How did you become a Chiefs fan?
 

Before cable TV we just had to watch whoever the TV station put on. So I went from being a Bears fan to a Cowboys fan. Then the Chiefs moved to KC and I was here waiting for them.

I was born in KS and although I moved to FL when I was 2, my first football game ever was in Arrowhead Raiduhs vs Chiefs when I was 5 years old. Chiefs fan ever since.

Born and raised in Leavenworth, Ks.
First game ever was in old Municipal Stadium, also when I was 5.

I moved to Columbia in 1990 and started following the "local" team. Had kind of followed the Seahawks before that since I was in Portland.

Once we moved to Flagstaff, I had already fallen in love with those great defenses along with the big backs. Besides, you have any idea how hard it would be to be a fan of the Cardinals?

Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. My Father was a big Chiefs fan and it rubbed off on me. Thanks Dad. :)

I was raised to hate the Raiders.

I had a passing teenage girl interest, but I was too cool to hang out with my daddy watching football and his Chiefs. :roll:

So I got married and realized if I didn't want to lose my husband every Sunday for a large chunk of the year, I'd better learn to love it.

Tecmo Bowl and Christian Okoye.

Should be part of the wedding vows.

Love, honor, and root for the his favorite team.

Had an aunt that was a professor in Warrensburg. She got me fired up for the Chiefs in the 60's.

Born a Chiefs fan since my Dad's side of the family is in KC. Also a Husker by birth. :)

My college room mate was best buddies with ex-Chief QB Bill Kenney. Partied with him well before he was a Chief and after. Started going to the games when they came to Oakland and been a Chief fan ever since! Works for me!

Laying on the floor on the age of 7 watching the Chiefs beat the Vikings in SBIV...

That was it.

The Chiefs I can understand but that Husker thing is a character flaw.

Several years ago my brother was at Whiteman AFB in Warrensburg and started following the Chiefs. I took a look at a few games and fell in love with them as well.

My father was a Texans fan, watched them from the begining in Dallas. That explains his deep seated hate towards the Cowboys and the Raiders. I once asked him who he would rather see win between the Raiders and Cowboys, he said the Royals.

Like being born into a Taliban family, most Husker fans can't help it. They're brainwashed from day 1.

Joe Montana.

Husker born and Husker bred. And when I die I'll be Husker dead. ROFL
It's hard to be humble when you're as great as we are. :)

I'll say you're husker bred. Just look at your ego. :p

I watched a game between the and the seahawks in like 80 or 81.Been a fan ever since.

You sound exactly like those braindead Zero U fans.

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble,
When you're perfect in every way!

I can't wait to look in the mirror.
I get better lookin' each day!

I been a Chiefs fan since 1991 when I started watching the team in red and gold were running the "rock" and playing tough defense. My dad got me involved in the Chiefs.

Moved from St. Louis area to Wichita in January of '91. The football Cardinals had already left town so I adopted the Chiefs. I still follow most St. Louis sports teams, but very much dislike the Rams.

On a side note the Huskers swept Miami this weekend to earn a trip to the College World Series. This makes it 3 out of the past 5 yrs they've earned a trip to Omaha. And since Georgia Tech was ousted and Tulane has dropped their game yesterday.(Haven't heard a outcome for today yet as to Tulane) The Huskers will probably go in as the #1 seed with a 57-13 record. Woo Hoo!!!! :clap:

It'll be hopping there when they play. Good luck to them.

OU and NE fans are the same people separated by Kansas. Total respect for each others programs.

My connection with the Chiefs is almost cosmic. I was just a kid growing up in Columbia, when I realized that rooting for the only Missouri NFL team - the St. Louis Cardinals - was hopeless. So, as kids will do, I decided I'd pick a new team to follow. And I decided the way I'd do it was to turn on the TV and the team playing at that time with the lead would be the team I would follow.

So on that Sunday afternoon, I turned on the TV and the game was between the Buffalo Bills and the Dallas Texans. Texans were in the lead, so that was my team.

Went out and traded for all of their football cards I could get and learned all I could about the Texans. And they were winners. My dad couldn't stand hearing all the time about some team from Dallas.

