The loss isn’t even three weeks old yet, but already Clark Hunt has lived the conversation enough to have it memorized. Truth is, if he had his way, he wouldn’t hear anything from anyone. Especially not about football.
But the Chiefs chairman knows where his influence rests and stops, so he’s learned to deal with the friends who call or see him and just can’t help but bring up the season, always with the same opening line: I know it didn’t end like you wanted it to, but ...
Hunt’s default setting is to suppress emotion.