed a region what I love and
I you know, I grew up on the Nebraska Kansas border,
(05:38):
so I got a pretty good idea of the passion
of fans in the state of Nebraska or in western Iowa.
But what Andy Reid has done has transformed all that
job if Andy did with Nebraska football. So we underappreciate
Andy Reid's impact globally and for sure in this region
because he redefined the Chief's kingdom and that includes Omahawk, Council, Bluffs, Lincoln,
(06:03):
in all points southeast and west.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, we can take Belichick off that list. He only
did that because of Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
We can.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Andy Reid has done it with two different teams, two
different franchises, a whole different sets of players, and he's
not weird with a weird college age girlfriend. So I
think Belichick comes off. Andy Reid is atchton Stone there
and we're talking with Mitch Holtis. He is the MC
for an evening with Henry Winkler will tell you more
(06:31):
about that in just a moment. He's also the voice
of the Kansas City Chiefs. What about that pipeline from
Nebraska football to all the great players that have played
at Kansas City just during your time there. We got
a nice I twenty nine pipeline going here.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, and that pipeline is warmed up by the fans
because they don't have to change their polo from Saturday
to Sunday. And we're going to turn into the We'll
turn into Lincoln here in that opening game because US
are hosting Cincinnati at Gaha Field at Arrowhead Stadium, and
people have not been to Kansas City for a football game.
(07:07):
Will go, Man, I feel like I'm a memorial stadium
in Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
But no.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
We've had a great pipeline of players. The leading one
is Will Shields. The fact that he's probably the best
right guard. Again, another underappreciated player in the Pro Football
Hall of Fame who was amazing at Nebraska, but he
was actually better as a pro than he was in Lincoln.
And the fact that to go fourteen years and be
(07:33):
at a play at a premier level and to be
in the Pro Football Hall of Fame is pretty awesome.
But you can go down through the years and I'm
going to lease them out here, but Jeff Kenny or Garfield,
We've had guys that have worn the end but also
traded it in for the Arrowhead with the interlock in kc.
We're proud of our Nebraska players and even proud of
guys like Mark Bulrichter who played at Hastings College and
(07:57):
Bose tied for the longest pass play history at ninety
nine yards against the Chargers, right, and he played collegiately
at Hastings College. So we're proud of all our ties
to the Cornhusker State.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Sure, let's not leave Neil Smith off that list as
we're we're going to Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, I knew I was going to leave. But ye,
Neil's right behind Will and he really really pretty close
and then he just lost his mind and played for
the Broncos at the end of his career. But forgive him.
I've forgiven Neil for.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
That absolutely well. I once saw Neil Smith at a
charity event carrying a giant gingerbread house he'd won from
that event, and I said, hey, Neil, what are you
going to do with that gingerbread house? He said, I'm
going to eat it in the car on the way home,
and I think he probably did. So it's always great
to see our Hoskars playing in the Red on Sundays
(08:49):
after they've left here. You've got what I imagine is a
really solid Kansasity Chiefs team that's got a little chip
on their shoulder coming back to play here this season.
Talk about what we can expect from Kansas City this
year and whether or not your quarterback is fat.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Well, he ain't fat now, I mean, you know why
I asked that. Oh, I know, believe me. I know
if anybody saw the Quarterback Series from a couple of
years ago, the original one. I know there's a new
one out now, but if anybody saw that original Quarterback Series,
they had Kirk Cousins, Marcus Mariota, and Pat On there.
(09:30):
They saw Pat's workout regimen. I mean he would work
out here. I'm in our practice facility today. He would
work out here and then go work out with his
own trainer, who is like Navy seal guy. Pat is
actually in way better shape than people realize. And if
you look at what he has been able to do
(09:50):
and take hits and play through pain, and I mean
he's just emotionally and mentally superb. And then physically he
is underrated in how tough this I is so and
again he's being You got to compare him to the
greatest that have ever played, all the way down from
I mean all the great ones you can think of.
Pattis or passed many of them. Now, only three super
(10:13):
Bowl championships, but he's not done yet. So he's behind
Brady's seven. But if you look at his playoff record,
Pat seventeen and four his first twenty one games, that
blows away even Brady's first twenty one playoff games. So
this team what's interesting. When you get blown out in
the super Bowl, you're thinking, Wow, is there a hangover issue? Well,
I haven't since that at all, because the infrastructure of
(10:35):
this team is so very strong. And then two, the
one blessing of that would be that the bright lights
got pushed off of us for a while. I mean,
everybody's watching every single thing we did when we're going
for a three peat, But now people are we're kind
of going under the radar again. This has been an
outstanding spring and summer. If we get all our receivers
(10:56):
healthy enough again, you got Rashie Rice, with Xavier Worthy,
with Hollywood Brown Kelsey slim down and ready to go.
