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Originally Posted by Valiant
Sorry but filling a stadium full of yelling fans does not guarantee victories.. Good teams do, Oakland and Detroit were 92% to capicity all of last year... Arizona sold out every game, how did those teams do??
KC fans are awesome and would be even more ravenous if the team and Carl tried as hard as they did, but the bottom line is fans do not win 2-3 games a year... Now one game a year with a falsestart at the end or regulation I will give you, but 2-3 games a year is laughable...
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It's a subjective argument, but I completely disagree with you. The Broncos have lost to KC in KC when they've (the Broncos) been a far superior team. They get there usually in December crappy weather; it's usually an early game for them; the crowd is completely insane. You're mistaken if you don't think that counts for a whole lot.
Look at the opposite side of the spectrum. Do you think anyone fears going into Tempe to play the Cardinals? What about the Chargers, before their bandwagon fans started jumping back on? It was like a home game every time the Broncos played there - seriously, there were consistently more Broncos fans than Chargers fans.
All else being equal, there is a HUGE swing between playing in a place like Kansas City or Denver (at least when it was Mile High Stadium) and a place like Arizona. Say Kansas City and Arizona play a 16 game season, exclusively against each other. They are, theoretically, perfectly matched in every way. I would bet KC goes 7-1 at home and 3-5 or 4-4 on the road - thus, a two or three game swing.