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BAK;193464 wrote:

thanks to the wonderful Connie Jo, our son Callum, aka Aussie, received a parcel full of KC goodies today. We would like to thank Connie Jo for going to all the trouble to replace what was lost in the mail last time and especially for being so kind as to send KC memorabilia to Callum at all.
We never expected Connie Jo to get together a new parcel and to even get KC Wolf to sign photo cards, collect signatures and include all kinds of memorabilia from matches. These things would be impossible to get here which makes them all the more special.

We have a very happy son today and his room will now no doubt turn into a shrine to ‘his’ team. Who would have thought that the second hand Madden computer game I inadvertently bought for him would lead to him becoming interested in AFL and becoming such a fervent fan of the Kansas City Chiefs. I will never forget when he spent hours watching the stadium via the internet and told us all about the employees coming and going. At times we all sat and watched as Kansas City came to life in the early hours of the morning and Callum doing a commentary.
So thanks again to Connie Jo for the parcel of KC goodies – and also to Stricken, who included a great book – and to KC Wolf for signing photo cards especially for Callum.
Thanks to the internet the world certainly has become a village, so to speak, and Steven and I thank all of you for making Callum part of your Chiefs family.
With best wishes,
Cheers from Sydney – Australia
Aussie’s parents
(aka Barbara Krickl and Steven Byrnes)

… correction – meant NFL of course. There had been so much talk on the radio about big AFL (Australian footbal League , also called Aussie Rules) matches, which I must have thought of when I wrote ALF. My apologies, especially to Callum, who doesn’t even follow AFL.

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Thank you very much to everyone for the nice messages of welcome. I am not quite sure what “there goes the neighbourhood” means, but I wonder if the writer is a bit worried about an invasion of the forum by football-illiterate newcombers.
My initial post was really only a reaction to Connie-Jo’s good work for Callum and the fact that I had to give her upsetting news about the parcel. I am still much too ignorant of AFL to take part in forums and I will leave that part to my offspring.
I know a lot more about soccer (as I grew up in Europe) and at the moment it is soccer fever which has some Australians in its grasp. In about two weeks NFL talk in our house will probably go on the backburner a little because we will be preoccupied with the soccer World Cup. To our dismay our two favourite teams – Germany and Australia – are in one group and are playing against each other in the first match. Also South Africa is not in our time zone so we will have to get up at 3 or 4 am to see some of the matches live. It is such a shame that Beckham and Ballack (German captain) are out injured. I imagine in the US David Beckham is known more for his wife, but for us he is just a good soccer player and a good captain of the UK team. I really feel sorry for any good player who has to miss a big event like this through, be it soccer or AFL. I imagine there have been quite a few football players in the same situation and missed the Superbowl, which I suppose is the same as missing a World cup. Oh, I hope I didn’t violate the rules by talking soccer. But it certainly is handy that the soccer is on now and not when it is regular NFL season.
Cheers from Sydney, and thanks again to all of you.
Aussie’s mum, Barbara

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Connie Jo;191749 wrote:

I learned tonight, that someone took most of the Draft Day souvenir’s out of the package I mailed to Aussie. I mailed the items in a special heavy duty poster tube for mailing…taped both ends with clear packing tape. I had sent him two of the can koozies from Draft Day, put one on each end of the poster to protect it. I had to squeeze them in place, and they were tight, no way they could’ve moved.

Aussie’s mom wasn’t sure if they should tell me or not, knowing it would upset me…but she decided I should know, and I’m glad she did call me tonight on the phone to tell me, but I’m still upset. I wouldn’t have wanted Aussie to fib with my asking him to let me know if he recieved the items, nor pretend he did.

She said the two can koozies were still in there, pushed together, not one on each end as I had packed them to protect the poster ends. There was no damage done to the mailing tube, hadn’t split open or any thing like that. She said one end was opened and re-taped with white packing tape…of which I didn’t use.

Every thing besides the two koozies was gone, including the sign KC Wolf held saying ‘Hi Aussie’ that was autographed by the Chiefs players to Aussie. Also, the cheerleaders poster, all personally autographed ‘to Aussie’…of no benefit to someone else.

As well, the limited edition rare Chiefs ‘Alumni’ poster…GONE!

The good news is I have one of the posters, and am re-sending it to Aussie. I’m gonna call the Chiefs offices tomorrow…tell them what happened, and ask if the Cheerleaders can contribute another souvenir poster and re-autograph it to Aussie. KC Wolf is one of my Facebook friends, so I’m gonna send him a message at Facebook, also tell him what happened, and ask him to send me a picture autographed to Aussie. He didn’t have any with him that night, but I know he has them, cause I have one he autographed to me several years ago.

I can pretty much replace it all for Aussie one way or another, but it’s so sad that someone would do that…take things from a package, obviously it was special to have been mailed from the U.S. to Australia in the first place. How could someone do something so selfish like that to another person.

I am Callum’s mother and listed below is the link to the post I put on our blog today. Connie Jo is such a kind, considerate person I feel bad that such a thing had to happen to her of all people.
Post from the US – long awaited but, sadly, arrived with the important contents missing | Byrnes-Krickl

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