Is KC a Baseball town or a Football town?
 

So this tweet got me thinking that KC is primarily a baseball town. At least when the Royals are good.

Just looking through the posts it feels like apathy has set in again with the Chiefs....


Disgussss.....



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Last night&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash">#Royals</a> game got a 19.8 rating in KC, the highest in any market for an ESPN baseball game in six years. <a href="http://t.co/QRLGq6uHYw">http://t.co/QRLGq6uHYw</a></p>&mdash; Royals Review (@royalsreview) <a href="https://twitter.com/royalsreview/status/633341419533418496">August 17, 2015</a></blockquote>
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It's both. Royals are winning.

Chiefs need to lose the SB in the final minute, then be great the following year. Then it will even out.

It's a whatever sport is better at the moment town. And I don't think that's unique to KC.

Show me state.

I've said this before the Chiefs better get their shit together or all the revenue from the fans will be go to Royals because they have a superior product.

Then the Cardinals should win every year!

Kansas City wants badly to support a team that puts a winning product on the field, the Chiefs have come closest to that. Outside of the last couple years the Royals for the most part have been a poorly ran with bad teams throughout
I think that's why the Chiefs have been supported more so the last 20 years or so.
Now the Royals have been kicking tail and are going to the playoffs again.
Chiefs have really taken a back seat on the bus in this town everyone just wants to live, taste and breathe Royal blue.

Not sure what this means, but the Royals came within an inch of winning it all last year.

The Chiefs havent come that close in decades.

Royals were a cratered organization for all of my adult life and most of my child hood minus like a few brief years with f'ing bo Jackson and the tail end of George Brett's years. Their continued sadness made me pretty much stop watching baseball altogether. Still haven't found the time to care about that organization anymore but I'm glad they made it to the championship. The Chiefs haven't yet burried themselves in a jagged wasteland of sorrow like the Royals had for 9000 years but I'm sure they can find a way if they keep pussying out with game manager quarterbacks in a quarterback driven league.

both

it's becoming a bit of a soccer town in the younger generation as well

Meh, NFL is still king and it'll always be king here too. Really how many Royals fans also follow the Chiefs? Probably 90%. Of those who only follow one id bet anything the Chiefs lead by a healthy margin.

This conversation is getting old. But the answer is KC is a sports town.

Its a winners town.

Like Patton said America loves a winner hates a loser and KC is America.

I'm not sure about that KC can become like STL real quick if the Royals win the WS.

The Royals bring me more joy, at the moment, and I love baseball ... But the Chiefs will always be my #1 sports passion

The chiefs have lost major ground over the last year. They'd only have to go on one run to win back those fans they've jaded. I'm glad there will be an entire generation of young fans who will give a shit about the Royals though. The NFL is king, so the chiefs will always be relevant, but maybe not the talk of the town.

They aren't exclusive, in my view. The only thing that I've observed is that the Royals have cut into my interest level for the Chiefs now...but all the Chiefs are doing is preseason/camp stuff right now.

I think when the Chiefs start the regular season, KC's not going to be a baseball town or a football town...it's just going to be a FREAKING AWESOME town. So much joy.

It is a sports town. What the Royals have going for them right now that the Chiefs sort of struggle with is a large group of good homegrown players who are the core of the team that the fans can get really emotionally invested with.

Anecdotal here but it sure seems like the Royals are winning over the female fans from everyone I talk to, from what I see on my facebook and email feeds and what the crowds look like at the games. 5 years ago I couldn't get my wife to watch 5 seconds of a Royals game, now she knows the players, wears the gear and goes to girls night out at the K. Prob just temporary but I've never seen female interest like I'm seeing now

I don't think there's ever been a year in KC in which the Chiefs and their baseball counterparts, whether it was the A's or the Royals, both reached postseason.

They haven't lost one iota of ground. The difference is that instead of the NFL draft and training camp taking front an center from April to August, the Royals are actually winning.

Arrowhead and the Chiefs will once again be the talk of the town once football season starts and baseball season ends.

I'm not from there but it seems more like a football town.

That's not to take anything away from the Royals and their fans but it just seems like there is more passion and liveliness with football than baseball. I'm giving my outsiders perspective.

It's Hosmer. All the girls are creaming for the dude.

It's also worth noting that the Royals are currently one of the better teams in the league with it's own distinct identity and look. Hosmer, Cueto, Ventura, Perez, Moose, Gordon, Cain have a unique chemistry and the fans are just eating it up. It's easy as **** to market that.

The Royals story took a life of it's own and is selling itself right now. I imagine all the marketing team have to do right now is just show up to the office, massage their nipples for 8-10 hours, then head home.

