Which Chiefs Moment Hurt the Worst?
by Bewsaf on Feb 16, 2010 11:15 AM CST
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As I reflected upon the 2009 season I wondered if there had been any point in recent history in which I felt worse. Surly there wasn't.
The Chiefs 2009 year was grueling. At times it was painful to watch. What made it worse was the fact that the Chiefs have had three consecutive seasons of painful football. After three grueling years of being angry, sad, excited, depressed, and down right fed up there surly wasn't a moment in Chiefs recent history that hurt worse.
Was there?
Kansas City Chiefs 2009:
The Kansas City Chiefs conclude 3 consecutive seasons of 4 wins or less. With a total three year record of 10-38.
- Significant Event: Chiefs experience a third straight season of having a .250 winning percentage.
Kansas City Chiefs 2003:
The Chiefs came roaring out of the gates in 2003 winning their first nine games of the season. In that season, fans witnessed Dante Hall set a record with four consecutive games with a kick return for a touchdown and Priest Holmes setting a new record of 28 touchdowns in one season. The Chiefs finished the season with a 13-3 record and a first round bye in the playoffs. The Chiefs then played the Colts at Arrowhead in what would be an offensive battle. The Chiefs defense could not find a way to force Indianapolis to punt and the Colts advanced to the AFC Championship game by beating the Chiefs 38-31.
- Significant Event: Chiefs lose in first round of playoffs after a 13-3 record and a first round bye.
Kansas City Chiefs 1998:
In 1998 the Chiefs would start fast but then go on a six game losing streak. The season ended with the Chiefs recording a 7-9 record. The significant event in 1998 was not the Chiefs record, however. The significant event in 1998 was the news that Head Coach Marty Schottenheimer resigned his position and the long tradition of winning under the hard nosed coach was over.
- Significant Event: Marty Schottenheimer resigns.
Kansas City Chiefs 1997:
In 1997 the Chiefs orginazation would experience a quarterback controversy. Elvis Grbac was the season opening starter, but after a mid-season injury Rich Gannon took over and lead the Chiefs to five consecutive wins down the stretch, a 13-3 record, and a playoff birth. However, Grbac would be able to return in the first playoff game and the fans of KC were divided on who should start. Marty Schottenheimer eventually went with Elvis Grbac as his starter and the Chiefs lost the game 14-10. Rich Gannon would eventually leave the team for the Raiders in 1999.
- Significant Event: Elvis Grbac gets the nod over Rich Gannon and the Chiefs go on to lose to Denver in the playoffs by a 14-10 score. The eventual release of Rich Gannon goes into motion.
Kansas City Chiefs 1995:
The Chiefs got off to a 10-1 start in 1995 and ended the season with a 13-3 record. Kansas City earned a home field advantage and a first round bye in the playoffs. The Chiefs played he Indianapolis Colts in 11 degree weather and the kicker who shall not be named missed FIVE field goals in a 10-7 loss.
- Significant Event: The kicker who shall not be named misses five field goals in a 10-7 playoff loss.
Kansas City Chiefs 1993:
The 1993 season started with the Kansas City Chiefs trading for quarterback Joe Montana. With Montana and a few other key additions the Chiefs finished the season with an 11-5 record and won the AFC west title. The Chiefs would advance in the playoffs to play a road game against a highly favored Oilers team. A 21-yard touchdown by Marcus Allen sealed the victory a very electric 28-20 win . The Chiefs would then play in the AFC championship game against the Buffalo Bills. Thurman Thomas would go on to lead the Bills to a 30-13 victory with 186 rushing yards. The Chiefs falling a game short of making it to the Super Bowl.
- Significant Event: Chiefs lose to Bills in AFC Championship game. One game shy of the Super Bowl.
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I'm with you on the losing seasons
As bad as the ’95 loss was, and it hurt bad, the ongoing losing was the worst.
i said 1993
because i remember being around 9 or 10 and my father telling me “there is always next year son” haha look where that got me, 16 more years of waiting for results! Damn you dad and all your “positive” talking j/k the old man is still hanging in there with the rest of us waiting on the Chiefs to come around!
Warriors come out and play
Ok
If your gonna do a post like this you better back it up with a “Favorite Chiefs moment” post. Don’t leave us with these terrible bookmarks of Chiefs history.
"Its going to be a challenge, its going to feel like forever, and there will be difficulties. But we will emerge on the other side of it stronger than we were when we entered." ~ Sudden
by Matt_Grbac on Feb 16, 2010 11:42 AM CST via mobile reply actions 3 recs
I have to roll with Trent Green getting kicked in the head and basically ending his career
OR…Priest Holmes’ career ending at the hands of Shawne Merriman…
Those injuries created the end of an era….Terrible moments for Chiefs fans.
