I have probably had more discussions and arguments with patteeu than 90% of people on this forum. We disagreed on about the same percentage too. But he would always defend me and others from people disagreeing in a disrespectful manner. I never met him in RL (I have met a select few of you). Reminds me that even when we disagree on petty political BS, when you actually get to know people, you probably have more in common than you think. Would also laugh and rep people on the opposite side of the political aisle if he thought it was actually funny. Class guy.

Holy crap. So sorry to read this.

Man, he was always cool to me... I really liked him. RIP...

Wait, what?

Oh man, this is so awful... at a loss for words here

RIP, Gene

We were friends for a long time, but that changed a few years ago. I really regret that now.

So sorry to hear. RIP

This truly makes me sad. I agreed with Pat most of the time and he was such a good dude. I would have loved to have met him. I've been fortunate enough to meet CPers at different events and it sure helps make you become more civilized on the forum when you put a face with the name. I think he understood that more than anyone. We should probably all strive to be more like Patty, most of us, as you know, are Chief fans first and united by the pain and joy of following this team. Now that Arrowhead will be close to normal this fall, I hope to meet many of you and raise a glass to Patty and enjoy your company, regardless of your ideology. RIP Patty.

Agreed - the dude was amazing about not getting personal.

This whole forum would be so much better off if the DC forum never existed imo. Half the forum wouldn't hate the other half, and I bet there would still be a lot of IRL meetups.

You can have both... Patty understood that, I have met folks who are the opposite of me politically at Chiefs events and we had a great time. Hopefully we can have a tailgate at Arrowhead this year in honor of Patty and other lost CP Members.

Such a class act, and wonderful role model

DC, and this place in general just lost a genuine icon... I'm simply crushed

Holy shit that was quick. Rip fellow CP member. It's amazing how this is really a community. And although we may have different views, we're all in this together.

Pat was one of my favorite people here. Intelligent, level-headed, wry wit. Godspeed.

Goddamm it. My first "CP friend" on my friends list.

This really sucks. RIP Pat. You rocked.

Goddamm it. My first "CP friend" on my friends list.

This really sucks. RIP Pat. You rocked.

I agree 100% with the above. Pat and I disagreed on a lot of things in the DC forum. He was always polite and respectful. I wasn't. I've been a dick in the DC forum for a long time, and I regret that now.

Rest in peace, Pat. We will miss you.

Damn. RIP friend.

Rest East, Pat.


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Damn.

I'm crushed.

Damn. Seemed like an awesome guy.

Oh ****.

RIP

I am too. :deevee:

Rest in peace.

Damn. R.I.P.

We lost a good one.

Very sorry to hear that the rip cord on his chute didn't work. :(

Not much to say that hasn't already been said. We lost one of the good ones for sure.

RIP

RIP Patteau.

You were the best of us!

I hope his family and friends can arrive at some closure and healing. this is a loss for all of CP. RIP Gene

Welp, I was 99% sure when I saw that leaving forever post that it was going to lead to this. I thought maybe he was going into hospice or something. Didn't figure he was already gone. He'll be missed.

He could drive you nuts if you were arguing with him...I think he was mostly sincere, but he definitely had about 15% troll in him just to irritate us on the smarter side of things.

But worst of all, he was almost always civil, and you just couldn't let loose with a satisfying "you moronic ****face" when he didn't operate that way.LMAO
RIP

also: **** cancer

Wow, best leaving forever thread in CP history.

RIP - I enjoyed reading his takes and I always appreciated how civil he was during disagreements. He was all class.

Hate to see this. Patteau and I didn't see eye to eye on anything, but I don't like the fact that he got cancer. RIP Patteau

Rest in peace. Sorry to hear.

RIP. Damn shame, thoughts to his family and friends

Death, you rotten mutha f... sneaking in like a thief.

Pat, travel quickly and I'll keep watch for you under my boot soles.

Damn,. rip

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BRC nailed it.

Gene was a great guy that I never met. We spent many years discussing family in PM's and he helped me with kind words through a dark time. As he deteriorated he could only type with one hand. He had a long hard battle but never lost his spirit.

RIP old friend. You will be missed.

RIP sir.
Loved that guy even though I never met him.

