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Originally Posted by RealSNR

I've got a buddy (Vikes fan) and we've watched the draft together the past several years. He has a younger brother who was an "oops" kid, and that guy is a Chiefs fan. At the time of the 17 draft, he was still in high school I believe. I've never met the brother, but I have spoken to him twice on the phone on draft days, usually to talk him off a cliff. During the Marcus Peters year it was all, "We needed a receiver! Why did we take a corner?!" and I was nice and said that corner is a far bigger need on the Chiefs than you think.

But then the 2017 draft. The trade up happens. My actual friend knows all about my gripes about the Chiefs and their fear of drafting QBs since 1983. The pick comes in. It's Mahomes. I'm ecstatic-- nearly on the verge of crying I'm so happy.

His phone rings.

"What the hell?!! **** this stupid ****ing franchise!!! We took the next Graham Harrell loser instead of the QB who singlehandedly beat Alabama?!!!"

I was in too good of a mood to tell him to get AIDS. I tried to educate the boy. Said there have been tons of arm talent QBs to cross Andy Reid's radar since McNabb got drafted, and other than Kolb (2nd rounder) this is the only one he's said, "Yep, that's the one." If it's good enough for Reid, it's good enough for me.

"NO **** THIS! This stupid franchise sucks! I'm not watching anymore! I can't take this shit! We are so close to winning right now and we throw away two first round picks on a QB when we've already got one! And the one we actually took is going to be a huge bust! There's no way a Texas Tech QB can ever..."

Before I can say anything, my buddy goes, "Cheer up you miserable little bitch. Shut the **** up." Hangs up on him.

I think the guy has finally come around on Mahomes. But throughout all of 2017 and well into the 2018 preseason, he was still fervently anti-Mahomes.

Was his nickname tiger?