Seth Keysor: The five stages of 2023 Chiefs fandom

[BigRedChief]

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The five stages of 2023 Chiefs fandom

Let's work towards acceptance of who Kansas City is (a team with a puncher's chance), and who they aren't (a great team).
SETH KEYSOR
DEC 12


I wasn’t mad on Sunday night as I left Arrowhead Stadium. No, seriously, I wasn’t.

Sure, the Chiefs had just lost a(nother) frustrating close game, this time falling by a field goal to a desperate Bills team fighting to stay in the playoff picture. Sure, the Chiefs had basically tanked their chance at the 1-seed in the playoffs and even (gulp) put themselves in some jeopardy of missing the playoffs entirely if they aren’t careful. Sure, three of the last four games have been losses that should have been wins. And sure, once again self-inflicted errors killed what should have been a win. All of those things are quite frustrating. Maddening, even.

And yet, I was in a pretty good mood as I walked out of Arrowhead and drove back to the great white north. Maybe it was because I’d just had yet another fantastic weekend of friends and food (shout out to Meat Mitch, which sent me into a meat-induced food coma Saturday night). Maybe it was because the most beautiful woman in the universe was on my arm as we enjoyed a kidless vacation (love you, kiddos, I swear!). Or maybe it was because I had finally reached a healthy place with the 2023 Chiefs.

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[crayzkirk]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

6.25% chance

seems high tbh

Nor is each one truly random as a coin flip would be.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brother

I just wish that was the reaction to mvs interference instead. That was obviously a ref **** up, but they stayed silent on it. The officials deserve to be called out for deliberate screw ups.

To me the MVS one is the worse of the officiating ****ery. But Mahomes was clear about it, and probably right, over the long term. He'd rather the refs let them play and let the chips fall where they may rather than the ticky tack shit.

But yeah, he's stayed out of the conspiracy stuff of "they're ****ing us" of which there is a compelling case, but it is smart to stay above.

The individual calls get the press, but what's infuriating to me is the disparity between calls.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

We are entering stage 2 of the Mahomes era. He’s getting top of the NFL money. Going to have to be cheaper somewhere else.

Yeah, I get we have to get cheaper somewhere. I just believe that we got too cheap at WR. And the evidence seems to bear that out, unfortunately. Veach/Andy should've acquired at least one actual possession veteran WR, to leaven the youth/inexperience of the WR room. But they chose not to, for whatever reasons, that I'm no longer interested in.


But I'm fine with it at this point. What's done is done. We'll see if one or two of them can pull their heads out of their asses before the end of the season, or they won't. Thankfully we have Andy, Spags, Pat and Travis, so as the article said, we still have a decent puncher's chance to win another Ring.

2 Rings in the last 5 years makes this year's struggles seem temporary, so I can just sit back and enjoy the ride wherever it takes us, and not be too upset about the state of the offense in 2023.