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Originally Posted by Guru
To be honest, HC, I don't think the group organizing this would want SOC involved at all. Connie in particular was very vocal against SOC. We already know that DEB wouldn't want it.
SOC doesn't need good press, bad press or any press at this point. They have done their job.
Also, you are calling people out for calling you names and you are just doing the same in return. Take the high road dude.
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Point taken and I sincerly apologize-emotions got the best of me for sure.
I think it was 77/78 my family went to a game at Arrowhead in December. We sat lower level on the east side about halfway up. My friend and I each walked a different direction and met on the other side of the stadium. It was so empty we could hear my Dad yell at us to head back over-lol This was 3rd quarter and everyone had left.
In the 80's we went when they had ticket give aways- usually several games a year-that was the only way people would go. We had a few years of false hope when crowds grew larger.
The 90's came. Neil and DT-enough said. We got season tickets DT's rookie year and the Bills game changed Everything. It was electric, I couldn't wait for sundays- it was usually thursday before I got my voice back-lol These were lifetime memories with my family and friends.
Then the PH/ Green years- the other side of the coin- was not nearly as loud because the D could not stop anyone- still so fun watching the Chiefs score at will.
Then the dark days came back. We suffered through years of going to games watching teams with poor leadership, unprepared, zero heart- but we went. It was a grind and depressing. The Chiefs rewarded us by raising our season tickets every year. The final nail was when they started adding a extra service charge for each season ticket holder so we were paying well over face value for preseason and meaningless games the Chiefs had no chance of winning. A December game against the Donks- I could not even give my extra tickets away. It was soo fun sitting in freezing rain watching the future SB winning Donks steamroll us like we we a high school team. Walking out getting yelled at like we were at Their stadium. I thought that was the low point- then came last year. Disfunction, rebellion, losing, finger pointing, banners and the lowest point in Arrowhead history- murder / suicide.
So I completely understand everyones attitude on here. I have had my heart ripped out by my team more than I could count. Frooze at the Colts playoff game, nearly washed down the stairs at the Monsoon game, baked in the sun at all the stoppid full price preseason games, and was at the game when Montana did his magic and gave us Hope. Been going to Arrowhead my whole life- ups and downs- magic and tragic. I really think it is part of who I am.
Well after years of hearing how bad the Chiefs suck on a daily basis- it was nice to see people excited for them again-no matter how hollow some might think the cause is. Posting their defining moments in pictures which mirrored my own. Will it work? Will they get the record? Will it jump start a new era? I don't know and it doesn't matter to me.
At least at this moment there is HOPE. Hope we can bring back what is dear to us, the good old days which seem even more special with the black marks and wounds still fresh from last year. Hope our team becomes respectable and starts winning again. Hope for that elusive championship. Hope that we can laugh and tail gate with our loved ones and build memories. Hope we can take our kids and be proud of our team and Arrowhead becomes part of them like it is with us. Hope that no matter how far our kids move away to find their own life- Arrowhead and Chiefs- mean Home.
Hope is for fools they say. But that is all I have left.