The loss at home vs Indy in the playoffs really hurt too. That was OUR season. Had we won that game, the Chiefs very likely would have gone to the Super Bowl that year.
all of those sting as well
seeing Trent Green laying there still gives me the chills
Regardless of who the Chiefs pick at #5 overall, Whitlock will call it the worst pick in the history of the Chiefs. Heres to hoping that #5 pick runs Whitlock out of town.....
I like how we refer to that one kicker like we do to lord voldemort :)
"Charles In Charge"
"Defense Wins Championships"
dont say his name!
Regardless of who the Chiefs pick at #5 overall, Whitlock will call it the worst pick in the history of the Chiefs. Heres to hoping that #5 pick runs Whitlock out of town.....
Wow!
We have had our share of playoff misery. I remember that Buffalo game vividly. I was datin gthis cute girl and I never watched my Chiefs with girls. Especially girls who dont know anything about football. But she was hot! So me, my buddies and the girl watched the game and we lost! I blamed her! I told her she cursed us and she thought I was crazy. It was pretty pathetic of me to blame her and probably was thej dimise of our relationship as things were rocky there after. Yes, I have problems. Chiefs are my problem and a playoff win would be my remedy.
Mr J
KC Chiefs Fan
i tend to blame alot of things on the Chiefs
especially in the last 3 years i blame everything and everyone on how they play. Maybe that is why i have no friends except AP.
Regardless of who the Chiefs pick at #5 overall, Whitlock will call it the worst pick in the history of the Chiefs. Heres to hoping that #5 pick runs Whitlock out of town.....
1995
I was living in Phoenix (site of the SB) and was fully expecting the Chiefs to win the AFC, Chiefs nation to descend on AZ and going to the game with mom. Instead, I get Cowboys and Steeler fans. I can not express how many douchebag Steelers/Cowboys fans I met during SB week. I hope the kicker who shall not be named dies in a fire set by Lisa Lopez
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by KCSatchmo on Feb 16, 2010 12:24 PM CST reply actions
never have i wanted to run to the field
and punch a player as bad as that day. I remember thinking, he cant miss again…….
It was a very quiet ride home.
by stenerud's roost on Feb 16, 2010 12:28 PM CST up reply actions
It hurts even more than 97
Funny story about the 97 Denver game:
I’m sure you recall how snowy and cold it was. My seats for that game were right by the tunnel. As the Donks are leaving the field, I’m right along the wall with my friends venting some frustration. A snowball comes flying over my head and hits Ray Crockett right in the melon. Roidmanowski thinks my buddy threw it and flips out. He runs over and grabs him, trying to pull him onto the field. I grab Roidman by the facemask and start trying to crack his noggin against the railing. Then security arrived….
There is no happy ending.
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by KCSatchmo on Feb 16, 2010 12:35 PM CST up reply actions
It did
and there was nothing heroic about it lol. It was purely self preservation. Note that I said “trying to crack his noggin”. That dude’s neck wasn’t giving at all.
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by KCSatchmo on Feb 16, 2010 12:52 PM CST up reply actions
haha Satch we need to meet up at a game!
Ill use you as my bodyguard haha that takes some nuts messing with Homo. I hate his guts but he seems like a crazy Mofo
Funniest part to me
was when he grabbed my buddy. He’s about 6-7 270. Roidman grabbed him and my buddy really just looked like he was swatting a fly. Slapping his hands off his DT jersey.
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by KCSatchmo on Feb 16, 2010 12:58 PM CST up reply actions
I remember Crockett yelling and such
but then I guess he must have gotten pulled away by teammates or something. He never came near us.
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by KCSatchmo on Feb 16, 2010 1:14 PM CST up reply actions
two "coldest" days i remember
Houston Oilers (early 90’s?)- had to chip a half inch of ice off the seat back just to sit down
Miami – final home game in ’08 – 12 below at kickoff. nobody there. too bad, entertaining game
I remember watching snowball fights but knowing better than being in one and getting tossed. Of course Raider games were the exception.
thanks, I’ll add Denver to that self-imposed rule
by stenerud's roost on Feb 16, 2010 12:47 PM CST up reply actions
we did too
once we moved around into the sun. wasn’t bad after that.
by stenerud's roost on Feb 16, 2010 12:50 PM CST up reply actions
That Oilers game was miserable.
Coldest I have ever been had to be the 93 Wildcard game against the Steelers. I honestly thought I was going to have to have a foot amputated.