A good man
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Rest in peace.

You will be missed. RIP

Holy Cow!

Leaving CP is one thing, happens all the time, you can grow tired of some things in life.

But this? I wasn't prepared for, had no warnings!

RIP Patt, you will be be missed by many here!

Wow, he knew he was "leaving" for good.

Sounds like he made his choice about how to go out. Good for him. I hope he finds peace.


Bye Pat.

I'll share a few stories of patteeu just to show everyone how cool he was.

I first saw his name when I was a freshman at college. We were in the same major. It took another couple of years to meet him since we generally didn't start our major-specific courses until our junior year. He was one of the top students in the program, and he was also very well liked and respected. He was a pretty quiet guy - not a rah rah type - but he was welcomed into every social group because he was a genuinely personable and witty fellow.

But here's what made him cool in college: for at least part of his college career he lived in a motel.

Now, I guess I can't give him credit for the idea, but he executed it well. For those of you in your late 50s, you'll remember that we were pretty much the last year of the baby boom and so we had a crowded existence in many respects. When patteeu and I showed up at college, the school didn't want to build a new dorm with the baby bust coming, so they did all sorts of things to find housing for students. At UMR, one of those things was to book up the low-end 1950s motels out on the highway and turn them into dorms. They then ran a bus service to get the students to and from campus. Patteeu got assigned to one of those, so he lived in a classic 1950s motel for at least a year, and I think it was notably longer than that. As a low-caste townie who had to commute from my parents' house, I thought the motel guys had the best of all worlds.

Patteeu and I were very friendly in college, but he had a built-in social group at the motel so we didn't do a lot of social stuff together in those days, even though we seemed to have a lot of common interests. That changed, though, when.....

You double booked the same hooker?

So as background, patteeu and I went to the same college with the same major, and we had a lot of similar interests. When we graduated, I was surprised that we also had similar career interests, because we coincidentally got hired by the same company to work in the same department. That's a pretty notable coincidence given that it was a very niched department. So we both moved to St. Louis.

There was a relatively small group of young engineers in our department, while most of the department was 50+. So we tended to hang out together. Patteeu and I were in the wargaming club together, and we played paintball, and we road-tripped to a few Chiefs games together. Without going into detail about it, we also each found ourselves in a situation over the years where we protected the other one from foul play at the hands of others, so we became good friends.

It's funny that he enjoyed debating on CP, because in real life he was incredibly easygoing and mellow. One of my favorite patteeu stories was during our years in St. Louis. He had an apartment and at some point he noticed stuff going missing. Nothing big, just small stuff like change and other things that could easily be overlooked. So he did some sleuthing and eventually discovered that his next door neighbor was climbing over to patteeu's deck from his own and working the back door open while patteeu was at work. He'd steal stuff and then close the door back.

Now, I would've been furious and gone screaming to the police about my missing pocket change. But patteeu just went to the guy and said something like, "Stuff's been disappearing out of my apartment and I've been watching it. If it keeps happening, the police are going to get involved. So let's hope it stops." The guy immediately stopped and patteeu remained on friendly terms with him going forward. I was impressed at how he de-escalated it.

So anyway, we worked together for about five years. We were in the same department, but always in different work groups. For the first few years, we'd usually meet for lunch with the "young people" group in our department. We then both got assigned to a big mega-classified project, but into different work groups. We couldn't visit the other person's desk due to guards and stuff, but we'd meet somewhat regularly for lunch. And that's where the most amusing coincidence happened, when ...

Can I help it if we had similar tastes?

At that point, I was not enjoying my job at all, and my career prospects were on a road to nowheresville. So I was doing some thinking and one day I met patteeu for lunch, just the two of us. I said, "Hey, I hate to leave you, but I'm about to do something radical. I'm going to quit, and I'm going to go to law school at the University of Texas at Austin."*

He looked at me and grinned. "I've got something to tell you as well. I've decided to quit, and I'm going to go to law school at the University of Texas at Austin."

I cannot overemphasize how freaky that was. Neither of us had ever talked to the other about going to law school. Neither of us had any connection to the University of Texas at Austin. Neither of us had ever even talked about quitting our jobs. But somehow we made exactly the same decision at exactly the same time.