We've added guys in this draft class. Our speed will
be much better, and I think our defense has a
chance to be even better. So this is a Chiefs team,
although we may not go fifteen and two that they've said,
(11:17):
and I would turn somebody. We have a podcast that
I do here called Defending the Kingdom. And if people
are driving around on all council bluffs are in your
great signal. Just to listen to that, because we do
the one we did last week or week before before
the plant shut down here was it never happens. Everybody
wants to think that last year is going to be
(11:38):
this year. Oh the Chiefs, they're not going to win
nine to one possession games again, Well, maybe we don't
win by one possession, maybe we win by two. And
I give reasons of why that could be the case
that you asked, and I would tell you that this
team is ahead of schedule. This Chiefs team is ahead
of schedule and flying under the radar because they're going
to come roaring out of the gay to be punching back.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well, it's been funny how much people been counting out
the Kansas City Chiefs, even early in seasons when they've
gone on to win the super Bowl. And if Mahomes
needed any extra motivation, some blow hard talk radio host
who's a friend of mine by the way, calling him
fat in an embarrassment. I think Mahomes will take that
(12:20):
and the super Bowl disappointment and be ready to go
here this NFL season. It'd be great to watch, always
great to listen to you on the play. Mitch, been
a fan of your broadcasting for a very long time,
and many of the guys you've worked with were coming
up on the third anniversary of losing the great Lynn Dawson,
(12:41):
who was in the booth with you for so many years.
But I want to talk about someone that you'll grace
the stage with here in Omaha on Thursday, August seventh,
the fundraiser for the Team Jack Foundation, and all the
details for in Evening with Henry Winkler, m seed By
Mitch Holtis are on that website Teamjackfoundation dot org. Can
I say, Henry Winkler, are you more of a Fonsie
(13:02):
guy or his work in like Barry and Arrested Development
or all of it.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
No, he's the Fawns. It's the Fawns all the way.
And he's a big Chiefs fan. You know that he
and Pat hung out. That's a couple of years ago.
He was on the field as so far we've played
the Chargers, and I mean he's wearing Mahomes jerseys. And
who was he on with Kimmel or somebody late night
talked and all he talked about was Patrick Mahomes. So
(13:30):
if you and I are infatuated with the Fawns. Then
he's infatuated with Patrick Mahomes. But Henry's a huge Chiefs fan,
and so it'll be fun to have him. And then
the cause is and I can't even find an adjective
that would be big enough to characterize, you know, the
Team Jack Foundation. What they do, I mean, brain cancer
(13:52):
and children is just it's just hard to explain. And
the fact that there has been so much of it,
and when you look at these statistics in the state
of Nebraska, it's alarming. But the Team Jack Foundation has
seen victories. And sometimes when you're battling something is devastating
and is brutal as brain cancer, you count victories in
(14:15):
little ways. And so there's been some breakthrough in research
and we've seen some victory in kids where it's not
necessarily a death wish for them. So it's an awesome cause.
Fat Brain Toys is my brother actually works for him
here in Kansas City, and they're incredible people. I mean,
it's just Omaha is such an entrepreneurial place. I brag
(14:38):
about it all the time, with all the fortune five
hundred companies that you have and all the business success
that is in that city and the region Council bluffs.
But then the entrepreneurial ability in that city blows me away.
And that includes the folks that Fat Brain Toys, but
the fact that they are so involved with Team Jack. Again,
(14:59):
you're looking for little victories in a really, really challenging
battle against a devastating disease.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, well said, you're a true pro, Mitch, And they
got the right MC for this event. It's Thursday, August
seventh at the Scott Conference Center at Sarbon Village, one
of the great new UNO properties there at sixty fourth
and Pine. All the details are at Team Jack Foundation
dot org. And you know how important Jack Hoffman, the
Hoffman family and the Team Jack family are and have
(15:28):
been for so many years to Husker Nation here across Nebraska.
It is so great to have you here in Omaha.
You're welcome here anytime, and we'll look forward to seeing
you on Thursday, August seventh. Mitch Holtis, Voice of the
Kansas City Chiefs, Thanks so much for the time today.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, thanks, and I love to I get up there
more than you know. But full disclosure here, you know
I always look for an air name, right, Yeah, And
I kept Holt this because it's such a big nick
name in Nebraska and they have all the money. The
Nebraska holpos is that I really was thinking of Ralph Mouth.
I thought, what a great air name. Let's go to sports.
Here's Ralph Mouth.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Well, I think you made the right decision, you know.
Plus if you're if you're like me, you got to
go with your your regular name. Otherwise you forget, you know,
what your real name is and your radio your your
fake radio name is so uh, just just Mitch Holtis
sounds great, got a great ring to it. I think
you're gonna go place this kid.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
All right, but you know fine Stun said, don't use
Ralph Mouth. It's been used, so yeah, use it.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yes, all right, Mitch, thanks so much and good luck
this upcoming Kansas City Chief season.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Will be paying attention here on news radio eleven ten
kfa B again that website for an evening with Henry
Winkler as Team Jack Foundation dot org and Henry Winkler
himself would be on with us here back on the
program at ten oh five on Wednesday. Scott Boys, News
Radio eleven kfa B
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