Who was the QB when you became a Chiefs fan?
 

The first one I can remember as the QB watching Chiefs games was Steve DeBerg that would have put me at about 6-9 years old when I became a fan and really started following the team.

Deberg.

Montana.

Dawson

Deberg.

Magical playaction fake.

Kenney and Fuller ('82)

Dave Krieg

Deberg

Thanks for this list. I am depressed again

In all actuality it was probably Bill Kenney but I have exactly zero memories of watching him play. The first one I can remember watching and cheering for was DeBerg.

You could always think back to the good ole Thigpen days.

Trent Green... younger generation here.

Your pole really ****s the Tyler Palko fan bois

Montana.

The 25 years of pain that followed was worth it to get to PM. I used to get weird looks and laughed at in the Northeast wearing my Chiefs gear. And now people just want to talk about Mahomes and how great he is. It's surreal.

When I became a fan? Dawson. (I was born after SB IV and had no choice to be a fan)

First I remember? I think it was Fuller, but I definitely remember Kenney.

You're right about that! Patty could learn from that !

Blakcledge then Deberg.

Jacky Lee looks nice.

Lenny the Cool

I became a fan when Dawson was still playing (first game was in 1974, when I was 4 and I remember it, but not well). First QB I remember fairly well was Kenney.

Learn what?

Deberg. I was more of a baseball fan when I was a kid. And during the mid 80s, I was either deployed or in Virginia. It wasn't until the late 80s that I was able to even occasionally see them on TV.

Deberg certainly wasn't great, but goddamn did he have heart. Never forget watching him play with the pin sticking out of his finger. Hurt just to look at it.

I think it was the fall of 1971. Mike Livingston.

Dawson

That's my answer as well.

I was at the first game ever played at Arrowhead - preseason against the Cardinals in '72. But I was 7, and while I remember being there, I didn't understand shit that was going on.

The next time I went to a game at Arrowhead, Grbac was QB.

Livingston wasn't the starter until 1975 unless I'm mistaken

Lenny "the cool" Dawson

I was born in 74 so Lenny the cool was my qb at the time.

Len Dawson got hurt and Mike Livingston was the backup around that time (1971), Lenny's last year was 1975

Also for the record i still ****ing hate todd blackledge.

Did you know the Chiefs had a Heisman Trophy winner at QB..........?

Technically, Kenney, but mostly DeBerg.

Because I wasn't really into NFL until HS. Spent all my free time playing soccer, and didn't even have a TV in the house until we bought a Commodore 64 in 85/86. About the only thing I knew about the NFL by the mid-80s was Terry Bradshaw on the cover of Boy's Life in the fall of 1980, the first issue I got as a Cub Scout.

I remember being really into Al Toon with the Jets until I started following Dino Hackett.

But I recall the local radio guy talking about what a great hire this Schottenheimer guy was, and what a raw deal he got in Cleveland. Then that fall I saw DT and Neil doing their thing and that's where it started.

Chiefs QB history from Dawson through Green is just a comical shitshow of 1/2 season starters, including Mike Livingston.

He evidently went to the pro bowl as the Chiefs starting QB in 1969. He then started 5 games over the next 3 years before starting 8, 6 and 7 from 73-75 then 14, 11 and 14 for the next 3 seasons before falling off the earth.

It's like that through the 80s as well. Just absolute carnage and attrition under center. Seemingly nobody ever made more than 8-10 starts and the Chiefs had 3-4 starting QBs in any given year.

I knew it was bad before my time but I never realized the friggen horror show that happened under center for this franchise for about 15 years. I mean lord, Deberg and Kreig had to be water in the desert and that's a big ol' steaming pile of average right there.

Being a fan of the Chiefs has not paid off for awhile, gents...

EDIT: Wait - WTF? Livingston AND Dawson went to the pro bowl? There has to be a story there that I don't know. I understand why he backed up Len for so long but how did they both make the pro bowl that year? Was it just a completely different format?

It was DeBerg. I was about 5-6 and I remember that damn pin in his pinky I believe.

Len Dawson. I had just turned 7.

Deberg. Remember watching him having his finger reduced on the field after dislocation.

Livingston

Steve Fuller. When I was a kid, the cops used to cum to school and give out player cards. Art Still, Gary Spani, Steve Fuller, Barbaro et al. Bill Kenney was about that time too the. We drafted Blackledge.



A threesome of fail.

Same for me. I started to become "football-aware" in 1980 because of the Steelers-Rams Super Bowl. I started to become "Chiefs-aware" in like 86 or 87. I became a hardcore fan in 1989.

Lenny the Cool

No we didn’t

Really feel sorry for the Livingston fans. They just missed the glory and got every ounce of the suck.

I remember he was so immobile that Harlan and Dawson always referred to his "statuesque" presence in the pocket. My only memory was when the Chiefs played at Chicago in 1987. Chiefs were 2 TD underdogs, and Kenney threw two early TDs to jump out to a 14-0 lead. Of course the final score ended up being 31-28 Chicago.

