Chiefs lose again-The history of disappointment
 

Being a Chiefs fan for 41 years and never living in the KC area to comfort my wounds with fellow loyalists, this loss really ranks as one of my top 10 in terms of pain and disgust. Not sure why at this stage in life if feels so shitty but it was a huge downer.
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Maybe being near Christmas? Maybe the big tease of feeling so high after last weeks win and thinking we would make the playoffs? Maybe the realization that it will be another 9 months of waiting to see what next year's team brings.

Being a loyal Chiefs fan is really as close to masochism as I can imagine.

How does this lose rank for you?

Meh.

This a top 10 loss? Really, this game was nothing.

Maybe it's because I'm younger but how does this one not hurt?

It was shitty, but there have been far shittier losses for me. And I'm only 22 years old. I have nothing but respect and admiration for the loyalty of older fans who have seen it all. This isn't an easy team to love.

< getting our ass kicked in the playoffs, again.

I mean, '71 playoffs, '93 playoffs, '96 playoffs, '97 playoffs, 2003, last season's wildcard loss, the '80s... **** me.

Those hurt less as they became more frequent and more predictable

it was shitty, mainly because the stars seemed to be aligning for us to make the plaoffs...and a little more playoff experience wouldve been valuable

also wouldve been sweet to end the gayders season,

but yah..lets face it this team was not going to win a playoff game

so in those terms, no it didnt hurt as much as so many other games have hurt

hell , even the losing streak in the beginning and middle of this season hurt me more

I was at the playoff game against the Colts at Arrowhead and the wildcard game last year. There was some kind of numbness in me at the Ravens game. I kinda just sat in my seat rubbing my forehead thinking, "Well... of course this is how it ends."

At the Colts game, I was younger and more foolish. I was in tears.

Last year sucked.

The year started out being worried about the quarterback, and ended the same damn way

Another game that hurt was the Seahawks game when DT got 7 sacks and we lost as Krieg threw a TD with little time left.

All the loses to the Raiders hurt bad and I hate losing to Miami because their fans are douchebags and they beat us too often.

Losing to the Colts in the playoffs all those years make me even sicker that they may wind up with Luck after watching that goofball Manning kick our ass

You people are nuts if you rank this high on the disappointment list, it would have still taken an act of congress to get in the playoffs even if you had won today.

Hell we still have a good chance of not getting in even if the Raiders win next week.

this to me was just another day as a chiefs fan, very routine loss

The loss in the AFC championship was the worst I was 12 and it killed me. The loss in 03 was a very close second. I really thought that was our year. Sigh

Get a beatdown in the Superbowl by your ex coach and we can talk about disappointment

Didn't care at all.

at least your team made it to the superbowl in the past decade

Nobody cares about #2

This (right down to the same age. Heh.).

I keep telling myself that some day, they'll figure it out & it'll all be worth it (yeah, right...). And I haven't sat through half the crap that most of you guys have....

With what took place today, IF we won today and next week we would have been in.

make that 3. Im too young to remember 1993

This. The outcome today doesn't surprise me at all. In fact I mostly expected it. It doesn't bother me to not make the playoffs because I don't think we're even close to being good enough not to embarrass ourselves again if we were there. Plus.... as I've said before... it's just football... just sports. I'm not going to go into my speech on the subject but I really suggest people that are really bothered by your team losing for more than 10 minutes after the game find a way to let go of it. You have no ownership as a fan. It doesn't change your life. It doesn't reflect on you. I want my teams to win too but if they don't it doesn't honestly matter. Enjoy the wins, let go of the losses. Just enjoy the game. Don't let it bother you so much. OK I went into a partial speech.

I know... easier said than done. It took me a while too.

I have Raiders shirts from the 80's still... I have a LA Raiders sweatshirt that I seem to have out grown....

You young pups are in for some pain if you choose to be a Raiders or Chiefs fan

My God you DO know how to spell it!


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Believe me I've tried....I think the length of loyalty makes it harder to put aside. Kind of like an addiction to cigarettes-you know it's bad for you but you just can't quit. :D

I watched a film on the holocaust and I have a 4 year old that I'm preparing Christmas for so that that kind of put it in perspective for me. I try to watch things like that to remind me how lucky my family really is.

In the big picture this was nothing but it still was painful.

I watched SB IV live and almost every game since. If you're dwelling on losing today at this point you need to get a life. Go walk into a hospital and you'll see real pain. And real life.

