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Originally Posted by scho63
Being a Chiefs fan for 41 years and never living in the KC area to comfort my wounds with fellow loyalists, this loss really ranks as one of my top 10 in terms of pain and disgust. Not sure why at this stage in life if feels so shitty but it was a huge downer.
Maybe being near Christmas? Maybe the big tease of feeling so high after last weeks win and thinking we would make the playoffs? Maybe the realization that it will be another 9 months of waiting to see what next year's team brings.
Being a loyal Chiefs fan is really as close to masochism as I can imagine.
How does this lose rank for you? |
It's bizarre how much your post mirrors my own feelings about this game. Hell, it's taken till today before I could even bring myself to write a post about it.
How this friggin' team always manages to reel me in again and get me so emotionally involved before nailing me with an emotional atomic sucker gut-punch is uncanny. And like you, I have always lived 1000 miles away from fellow Chiefs fans despite having been a fan since childhood. I remember the triumph of Super Bowl IV, never guessing how long I would have to wait to ever see the Chiefs play for another championship.
Maybe it was the time of year that made this one hurt so bad. Maybe it was how eerily similar it was to a Christmas Day 1971 game that tore me to pieces when I was just a kid. Maybe it was how it had seemed for a moment that the Chiefs had climbed their way out of a hellhole of a season and might actually make the playoffs after all the adversity of this season.
And, like you said, maybe it is the fact football has now ended too soon for me until another year, another season. I don't have the overweening arrogance (or the obsession with fantasy football) to pretend I'm Mr. General Manager of the Kansas City Chiefs, waxing philosophic about the only
true way to conduct the offseason and occupy myself till next season begins.
Heck, I don't usually ever bring it up on this board but I have several fairly serious health issues that sometimes make me wonder how much longer I can wait for another Chiefs ticker tape parade...
Yeah, this one hurt out of all proportion all right, and I just can't say why.