Most fans be fair-weather fans. I'm sure a lot of Yankee fans moaned about not winning the pennant in 1959 and then complained even more about losing the '63 and '64 series.
AMEN! Being a fan only when a team is winning, is not a true fan. We sat through a lot of down years with the Chiefs, we're still fans. That only makes these incredibly successful years mean even more.
When I got to Kansas City in the early 1980s the Star had season tickets nobody wanted so I'd get them and take the Sunday paper to Arrowhead because it was a nice quiet place to get some reading in. Plus there was an NFL game going on down on the field, but I'd often have the entire section to myself.
Then the Chiefs screwed it up for me by winning too much.
And I felt the same way that you do about the Royals: lots of people started showing up in 2014 and '15, but I was sure it meant more to the people who had shown up in the lean years.
If you only buy tickets and wear the hats and jackets when a team is doing well, you're a fan of winning, not the team.
Thank you for calling out spoiled Chiefs fans. Having suffered through all the (very) lean years I still pinch myself every now and then and say, "Wait. The Chiefs did what?"
Whoever thought the Kansas City Chiefs would be a bell cow for the NFL? And they've done sooo much to raise the image of this city, nationally. Even if the big run IS over we should all be grateful and not go cry babying around. Just sad Travis Kelsey might be ending his career like this.
Sorry, but Kevin Costner should have stopped making baseball movies after Bull Durham. No way he could top that gem.
If nothing else, fans should realize how lucky the team was last year. We should've known things would even out. Same with the Royals: 2024 was magical, 2025 was the real world.
How many people still alive know what a gunnysack is? I mean, I know what “a gunnysack of footballs” looks like but does anyone else?
The longer I manage to live the more dated my references get.
Most fans be fair-weather fans. I'm sure a lot of Yankee fans moaned about not winning the pennant in 1959 and then complained even more about losing the '63 and '64 series.
AMEN! Being a fan only when a team is winning, is not a true fan. We sat through a lot of down years with the Chiefs, we're still fans. That only makes these incredibly successful years mean even more.
When I got to Kansas City in the early 1980s the Star had season tickets nobody wanted so I'd get them and take the Sunday paper to Arrowhead because it was a nice quiet place to get some reading in. Plus there was an NFL game going on down on the field, but I'd often have the entire section to myself.
Then the Chiefs screwed it up for me by winning too much.
And I felt the same way that you do about the Royals: lots of people started showing up in 2014 and '15, but I was sure it meant more to the people who had shown up in the lean years.
If you only buy tickets and wear the hats and jackets when a team is doing well, you're a fan of winning, not the team.
Thank you for calling out spoiled Chiefs fans. Having suffered through all the (very) lean years I still pinch myself every now and then and say, "Wait. The Chiefs did what?"
Whoever thought the Kansas City Chiefs would be a bell cow for the NFL? And they've done sooo much to raise the image of this city, nationally. Even if the big run IS over we should all be grateful and not go cry babying around. Just sad Travis Kelsey might be ending his career like this.
Sorry, but Kevin Costner should have stopped making baseball movies after Bull Durham. No way he could top that gem.
If nothing else, fans should realize how lucky the team was last year. We should've known things would even out. Same with the Royals: 2024 was magical, 2025 was the real world.