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by KCSatchmo on Feb 16, 2010 12:56 PM CST up reply actions
Haha!
I thought I was gonna die at the Cowboys game last year and it wasn’t near as cold as your game…..
"Its going to be a challenge, its going to feel like forever, and there will be difficulties. But we will emerge on the other side of it stronger than we were when we entered." ~ Sudden
by Matt_Grbac on Feb 16, 2010 1:31 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Yeah, that game was the worst
I still remember when (blank) missed it’s final field goal attempt, I kicked the ottoman in front of me so hard that it traveled several feet & hit one of my friends in the back. That was a bad day.
Predictions:
This year will be better
I've actually had this conversation with other fans before.
1993 hurt. 1998 definitely had far-reaching consequences.
But 1995…those three FGs… I still consider that the darkest day in Chiefs history (on-the-field). That was my generations “’71 Divisional Playoffs.”
My long, drawn-out predictions that no one cares about, nor will bother to remember:
1. Todd Haley will still be the Chiefs Head Coach up to the 2011 season.
2. Clancy Pendergast won't make it to the 2010 season and was never intended to. Last-minute hire for a position that needed to be filled.
3. Todd Haley will not be the OC at the start of the 2010 season.
1995 playoff loss
I thought Elliot t only missed three field goals. not five. Still by far the most painfull loss for me.. I suffered through it in zero weather. Also Marty abandoned the run in the 2nd half. No one knows why. We ran well in the 1st half.
SHUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes; after that, who cares?! He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
I knew that 1995 would win this infamous list
So. Freaking. Cold. I remember one of the shots on the sideline of the waterboy trying to keep the Gatorade from freezing in the cups. Eventually he just looked into the camera with an “I give up” kind of look. Classic.
Speaking of painful video memories… Joe Montana in the fetal position with both fists clenched on either side of his helmet on the frozen turf in Buffalo… Not good times.
It’s interesting that most of my memories of the Chiefs are these sad ones. Dammit, I want a glorious memory of sweet victory!
We are building a fighting force of extwaordinary magnitude.
1995, without question
We were the best team in the NFL that year. That was our season. We were supposed to win it all that year. I was a kid. It was the first time I can recall really feeling the bitter sting of loss. I hated life from that point on.
I still have a $100,000 bounty on the kicker that shall not be named’s head. I’ll double it if you bring him to me alive so that I can make him feel the misery that represented the loss of my innocence as a youth.
For justice we must go to Don Pioli
How much for just the foot?
A quick slip of the ax and there ya go…
you forgot Christmas Day 1971
to lose that game in that way, was very, very bad
the 1995 game was a tepid replay of that earlier game
The only measure of true success in the NFL is the Vince Lombardi trophy. Anything less is a rationalization.
haha
i even wrote an Xmas post on it. i guess you really have to be an old timer. I was nine.
If i had to vote again, it would probably be my saddest day, but i was pissed in 95.
by stenerud's roost on Feb 16, 2010 12:53 PM CST up reply actions
+1
That was the year we could have gone back to the Supper Bowl and won again!
Winning begins with Attitude - Haley and Pioli will be winners in KC!
I'll forever be a Chiefs fan! Only God himself could take that away from me, but when I get to my great reward, I'll rejoin two bigger fans, my Mom and Dad.
I was listening to that game on the radio
In OT Stenerud’s kick to win it. They were screaming “He made it! He made it!” then they said “Oh no, he missed, he missed it”. I was just a kid but I screamed “they’re lying, they cant take it back”. Funny but sad at the same time. Devastating to me.
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
"Mr. Pioli is a man who insists on hearing bad news immediately."
by Don Piolie's Consigliere on Feb 16, 2010 5:05 PM CST up reply actions
Agreed 100%
We came out on the short end of the longest game every played.
http://www.profootballhof.com/history/decades/1970s/longest_day.aspx
Considering our, what, 17 year playoff win drought?
I don’t see how you could pick anything other than the kicker who shall not be named missing all those FG’s
Ryan Succop will be the kicker for the AFC in the 2011 Pro Bowl
Is the kicker who shall not be named
somewhat name rhymed like Din Merlot?
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His true name
happens to be an anagram for “Lil Toe Lint”
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by KCSatchmo on Feb 16, 2010 2:20 PM CST up reply actions
Actually when I do speak his name which is not often,
his middle name is “F—-ing”. As in Lil F—-ing Lint.
What this man did to us hurts more to me 1993 AFC Championship game
Regardless of who the Chiefs pick at #5 overall, Whitlock will call it the worst pick in the history of the Chiefs. Heres to hoping that #5 pick runs Whitlock out of town.....
