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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, 10:11 PM | Topic Starter |
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Your Chief Fandom...
Looking at Rainman's "Greatest Chief" polls, I start to realize that certain players don't get voted for by a majority (even though they may deserve it, and Rainmain has to pimp them), mostly because they played back in the "day." Now, either some of us are too young to remember and haven't bothered researching our team's roots, or jumped on board sometime after.
I'm also interested to see what people who have never lived in the general vicinity of KC have to say about their path to the light. I will say that I am prejudiced against any band wagon fans, even if they have stuck with it since, say '90. I'm very big into hometown loyalty. When I was a wee child I watched and went to Chiefs games with my dad. There was no other option. We didn't go to other games, we didn't watch other teams, we didn't listen to other teams on the radio, and we didn't talk about other teams (Same with the Royals and KU). This was during the '80's mind you, so it's not like there was a lot going on in Arrowhead. My dad raised me right. Since '89, I have been away from the KC area, but have maintained my Chiefdom, and I will never relinquish it. So I'm curious, how did you come to find yourself bleeding red and gold? (I'm sure this has been done several times, but my feeble search attempts were unsuccesful.) |
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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, 10:58 PM | #4 | |
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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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07-09-2005, 12:43 AM | #5 | |
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07-09-2005, 12:48 AM | #6 |
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Dad. Big shocker, huh?
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07-09-2005, 07:51 AM | #7 | |
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07-09-2005, 09:23 AM | #8 |
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(Jumped on the bandwagon in the early 90's [ 1 ] 3.33%)
Well atleast one of you guys came clean
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07-08-2005, 10:39 PM | #9 |
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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, 11:01 PM | #10 |
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Joe Montana.
I WAS 8.
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07-08-2005, 11:20 PM | #11 |
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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 | #12 |
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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 | #13 |
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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, 12:52 AM | #14 | |
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07-09-2005, 05:42 AM | #15 |
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I was raised in St.Louis back when the Cardinals was the football team. I was playing Pop Warner football in those days, so I took an interest in "TV football".
In the day when the Cards played in St.Loo there was no cable at the time. If there was, we didn't have it. So I watched them. I even had the chance to meet Pat Tilley. So when the Cards moved to Az, the team that was playing on TV were the Chiefs. So that's who I watched. Several years later the Rams came to town, but I had been a Chiefs fan for so long that I had no interest in any other team. I remember alot of people jumping to the Rams bandwagon when they started to win. Many will tell you that they became Rams fans because they moved to St.Louis. For some it's true. But many did not make the switch until the Rams began to win. Today it's much easier to like any team you choose because of cable TV and the NFL Sunday ticket stuff. But back then, either you inherited your favorite team from a family member or your freinds. Or you just loved the only team you were able to see every week. I even tried to like the Dolphins like a buddy of mine did. Back when Griese played. But I never saw them play. So I guess I could be considered a Chiefs fan by default. Today I wouldn't change it for nothing in the world. But if they had NFL Sunday ticket back in the day, I would likey be a 'phins fan. Yuck! |
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