Yes. It happened in 2014. Chiefs choked at Indy in January and the Royals ran into the buzzsaw known as Bum.

Not the same seasons, I know, but they did occur in the same calendar year. :)

One of the better posts here lately.

Neither, it's a college basketball town.

j/k, baseball obviously

What would you like most to happen in 2015?

Chiefs win the AFC West 4%
Sporting Kansas City win MLS Cup 4%
Royals win the World Series 69%
FC Kansas City win another title 0%
Missouri football win the SEC title 5%
Kansas basketball win the NCAA tournament 8%
Kansas State football win the Big 12 2%
World peace 6%
Other 1%


Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt...#storylink=cpy

KC is a fairweather town mostly because KU fans

I'd say we are a sports town, but at the same time the KC area isn't going to put up with what they know is a crap effort by ownership and management. We love our teams, but there is only so much abuse you can put on smart people before they figure out something else to do with their money.

Not many loser teams have fans.

Now that the Royals are awesome, I'm not really even interested in the Chiefs anymore. I will watch the games, but with little expectation or passion. That playoff game where they blew the huge lead to the Colts really took the passion away for me. I'm too scared to attach myself to them right now.

It's a winner's town,if you win,they will come.

Win what? MLS cup?

well that's just because the royals is actually the most realistic option.

It's like Howie Long said. Baseball is America's past time, but football is America's passion. Even when the Chiefs were putting terrible to mediocre teams out on the field the fans still came. The Royals? Eh, not so much. Overall, I think KC is a great sports town.

LMAO - no shit. This town has not won a World Championship that matters since 1985. We're persistent, but a winner we are not.

The 1980's had a lot of fans going? The Royals were not even TRYING to be competitive, so people stopped going. The Chiefs were awful long enough in the 80's, so people stopped going.

Given that there is no obvious reason why a town would have to be one or the other, let alone a clear-cut way to decide which one it is, I'll just give my viewpoint, which I realize depends heavily on the era in which one grew up.

I was born in KC in 1965 and lived there until 1988, including working as a food vendor at Truman Sports Complex from 1982-88 and even a few NBA games (Kings) at Kemper before they left for Sacramento. I've lived and died with the Royals and the Chiefs from as long as I can remember.

I do not really remember the Chiefs first golden era, though. I distinctly remember the Royals ascension to glory in the seventies and the long run they had as either a perennial playoff contender or as a team that was just shy of playoff contention. That run did not end in 1985. The Royals were a solid franchise up through 1994, the strike season. They were also immensely appreciated by a fan base whose older members could recall the Kansas City Blues and the Kansas City A's.

The Chiefs were a fairly miserable team for most of the 1970's and 1980's. Success back then was to give the Raiders and other good teams a tough game. When Carl Peterson came to town, they polled the fans to find out what success would look like, and if I recall correctly the plurality opinion was simply to be in playoff contention.

The way the Chiefs fans supported the team in the early 1990's was astonishing to me, given how little support they provided in the 1980's. The way that the Chiefs fans got behind the team in the early 1990's was something that received national attention of the same sort that the Royals fans are now getting...except that I think the Royals fans have been even more remarkable in their enthusiasm and surprising to onlookers from other cities.

So I think it's clear that KC loves a winner. It's also clear that KC will stick by the Royals (and A's) and the Chiefs when they go through long eras of losing. All and all, though, I feel like they stuck with the baseball teams in a more steadfast manner than they stuck with the football teams.

Professional baseball has a long history in KC, going back to the Federal League and even earlier. There was a solid tradition of Negro League baseball. I grew up in KC's black belt and I remember lots of older gentlemen describing their days playing baseball. I do not remember many folks talking about their "glory days" playing football or watching football.

In my opinion, if you had to pick just one, I would say that KC is a baseball town.

I worked a post-strike game against the Raiders at Arrowhead in 1982 (an NFL strike season) that seemed to have fewer than 20,000 fans in it (although the official attendance was 26,307 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_K..._Chiefs_season). Granted, it was cold as hell and the Chiefs sucked, but that was not deep into the 1980's. That was 1982. When I was a kid in the late 1970's and early 80's, you could go out to Arrowhead on game day and be sure to get a ticket cheap to see the game and have plenty of elbow room because half the stadium would be empty.

The Chiefs used to be the talk of the town as soon as Training Camp hit. The Royals were awful, the Chiefs were our only hope for a competent team and everybody bought in. Last season, nobody talked about the Chiefs until the Royals season was up. After the all-star break, every radio station, TV station, casual sports fan was all about the Royals and their push. Then they did something we haven't seen the Chiefs do it two decades. Won the city over by going on a real, amazing playoff run. The Chiefs are getting such little run right now it's mind-blowing.

