Awarding Witten the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award is notable following an NFL season which featured former Kansas City Chiefs player, Jovan Belcher, murdering his girlfriend.

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Curiously, the Kansas City Chiefs roster in 2005 did: Anthony Gonzalez, better known in the NFL as Tony Gonzalez.

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"The biggest single reason that the NFL has been successful is that we have in effect a form of socialism, " says Kansas City Chiefs owner Hunt.

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If that was once true, it's hardly the case now in the era of steroids and strikes and lockouts and violence, as was sadly underscored when Jovan Belcher of the Kansas City Chiefs fatally shot his girlfriend and himself, and Bob Costas was skewered for talking about the NFL's gun culture.

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