As it turned out, I decided to pursue another degree, but we both moved to Austin and got our graduate degrees together. And then...

Not if you tell me she was from Estonia.

Sorry to hear this. I thought his leaving forever thread was that he just said all he could say on Chiefs Planet and it was time to move on.
Sounds like many knew him personally and recognized him as a good man. I enjoyed his debating style here on CP.
RIP

The way he argued, I knew he had to be a lawyer. :D

After we got our graduate degrees, we went our separate ways. I moved to Denver and he moved back to his hometown area of Kansas City. He went to work for an IT consulting company, and got assigned to a big project in ... Denver. So we met once or twice when our schedules allowed. But then we fell out of touch for several years.

I started my company and was working alone from home all day, and at some point I found the Star board to talk football. It was a great social outlet for a lone eagle entrepreneur. That led me to CP, and I happily posted there for a couple of years when I got a PM. It said, "I think I know you."

Patteeu and I had coincidentally found CP, and you know the rest.

He was a great guy. Always honorable, always clever, always respectful of others. I think we were destined to be friends because we had this Forrest Gump-like quality of always encountering each other - college, our engineering jobs, grad school, and chiefsplanet. I'm tempted to say that if I had a twin it would've been patteeu, but I don't think that does him justice. He was always moving through life at a higher level, and I was honored to ride with his posse.

Damn what a twist. RIP lil buddy.

See, that's another weird thing. Even though Estonians were the logical choice, he and I both preferred Lithuanians.

That right there is the best compliment patteeu would ever hope for and relish the most.

Thanks for sharing Rain man.

He said he was on diff occasions. Sometimes I think I’m the only one who reads posts.

Even tho I’m right in the end.

Thanks for sharing Rain Main and I hope you are doing ok.

That history lesson on you and patteeu was just what I needed tonight, thank you for sharing that story, RM... he was clearly held in high esteem by everyone that knew him

I’m getting tired of people dying, army buddies, co-workers, friends and family. Now CP guys are resting in peace. Been a hard few years in this category.

Patteeu; always good for the last say in something, right?

I wasn’t going to post anything more than a simple “RIP” type thing. And, sadly, I think I’ve confused him with one of the sauls I don’t get along with. I was looking through all the rep messages we’ve exchanged over the years, We got along a lot better than I remembered.

My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends, (rainman, good story), and from reading these posts there’s a few of you who thought pretty darn highly of him, even in disagreement. That’s pretty awesome.

Reminds me of my favorite Frost poem;

“ To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of the intelligent people
and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friendsa
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know that one life has breathed easier
because you lived here.
This is to have succeeded.”

I say Rest In Peace, you have succeeded......

Thank you Rainman for the insight. That's truly an awesome lifelong friendship we should all be so lucky to have, even if it was fragmented.

Thanks for the info Rain Man, I had no idea you two were acquainted let alone that long.


One funny thing I remember about Pat was that he couldn’t watch YouTube videos on here until like 2010. He said he had dial up in the sticks where he lived.

This is really bumming me out

This was an awesome story.

Thanks for sharing.

RIP Patteeu

Sending good thoughts to all who knew him, it's tough to lose a friend too soon.

Always enjoyed reading his posts, whether I agreed or not, they were always well thought out. Enjoyed his "go-rounds" with the mods.

RIP and Godspeed Gene/Patteeu.

This sucks. We could all learn from Pat how to deal with those we disagree with. Pat had one of the best senses of humor. Whenever I’d post something I thought went over everyone’s head, I’d check and see a fresh rep from Pat. He was also very thoughtful and always remembered things that I’d briefly mentioned about myself and asked about how that was going. Gone but never forgotten.

RIP Pat.

Bill Parcells, isn't it?

Haven't seen you in a while.


Doing well I hope.

Rest in peace, patteeu.


This ****ing sucks losing these guys(Milkman, Sacc, FMB, patteeu). I'm sure there are more I've missed.

Makes me feel a little jackass-ish for posting an awful gif of a guy waving bye in the other thread. I think he would have appreciated the humor of it though, given its near-board tradition.

RIP Patteeu. Condolences to those that had a personal relationship with him. Certainly an entertaining and intelligent fella.

