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This is typical fan chat after a loss like we just had.
Here in San Francisco, it was all over the radio after Chiefs beat them in the Super Bowl.
Listening to that, for the first time after being a Chiefs fan for so long, it finally made sense: losing close games is worse than being blown-out. Because with a narrow loss there will be, like, five things in the game that could have changed the outcome, and they will haunt you for a week or longer (we Chiefs fans have so many of these games they have nicknames like the "no punt" game, or the "pass batted back to the QB for a touchdown" game, or the "beaten with six filed goals" game, etc.) So you try to nit-pick those things to make sense of it, to somehow convince yourself your team is still number one, and any bounce of the ball or (no) flip of the flag would have put your team on top.
Well, they lost this week.
On to the playoffs.
BTW the best player on the field only got our team to a field goal and tie game with a few minutes left.
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