That song was a super soft as it was lame. Seriously.

Without question. Last year was the best year I've ever seen as a Chiefs fan. Even this year with the injuries and other issues, because so many discounted Mahomes' talent, intelligence and performances, so it was great to see him perform at an even higher level to shut all of the negative Nancys up. Except the ones on here, anyway.

I guess all my years as a Blues fan have helped me be more patient than some Chiefs fans. I waited nearly my entire life, over 40 years, for the Blues to finally win a championship.

We had great offensive teams, great goalies, great coaches, etc. for thirties years and more. We went to the playoffs more than any team in hockey at one point. But could never seem to get a Cup.

Then last year, in the most improbable of ways, with an interim coach, no superstar players, a rookie goalie, and in last place half-way through the season, they turned it around and won it all by doing it the hardest way possible.

So I look at this team, with all of the advantages they have, and then look around the AFC, realizing that Brady's days are almost at an end (possibly Bill's as well), and (barring injuries) I see a very bright future for this team. Yeah, there are going to be some stumbles along the way, and we'ev had several this year, but Christ on a crutch, we're just 29 games into the Mahomes Era. You'd think more people would just be happy that we finally got our franchise QB, the best HC to guide him along the way, and a corps of great weapons to work with. The Texans got Watson, but then spent how many years fumbling around because of Bill O' Brien? And Watson's still not as polished as he should be. He's already behind Mahomes.

If you look around at every other team in the league and what they have and what their ceiling probably is, and then look at our Chiefs, we've got it really really good. Actually we have it better than any other team in the league right now. We just have to be a little patient and have a little faith, and just enjoy the ride.

Actually the more I watch, the more proof it is games are steered a certain way to achieve a result, so not near as much as in the past

Theres been many a Sunday I've felt I wasted my day off watching the NFL due to this very reason. Truth.

Seeing more and more of this thinking and not just with KC fans,it's almost like the NFL keeps pushing the envelope to see how far they can go and still have the masses tune in.

The Texans game was proof of keeping a game close that was headed towards a one sided result. The momentum change cost a sure victory

Lol, so much better than being a Donk fan.

I thought I did til you asked

This sums it up best for me - I’m 50 and can’t remember how many times I thought that this is the year only to F it up in the playoffs.

Part of being A fan is tolerating the bad with the good. Patriots fans really piss me off because they just expect a SB every year. Their day is coming. Been a fan since I was 6 years old .Thats 50 years.

I’ve seen them play in 8 Super Bowls, so I can’t imagine how being a Donkey fan wouldn’t have been more enjoyable over the past 40 years than being a Chiefs fan.

It's not too bad. I had the Steelers shoved down my throat when I was a kid so I'm glad I found the Chiefs. If they ever do win a Superbowl in my lifetime, all the wait will be worth it.

They do frustrate me though.

Let’s give it up for Warrior 5, one of the true classic CP stalwarts

The Giants have won four Super Bowls?

I've always had a hard time seriously hating the Patriots... probably because 1) I don't hate teams because they're good like many people do, and 2) I don't follow 99% of the media-created sports drama that's out there... and they once beat the Raiders and Rams in the playoffs/SB with a backup QB, back when Rams fans were absolutely the worst.

I mean.... can you imagine, if the Chiefs won a few SBs, the rest of the country hating the Chiefs as much as the Patriots? In sports, you know you've made it if all other fans hate you.

At this point, I kind of understand why battered and abused wives stay with their husbands.

Had to think about that one myself,but yep Denver,Bills and Pats twice

Not this year. We replaced Gunther with Clancy Pendergast.

They're my team. Like my family, I was born into it. Enjoy got nothing to do with it.

When my 74 year old aunt, whom I did not think knew anything about football, says she loves mahomes
..I enjoy being a fan.

I said the same in another thread where some dbag was berating spoiled fans for being upset at the fact that this team CANNOT STAND SUCCESS...They shit the bed at the worst times, like on prime time.

I got no choice but to be a fan, I love it and hate it at the same time. If Mahomes cannot get this franchise to the promised land, I'm officially done.

From a fan perspective, it's all I've ever known. I was seven about to turn eight when they won SBIV.

The playoff losses have been brutal, having to drive home in a snowstorm from Indy after the four TD lead almost did me in.

I was ten rows up with Kc Wolfman when Fisher negated the two point conversion.

I walked out of Arrowhead right after the Tripplett call, more bitter than I had ever been. Almost vowing to not go back. Just felt years of being drained. Burned out.

And then boom..draft day..hundreds of people in the practice facility, not much energy at all, compared to years past. I'll never forget when they moved up..place erupted....and I walked out to beat traffic grinning ear to ear, giddy like a little kid, knowing they had finally drafted a QB in the first round. Last time being when I was 21..I'm now 57.

Mahomes some how reignited the magic of the Chiefs that I felt as boy...Proud of my hometown team.

I'm proud that our owner brought black players into the AFL, competed with and help created the current league.

I'm proud that he coined the term Super Bowl.

I'm proud that his name is on the AFCCT.

I'm proud that the team and city is very well represented in the HOF, despite the lack of current Championships.

Mahomes kind of feels that way to me too.

He makes us respectable.
He makes the game fun to watch.

Like others have stated, I'm not nearly as emotionally invested as I used to be. That alone makes it more fun...

Who knows what the future holds, and we might not win it all, but at the very least we'll look damn good doing it.


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Dude...I cannot imagine the pain of having physically been there and dealing with that. I saw it on TV and my fandom was shaken. You, sir, are a much better fan than I am.