Then the next year - low and behold - they moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs. As a little kid, I thought they'd moved there just for me. And my dad even started following them, too.

I've followed them ever since. And I thank God Buffalo wasn't in the lead that day when I turned on the TV.

yet another way that Joe ****ed Chief Fans.

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The 1985 Bears made me a football fan... Stephone Paige's 320+ yards against the Chargers in 1986 made me a Chiefs fan.

Born and raised in KC. However, I really didn't take strong interest in them until I got back from the military in 1991. I followed them somewhat when DeBerg had his MVP season, and then really latched on when Dave Krieg came to town.

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I became a Chiefs fan after watching them defeat the Oilers in the 1993 AFC playoffs. They we're the underdog that game, everybody was telling me how Houston was such a great team, and that they we're going to win that game. I saw the Chiefs go threw a heck of a game, and win. Stunning victory, nobody expected it cause they we're the underdog. So that kinda led me to root for them, I jumped on the wagon. And ever since became a Chiefs fan. The Chiefs we're the first football team I ever watched on T.V.

I kept hearing the name Joe Montana, Joe Montana. Everybody was telling me how great he was. So I finally saw him play and take apart the Oilers. It was great, and started rooting for him as well.

My thoughts exactly. I hate the 49ers. A bunch of their fans started wearing Chief stuff out here when he went to the Chiefs. " My second favorite team..." Damn that pissed me off.

Although I had followed the team a little when I was younger it was my first game attended at Arrowhead in 1984 that hooked me for good.

Born in Nebraska (yes, a Husker fan). Dad was stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base in Knob Noster, Mo (not Warrensburg) when I was in the 5th grade, been a Chiefs fan from 1976.

What pissed me off was the fact that no one ever seemed to pay any attention to the Chiefs Ts or ballcaps I've worn over the years, but when Carl traded for Joe, people started noticing, and constantly said things to me like "Jumped on the Chiefs bandwagon now that Joe's a Chief, huh?'

Back in the early to mid sixties I had a choice of the Big Red or the Chiefs on TV. The cardic Cards were exciting but the Chiefs under Hank Stram were a juggernaut.

What do you mean "a choice?"

It must be killing you since you have a raider ex headcoach.

CBS or NBC, you watched what you could get.

What really kills Husker fan are the three words

WEST

COAST

OFFENSE


:D

Same here. My dad took me to a few games back in the 80s when you could get front row seats with ease, and I've been hooked ever since. I think I was 7 or 8 when I saw the Jets come to town.

When I was young, we only got CBS most days. On a good day, NBC would come in, but that didn't happen very often. So my early favorite teams were Chicago with Sayers and Butkis, Minnesota with the Purple People Eaters, and the Colts with Unitas and crew. Colts wee my favorite, but only got to see them 2 or 3 times a year.

Chiefs became my favorite team during the Super Bowl I season. As a side note, the first TV show I ever saw in color was Super Bowl I.

Born in KC. Raised in Lees Summit. Whats ironic is, my real father is a huge Raiders fan.

When I was first learning about football at the age of six, a friend of my dad's came over to watch a Chiefs game on my dad's newfangled color television. I've never quite figured out if it was Super Bowl IV or not, but the Chiefs won the game and looked cool doing it, and I became a Chiefs fan. I've been on the bandwagon ever since.

Back in 64 my stepfather the KC Detective would take me to a side entrance for the Police and Security walk me in and I would stand at the top of the lower level stands at Old Municipal and watch the games. Great times.

It will be a different story this fall. Callahan's kids finally start hitting the field. I wasn't real happy last fall but I can see what he was trying to do. After all Callahan is rated one of the best All Time College Recruiters according to Rivals. Damned if he didn't pull in one of the best classes this winter. I now see why he's regarded as such. He's already got the best QB in Missouri to commit to the Huskers so far this spring. :clap:

My parents had season tickets from 1966, I was a "Huddle club" member; that got me tickets at $1.00 per game plus a free drink, a Chiefs penanr and an official Chiefs Huddle Club members card ( wish I still had that). :thumb:

I was born in KC. Didn't really follow any football until I was in the Military. I chose the Chiefs out of regional loyalty. I'm damn glad I didn't pick the Bears.

