At some point in time in a moment of extreme politeness someone must have told Jason Kelce, Travis’s brother who formerly played center for the Eagles, that he has a good singing voice. The public might wish someone hadn’t said that.
I don’t want to sound harsh so judge for yourself. There’s a Christmas song on YouTube that features Jason Kelce singing with Stevie Nicks on a tune titled “Maybe This Christmas.”
Search it on YouTube and let me know what you think. I’d describe Jason Kelce’s voice as a poor man’s Kenny Rogers. Maybe a homeless man’s Kenny Rogers.
The words “Jason Kelce singing with Stevie Nicks” were not anything I expected to be typing in the year of our Lord 2024.
Speaking of feeling charitable, I did the searching so you don’t have to. Here’s the link to Jason and Stevie singing “Maybe This Christmas.” Find it at youtube.com/watch?v=A_Eyn8yuL2o
The song is only two minutes long so you’ll survive it, I promise.
Speaking of YouTube links, our Garden Guy columnist George Weigel came in this week to ask about my grandson Mack, age 6, getting his first buck in the recent Missouri early youth portion of the 2024 deer hunting season, as was pictured in last week’s Landmark on page 8. Fortunately, our son-in-law is a video productions guy as well as a hunting enthusiast so Mack’s successful hunt was captured in real time. If interested, the video of Mack’s moment of conquest is on YouTube at: youtube.com/watch?v=omJOajZ90qE
Sorry, I thought I’d be talking in more specifics about the results of last week’s general election in Platte County, but then we learned the board of elections will not be certifying the results until this Thursday, Nov. 14 at 1:30 p.m. That’s a later certification date than normal. So we’ll talk about the precinct-by-precinct results at a later time.
What was your biggest surprise about the Platte County results? It’s a tough choice for me. Probably the fact Democrat Lucas Kunce outpolled Republican Josh Hawley in Platte County for the US Senate race. In Platte, Kunce received 28,229 votes to 27,993 for Hawley, pulling 49.05 percent compared to Hawley’s 48.64 percent.
Don’t know how much it mattered, or even if it mattered at all, but the last name Kunce is familiar to a portion of Platte Countians. Jim Kunce, who is Lucas Kunce’s cousin, is on the Platte County Park Board and is a former assistant director in the Platte County Parks Department. Jim now works for Missouri State Parks. “I think he (Lucas Kunce) got more of a bounce from Ashley Aune’s (Democrat state rep in district 14) reelection campaign. Ultimately, though, I think the real factor was Lucas’s own merit as a candidate,” Jim Kunce told me this week when discussing his cousin’s strong showing in Platte County.
Another surprise was the margin of victory for the quarter cent sales tax for children’s services. It won with 56 percent of the vote. A lot of folks thought that thing was going down. Hard.
Also must admit after seeing the very heavy turnout for early voting I was a bit surprised to learn the total turnout for the 2024 presidential election in Platte County was down a bit from 2020. The 2020 voter turnout was 82.67 percent and last week’s turnout was 81.11 percent.
This week I’m putting our columnists/physical specimens Speckman and Kamler through some workouts in The Landmark’s parking lot. Sending the video to the Chiefs as we try to help the team find a starting left tackle. By “putting them through some workouts” I mean that I’m having them run circles around the entire complex while I tailgate them with my car. I’m occasionally yelling words of “encouragement” out the window. It’s cute the way they’re calling me “coach” and other things.
Listen, I know it’s against the law in the Kansas City Metro area to criticize Patrick Mahomes in the slightest. But have you noticed the accuracy on his throws has fallen off this year? And I don’t just mean that wild toss about 15 feet over the head of a wide open Travis Kelce in the end zone on Sunday. Kelce would have needed the fire department’s ladder truck to snag that one.
I mean the Chiefs are undefeated so let’s not get carried away but at the same time let’s acknowledge Mahomes’s typical pinpoint accuracy on many other passes throughout the season has not been there. If you haven’t noticed then you haven’t been paying close attention. Or you can’t see it through those red-colored glasses.
I have an interesting NFL Sunday Ticket story for you, and an interesting DirecTV tale to tell you, as well. We’ll get to those sometime, don’t let me forget. Also, I have a good Spectrum story and an interesting piece of advice you’ll want to know about your home internet router. It’s a helpful tip I only learned a couple of weeks ago. Lots to talk about. Thank you for your patience.
I’ve also been scientifically researching some interesting information that will prove the often heard complaint that “there’s not enough parking in Downtown Platte City” is a lot more fiction than fact. Stay tuned for that myth buster.
It is Nov. 12 as I’m writing this column and we still haven’t turned the furnace on this fall at the Foley household. Not once. As in zero. Not even to “take the chill off,” as some folks like to say. It’s unbelievable, really. In all my years of home ownership I don’t ever recall getting this deep into the fall calendar without needing the furnace.
How long can this streak continue?
(Foley has a 100 percent completion rate on passes he has thrown in NFL games this year)
