I hope our Fanbase doesn't change because of this...

[Riverfront was better]

(01-31-2022, 10:05 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Whether we win the Super Bowl or not, and whether we turn this team into a dynasty or not, I REALLY hope our fan base doesn't turn into the Chiefs fan base.

Reading the NFL subreddit game thread and then reading the comments from Chiefs fans on twitter, and then reading their own subreddit after the game, those fans are absolutely terrible. I imagine a fair number of them are bandwagon fans, but the Chiefs are not some historically relevant franchise. How they have turned so toxic so quickly is horrifying. And that's not even getting into the media stans (Nick Wright is the worst one).

Nothing is the Chiefs' fault. They are the victims of everything. The refs are out to get them. The Bengals didn't deserve to face them. etc.

I really hope this team and this fanbase remain likable and humble even in the face of success.

I don't want us to be the NFL's villain in 3 or 4 years like the Chiefs have become. I want us to always be the hero of the story. And I think Burrow will remain who he is. I'm just a little nervous about the fan base haha.

When the Chiefs fans say that the Bengals didn't deserve to face them, remind them that in one of their very few SB years, SB IV, when they beat the Vikings, they were only in the AFL playoffs at all because of a weird interim setup that existed for only that year because the merger with the NFL was imminent. Under that setup, second-pace teams in each of the AFL's two divisions were allowed into the playoffs, in a sort of precursor to the wildcard system. The kicker—the Chiefs had been beaten by the division champion Raiders twice during the regular season. The Chiefs wouldn't have made the playoffs, except for that weird one-year playoff scheme.

Just as Tony Romo was rooting for the Chiefs yesterday, Al DeRogatis, an NBC announcer, always rooted for the Chiefs, especially against the Raiders, and he didn't even try to disguise it during that playoff game against the Raiders. I've never understood why announcers like the Chiefs so much, but I think some of it has to do with them being a founding AFL franchise, as the Houston Texans, and love for Lamar Hunt, and for their coach, Hank Stram, who was an intolerable whiner.