I can never get my Packer fan buddies to recognize Mahomes' greatness either. It's like they are stuck up and think there's no way anyone can compete with their history and awesome QB.

Speaking of which, you don't get more small market that Green Bay yet the media seems to elevate them to almost NY status. Why?

Everyone, except for St. Louis and maybe Northeast MO as well, will be rooting for the Chiefs. Most are Bears fans and the rest won't forgive nor forget Hunt for voting lock step with Kroenke to move to LA.

That's just wrong. Our society has gotten sooooooo soft even for an hour of focused class time they cannot live without their phone, huh? Just wrong.:shake:

If I were a teacher this would be the first thing I would do as they entered my class. Just have them place their phones in this box. But apparently the trial lawyers have won this argument.:rolleyes::shake:

The Chiefs have done a good job at "keeping their yard clean", so it's damn near impossible to point to KC and try to make a list of grievances, either moral or personnel-wise.

Tyreek handled his business before he was even drafted, and has proven to be a model citizen and good teammate. As much as we hated to lose him, and as shady as the circumstances were surrounding the timing and release of his tape, the Chiefs didn't waste any time letting the whole world know where they stood on Kareem Hunt's actions, either.

Easy answer:

The history/Lombardi, first SB winner, and more championships than their division counterparts.

If Hank Stram had pulled off the first Super Bowl, the entire league and media might be singing a completely different song.

Two of my best friends are Donk fans, and while they grudgingly admit that Mahomes is awesome, they don't like it. That said, they both are rooting for the Chiefs to win it all this year, starting with a curb stomping of the Patriots on Sunday.

...Lord, we MUST win this game!!

Have you properly schooled them on their forthcoming 15 to 20 years of insignificance? Do not neglect this important duty!

This.

We have a rare opportunity to make up for lost time.

Buzzworks. That place gets packed w Chiefs Fans. Probably go there for the Super Bowl.

There's a shit ton of Chiefs fans in SF. Obviously more now that they're good. Everyone I talk to is sick of NE and pulling for KC.

I've got three relevant locations:

NYC: not surprising but lots of sports fans and pretty much everyone I know through work wants us to annihilate the Patriots. I know a couple Patriots fans and they engage without any real understanding of the game they're walking into. They're spoiled. After that much success, I can't blame them, but it doesn't change that I'd like to piledrive them into the ground.

San Diego: out at lunch the other day with a Chiefs hat, and multiple people gush about Mahomes and comment that they want us to destroy the Patriots. These are mostly Chargers and ex-Chargers fans.

Indiana: my wife is from Indiana. Had some harmless smack talk before the Colts game with related friends and family and they've been dispatched. They're all pulling for us now. More interesting is that my nephews in high school, all of whom had quietly laughed at my Chiefs obsession for years, are now buying Mahomes and Hill jerseys and angling to get me to plan a family trip to Arrowhead next season. This is the most amazing thing: we are the "it" team.

I told my wife recently that I'll know we've made it when the Lids in the Indy airport sells anything Chiefs. And I think we're close. Win a SB this year with a 23yr old MVP and we'll have a generation of Chiefs fans created. It's pretty ****ing cool to be THAT team.

It's not too bad here in Steeler country. 90% of the time I get the "I don't mind the Chiefs" response.

We are getting a ton of support here though about beating the Pats. Steelers fans are more ref conscious than we are so I have to hear about refs going to help the pats conspiracies at a higher rate than the rest of the country.

Eagles fans are rooting for us too now that they are out. At least the Eagles fans I know.

Long time lurker, never registered or posted. Decided to respond to this thread. I travel a lot for work and I was in Bermuda in late November in a taxi. Driver was Bermudian, probably in his 60s, started chatting with me and a co-worker and discovered we were from Kansas City -- he immediately starts talking about Patrick Mahomes, for probably a solid 5 minutes until he drops us off.

Flash forward 2 weeks, also traveling for work in Ireland, almost exact same situation - Irish Uber driver from the airport finds out I am from KC and launches into praise about Mahomes.

Pretty incredible how quickly he has spread and, even more surreal, that this is a Chiefs QB.

OT - I really wish the Rams had stayed in STL.

Mentioned this in another thread, but my roomates were all Rams fans, and boy did we have some in home rivalries...this was during the KC-DV yrs Priest vs Faulk Roaf vs Pace TonyG vs Holt/Bruce...we did FFL together...really miss those fun times.

Once Rams moved to LA, they were devastated. They had a really bad decade that caused their fanbase to pretty much disappear, Linehan, Spagnuola, Martz, Fisher etc...I asked if they followed their fandom to LA, they all said piss on them. They're rooting for KC now. I've accepted their migration in good faith, although having someone to bitch at and talk shit to was a lot of fun back in the day.

I agree, it's all about the history. The Coach, the players, everything. They have a huge following nationwide as well.

I feel terrible for them. I can't imagine what it feels like to have your quaint midwestern team move halfway across the country to flashy LA. Has there ever been a poll on CP asking if people would still be Chiefs fans if they did the same thing? It would be absolutely heartbreaking. Not exactly sure what I would do with such conflicting emotions.

But welcome to the Kingdom, gentlemen.