This past season the Kansas City Shockers set out on a mission to provide an awesome atmosphere for former high school, college and professional players to be able to play the game they hold so dear, in a very competitive style.  Success!  The Shockers wrapped up their 2004 inaugural campaign Saturday night in Excelsior Springs, losing to the Montgomery County Bulls in the NAFL 2 Western quarterfinals by a score of 6-12.  The 2004 Shockers never gave up!  Our team motto was "Building A Tradition and Setting New Standards!"  and that we did.  Be assured that we are going absolutely nowhere.  We are here to stay!  The tryouts for next season is right around the corner.  We will be very active in a offseason conditioning program and we will hard at work on making next season even better in every asset of the game and the gameday experience.  We would like to wish our players the best of health and happiness and whether you are with us next season or not you helped get us off the ground and we will forever be grateful for that.  By our efforts we will be together forever... together we're the blue machine!  We would like to thanks the sponsors who if it wasn't for you this wouldn't have happened.  Sierra Building Products, Profleet Transportation and Logistics, Ferguson Properties Inc., MK Motorsports L.L.C., Bank Midwest, Liddle's Sports Shop, WDR Consulting Engineers, Royal Fire Protection Inc., Leawood Manor Property, Custom Muffler and Brakes and Gary Rueter D.D.S.  We would also like to thank Jesse Hall, activites director for the Excelsior Springs School District and his staff for providing us the best facilities in the NAFL.  We would like to thanks all the fans that came out to support us in our first campaign.  We would like to thank Kim Simmons of the Excelsior Springs Standard newspaper for her year long coverage.  We would like to thank Joe Cook of the Liberty Sun News, for his stories on the "Liberty boys", we would like to thank John Sprugel of Metro Sports and KCTV 5 and there staff,  for there coverage and stories as well.  Our off season meetings are coming up very shortly and we will add and news to this site when we have it.  Thank you for logging onto KCShockers.com and thanks for following us all season long!

Chad Bosley
Shocker Co-Founder, General Manager & Defensive Tackle

Final score Shockers 49, St. Charles Spirit 8....

Thanks to the day long down pour of rain, the "Pack The House" Promotion was canceled.  However, the rain broke and Fall like weather continued in Excelsior Springs as the Shockers put a whooping on the St. Charles Spirit at Tiger Stadium.  In the first quarter Quarterback David Jones hit receiver Damon Wells for a 13 yard TD pass.  The Shockers offense picked up in the second quarter with touchdown runs by Paco Helms, Brannon Hatley and Eric Hoskins.  Also getting in on the first half scoring was Mark Shaw who hit a 36 yard field goal.  Score at the half was 29-0 Shockers.  The second half started off great  as well as receiver Kenny Shields caught a pass from QB Eric Hoskins.  In the third quarter the Shockers got TD runs by Sharrod Dukes and LA King.  The scoring fest was largely due to the awesome blocking ability of the NEW offensive line.  The Shockers defense was also phenomenal!  They virtually shut down everything the Spirit had to offer.  Including any hope the Spirit had of a passing game as interceptions were grabbed by LB's Eric Moore and Leroy Moore (no relation) and DB's Dustin Thompson and LA King.  With the win the Shockers improve their record to 6-1 overall and 2-1 in conference play.  Next week the Shockers travel across town, just over the Kansas border to face the Kansas City Jazz.  The last time these two teams met the Shockers went into Art Lawrence Stadium and beat the Jazz 33-15.  The Shockers will look to tune out the Jazz again this weekend as the battle for city wide bragging rights continue!

In their first game of NAFL Midwest Conference/Missouri Division play the Shockers traveled down I-70 to take to the gridiron against the St. Charles Spirit.  The Shockers hit the board first with a nice pass down the middle of the field by starting quarterback Eric Hoskins to WR O.J. Simpson.  Mark Shaw added the extra point to put the Shockers up 7 nil.  On the ensuing kickoff the Shockers Dell Webb pick up a forced Spirit fumble to get the ball back for Kansas City.  The Spirit then hit on a pass deep down field to put them inside the 10.  Controversy then insude after the play because the officials had blown the play dead right after the snap, which the Shockers had stopped play.  This caused the long pass play.  The Spirit then got the decision to replay the down or take it where the ball had been spotted inside the 10.  Of course they took the ball inside the 10 and scored on an outside running play.  They attempted the 2 point conversion but failed when the QB tried running the ball up the middle and was met by DT Chad Bosley who caused a fumble and the failed conversion.  The Shockers then took control of the rest of the game with TD passes to WR Keith Dawson and Mark Shaw.  Brannon Hatley added yet another TD on the ground.  But that wasn't all!  Return specialist O.J. Simpson proved he was one of the best in the game when he added another punt return for a TD on the season.  This brings his total to 3.  On the defensive side the Shockers got very strong performances by Randy Alexander, Pierre Mosby and Eric Moore.  That's just to name a few.  LA King also added 2 interceptions in a great performance!  The final score was 35-6.  With the victory the Shockers improved their record to 4-0 overall and 1-0 in conference play.  Next week is a bye week for the banged up Shockers to which they plan on celebrating the holiday with friends and family.  The Shockers return to action on Saturday July 10 when the Lincoln Renegades make the trip down to Excelsior Springs.  More exciting news on this game later this week!  The Shockers would like to thank all the fans who made the trip.  We have the best fans!  You all were awesome once again!

May 12, 2004: William Jewell College was very close to hosting the Kansas City Shockers home games in 2004 before major scheduling conflicts came up between Jewell and the Shockers.  As a result, Jewell assistant Athletic Director Brian Kramer went beyond the call of duty and contacted another Athletic Director, with news of the football teams search for a home field. 

"At first we were pretty disappointed," said Shockers General Manager Chad Bosley, "but when we found out that Excelsior (Springs) was interested, the disappointment turned into excitement." 

Bosley and team owner Robert Webb met with Jesse Hall, Excelsior Springs High School Activities Director about the possibility of playing at the high school.  Excelsior had just put in a brand new $3 million dollar stadium complete with Sprinturf, a huge press box with luxury suits and stadium seating.  After looking over the new facility Bosley and Webb fell in love with the stadium and knew that had to be their home.  After financial terms were discussed the Shockers grabbed the opportunity to play at the beautiful facility. 

"We knew it had to be ours." said Bosley, "We believe no team we play this year will come close to having anything like it!" 

All Shockers home games start at 7:05.  You can view the schedule by clicking on schedule in the navigational bar.  The Shockers would like to send its sincere gratitude to Brian Kramer of William Jewell for helping us find this great field and Jesse Hall and E.S. High School for allowing us to play at your awesome facility in your great town!  The Shockers first home game will be June 12 against the Tri-County Buccaneers.