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Originally Posted by Raiderhader
A change in the team’s fortunes justifies inconsistency on the topic of wether or not it is acceptable to drag family business into discussions of team issues?
Some of you people are just plain loony.
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It was never OK to bring Reid’s family into things, but the moment Chiefs fans are in right now - as CP abundantly proves - is that the fans only want fawning homerism. When the team is in the toilet they want everyone fired and they want the media to help with that, but when the fans are optimistic, they only want to hear homerism.
Homerism makes optimistic people happy, they don’t want to hear about off the field problems or weaknesses the team may have, and if they do they want to hear a homeristic voice saying it’s all a non issue and everything is fine.
Officer Barbrady is going to be way more popular on 810 than a voice that says “Hey we love our Chiefs, but there’s a problem here.” Or “Yes we’re having a great season, but the defense is too terrible to beat an elite QB in the playoffs, or win a Super Bowl” or “Hey, this off the field situation might become a problem and it’s bigger than football”.
Kietzman, already unpopular for being a general douchebag, threw himself into the wood chipper of pissing off everyone in all camps at once - the team, the homers, casual fans - and even people who have clear eyes about off the field problems wouldn’t defend him because he went out of the bounds of basic decency.
It still wouldn’t have been ok if this were last season and it was Bob Sutton’s dead son that a radio personality were making fun of, but it would have been cheered and repeated as a joke by homers because Sutton was an unpopular figure and homers hated him. Not so with Reid.
Keitzman for some reason, probably just stupidity, threw himself to the wolves and left no ground even for his apologists to stand on.