DeBerg

They did that here too

It was Montana for me. I had kind of just like football in general but hadn't really attached to a team. Didn't follow things closely back then either. Had always loved Montana though. The Chiefs weren't on a whole lot where I lived. They were playing and I was like, "Holy Shit, is that Montana playing? I thought he was done." Afterwards someone had interviewed someone, might have been Marty or Carl. I remember them saying that Joe Montana was welcome to play for them for as long as he wanted. That's what hooked me to the franchise.

Krieg but didn’t follow too close until Montana came to town.

Lenny the pooh...

I remember the first Superbowl vs the Packers. Mostly because of the big bowl of popcorn on the TV tray that went flying when my dad smashed the tray during the game. There might have been beer flying too, I just remember the popcorn being everywhere and the dog going crazy.

I still remember my dad and friends watching the Superbowl vs the Vikings. From that day on, I was a big fan.

Lennie the Cool.

Freaking Dave "fumble fingers" Krieg. I'm glad it was only one season.

I can totally see why you didn't follow too close until after he was gone.

Lenny the Cool.
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Wow I did not expect so many other DeBergs. I always played the Chiefs on Tecmo Super Bowl.

Lenny the cool- didn't realise there where so many old guys here

Yes

My friend brought his 2-3 year-old son for one of the Royals/Blue Jays playoff games in 2015 - I think the one where the Zobrist pop fly dropped and sparked the rally. We got so excited when the Royals came back, jumping up and down and yelling, the kid started crying. Then we all rushed to try to comfort him and show him we were !!!HAPPY - SEE!!!, which scared him even more.

I just saw him over Christmas and he was having a meltdown because some of the little girls were teasing him. I think we may have broke the poor kid.

Did you know there are people here that are life-long Chiefs fans BECAUSE of Super Tecmo Bowl?

I think that's cool as all get out.

My dad worked for 101 the fox during early 90’s and we went to every home game. Box seats and everything! Cool story was my dad was Paul Rudd’s sister boss so when he would come to games he would give sisters and I piggy back rides.

The pinky finger and that big ass wrap

Montana.

Lenny "The Cool" Dawson

I was a little surprised to see that as well

Montana...

... Chiefs fans are old... lol...

I was at the game Steve Deberg broke his pinkie finger hitting it on a Houston Oilers helmet and they showed it like a dozen time on the jumbo tron.


Unfortunately that day belonged to Warren Moon and he passed at that time an NFL record over 500 yards it was nuts.

First games I remember going to were in 1975, one was Livingston, the other Dawson. I was 5, but my dad had been drilling knowledge into me since before the verbal skills formed. There were not alot of kids, much less little girls, at the stadium that I recall, and none at all in the area of my dads seats. I was definitely a novelty to everyone in my church dress waving a chiefs pennant and for the colder game, in my awesome red church coat. The game traditions were quite different and I remember alot of people had these long plastic horns that they cheered with and everybody was pretty dressed up.

Both games were won and for a few years the regular season ticket holder group in those seats called me lucky charm when I was there even though the winning really didn't continue. I would guess historically I have seen way more wins than losses. but not in the 70s.

Montana baby! And never looked back!

I'm one of them. DT and the chiefs were my favorite team to play with. Just so happened that when I started getting into football the Chiefs were on TV a lot as well, even in SE Virginia

Steve Fuller

Trent Green.

Everybody had Bill Kenney jerseys when I was in 1st grade.

I voted Deberg, because he was the Quarterback when I started to become aware of the team. I didn't really become a 'fan' until the Marty/Montana years though.

I became a fan after Super Bowl I was 7.
At that time the popular teams in the Mid West were Minnesota , Green Bay and KC.
I got PJs with KC logo and never looked back.
However I have very few memories of actually watching Len Dawson

First jersey was Bill Kinney.

I was made fun of. Then De Berg rolled into town. A whole new era.


edit:

high five

Joe Montana

Now just take all the public results of this poll and you can pretty much guess everyone's age range for the most part.:D

I was 7 or 8 when I started paying attention. Livingston was QB but first game I went to was when Fuller was playing. Cold as hell and Arrowhead was empty. Maybe 15000 people there. But I went with my dad and we cheered and KC lost. I think we played the Broncos but I could be mistaken.

When I was a baby it was Len Dawson but Steve Fuller is the first I can remember.

First I remember was Bill Kinney throwing a bunch of yards to Stephone Paige. But I was a little kid, my grandpa was watching the games and I would try to figure it out but at that age baseball held my interest more - I-70 Series and all. My mom and uncle used to go to games all the time (my aunt worked at for the Jackson County Sports Complex at the time.) So I went to Royals games but not Chiefs games.

I became a true FAN when DeBerg broke his pinky and was out there slinging it to JJ Birden and handing off to Okoye with a giant cast on in the snow. I thought that was badass.

Then I got Madden for Super Nintendo, and I developed a real love for the strategy of the game.

And then we traded for Joe Montana and Marcus Allen. I went to 2 games that year, vsGB on MNF and the Pittsburgh playoff game.

I thought we were gonna legitimately compete for the Super Bowl every year.

I didn't know much about anything...but I was a completely different person the last time we went to an AFCCG.

No one became a Chiefs fan when Croyle or Cassel was QB?

Shocker.

I just think that's so awesome. I mean, TSB cemented my Chiefs fandom in many ways too but KC is also only 3 hours from me and the closest pro city by an hour over Minneapolis / St. Paul.