Which is the Proudest Chiefs Milestone in Recent History?
by Bewsaf on Feb 23, 2010 10:36 AM CST
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Last week the fans on AP voted on "Which Chiefs Moment Hurt the Worst?" and chose the 1995 season in which a kicker who shall not be named missed three field goals (it felt like five).
After voting, Matt_Grbac and others made this request:
If you're 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.
So, which is the proudest milestone in recent history?
Kansas City Chiefs 2007:
Tony Gonzalez breaks Shannon Sharpe's career touchdown record by a tight end at 63. Tony starts to become recognized as possibly the best tight end to ever play the game in the NFL.
- Significant Moment: Tony Gonzalez sets new NFL career TD record at 63.
Kansas City Chiefs 2003:
The Chiefs came roaring out of the gates in 2003 winning their first nine games of the season. The Chiefs finished the season with a 13-3 record and a first round bye in the playoffs.
- Significant Moment: Chiefs get out to a 9-0 start and finish with a 13-3 record and a first round bye in the playoffs.
Kansas City Chiefs 2003:
Priest Holmes breaks his own touchdown mark and sets the single season touchdown record with 28 touchdowns.
- Significant Moment: Priest Holmes sets NFL single season touchdown record at 28.
Kansas City Chiefs 2002:
Priest Holmes powers Kansas City's offensive machine by scoring a league leading 24 touchdowns and accumulating 2,287 all-purpose yards. Priest was named the NFL's offensive player of the year...and he even missed two games.
- Significant Moment: Priest Holmes gets NFL offensive player of the year award.
Kansas City Chiefs 90s:
The Kansas City Chiefs are the winningest team (by percentage) of the 1990s. Arrowhead stadium became the home of he second best home field advantage in the 1990s.
- Significant Moment: Chiefs are the winningest team of the 1990s (by percentage).
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. The defensive coach had been talking smack the week leading up to the game. So it was no surprise fans erupted in front of their televisions when Keith Cash caught a 7-yard touchdown pass from Joe Montana and preceded to spike a poster of Buddy Ryan.
- Significant Moment: Chiefs make the playoffs and Joe "comeback" Montana orchestrates an electric playoff win against the Oilers.
Kansas City Chiefs 1991:
In 1991 the Kansas City Chiefs finished the regular season with a 10-6 mark and a playoff birth. This was the first time since 1968-1969 that the Chiefs franchise had qualified for the playoffs two consecutive years in a row.
- Significant Moment: Chiefs qualify for playoffs two consecutive years in a row. First time since 68-69.
Kansas City Chiefs 1990:
Playing a game in honor of his father who died in Vietnam, Derrick Thomas sacks the Seahawks quarterback Dave Krieg seven times. This performance set a new single game sack record and contributed to Derrick racking up 20 sacks in 1990.
- Significant Moment: Derrick Thomas sets single game sack record by sacking Dave Krieg seven times.
Kansas City Chiefs 1989:
The 1989 season saw a Chiefs player lead the NFL in rushing for the first time in team history. Christian Okoye set a club rushing record by grinding out 1480 yards.
Significant Moment: Christian Okoye rushes for 1480 yards and is the first Chiefs to lead the NFL in rushing.
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Priest in 2002
Just such an amazing year.
You left out the CP resignation milestone.
This is my signature line. It is full of awesome and win.
by KCSatchmo on Feb 23, 2010 10:39 AM CST reply actions
Toughest poll ever...
Don't Fuccop Succop
by chicks_love_chiefs on Feb 23, 2010 10:42 AM CST reply actions
Thanks! This makes all the wounds from the last post healed!
I gotta go with the 90’s. That’s the decade I became a Chiefs fan. It’s also a whole decade of destruction. Arrowhead was a nightmare on the NFL landscape and Marty Schottenheimer was staking his claim as one of the best coaches in Chiefs history.
You can’t go wrong with Joe Montana, Marcus Allen, Derrick Thomas, and Neil Smith.
"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 23, 2010 10:55 AM CST via mobile reply actions
well Matt, you know what they say ...
time wounds all heels
"I shall conquer untruth by truth" - Mahatma Gandhi
Whilock Rocks!
hi, Mo!
5 minutes!!!
Went with the 90s winning percentage.
Team accomplishment, and not a “one and done” accomplishment either. we were good for a long time.
I have a hard time calling the 90s "recent"
I picked the 2003 season. That was a great year. I still think the refs stole the Indy game from us with a bad holding call against Gonzo which cost us a TD. That was OUR year. If we win that game, there is no other team who could have outscored us in the playoffs…especially at home.
I will take that to the grave with me.