Funny thing is i have a addiction to hot eastern European women rain man.

RIP man.

Apparently market research consultants were a thing even in the early '80s.

Rest in Peace Pat! I regret never having the pleasure of meeting you in person. You set a fine example of how to treat and interact with people, even total idiots, that is a very high bar.

The last few years of my Dad's life, who lived to be 90, he said, "I am the only one left"

I am starting to get a clue what he was talking about as this is becoming all to common place of losing friends and or aquaintences.

Now that was an exit!
RIP patteeu, a great CP poster and even better human being.

Wow.

RIP...

A very good person and a dedicated Chief Fan. He will be missed on CP.

Rest In Peace brother.

This was a huge loss for CP. Patteeu was true gentleman, and one of the few DC regulars that was capable of rational conversation. One hell of a way to go out as well.

You will always be remembered, Gene!

Another humorous story about patteeu, though you have to look past the details to see the big picture.

We were both really into wargames, and at some point we signed up to play a mega-board game about World War III. It was played on a massive board, 6' x 6' or maybe even 8' x 8', and some dude had it laid out on the floor of his guest bedroom. It was a massively complex game where you only played 10 or 12 turns, but each turn had a dozen steps and would 8 or 10 hours. We decided that we would play every Sunday for three months.

We drew lots for our roles, and I ended up being the NATO central front leader (mainland Europe), and patteeu drew NATO's southern front (Balkans, Turkey, and the Med Coast down to Egypt). We had another guy who had the northern front (Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Sea). We were taking on three other guys with similar Warsaw Pact fronts.

My opponent on the Central Front was a guy who could be kind of obnoxious, and he also had a bit of advantage in knowing the rules since it was his game. I didn't have a full grasp of the rules in Turn 1 and messed something up, and suddenly there was a breach in the Fulda Gap. We had bad weather that grounded my air forces in Turn 2, and the rout was on as his troops poured through. With no other choice, I ran away from the breach and set up strongholds in the Alps and a massive fortress in the low countries. My opponent was being pretty obnoxious about it, gloating in a manner that I didn't appreciate. Patteeu didn't appreciate that type of behavior, because he was a humble guy who was always gracious in victory or defeat.

Turn 3 rolled around and suddenly I realized that my opponent had made a major error. He was ignoring my two fortresses and pushing forward, gloating about approaching the Rhine and reaching France. But his supply lines were suddenly vulnerable.

I was chatting about this with patteeu midweek, and I mentioned that I thought I had a good chance to trap the entire invading army without supplies. So we hatched a plan.

Turn 4 rolled around and we listened to the gloating as we gathered. Then the week's activities started. My opponent kept moving into France gleefully. Patteeu was a good commander so his front was pretty stable. He also controlled a lot of B-52 forces based in Turkey. They took off, but instead of fighting on his front they headed north while his ground forces hunkered down. He pounded my opponent's supply lines. Then I unleashed hell, pincering in from my two strongholds and utterly destroying my opponent's battered supply chain. Suddenly I had his entire invading force cut off without supplies. My opponent didn't gloat at the end of the night.

The next week we went into Turn 5. My opponent tried to break through, but patteeu sent the B-52s in again, and my line easily held. When the turn ended, my opponent saw the writing on the wall. He said, "Well, it seems like maybe we're in stalemate mode. Maybe we should end the game now."

Patteeu and I leapt into action. We both strongly voted that the game should continue since we were only halfway through the game. The other three players all shrugged, so it was two against one and we kept going.

For the next three weeks, I unleashed the dogs of war on this guy. It was complete and utter destruction, executed without mercy. The obnoxious guy couldn't get his troops supplied and I hunted them down like vermin. I was able to repay patteeu's B-52s with extra troops for his front and he launched an offensive and pushed forward. Every week my opponent proposed calling off the game as a draw and every week patteeu and I would vote as a bloc to keep it going, convincing the others to vote with us.

By Turn 9, the other players finally called a mercy rule because we had obliterated the enemy, were approaching the Soviet border, and completely humbled the obnoxious guy. Patteeu and I exchanged sly smiles when they finally called it.

Just out of curiosity, do you know what the origin of the name "patteeu" is? Or the 23 pillar thing?