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View Poll Results: How did you become a Chiefs fan? | |||
Raised that way | 12 | 17.14% | |
Raised in the KC area | 27 | 38.57% | |
Dad was a Chiefs fan (not near KC) | 6 | 8.57% | |
Brother/Uncle/Cousin/Grandpa was a Chiefs fan | 6 | 8.57% | |
Really liked a certain player | 8 | 11.43% | |
Felt sorry for them in the 80's | 0 | 0% | |
Jumped on the bandwagon in the early 90's | 6 | 8.57% | |
I'm really into supreme commanders | 0 | 0% | |
Wife/GF/husband/BF turned me | 0 | 0% | |
A particular game got me interested | 2 | 2.86% | |
I thought the colors were pretty | 2 | 2.86% | |
Gaz influenced my decision | 1 | 1.43% | |
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07-08-2005, 10:23 PM | #2 |
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I grew up in Oklahoma and southwest Missouri, so nothing particularly close. Just kinda got interested with my brother watching all the time... now, when he was a fan (and I was 3 1/2 years younger), I'd almost always root for the other guy, just because my brother liked it... but that's what little brothers do, right? But when I actually started to get interested in watching football, the Chiefs was the team for me.
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07-08-2005, 10:27 PM | #3 |
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All of the first 4 options would apply for me.
I started following them in '69 when my family lived briefly in NY. Dad was a big fan. We moved back to KC in '71, but by then I was already a diehard. I noticed a similar problem on polls of other teams. I am very familiar with the stars of the game (not just Chiefs) from previous eras. I liked to read NFL history when I was a kid. My guess is that those who grew up in the '80s and '90s were too busy playing video games to spend much time learning about the history of the game and hence lack the knowledge to make informed votes in many cases. |
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07-08-2005, 10:39 PM | #4 |
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My parents weren't rabid fans, but they were fans from the Super Bowl days, so I naturally picked it up... Some of my first memories of the Chiefs included DeBerg and his broken finger... so my age was a natural fit to get the intensity of the early 90's going at the right time...
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07-08-2005, 10:58 PM | #5 | |
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The new trend is disturbing to me. It means the end of loyalty to your home, and the beginning of prostituting your allegiance to whoever happens to be good at that point so you can look cool wearing their stuff.
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07-08-2005, 11:01 PM | #6 |
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Joe Montana.
I WAS 8.
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07-08-2005, 11:20 PM | #7 |
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I was 10 years old when Montana beat the Broncos in SuperBowl XXIV. It was the first football game that I watched seriously on television. I was in the fourth grade, and occaisionally there were kids playing football on the playground at recess. So I was familiar with the game, but hardly what I'd call a fan.
In '90, I watched a bunch of the Chiefs' games on television, but again I wouldn't call myself a big fan. I remember bits and pieces of that season, but I get them confused with bits and pieces of '91 and '92. Again, I was a big enough fan to watch some games, but mostly I remember loving watching the "Bud Bowl" cartoons during the SuperBowl that year. In '91, I was hit by a megaton bomb. That bomb was called "Tecmo Super Bowl." It was freaking awesome! And since all the players and teams were on it. All the sudden, I was a BIG fan, and an expert on all the players. My Dad and I would watch the televised games, and here I was 11 years old and correcting my Dad on the player's names and numbers. I never looked back. |
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07-08-2005, 11:24 PM | #8 |
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I was born and raised here in the Kansas City area. The Chiefs are in my blood, as much as barbecue, fishing and hunting.
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07-08-2005, 11:30 PM | #9 |
i guess its bittersweet poetry
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I'll credit DT with making me a Chiefs fan. I clinged onto him when I was younger. No real other explanation on how a 19 year old from Connecticut who's never been west of Pennsylvania could become a Chief fan.
Sadly I've never met another. I did realize that the Chiefs have one of the most loyal fan bases in all of sports at an early age too. Definitely made me want to be a part of it. Plus my Uncle's a Fader fan. It puts together like a puzzle. |
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07-09-2005, 12:43 AM | #10 | |
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i dropped this chick off there one time in like '69 or so... a few pretty steep hills, pretty country mostly... |
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07-09-2005, 12:46 AM | #11 | |
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07-09-2005, 12:48 AM | #12 |
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Dad. Big shocker, huh?
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07-09-2005, 12:49 AM | #13 |
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ok, on topic...
my older brother moved to kc way back when and was already a fan when the chiefs won the superbowl... when i moved to independence, i took my father in law and a bunch of brothers and cousins in laws to a chiefs game and have followed the team every since... my inlaws totally enjoyed the game, even though they had never seen american football before, let alone a live game... it was fun watching them have fun, if you know what i mean... |
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07-09-2005, 12:52 AM | #14 | |
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i went to school there from 72 to 75 and i absolutely loved the town and the locals... they were as much fun as the students that i partied with... a truly amazing place... |
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07-09-2005, 02:18 AM | #15 |
DUHN DUHN DUUUHHHNNN!!!!
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I was born in KC and grew up here, i lived in Texas for a year when we got all those good offensive players, i will always be the most dedicated fan of the Chiefs, when i was younger ( in highschool) i used to care more about the chiefs winning than my highschool team, which i started for. i check every morning on the updates and probably would cry if the chiefs won the SB. i will wear chiefs red in the black hole( done it) and will mouth off to anyone who thinks the chiefs suck, especially AFC west team fans. I could care less about the royals, because baseball is just not fun
to follow, any sport that isnt football is redundant. we are the greatest fans in the NFL and im proud to be a few decibles in the loudest stadium in the world.
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