Ok, I hate the raiders, broncos, and chargers. I hope they all get antifreeze in their gatorade coolers.

I'm over it now. Really.

anyone who was hurt by this loss needs a history lesson on our shitty teams through the years

Today's loss by both the Chargers and Donkeys means with a win today, the Chiefs and Donkeys would have been playing for the division next week.

But at the end of the day, this loss was about as painful as dropping a sponge on your toe.

We would be heading into the playoffs with Kyle Orton at QB.

What would we be expecting but an ass kicking when we got there?

There are thousands in hospital beds all across the country who would give anything to be having your bad day.


Football is not that important when you think about it

Well I'm 42 so length of loyalty can be overcome.

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I understand and I'm not trying to be mean at all... I'm just just telling you it's isn't worth it to be emotionally invested toooooo much in something you can't control. I'm so glad I've gotten to a place where a win is awesome and enjoyable for days but a loss disappears in minutes. It makes a healthier person than I used to be.

This is true. Look I'm about the biggest Chiefs fan there is...yes I'm a true fan but everyone have a good time with your kids tomorrow. Don't let it get you down too much.

Depends who would we be playing? With the possibility of Houston, Ten, or Cin being in there I would like a turn in the tournament.

I certainly don't compare my sports teams losing to anything in life that is important.

Enjoy that 4 yr old... they grow up too fast

This is true too. Losses used to wreck me for days I've finally gotten to where I can take them much easier.

**** don't say that I was over it!

Thanks man. You aren't sooooo bad. Maybe we should watch a game together next year.

I hate to admit this but we have a connection. The old AFL. Love/hate, whatever. If you ever play the fake America Team cowpukes in the SB I'll root for your guys.

When did you stop being an asshole? Are you anti-trolling? Don't make me pos rep you ****stick.

I ain't watching a game with a Chiefs fan LMAO

**** that, we suck bad enough, we don't need any extra juju from a bunch of Chief fans :)

What are you serious I even read Ramsey's book. Damn

Losses would ruin my week when I was young. That's just totally ridiculous. I'm over it before the game is over nowadays.... even with a game like today. Thank God.

Yup I'm 30 now and i don't let them get me down as bad. If this happened 7 years ago me and my friends would be binge drinking until next weekend.

Titans are the only one of those three I think we might have a shot against, though with Hasselbeck at QB, I'd call it a slim chance.

Meh. I'm over it. Even if we got in at 8-8, it would have felt cheap, and we would get rolled again by someone in the playoffs.

If we have the offseason I hope we can have, we can hopefully earn this thing next year...

I run my mouth before a game but I don't troll that much after a loss because I know how it feels, not much for kicking a man when he is down.

That rep stuff has never bothered me one way or another.

It would have been Baltimore or Pittsburgh for us. We wouldn't have played any of those until the championship game.

I never even read his book, as a matter of fact I never even listen to him because if you have heard one of his shows you have heard them all.

I would buy you a beer anytime but I never ever watch a Raider game with anyone unless they come to Carolina and I go to the game...

Youre right. It is ridiculous, especially when you factor in most of the players don't give a shit. Look at them right after a game. Makes me want to blow a gasket.

It's true even after I read it was like seriously ? This is a life changing concept for people? Seemed like common sense to me.

Ass kickings don't bother me as much as the last drive of the game shit.... Like last week vs the Lions....Punt it with 2 mins to go pin em on their own 1 and they drive 99 yards for the win...

Next week you will be rooting for us and will be wanting all the "extra juju" you can get from us Chiefs fans.....

Thats all it is... he is not right about everything.... You can sum up life in one sentence

Don't spend more than you make.

That is all

I sometimes wonder how much the losing teams players smiling and yucking it up with the winning teams players at the end of a game is trying not to show they're beaten and dissappointed to that team and the cameras. I don't know. It's probably just "oh well I'm still rich."

I am a HUGE Chief fan right now LMAO Man I have been salivating at the thought of the Chiefs beating the Donks with Orton since the day he was released....

That will be EPIC


I am calling you out Orton :D

With the way free agency is, they need to be nice because they may be teammates next yr

That too.

I know I'm in the minority but I'd rather the Broncos or Raiders go to the playoffs than the Chargers. I dislike Rivers that much... and whichever team between Denver and Oakland that makes it is likely to get rolled in the opening weekend anyway.