I grew up in Louisiana, and since we didn't have professional football there at the time (haha!) I didn't have a true favorite. One day my uncle came to our house to visit for a weekend and he had an autograghed picture, to me (tim) wishing me "luck" from Tony Reid. CHIEFS all the way ever since!

When they were headed to the Super Bowl against Minnesota, the bragging rights were attractive to latch on to since I was in the NAVY. I did not know a first down from a Cornerback at that time, but it was nice to brag about "my Chiefs" to the other guys. I started watching them religously when I could, and following them anyway that I could. I would have never dreamed it would take so long to get back to the SB but I have sure enjoyed watching them.

Were you born in 1964? If not, it wasn't SB IV.

I started following the Chiefs because of my brother and Joe Montana. My father is a Broncos fan but thank God he didn't brainwash me or my brother. It is also a good thing we don't watch the games together any more.

How was it you knew of the 'Purple People Eaters' and were still a Chiefs fan? I know the Vikes were sporting the PPE's when they played in SB IV. Who did you pull for?

Aside from lingering questions about whether I'm a bastard, this football game is the greatest mystery of my life.

For a long time, I thought it was Super Bowl IV. It was an important game, because I remember my dad's friend really wanted to watch it in color, and my parents NEVER invited anyone over to the house. I also remember that it was a home game (Chiefs in red) and that a wide receiver made a catch and a long run down the right sideline, just like Otis Taylor did in SB IV.

However, the dates don't appear to work for it to be SB IV. I know that I lived in Springfield at the time, which means that it would've been when I was in second grade. Working the math, I think that I lived there from about July of 1970 to May of 1971, which is of course too late for the Super Bowl.

However, the Chiefs didn't make the playoffs that season, so the game couldn't have been a playoff game. Also, they lost their last two games, and I distinctly remember that the Chiefs won. It's possible that my dad's friend was a bandwagon guy, and maybe there was just some game in the middle of the season that was important, or perhaps it could've been Week 11 or Week 12, when the Chiefs beat the Chargers and the Broncos at home. Neither of those games was a big matchup, though, since both of those teams were pretty weak at the time.

I really wish I could figure it out, because that game was a tipping point in my life.

Joe Montana...


The first NFL game I remember watching was the Super Bowl against Dan Marino. During that game, my dad kept saying that Joe was the best qb ever. I believed him, and when they traded him, they also traded me as a fan.

I guess it was a gradual thing. Obviously, growing up here I had been to a number of games as a youngin' when the Chiefs were terrible.
It really hit hard when i was away in California for 4 years and didn't see chit; except for the playoff loss to the Donkeys in '98 ( I think...maybe '99), and the playoff loss to the Colts at home.

The season that KC got Montana.

When I started watching football, the Chiefs had a young RB named Eddie Podolak. Eddie was an ex-Hawkeye and returned punts as well as being the feature back. We shouted "Go Eddie Go," at the TV, especially when he ran wild in that heartbreaking loss on Christmas day 1971. When I was in 2nd grade my teacher took me to a dinner where Eddie was speaking and I got his autograph.

I was born In St Joe, MO. All my extended family lived in KC or St Joe. We moved to IA when I was young, so we didn't visit them as often. Whenever we got together for holidays, they all knew each other well from living closer together. The one topic that could break the ice and get me in the conversation was Chiefs football.


I was a very casual fan as a kid. I'd say I was a Chiefs fan, but didn't really follow them closely. When I got older, it was a good reason to go to the bar on Sundays, and I became a much more avid fan.

there was a kc arrowhead in my parents dna. when i was growing up we would all go to church then home to watch the chiefs. both you just did on sundays. when they went to the super bowl it was like a national holiday at our house. when my two sons were born and my daughter was born i put a small football with a chiefs sign in there bed when they came home from the hospital.

I moved to Kansas City. I wasn't following any other team at the time.

Derrick Thomas is my father.

