Nazi Youth Chiefs Fans.

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Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

It's too early to say. Right now you don't have the expectations that they will win every week like you once did, so a win is surprising and welcomed and a loss is no big deal. After a few years of winning things tend to change, you let yourself be more involved invested, and the losses become unacceptable and miserable. Just look at the 9er and Packer fans right now. If they manage to get the playoffs and god forbid make some noise a few years in a row you will be living and dying with each game once again.

Right now the fan base is in 1989 8-7-1 Chief mode.

No, it's also how the team has treated me as a STH, and other factors. Back in 1993 when we were one game from the Superbowl, King Carl sent out a really ugly letter to the STH about Super Bowl tickets. Do NOT call the Chiefs, we WILL NOT help you get tickets, LEAVE US ALONE, yap yap yap.

At that time it had been 24 years since the Chiefs had a sniff of the Super Bowl, and at that point my family had been STH for 27 years. And when push came to shove, the Chiefs really told us what they thought of us as STH. We were a nuisance.

Now, tickets are even more expensive, and the average guy can't afford to go, anyway. You'd have to win a contest to have any chance of going, unless you want a second mortgage on the house. It's a game for rich people to sell advertising, and network in the suites behind the "gold seats," and make money, that's it.

I know the Chiefs won't give a rip about me when push comes to shove, so I don't take winning and losing personally any more. We're really not part of the equation. Like their own PR wanks said quite eloquently last year "Your choice to be a fan."

Sorry, but undying love and commitment is a two way street. Once you see the man behind the curtain, it's hard to live or die for a corporate enterprise.