Jared Allen, ex-Chief, pulls a Samson, loses mullet

Pro footballer Jared Allen hasn’t played a down for the Chiefs since 2007. Yet until a current player finds himself in an Arizona bar, threatening to write checks with some homeboy’s name, he remains the team’s most interesting player.

Alas, Allen’s connection to Kansas City gets weaker by the day. The All-Pro recently annulled the Missouri compromise that once shot fiercely out of the back of his helmet.

Allen cut off the mullet in anticipation of his wedding, according to a blog hosted by the Minnesota Vikings, the defensive end’s current employer. “The things men do for love,” Allen said of the severing.