Since im English I could pretty much choose who I wanted. When I was about 4 before I started school I used to watch it on TV during the day (this was when it was first on in this country, just a highlights show) I just got into it, and I supported the chiefs just cause I liked the name and the colours (which are also the same as my soccer team)

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How digi2fish became a Chiefs fan?

my first experience of football was the 49ers v.s. Broncos Super Bowl game. It was a time that football games never showed on TV in Taiwan, a international hotel in Taipei had somebody taped the game and send it back to Taiwan the next day and play it in their bar to serve the people from U.S.. Somehow my dad got the tickets and brought me there, we known the result well, Joe Montana has been my football hero and the Broncos mean the losers to me thereafter.... ROFL

at the '90s we began to have satellite TVs, so we can watch football games from the Japanese channels, we got it in my home at 1993. Yeh, right, the year Montana came to KC, therefore I watched a lot of KC games and had been a fan not only Montana but also Derrick Thomas, Neil Smith, Dale Carter, Marcus Allen, Keith Cash and others, then, I have been a Chiefs fan.

it has been a hard time after all this all-star players left, according to the law, the cable system couldn't provide Japanese satellite TVs any more, there was ESPN then, but since the Chiefs can't play well, usually we didn't have chances too watch Chiefs games. Until the recent years we got internet and more bandwidth, I can get more infomation. Last year we were having a wonderful season, I was exciting about that and wished to find somebody the share it, so I went yahoo.com to find some communities of the Chiefs fans, and I got here.

We got the coolest Chiefs fans here, I really enjoy to hanging around with you guys. :thumb:

The first time I got to see Christian Okoye bull through a defense, I was hooked. He was awesome.

I was born and raised in Johnson County and my father is the reason I'm a chiefs fan today. My mother used to say Milton its time to take the kids to church and my dad would say what about the pre game show Janis? GO DAD!!! :clap:

I stole a chicken from a gypsy when I was 10 and she put a curse on me. Been a Chiefs fan ever since.

Me, along with Joe Montana were traded from the 49ers to KC. I've been with the Chiefs ever since.

Born and raised in Topeka, KS. Need I say more?

No, that pretty much answers every question we've had about you.

Heh. Glad to have helped.

I was born and raised 80 or so miles from KC and love sports. I didn't have a choice when it came to being a Chiefs and Royals fan. (Kings then too) I was born into it.

Was born in Missouri.

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Born an raised in KC. lived about 5 blocks from the old Municipal Stadium.
went to Chief's & A's games all the time as a kid and the Royals when they came along.

Yep, me too. My Friend owned the game and always used the Raiders for Bo Jackson, I didn't know anything about football so picked the home team and found out that Okoye was awesome. It went from there.

Born and raised in Liberty, MO. Back then Liberty and Wm. Jewell were the summer home of Kansas City Chiefs. My mom was the bar-maid at the local beer joint, The Corner, she knew 'em all. Met Lenny 'The Cool' Dawson sitting on a bar stool there when I was about 7 or 8 and got an autograph that would have been about `63 or `64. Didn't everyone have a pro football team in their home town growing up? Been a life time fan.

My uncle who lived at the Lake of the Ozarks got me started in 1969. We'd go down on the weekends & we'd always end up at his house right before we headed home & he'd have the Chiefs games on the tv. I was nine & thought the world of him so I'd watch the games with him. The first game I remember watching with him was the Chiefs vs Jets game in November where Otis Taylor caught 3 td passes from Lenny Dawson. The next weekend down he had bought a Sports Illustrated for me with the Chiefs on the cover...still have it.

I've been a fan since they were formed in Texas. Living in Alabama and being a sports nut I was looking for a team. IIRC Lamar wanted an NFL franchise for Dallas but the NFL refused, so he and some buddies started the AFL. Naturally, the NFL would not be out done and placed a team in Dallas. I pulled for the underdog Texans and followed them to KC. It only increased my dedication to the Chiefs when we moved to KC in '66 to go to school.

My first trip to KC was to visit the school ... my wife and I traveled on a fall Sunday. It was late in the afternoon ... I remember the sun setting across the fields down South of Springfield ... I found the Chiefs on the radio. I was really pumped to be able to listen....

And the good news is at the end of this year I'll be back there to see all the games.... for what I hope will be a fulfilling season .... that ends with a victory in Feb.