Dungver Post: Chiefs fatigue has taken hold and gotten old. Will it ever end?
 

I love the smell of Donk tears in the morning. Smells like....victory. :D

Renck: Chiefs fatigue has taken hold and gotten old. Will it ever end?
Mahomes, Kelce, Reid on endless commercials hard to stomach in Broncos Country

The Chiefs have become the Patriots. And that is not a compliment. At least not in these parts.

I am getting irritable in my 50s. Losing patience for reruns. What started innocently five years ago has become a full-blown annoyance.

It all began when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl in 2019. They stepped onto the biggest stage, stopped paging Dr. Heimlich and announced themselves as a power. Cap tip. Congratulations. What has happened since is unfathomable and unacceptable. They have gone from fantastic to dynastic, appearing in four Super Bowls in five years and winning three.

The diagnosis: Chiefs fatigue. And there is no vaccine. I checked when I got my flu shot.

Symptoms include lack of enthusiasm, rolled eyes, mood swings, boredom, bloodshot eyes and blurred vision.

The Chiefs deserve all the attention they get. But I am over it.

It traces back to my life as a writer. You root for the story. And the Broncos-Chiefs games have been more predictable than a Scooby-Doo cartoon. The Broncos devise a mischievous scheme, get punched in the face and insist they would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling refs.

Denver has lost eight straight in Kansas City and 16 of their last 17 overall.

Pulling for the undefeated Chiefs has become like rooting for Apple stock.

Wasn’t it bad enough that we had to watch the Patriots follow this script from 2001 to 2007 and again from 2014 to 2018?

By 2015, I felt sorry for the Chiefs. I covered the game in 1998 when Shannon Sharpe drove Chiefs linebacker Derrick Thomas bonkers by allegedly reciting his girlfriend’s telephone number, drawing three personal fouls. I watched Peyton Manning spend four years putting their heart in a blender.

It was funny, if not unusually cruel. At one point, the Chiefs lost eight consecutive playoff games over 25 years. It was kind of sad. And even more hilarious.

Now they face Denver with a Joker’s grin. Sunday they are an eight-point favorite, fitting for a team that has won eight straight AFC West titles. The explanation for Chiefs fatigue is layered: No one threatens them in the division, they win too much, and they are omnipresent.

I can’t turn on the TV without seeing Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Andy Reid. Mahomes tells me what to eat (fresh at Subway), how to communicate (T-Mobile), who should clean my hair (Head & Shoulders) and where to bundle my home and auto insurance (State Farm). The only things missing are a hormone clinic, weight-loss diet, baked beans and a car dealership.

According to The Wall Street Journal, no celebrity appeared in more commercials during the 2023 season than Kelce. He promotes cereal, hardware, cable TV, soup, soda and sandwiches.

As for Reid, he steals the show with his “nuggies” spot with Mahomes for State Farm and his “great googly-moogly” line in a remake of the Snickers “Chefs” commercial.

These guys are fun. So is ice cream. But I don’t eat it for breakfast. Is their expiration date approaching soon?

If it isn’t bad enough, the coach and quarterback have imposters. Almost Andy Reid — a nice guy — looks, talks and acts like Big Red, sometimes helping out in commercials with the coach. He even appeared at a charity golf tournament in Fort Lupton in June.

And of course, Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola patterns his appearance and mannerisms off those of Mahomes, though he has struggled mightily to imitate the winning part.

Then, there is Taylor Swift. She is dating Kelce. I have no issue with broadcast cutaways to her at the games — it beats seeing a coach in an oversized sweatsuit staring at a laminated play sheet like he is splitting the atom.

It is the aggregate. The endless dominance with the ridiculous narrative that “nobody believes in us.”

It is a lot. They are like Amazon in red tops and white pants.

“Yeah, I am getting tired of the video they put up at the beginning of the annual (owners meetings) session here with Kansas City pictures,” Broncos owner/CEO Greg Penner told me in March. “I am ready for something different.”

The previously long-suffering Chiefs revel in this. They went from pity to an endless party. The Chiefs have become Duke basketball under Coach K. They are the Yankees with Kelce as Derek Jeter and Mahomes as Mariano Rivera. America’s Team is the one playing against them.

This week it is the Broncos. And there is no reason to think Denver will win. But someday this run — and Chiefs Fatigue — will end, hopefully before Mahomes is hawking life insurance and eating a spicy Italian sandwich with dentures.