1997
That was the best Chiefs team of the last 40 years, We win that game, I have no doubt we win the Super Bowl. That wasn’t true of the other teams, we would’ve had a shot, but we didn’t lose to a team that waltzed to a championship like the Donkeys did.
That game, with Elvis at QB, and the phantom holding call that took away a field goal, and our coaches being more concerned with not leaving Elway time on the clock after scoring instead of actually scoring, losing at home to those jackasses, after a 13-3 season, knowing that if we had just played Rich Gannon, we would’ve beaten them… ugh, horrible in every way.
by Offense of the 70s on Feb 16, 2010 3:30 PM CST reply actions
97 was the most painful to me for those exact reasons
-Donks went on to win the Super Bowl 2 years in a row
-We easily could have
- Gannon justifiably leaving
-no way we beat the Niners in 05
SlyMo's injury:
Wasn’t KC knocked out of playoff contention after Sylvester Morris’ “fumble” against the Raiders? And as I recall, wasn’t that the game and even the same play on which he injured his knee, and from which he never really recovered?
Yeah, uh, if my memory is close to correct on that, that pretty much started the ultimate slide for KC, in my opinion.
I have beat wholesale ass for a whole lot less.
by burntorangehorn on Feb 16, 2010 4:44 PM CST reply actions
Voted for 03
Just because I was so SURE we had it that year and I barely remember the 95 game (not too young, just not quite a Chiefs fan yet).
But I would say also you could add the 06 playoff game, just because it was so amazing that we actually made it in, and then the failure was so brutal.
Oh and the Herm years in general.
he did
I am still stewing over that loss…next year I will probably say it was 6 missed field goals.
you’re right, you just got bewsaf’d. It’s Ok, he means well.
by stenerud's roost on Feb 16, 2010 8:12 PM CST up reply actions
Picked the '03 Incident
simply because it is the one most vivid in my mind. Most of those happened half my lifetime or more ago.
Loss to Denver
They all are pretty rough, didnt know if you wanted to add in that TG caught a Touchdown pass that was ruled as not a touchdown…only in the days following the game did the NFL come out and say that TG actually should have been given the touchdown.
He wasn't just pushed out of bounds on that play, he was carried out.
He would have come down at least 2 yards in bounds had he not been pushed out before his feet came down. That was also the game that made me start to think the NFL has outcomes they would rather see. I don’t think they fix games per se, but i think they definitely have scenarios they would rather see happen. That game was one of the most atrociously officiated games I’ve ever seen in any sport.
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by Rev. Slappy on Feb 17, 2010 12:15 PM CST up reply actions
Wasnt the denver playoff loss "the vaseline incident"?
I remember the game being stoped and donkey players being wiped down. I also remeber screaming at my TV that the game should be called and make Denver forfit. Also would like to note that Gannon took the riaders to the SB after all the BS.
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1998 Vaseline game
Consider Mark Schlereth, who spent six seasons as a Denver Broncos offensive lineman, protecting quarterback John Elway en route to two Super Bowl victories. In a 1998 playoff game at Kansas City, Schlereth and his fellow linemen coated their arms and the backs of their jerseys in Vaseline. The Chiefs’ defenders couldn’t grab onto the slimy Broncos and quickly complained to officials. It was quite a scene, Schlereth recalls, as officials used towels on the sidelines to wipe down the oily visitors in a game Denver would ultimately win, 14-10, on its way to a Super Bowl triumph.
“Did I grease up my jersey, and use sticky substances on my gloves? You’re damn right,” Schlereth said recently. “What you call cheating is a fine line. It’s an interesting line. What we did, in the locker room, is called being creative. Certain cheating is snickered at, or applauded.”
*%cker.
I have beat wholesale ass for a whole lot less.
by burntorangehorn on Feb 17, 2010 12:05 PM CST up reply actions
source
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/20/sports/sp-cheathow20
Wouldn’t want to have that go unsourced.
I have beat wholesale ass for a whole lot less.
by burntorangehorn on Feb 17, 2010 12:05 PM CST up reply actions
The moment that hurt the worse
for me was when Willie Roaf didn’t report to training camp and then retired. I felt betrayed. Pretty selfish of me, but I knew we had just lost something great.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."
George Carlin
Yep, thats the point in time that I mark as the beginnig of the decline (recently) for KC. Why not retire BEFORE the draft? I remember hearing he up and moved out of town as soon as he did retired. So the fans wouldn’t give him any sh*# I guess.
by motrepip on Feb 17, 2010 5:12 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
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