Is KC a Baseball town or a Football town?

[KCCHIEFS27]

It's like Howie Long said. Baseball is America's past time, but football is America's passion. Even when the Chiefs were putting terrible to mediocre teams out on the field the fans still came. The Royals? Eh, not so much. Overall, I think KC is a great sports town.

[morphius]

Originally Posted by KCCHIEFS27

It's like Howie Long said. Baseball is America's past time, but football is America's passion. Even when the Chiefs were putting terrible to mediocre teams out on the field the fans still came. The Royals? Eh, not so much. Overall, I think KC is a great sports town.

The 1980's had a lot of fans going? The Royals were not even TRYING to be competitive, so people stopped going. The Chiefs were awful long enough in the 80's, so people stopped going.

[DanT]

Originally Posted by morphius

The 1980's had a lot of fans going? The Royals were not even TRYING to be competitive, so people stopped going. The Chiefs were awful long enough in the 80's, so people stopped going.

I worked a post-strike game against the Raiders at Arrowhead in 1982 (an NFL strike season) that seemed to have fewer than 20,000 fans in it (although the official attendance was 26,307 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_K..._Chiefs_season). Granted, it was cold as hell and the Chiefs sucked, but that was not deep into the 1980's. That was 1982. When I was a kid in the late 1970's and early 80's, you could go out to Arrowhead on game day and be sure to get a ticket cheap to see the game and have plenty of elbow room because half the stadium would be empty.