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/11/0...-travis-kelce/

Bronco fans could end this fatigue real quick if they killed themselves

We have the most likeable head coach maybe in the history of the game
A GOAT-worthy highlight reel qb who is charmingly goofy
A GOAT-worthy tight end with the biggest sports podcast
And ties to the biggest international superstar in the world

But yeah, fatigue. Unlike the patriots our superstars are entertaining and extremely likeable even when you hate them

He knows that the Broncos franchise is a damn fraud and is lashing out

Eat dicks Denver we had to put up with Horseface and Manning for ever.

Some people just get it. You, Mr Rabbi, are one of them.

Denver has never had a decade stretch like this and it's hurting them to acknowledge it

Good article would read again 10/10 thanks for sharing

Cry me a river, why don't ya? :deevee:

Broncos fugue has taken hold. Forgot that trash even existed

We’re not the Patriots.

We’re worse than the Patriots.

We’ll give you hope in the game only to snatch it away in the 4th, which you KNEW was going to happen all along. Thats what the Patriots did. But when they hoisted Lombardis, you seethed and sneered at cheating Bill. When we do it, you see the jolly fat man take the trophy and make a food joke, and try as you might, you can’t hate him. You’re actually happy for the outcome you rooted against.

The Patriots would take your soul.

We take your humanity.

MDS

As hawkeye pierce said."Its amazing how one can be offended by the smell of others but unaware of the noxious fumes emanating from themselves"


Denver is so unaware of how they were for such a long time.

times are different with social media.

Fun read.

I only see us getting better next season though so he better buckle up.

Ya, **** this guy.
Although i did chuckle at the scooby doo reference.

Living out here in Denver is fun.

Eat my ass, Donkos.

Sure there is. It's called "Not fielding a team that sucks infected hobo cock".

**** donk Forever!

Seethe and mald, old man.

Seethe and mald.

Payback is a bitch. Suck it, Donk fans.

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I worked in the mountains outside Denver during the elway run. I remember the things Denver fans said to me on the ski lift lines when I was in chiefs stocking cap.

They can all pound bubble bees in their dick holes forever. I hope Denver loses its next 1000 games ina row.

This is awesome:

I can’t turn on the TV without seeing Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Andy Reid. Mahomes tells me what to eat (fresh at Subway), how to communicate (T-Mobile), who should clean my hair (Head & Shoulders) and where to bundle my home and auto insurance (State Farm). The only things missing are a hormone clinic, weight-loss diet, baked beans and a car dealership.


Bwaaaaaaaaa

He thought he was going to hand that trophy to Shanarats kid and then had to give it KC. Bwana!

**** all things Cheating ****ing Donko Bitch****s.

**** Donk Forever.

Amen

Hey Denver, welcome to how the entire AFC West felt about Elway and his horse face back in the day.

Sucks to be you.

The Broncos are kind of sad. And even more hilarious.

The Denver Broncos have participated in eight Super Bowls throughout their history. They have achieved victory in three of those appearances, resulting in a Super Bowl record of 3 wins and 5 losses.

We are FOUR in SIX. Hilarious huh?

They are hitting the mid-point in the Chiefs Win Marathon and already bitching about fatigue?

ROFL

x2^

Yeah but one of ours was when we were in the AFL, and everybody knows 2 SB losses = 1 win, so the Broncos actually have more /dumb **** Bronco Biff

I really hope the score is something like 42-6. There is nothing better than Denver Sports/Donk talk radio after they lose bigly.

If I was somehow made immortal there's not enough years in all of eternity I wouldn't relish that shit eating cheating ass team to suffer.

Rat Shanahan and Elways and that overrated POS Terrell Davis I will hate for all of eternity. The whole mile high salute shit, and Gibbs with his cheap ass "I can't play but I can cut your knees out from under you" chop block scheme.

The fact that this dude writes that and we had to endure the ****ing Elway fatigue is ironic.

Well played Kiimo...very, very well played. :bravo:

Best South Park episode ever

LOLOLOL

Somewhere there is a politics and religion forum that bans anyone who talks about the Chiefs.

Damn shame.

Just they wait until our starting WR group looks like this:

Hopkins
Brown
Worthy
JJSS
Watson
Hardman

They'll really be miserable then.

The difference is even the Alex Chiefs would have eliminated Denver in the playoffs in that Superfarce 50 season. 30 to 0 in pile high earlier in the year. Robbed at Arrowhead on corrupt calls.