Me hoping or you hatin ain't gonna help the Raiders D
I would not be surprised if the Raiders got their ass kicked next week considering the roller coaster ride this team has been on all year.

We probably won't even make the playoffs

Then go Denver. I'm one of the few that doesn't hate Tebow.

I don't hate him as a person or an athlete or his religion, I don't like the fact of him making a mockery of the NFL QB position

o i would love rivers to get to the playoffs and choke again, its some of the best times

:spock: All they needed if they didn't piss this game away was to beat that pathetic Pop Warner offense out in Pile High.

It hurts...more than any loss I expected to hurt this year, but only because everything else lined up for us...

it would have been REALLY fun to go into next week with a "win and we're in" scenario...

too bad Succop blows nutsack.

I was listening to the last kick on the radio...and I realize the line is getting the blame really but I had absolutely ZERO faith in that kick going in...I'm very pessimistic but still...I have no real faith in Succop.

Bummed? Yeah. Did it ruin my day? Kind of, and that's a shame because I had basically tuned the Chiefs out at two or three different times this season. Yet, they still found a way to sucker me back in with that win vs GB only to crack me in the balls one last time. And Buffalo and Detroit winning to boot? For Christ sakes...

Still, I guess I shouldn't be THAT dissapointed. This was truly a cursed season:

- Our up and coming tight end is lost for the season in the preseason (knew he was going to get hurt at some point...)
- Our top defensive player gone in the first quarter of the first game. This subjects us to the horror that is Sabbi Piscatelli.
- Our Pro Bowl running back lands on a first down marker and rolls into a MASCOT, ending his season in Game 2.

...I mean, a LOT of shit went wrong in places they just can't go wrong for a team to realistically succeed in today's NFL. We had our lucky breaks with the hail mary in Chicago and the fumbled snap vs San Diego that may have propped this team up a bit higher than they should be, but in the end we still had a shot in the final weeks and I suppose that's enough given how shitty this season has been.

There's a LOT to build off of with injured players returning, the emergence of players like DJ, Flowers, Carr and Baldwin, a bevy of cap room that Pioli MUST spend to reach the salary cap floor and a relatively high draft pick that could be used to shore up the offensive or defensive lines (IMO, the chances of us drafting a QB in Round 1 are slim. I guarantee you that management thinks that Stanzi is our "QBotF".) My only real concern is bringing Cassel back next season. Cut ties, resign Orton and build Stanzi up.

There's a lot to build on and I think KC can take the AFC West next year. For good or bad, this offseason is going to be one of the most pivotal in recent memory.

It's bizarre how much your post mirrors my own feelings about this game. Hell, it's taken till today before I could even bring myself to write a post about it.

How this friggin' team always manages to reel me in again and get me so emotionally involved before nailing me with an emotional atomic sucker gut-punch is uncanny. And like you, I have always lived 1000 miles away from fellow Chiefs fans despite having been a fan since childhood. I remember the triumph of Super Bowl IV, never guessing how long I would have to wait to ever see the Chiefs play for another championship.

Maybe it was the time of year that made this one hurt so bad. Maybe it was how eerily similar it was to a Christmas Day 1971 game that tore me to pieces when I was just a kid. Maybe it was how it had seemed for a moment that the Chiefs had climbed their way out of a hellhole of a season and might actually make the playoffs after all the adversity of this season.

And, like you said, maybe it is the fact football has now ended too soon for me until another year, another season. I don't have the overweening arrogance (or the obsession with fantasy football) to pretend I'm Mr. General Manager of the Kansas City Chiefs, waxing philosophic about the only true way to conduct the offseason and occupy myself till next season begins.

Heck, I don't usually ever bring it up on this board but I have several fairly serious health issues that sometimes make me wonder how much longer I can wait for another Chiefs ticker tape parade...

Yeah, this one hurt out of all proportion all right, and I just can't say why.

This is why I have hated Miami for the last 40 years nearly as much as the :donks: and the :Rader:

That pain replays itself too often as a Chiefs fan......:doh!:

Damn.... if I knew this loss was going to really ruin Christmas I would have just let you guys win...







































not really :)

Believe me - I have lived in Florida all my life and ever since that game the bile and hatred for that damnable team overflows every time I hear their name mentioned.

been watching em since the mid 60s .. yea its been a dissapointment .. again ......

This loss sucked, but its par for the course.

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