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I mostly enjoy being a Chiefs fan from February through December, then in January I get to get ****ed over like the rest of this fan base in some embarrassing new way.

I had stopped caring as much as my younger years, but Mahomes has brought my passion back bc I now know we have our best shot of winning with him.

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Really good to gee you around, G.

Hope this finds you well.,

To much time on Chiefs Planet diminishes some of the joy but I definitely enjoy my fandom.

I love my fandom and have dedicated so f'ing much to it but God please let us win another Super Bowl in my life time! Or 20!:D

I need to move to KC or get stationed at Whiteman so I can find a good Chiefs-loving woman. Too many Dallas fans down here.
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I went to Lambeau this preseason and saw families of packers fans with little kids in chiefs gear.

Coached flag football that had 10 more kids play this year ( in a town of 2.5k people) all because of watching mahomes.

Plus my kids are crazy into it.
It’s amazing what one player has done.

You don't want to do that.

Source: dude trust me

I can definitely understand this. I imagine everyone who's been a fan for decades feels it to a certain extent.

Every Sunday I scream at the tv, hanging on every play. If we lose I'm furious. If we win my happiness seems to get shorter and shorter each year that goes by. :(

You don't want to increase the level of your dedication. That just makes the pain worse when the Chiefs screw something up. :(

Pretty much the same...could never not be a fan even if I wanted that.

I just hope one day it'll come together and they'll win a Super Bowl. Have zero faith with this regime however.

My fandom took a hit during the Pioli years. You folks and your non-stop stream of profanity and vitriol are pretty much the only thing that kept me interested.

I admit to being a fair-weather now. Mahomes is obviously a big reason to watch, and is the only reason I keep a finger on the pulse anymore. I'd say that my relative disinterest in football has far less to do with the Chiefs and more to do with the product the NFL is putting on TV though. The game has become significantly less watchable in recent years. The non-stop ad breaks and endless penalties have all but completely driven me away from the league entirely. DaFace has made the point in many other threads, but it has become almost impossible to celebrate any play in the game without first holding your breath and scanning the field for an official throwing a flag. This happened in the Titans loss. Friends and I were cheering a touchdown by Kelce, only to be made to feel foolish several moments later by an official explaining something someone else was doing on the other side of the field actually negated the play.

As a casual, mostly football-ignorant fan, that shit feels terrible.

I enjoy watching the Chiefs, but lament the state of NFL football.

More like beating off with your thumb over the hole!!!!!

I feel the same.
I wear my gear throughout every week, win or loss.
I have watched for 44 years, that being since birth since I grew up 11 miles from Arrowhead.
I will always love them, but will always feel pessimistic until they prove me wrong and win another Superbowl.
Those are my feelings about them.

P.S. Because Chiefs!!!

Ditto here on those three and the major heartache that has followed all three through the years, with some exceptions for the Royals.

When I was in my 20's if UNC or the Raiders lost a game it bugged me so much I couldn't sleep and when I did I would wake up pissed off at the world.


Now In my 50's, Sure I want them to win but if they don't... I sleep like a baby.

You've never even seen your team live..

Which part, Whiteman? :)

I guess it could be fun to marry a Raiders fan and sleep on the couch twice a year after rubbing a win in her face.

I used to be a football junkie too and this board was a big part of it. After Matt Cassel and Alex Smith back-to-back, I lost a lot of interest in arguing about a team that was obviously going nowhere.

Mahomes has definitely increased my interest in the Chiefs but it has only slightly increased my interest in CP because in my time away, I realized I enjoy Chiefs football a lot more when I’m not talking about it 24x7.

No.

Answer to OP - sometimes being a Chiefs fan feels like a negative compulsion.

But I remember the really bleak years, and then we were so happy to have Marty. And then we got sick of making the playoffs and losing every year.

And then most of 1999-2011 when I was wishing we could make the playoffs and lose every year.

And now we're back to that.

So I dunno.

People come in and out of your life, you change schools, jobs, where you live but the Chiefs have always been consistent in their ability to **** me right in the ass. I may die without seeing them win a super bowl but if I’m dead I won’t be able to watch them disappoint me either.

It's not really an issue of being a Chiefs fans...it's an issue with the Goodell era NFL.

If every KC game was officiated like the Packers & Vikings game...with minimal interference, I would care a lot more.

When KC started at 4-0...Goodell ushered in mugging the shit out of Kelce, officials pretending it wasn't happening, and calling 11 penalties in back-to-back games. I firmly believe this was done to keep the Raiders relevant and keep parity for the final 8 games. Chiefs could easily be 9-1/8-2 without bizzaro calls like the one in the Texans game.

It sucks...I really want to like the Mahomes era.

You have a serious mental problem, I told you years ago I saw the Raiders play the Panthers in Charlotte but you are stuck on stupid I guess.


I would take you off my ignore list but you say the same stupid stuff over and over.

Yes but sometimes it’s hard. Ill be coming out for the Denver game first time to arrowhead can’t wait.

50 years of frustration. Honestly it was easier when they just flat out stunk so many years. The Reid years are hard for me. I hated Alex Smith because he played scared, always checking down. I thought he was the limiting factor for a team with SB talent. Now they get the greatest QB in the league and they still screw it up. An offsides away from a SB! And now the defense is even worse. They are wasting the greatest window they have ever had and will ever have in my lifetime...……...the Mahomes rookie contract years. I don't have another 50 years to watch them screw up; which is a blessing when I think about it.