SID's JOTTINGS
• Former Vikings coach Brad Childress was hired by Andy Reid, along with former Nevada coach Chris Ault, to help the Chiefs with their spread offense this season. After Kansas City defeated the Eagles on Thursday, Reid was asked if that game-planning has helped the team in its 3-0 start. "You saw us on the pistol looks in this game and you saw some last week with the option game," said Reid, who worked with Childress for seven years in Philadelphia. "… It also helped last game, a couple of things, the wrinkles that we've done in the past games and they've come off that. So, I would tell you, yep." Childress' official title with the Chiefs is "spread game analyst/special projects coach."
• Former world heavyweight champion Ken Norton, who died last week at age 70, fought twice in Minnesota. He fought at the St. Paul Civic Center on Aug. 14, 1975, beating Jose Luis Garcia in a fifth-round knockout, and on Aug. 19, 1979, he fought Scott LeDoux at Met Center in Bloomington, a fight that ended in a draw. Norton, who was knocked down twice in the 10th round against LeDoux, fought just twice more after that bout.
• Bill Pohlad, one of the owners of the Twins along with his brothers, is currently filming his first directorial feature in 20 years, but before that he is one of the main producers on the film "12 Years a Slave," which is considered to be the top contender for Best Picture at the next Academy Awards. The film recently won the Toronto Film Festival's top prize and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Paul Giamatti, Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt, who is another one of the producers.
• While former Gophers quarterback Adam Weber hasn't found an NFL roster spot yet after being released by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he was in town on Saturday to talk football on the Gophers pregame show.
