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01-10-2019, 11:21 AM | #16 |
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Because our fandom is part of our identity. So it's only natural that we make their success and failures personal.
For some of us, they represent us too. As a Chiefs fan in San Diego, there aren't many of us. So to my many friends and family over the years when they see the Chiefs, they think of me. "Dang Detoxing must be so happy right now since they have Mahomes" Or "Dang, Detoxing must be pissed right now after that loss" "I saw the Chiefs the other day, made me think of you...."
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01-10-2019, 11:24 AM | #17 |
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Battered wife syndrome.
It's a way to bond with my friends and family back in KC. It's like a striptease where you never actually get to see much more than a glimpse of a nipple - but it drives you crazy much more than a gaping vagina right in your face. That's all I got. |
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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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01-10-2019, 11:41 AM | #19 |
Life is changing..
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Because we are the Chiefs
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01-10-2019, 12:02 PM | #20 | |
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I remember that day like it was yesterday. Mom had made us biscuits and sausage patties that morning so that we could make breakfast sandwiches before the game, so that we didnt have to spend any extra money at the game since it was so expensive and our family was pretty poor when I was a kid. So we get to the stadium without any problems and the Chiefs pretty much dominated the Jags. The score made it seem like the game was closer than it was, but the Chiefs were up 35-24 with less than 6 minutes to go. The Jags scored with 5 minutes left, but they never got the ball back. So if you all remember the 2006 season, then youd remember that the Chiefs needed like 3 teams to lose (Bengals, Broncos, Titans) and they had to win to make it into the playoffs. Well I remember when we were at the game a group on people sitting several rows back started to erupt and go crazy. Well word got to us pretty quickly that Shayne Graham from the Bengals missed a 39 yard field goal that would have won the game and they were going to OT. Well the Steelers got the ball first in OT and scored in the first 3 plays. So we leave the game and start our drive home, it took us like 1 and a half hours to get home. By the time we had left 3 of the 4 things we needed to happen happened (Chiefs win, Patriots beat the Titans, Steelers beat the Bengals). The last thing we needed to happen was the 49ers needed to beat the Broncos. This was the Alex Smith led 49ers. When we got home the Broncos were up 13-0 and right around half time. I thought ok well ill just take a nap, since I was tired from the long day and I had a feeling that the Broncos were going to win. I wasnt even terribly mad, because I knew going into the day that the chances the Chiefs were going to win the wild card were pretty slim. At least I got some brief excitement from the brief dreams of making the post season. So I wake up from my nap and to my surprise its the 4th qtr and omg the 49ers are up a TD! Could this really be happening? My brother and I shared a room and he had fallen asleep too so I wake him up to watch the end with me. So if you all dont remember, the Broncos tied the game and force overtime. OT is a shit show and no one is able to move the ball and im just thinking after all of this excitement none of these ****ers are going to score and its going to end in a tie and Im pretty sure that meant the Broncos are in. But as fate would have it Alex Smith leads the 49ers down the field and the 49ers kick a FG with 2 minutes remaining in OT to beat the Donkeys and send KC into the playoffs. After the 49ers won I jumped up out of my bed and started running around the house and yelling like a crazy person. Everyone knows that we did nothing in the playoffs and got our asses kicked by the Super Bowl champions the Indianapolis Mannings. That was the only Chiefs game I ever went to with my brother and he passed away 4 years after that. Its one of my favorite memories with him. Just my brother and I among 70,000 other Chiefs fans on one of the most exciting days that I can remember. You can have so many special memories that would have been just another day if it hadnt been for the Chiefs. I just had to look up my earliest memory of the Chiefs and all I knew was Pete Stoyanovich made a long FG at the end of the game to beat the Broncos. It was week 12 of the 1997 season and I was only 7. Broncos were up 22-21 after horse face drove the donks down the field and Elam kicked a FG to put them ahead. Rich Gannon gets the ball back with 2 minutes left and drives down the field and sets up Stoyanovichs 54 yards FG as time expires to beat the Donkeys at Arrowhead. I remember that day because my uncle who is a huge Chiefs fan gave me the biggest high five of my life to that point. So thats why I care. Without this team I would never have those memories. |
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01-10-2019, 12:04 PM | #21 | |
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01-10-2019, 01:04 PM | #22 |
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Now that you bring it up? I shouldn't care. At all.
**** IT I'M OUT OF HERE |
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01-10-2019, 01:13 PM | #23 |
I'll be back.
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Because a long time ago we got infected and there's nothing you can do about it.
It just is and there's no explaining it. You can't turn it off. We're the only fanbase that's led a goddamn grass roots revolt against the GM, and that's because the franchise is like our ****ing kid. We're all sick in the head and we're gonna love every minute of it.
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01-10-2019, 01:13 PM | #24 |
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I think it's more about socializing with people.
When your team is good it's fun to hang out and watch games with friends/family; It's fun attending games; It's fun talking about games; It's fun posting about the game; It's fun talking shit to opposing fans etc |
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01-10-2019, 01:15 PM | #25 | |
Rockin' yer FACE OFF!
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I like the idea of tribalism and wanting to belong to a sort of "exclusive" group. We're Chiefs fans, unless you are one, you don't get it. Or we're Husker fans, or Mizzou or whatever team and sport. So I guess maybe the reason we care so much is that...we need to. We need to be a part of something that is bigger (although infinitely less important) than we are. We pride ourselves as human beings in being rational, but there is literally no rationality to being a fan of a sports team. It's all emotion. Maybe that's something as well... I do know that I have a great love of the game of football, so my passion is there, and I've attached the Chiefs as the team that fulfill my passion for the game. I can't and won't do fantasy football because I'd have to pay attention to other teams that I frankly don't give a shit about. In that way, I'm a pure Chiefs fan (in college it's the Huskers). I may have some teams that I don't hate, but there is no other team for me than my Chiefs. Not sure how I got here since nobody in my family was a Chiefs fan, but there you go. I feel a part of something, and if we (see what I did there) win or lose, I'll always be a fan.
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01-10-2019, 01:15 PM | #26 |
Rockin' yer FACE OFF!
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Quitter.
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01-10-2019, 01:16 PM | #27 |
"You like to drink?"
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Oxytocin.
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01-10-2019, 01:19 PM | #28 |
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I don't know why I care so much. I do know I'm not gonna stop caring so much now; after all the shit I've swallowed over the years. I'm gonna care even more now that it looks like we have the great biracial hope.
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Rockin' yer FACE OFF!
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Rockin' yer FACE OFF!
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I mean, you can't decide all that time was wasted...so you press on...
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