You don't see much Chiefs gear when you go out and about in KC, it's all Royals, all the time. And that's just a couple of middling years and a real playoff run. If the Chiefs went to the AFCC, this town would get so hard the erection would be visible from space. But until then, it's a Royals town. There's room for both, but the Chiefs have to do their part.

It helps that Royals gear looks way better than Chiefs gear.

LMAO

This is absolutely true as well. The Ronald McDonald scheme isn't the best look. Some poor bastards are actually Chiefs and KSU fans.

KC will never be a soccer town. LOL

Sorry I should've said a chance at winning town,you give KC fans the belief the teams can do it and they win in the regular season somewhat regularly they will come.

It's a town that will support a winner, regardless of sport. Like most places...

Football, baseball AND College Basketball.

Not a baseball town.
STL is a baseball town.

STL has become what it is from their baseball team being good every year and every other of their sports being shit.. every year.

FYP

:thumb:

The people have spoken. Baseball town!


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Weather plays a huge factor, but I must say I didn&#39;t expect the Royals parade to dwarf the Chiefs turnout <a href="https://t.co/pU23JTn0jk">pic.twitter.com/pU23JTn0jk</a></p>&mdash; Andrew Joseph (@AndyJ0seph) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndyJ0seph/status/1225132684675960834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Not a fair comparison. Weather was nasty dude, come on.

I think MANY people who went to the Royals parade figured out that it was such a madhouse, it was easier to watch the Chiefs parade on TV. (especially due to the forecasted weather).
I couldn't even make it to Union Station from the parade in 2015 because there wasn't any room.

Yeah, weather was pitch-perfect in 2015. That makes a major difference.

The diff is the Royals was first

The difference was the weather but I might still argue that the Chiefs parade had equal or more people at it. From what I’ve seen of today’s and what I remember for the Royals, there’s a lot more people on the parade route today than there was for the Royals.

it's a baseball town. But the Chiefs have the niche market as well

The city handled the Royals parade poorly. People didn't want to go through that again. They had a better plan this time but people already had a negative experience.

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97% of the TV's in KC were watching this Super Bowl. What about the 2015 World Series?

NFL rules here, as most US cities, with the exception of St. Louis. Royals craze disappeared as quick as it came. Fan support for Chiefs in this city has been strong and consistent since Marty.

Starting from 1969, with the Royals being an expansion team, the Royals have four pennants and two world championships, which is better than the one AFL, one AFC, and two world championships that the up-and-running Chiefs have accomplished in that time.

Yeah but....it's baseball.

There were definitely a lot more people at the Royals event but that Chiefs pic was clearly taken very early in the day. The hill filled up, although it didn't really get full until the parade watchers started coming over. At the Royals, the parade route crowd couldn't get on the hill because it was already packed.

No question the cold was the big difference. A lot less kids at this one.

Nah... really cold shitty weather I think KC shows up hard for both of these teams.

:facepalm:

Yes

I like baseball more than football but there’s no question football is bigger here,like it is about everywhere.

They said early that they already had more people than the Royals parade so....

Either way this city loves their baseball and football teams!

Football is king literally everywhere and has been for over 30 years.

Football reigns supreme in KC and has been that way for over 50 years. Currently the Royals are in the shitter. They have 3 years until they get back to the playoffs. Right now the Chiefs are about to win multiple titles.

It's a sports town. Don't pick when you don't have to.

Football is pretty much popular everywhere but this town is def a bandwagon baseball town.

It didn't help the dumbass weather people were saying 3 inches of snow during the parade.

The Kansas City Kings

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I really wish the <a href="https://twitter.com/Chiefs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Chiefs</a> wouldn&#39;t have tweeted out a picture of fans at Union Station 4 hours beforehand.<br>That has become the national narrative instead of this. <a href="https://t.co/2F6zmjOyBa">pic.twitter.com/2F6zmjOyBa</a></p>&mdash; Jeff ���� (@CoachJeffHardin) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachJeffHardin/status/1225199184216838144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That first photo was something like 4 hours before the parade i think i read. Here is a better picture.

I'd give football the edge, but doesn't have to be an "either or". This town is a good sports town and can support both.

The Chiefs are in a much better position going forward for the next 10-12 years with Mahomes and the way the MLB cap works.

Yeah this. The Chiefs needs to beat the drum and put this out there

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Being in back to back World Series and winning one was great and I enjoyed every second of it.

But the Chiefs winning a Super Bowl has always meant a lot more to me personally.

The pic is very early. The guy tweetings an idiot, just like Deberg

I'd rather watch baseball than read a Deberg thread