Here's what I don't get...
 

I've been as outspoken critic of Peterson as there is on this board. This team has been mired in mediocrity for 2 decades. But since when did KC become that team?

You know what I mean. Like when San Diego lost last week. It was all, "Can you believe SD lost to the Chiefs? I mean it was the Chiefs!!!"

or when John Clayton does his preview to this weeks upcoming game he says that if the Jags what to keep up in the AFC South they "can't afford to lose to a team like the Chiefs" WTF???

It's all over the place. Was this some mandate by someone to suddenly crown KC the Raiders? This team DID make the playoffs last year didn't it? I know KC isn't one of the powerhouses or the most popular team in the league, but man, the tone in which they are talked about I have never seen before and it's baffling.

I agree, its completely out of control.

Teams with worse records than us get more pub, teams that didnt even make the playoffs get more national games...i dont get it either.

I mean, the Monday nighter features the MOTHERFARKIN BILLS FER CRIPE PETE!!!

Poison my eyes.

It's the media that has sold this bill of goods that this is a pathetic team, and they continue to perpetuate that. They do a very good job at shaping perception, and many fans bite.

This team upgraded on defense and remained about the same on offense as last year. What makes any fan think that results not similar to last year (about a .500 team) are coming?

The media.

The fan base is becoming impatient, with the Super Bowl the only way to success in some's eyes. The media has never gotten along with Carl Peterson really well. They think he is arrogant. So they perpetuate it that the Chiefs are terrrible. Worse than the Raiders last year.

And the fans eat it up.

Until they come out and actually look decent and competitive. Sure, not Colts/Patriots like. But, about like last year, which is what you'd expect from a team that looks a lot like last year.

But the media still tries to sell it as terrible.

And the fans who bought that we were terrible, but then have seen with their own eyes the last few weeks that we are not, ask why.

I also think this goes to show what a performance in front of a national audience does to shape an image. Most NFL fans haven't seen KC since that embarrassing performance in Indy. Hence that's what they expect form them every week. KC doesn't get the national exposure to change opinions about them.

If that game against SD had been seen by most of the country most would realize that it was won by KC just as much as it was lost by SD. But all we get to hear is, Norv is an idiot, he's ruining the best 1-3 team in football.

Two weeks ago when Clayton did his first and ten he didn't put the KC/Min gane on his list. Not because it wasn't an interesting game, but because (and this is what he wrote),"...the rest of the games are huge mismatches." I'm assuming he thought Minny was going to roll. In Arrowhead.

I for one am LOVING THIS. Under the radar all the way baby.

Yup. I hope it continues.

It wasn't the effing Colts game.
You don't become 'that team' with people still remembering you were even IN the playoffs.
The O in preseason and in the first 2 1/2 regular season games is what overshadowed everything to make us 'that team' at least for those who still think we are 'that team.'

Just win baby, just win ....

Can you believe that? How in the hell did Cowboys/Bills end up on MNF?

Well, actually it started before the regular season started. I think it had to do with Star Players, with losing Roaf, Shields, and Green over the last few years all we had left was TG and LJ, which means we must suck.

That's part of it too. I was mainly railing against the sheer stupidity of positing that a playoff performance was so bad that it was the reason people are thinking of us as the worst team in the league.
There have been teams that got punked like 50-0 in the playoffs and people still remembered they were a playoff team.
Some Chiefs fans are so scarred by playoff losses that they've lost perspective of how non-fans view the situation.

pimpin the cowboys. figuring the bills to be bad it will look good for the cowboys to roll them on nat. tv.

the preseason and the first two games was all it took. We were amazingly bad then. Not only that, to the media teams are their QBs and Huard doesn't impress anyone.

I don't know how long it's going to take to shake it off... my guess would be a decisive win this week would do it, but it might take us being playoff contenders late in the season, who knows.

This is the same treatment that this team has recieved since the 90's. This team has never been a media magnet. Which is fine with me. The more teams that come into to Arrowhead planning on an easy win the bigger the heartache as they fall to the "lowly" Chiefs. Nothing satisfied me more than seeing LT on the sidelines looking up at the scoreboard and shaking his head in disbelief last Sunday. Can't wait to see this more and more this season!! GO CHIEFS!!!