97 took cheating the cap, Crisco, and a terrible call on a Tony TD and a phantom hold on a FG for them to survive

And let us not forget those ridiculously easy last-place schedules that the Donkeys were gifted from 1996 -- 1998.

And regarding that Tony G force-out, you know full well if you'd had that same sequence occur with Turd Elway throwing the ball to one of his receivers, the officials would have ruled it a touchdown & said it was a force-out (that very thing happened in the Donks '97 game at SD).

I need to print this article out and frame it. It’s beautiful!

Well I get it. It makes sense. But F U. It feels good to be on top.

This guy didn't write anything about Bo Nix and the current Broncos, who are actually overachieving this year. Nice reporting.

What a well written and thoughtful article. I agree with it 100%. Well, except the part where he thinks its a bad thing. I mean, I know a lot of fans of other teams who are just sick of the saturation, but this is what happens when you win. At everything.

I've posted this before, but I have what I would almost consider and unhealthy and unreasonable hatred of the Donks. I hate them worse than LV and the Chargers combined. I hate them more than I hated the Pats.

Theirs is a team that cannot lose enough as far as I'm concerned. The fact that so much of their losing over the last decade has come at the hands of the Chiefs is just so ****ing great.

Will they suck forever? Nah, nobody does. Well, maybe the Browns. I'm sure there will be a day when we might see them coming up on the schedule and think "Wow, Dungver game is gonna be a tough one, we'll need our A-game to win"...but it's not coming for a long while yet.

Call me petty. Call me small. Call me deranged. I don't care. I hate that team, and they can never lose too much. We need to piss pound them this Sunday.

Go spray crisco on your jerseys and have a good cry about the old days.

I've got news for ya Donk fans,

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You guys getting tired of this? WE'RE NOT!

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Love these type of columns.

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You know how many years and games we would be winning against the Broncos only to see a 3rd and 17 in the 4th quarter with the Broncos having the ball on their 28 yard line with 8 minutes to go and the Chiefs up by 11, then the ball would be hiked to Elway and like a slow motion 50 car pileup on the highway, he would roll out to the right with about 4 blockers holding the pocket, look downfield and throw the ball 60 yards and hit a streaking WR or TE for a big gain or TD.

It was always the same result, we lost. Only Montana on Monday Night Football and now Mahomes is getting redemption.

It was a long period of darkness.

Suck it donx. Nobody is going to feel sorry for you because you’ve gone through 9 years of mediocre retread QB’s. We literally went through 45 years of it. I hope Elway gets ass cancer.

Suck it! Haha

Another burnt end, dry. Aisle 7

My favorite are the big Kelces Pick cereal displays in all the supermarkets.

Oh, and the chips.

Love this article, still hope the author kills himself

Tell me about it.




...oh wait, that's not the word filter.

Huh. All that and I barely even notice the broncos.

and we aren't ****ing cheaters and boy kissers.

LOVE IT! It means WE ARE ON TOP! So EMBRACE THE HATE!

I read that line 4 times before I realized reruns wasn’t talking about reruns, but about RERUNS!

I think it happened once when the guy made a lucky throw. At best he was a mid-tier quarterback.

No, it will never end. This is your hell.

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I'll remark that I'm not getting fatigued by the Chiefs dynasty at all. I can enjoy it for several more decades.

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Look how entitled they are, they need to lose forever.

This is why I love Buehler

OMG this is delicious Denver tears! It's like a shot of adrenaline just when I was getting used to it.

Bring on more Bronco and Bronco media tears! Much more and stick that cooking spray up your ass!

How’bout next season when we roll out a fully healthy…

Hopkins
Rice
Brown
Worthy
+
Kelce
Gray
+
Pachecco
Hunt

That’s such a solid group!

Like I said, we’re only gonna get better next season!

I just really feel like Kelce hangs em up when we THREEPEAT. Go out on top. He’s got nothing else to prove.

Denver Post jumped the shark in 1996. Now they're hiring "writers" straight out of high school or geezers from local nursing homes. :doh!:

It's basically become one of those little papers that you get in the free rack at the laundromat, where 90 percent of the paper is classified ads for cars and escorts.

Damn will you mail the escort ads to scho?

KC is winning FOUR straight super bowls.

FOUR...

OMG, it's going to be like the Big Thompson river flood of 76 with Bronco Fans and media tears!

Grab your life jackets!ROFL

This will turn the fatigue into cancer, RIP the Donkeys