"Is Having Alex Smith the Worst Purgatory in Football?"--Dan LeBatard

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Not good enough to get you a Super Bowl. Not bad enough to get replaced. Perfect for the majority of the fan base.

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

FYP

Yep. This fan base is made up of alot True Fan losers. Hell a vast majority of them and alot on this board loved and defended Cassel. That is how much they know about QB's.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

Yep. This fan base made up of alot True Fan losers. Hell a vast majority of them and alot on this board loved and defended Cassel. That is how much they know about QB's.

Removing myself from rabid, entrenched fandom has really helped me see this from a more objective viewpoint.

A lot of people identify themselves with the team, and attach personal worth to the success of the team. Therefore, when someone criticizes their team they aren't just talking shit about a sports franchise--it's a personal insult. I believe that is why so many are unwilling to make hard, objective observations about the status of their favorite teams, because to admit that they are substandard is to admit one's own failings.

If you're a kid or in your 20's, I understand living and dying with the team to an extent. But once you're an adult, a real adult, you've got real world shit to deal with, and spilling so much emotion and time into an entertainment product is probably a losing proposition, especially if you look at the kind of product the Chiefs have offered to their customers.

If the Patriots, Broncos, and Packers are Wal-Mart or Costco, the Chiefs are Pamida.

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Removing myself from rabid, entrenched fandom has really helped me see this from a more objective viewpoint.

A lot of people identify themselves with the team, and attach personal worth to the success of the team. Therefore, when someone criticizes their team they aren't just talking shit about a sports franchise--it's a personal insult. I believe that is why so many are unwilling to make hard, objective observations about the status of their favorite teams, because to admit that they are substandard is to admit one's own failings.

If you're a kid or in your 20's, I understand living and dying with the team to an extent. But once you're an adult, a real adult, you've got real world shit to deal with, and spilling so much emotion and time into an entertainment product is probably a losing proposition, especially if you look at the kind of product the Chiefs have offered to their customers.

If the Patriots, Broncos, and Packers are Wal-Mart or Costco, the Chiefs are Pamida.

Excellent post. I would say though I was a true die hard Chiefs fan in my twenties\early thirties but I have always been a realist. I was semi-smart enough to know that Bono and Grbac were shit castoff QB's and they would never win with those guys unless the defense held teams to 10 pts or less. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to compare your QB's against the other elite QB's in the league to see there is a huge disparity.

Probably why as I have gotten older it has become easier to be less emotionally involved because I know unless you go draft a franchise QB you aren't winning shit.

Grunhard said something really smart this morning, he said Alex could take your team to the SB if you have an elite defense, but those defenses only come around once a decade. The other 9 seasons are won by franchise QB's.

Game over..

[notorious]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Removing myself from rabid, entrenched fandom has really helped me see this from a more objective viewpoint.

A lot of people identify themselves with the team, and attach personal worth to the success of the team. Therefore, when someone criticizes their team they aren't just talking shit about a sports franchise--it's a personal insult. I believe that is why so many are unwilling to make hard, objective observations about the status of their favorite teams, because to admit that they are substandard is to admit one's own failings.

If you're a kid or in your 20's, I understand living and dying with the team to an extent. But once you're an adult, a real adult, you've got real world shit to deal with, and spilling so much emotion and time into an entertainment product is probably a losing proposition, especially if you look at the kind of product the Chiefs have offered to their customers.

If the Patriots, Broncos, and Packers are Wal-Mart or Costco, the Chiefs are Pamida.

Absolutely nailed it.


I call them "losers".

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by notorious

Absolutely nailed it.


I call them "losers".

Some of those people are so young that they just haven't lived it. I would imagine the majority of the people on this board lived through the 90's and have experienced it enough.

I experienced the 90's as a kid and it didn't quite resonate but it's just recently kicked me. I bought into Andy bc he was a successful coach and thought this would be different.

I still believe in him but only if he gets rid of Alex and gets a real QB. I'm broken

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by RunKC

Some of those people are so young that they just haven't lived it. I would imagine the majority of the people on this board lived through the 90's and have experienced it enough.

I experienced the 90's as a kid and it didn't quite resonate but it's just recently kicked me. I bought into Andy bc he was a successful coach and thought this would be different.

I still believe in him but only if he gets rid of Alex and gets a real QB. I'm broken

And some of them are so old, my age even, and they spent the last 3 weeks hopping around the board, tailing people who dared even raise to the idea that Alex Smith was shit, and Andy a post-season loser, incessantly flapping their raging vagina lips, spouting nonsense about Alex Smith being a "franchise QB", even.

And they can straight go get ****ed, as it pleases me to no end to see their absurd sand castle come crashing down to the ground around them.

****ing idiots.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by Dagnabit

And some of them are so old, my age even, and they spent the last 3 weeks hopping around the board, tailing people who dared even raise to the idea that Alex Smith was shit, and Andy a post-season loser, incessantly flapping their raging vagina lips, spouting nonsense about Alex Smith being a "franchise QB", even.

And they can straight go get ****ed, as it pleases me to no end to see their absurd sand castle come crashing down to the ground around them.

****ing idiots.

I'd rep you if my iPad would let me.

The thing I absolutely don't understand is why the **** the front office doesn't draft a new shiny QB toy for all the homers to drool over. Hell my chiefs moral would soar if we took a promising QB in the 1st round. Even if he crashes and burns at least we ****ing tried. And least I could dream and hope for a QB that could break it off in the other teams ass. It would be so glorious.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

I'd rep you if my iPad would let me.

The thing I absolutely don't understand is why the **** the front office doesn't draft a new shiny QB toy for all the homers to drool over. Hell my chiefs moral would soar if we took a promising QB in the 1st round. Even if he crashes and burns at least we ****ing tried. And least I could dream and hope for a QB that could break it off in the other teams ass. It would be so glorious.

Sales of shitty stadium food might drop.