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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
My argument?
That winning titles in sports is more memorable and important than even rare and cool and notable regular season accomplishments.
The conversation WAS about weighing which was more memorable/important - an undefeated regular season that doesn't end with a Super Bowl win, or a 5-loss regular season that does end with a Super Bowl win. That's the context my original comment dropped into.
Unless you're a ku fan. As several of them (you?) have shown in this thread. What's more impressive on the national landscape: North Carolina winning 3 national titles (and 9 conference titles, with a long "streak" of 3 years) since Williams and Self got there? Or kansas winning 1 but pulling off the 14* year title streak?
Which baseball team is considered to have been better this century - the Braves with all their division titles and long division title streak, or the Giants with their World Series wins?
End point: Focus on the winning the Super Bowl. If they can add some cool trivia items along the way, awesome. But regular season accomplishments are distantly secondary to postseason ones.
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Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar
This seems to keep morphing into different arguments.
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Exactly.
"More memorable" can easily be championship or not and it's highly subjective. I watched "40-16" KU/UNC in the Final Four with my dad in KC, which was more memorable than DVR'ing the NC game against Memphis due to work and then watching it alone in my apartment in Omaha.
One of my absolute favorites was beating Duke and that douchebag Grayson Allen in the Final Four.... or there's the relatively unexpected run of 2012... or way back to the vastly underrated KU/Texas rivalry.
And for the Chiefs, the 2018 AFCCG ranks right up there with the past two in terms of being memorable, even though of course neither compare to the SB comeback.
But then the argument changes to importance/impressive on the national landscape..... yeah, don't care at all what ESPN thinks. They once ranked a horse as one of the top athletes of all time.
And then 'better this century'... of course, most people will look at titles first.
And that conversation isn't black and white, IMO... the Chiefs could go undefeated in the regular season (meh), then beat the Raiders and then a 52 year old Tom Brady playing for the Broncos in the playoffs, then lose in overtime in a 45-44 on a last second field goal.
....or they could go 12-5 and beat a couple of shit teams in the playoffs, then some unmemorable AFCCG, and some Patriots/Rams type of boring ass SB that would only have any entertainment value at all because the Chiefs were playing in it.
But yeah, most people would still look back on one with negativity for not closing the deal in the much more memorable season, and positively that at least they won a SB in a year where they might not have deserved one... guess I'd go back to saying enjoy the ride.
