The Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League or NFL for short prepare for every upcoming football season by having a preseason training camp. This preparation follows the same guidelines and is organized in a similar time frame as the other 31 teams in the NFL.

The camp includes of practices as well as time spent in team meetings and reviewing footage of plays to better understand schemes and concepts. During the training camp period which lasts approximately three weeks from late July into the middle to second half of the month of August the entire team as well as the coaching staff lives together in an environment that most often consists of constitute a small hotel, motel, or college dormitory area.

For the past twenty years the K.C. Chiefs have held their annual preseason training camp in the small city of River Falls, Wisconsin. Despite the team being based out of Kansas City, Missouri the annual training camp held in the northern part of the United States provided a more secluded environment away from the majority of their fans that are based around northwest Missouri with fewer distractions. From the year 1990 through the 2009 season River Falls, Wisconsin served as a consistant home for the organization to begin formally preparing for the upcoming football seasons that consist of 16 regular season games that often stretch from September through December.

Beginning in 2010 the Kansas City Chiefs are now holding their preseason training camp which consists of practices, team meetings, and film review sessions in St. Joseph, Missouri (St. Joe for short) approximately 50 miles north of where the team plays their home football games at Arrowhead Stadium in the Truman Sports Complex. The format of the training camp typically consists of alternating between having a morning and evening practice one day and then only an afternoon practice the following day. This pattern is repeated for approximately three weeks with a scrimmage and preseason football game worked in over the course of a couple of the weekends.

The training camp experience serves as a bonding opportunity for the team where new members become more adaptive and it also provides a tryout type environment for the coaching staff to experiment with bringing on additional players that may become contributing members to the squad during the upcoming season. The preseason practices allow the offensive, defensive, and special teams units an opportunity to install plays and schemed that will be used throughout the season.

The Kansas City Chiefs were founded by Lamar Hunt. The current president of the NFL team is Carl Peterson, and the head coach is Herman Edwards. In their history as a team, the Kansas City Chiefs have been to the playoffs 14 times in their career, but have never made it to the Super Bowl. Yet they do have a lot to make their fans proud and a future ahead of them that has not been written yet. Fans in Kansas and around the country are not ready to give up hope for their favorite team, and wear their Kansas City Chiefs jerseys as proof of their commitment as fans.

Many fans were sad to see that Dick Vermeil has left the Kansas City Chiefs as coach. His five seasons as coach are over, and it was hard for him to say goodbye, yet he felt it was time to pursue other things in his life. It is now up to head coach, Herman Edwards to see what next year’s season will be like. It will be interesting to see where he can take the Kansas City Chiefs. There are bound to be some changes both in the team roster and in the way the team is coached in the coming months. Fans will be watching closely and hoping that this year is the one that the Kansas City Chiefs will make it to the Super Bowl.

In addition to playing football, both the players and the Kansa City Chiefs organization put forth a lot of effort for charitable events and causes. For instance, this past season, the Kansas City Chiefs raised over fourteen million dollars for various charities. It is interesting to note that many of the players take their own time to support and help charities of their own choices, as well.

Of course, fans all over Kansas are anxious to display their support for their team, and proudly wear the red and white colors of the Kansas City Chiefs. The online Pro Shop even sells a Kansas City Chiefs cookbook that is said to contain some very good recipes for fans to try.

Kansas City Chief fans will be cheering them on all the way. Go Chiefs!