2003 was easily my favorite and my biggest letdown
i started it in training camp took a replica helmet and got 59 sigs including the entire reg season roster and dick vermiel and ended it with the most dreadful walk i have ever experienced, it still sends shudders down my spine thinking about it.
by Bleedzredngold on Feb 23, 2010 12:33 PM CST up reply actions
it WAS "yesterday" to us old geezers
kicka$$ post, Bews, ty!
"I shall conquer untruth by truth" - Mahatma Gandhi
Whilock Rocks!
hi, Mo!
5 minutes!!!
Although prior to my Chiefs fandom,
I voted for DT’s 7 sacks. That is a good month for the recent Chiefs teams.
"I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror" - Sid Vicious.
by craig in calgary on Feb 23, 2010 10:57 AM CST reply actions
It would have been right up there
Had we not lost the game on the last play. He came so close to making it eight to win that game.
90's winning percentage
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.....
Uh....
how is winning the Superbowl not on that list?
So full of sh*t that toilet bowls have to wipe.
When thinking about milestones...
winning the Super Bowl wins hands down in my book. But I wanted to see what people thought about the Chiefs more recent history.
Bewsaf
Cuz it was 40 years ago.
It says recent.
Best mileston is still going!
STILL having the name ARROWHEAD STADIUM!….not like these other douche bag stadiums “Bank 1 presents Soldier Field”!
by KCinIL on Feb 23, 2010 11:27 AM CST reply actions 3 recs
Where was Dante Hall's 2003 season?
Yes Priest rocked it too, but the X-Factor was a spark to the NFL that had been gone since Barry Sanders retired. Granted Hall’s accomplishments have now been somewhat forgotten with the emergence of Devin Hester and Josh Cribbs, but Dante provided a thrill that no other returner (Brian Mitchell, Mel Gay, Tyronn Hughes, etc) could do for the previous decade.
i still think the denver game when he ran one back to put us i think 9-0
was the loudest i have ever heard arrowhead by far it literally made me dizzy i can only imagine what it felt like on the field
by Bleedzredngold on Feb 23, 2010 12:36 PM CST up reply actions
Clearly these are all made up
:-)
Blame my wife!
Waiting until August 2010
by sir eccles on Feb 23, 2010 11:40 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
WOW
hardest poll I ever seen ha
Gotta go with Priest being the MVP guys my hero!
Great players dont win championships.....Great TEAMS win championships
missed one Bewsaf
DT into the Hall of Fame :)
"For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius." Scott "Young Frankenstein" Pioli
I thougt about the hall of fame inductions...
but I decided to go more with on the field “moments”. The only one that really strays away from that theme is the 90s culmination of wins.
Chiefs being inducted into the Hall of Fame is no doubt a proud milestone however.
Bewsaf
If you are going for most recent
why not the fact that Jamaal Charles reached 1,100 yards with the fewest carries ever in the NFL? Why not that Jamaal Charles rushed for over 1,000 yards in just 8 games? Why not Jamaal Charles broke the Chiefs single game rushing record with 259 yards….which was held by that woman beating thug at 210 yards.
Hmm...You got a point there.
When you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail.
RIP Chris Henry #15 (Bengals)
RIP Derrick Thomas #58 (Chiefs)
by NJChieffan16 on Feb 23, 2010 2:53 PM CST up reply actions
You could also say us finally winning at Denver is a pretty big deal too...
That place has been a thorn in our side for a while now.
Two stick out.
Cool Joe leading us to beat them Donkies on MNF in ’94, and Jamaal thrashing them straight out of the playoffs.
what's funny for me
about the DT 7 sack game is that i was at that game, was just 10 yrs old and what i remember most is that on the last play of the game DT had his hands on Dave Kreig and he got away and threw a huge game winning TD pass; would have been 8 sacks, instead it was a loss.
Thanks Debbie Downer
"I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror" - Sid Vicious.
by craig in calgary on Feb 23, 2010 3:15 PM CST up reply actions
Gosh
Glass Half Empty Edith
"I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror" - Sid Vicious.
by craig in calgary on Feb 23, 2010 6:11 PM CST up reply actions
I was also at that game
The crowd was just stunned. Everyone was walking out of the stadium like their dog just died. Dead silence. But at least DT got the record.
by JonasVenture on Feb 24, 2010 9:02 AM CST up reply actions
Proudest Chiefs milestones in recent history eh...
How about handing the donkeys a beat down to start a new year and decade undefeated. A record that shall stand for many moons.
Yeah...but we beat the donkeys like a rented mule.
Hell, I'm easy
I was pretty damn happy to see JC almost (even though he could of) break the single game rushing record and knock the donkeys out of the play-offs. That was a good note to end the season with.
ahhhhh....
Just like novocaine. give it time; always works..
The greater the fall, the grander the ascention..
Proudest chief moments not on the list,
When Larry Johnson scored a td and grabbed a KC flag, waved it around, and slammed it into the ground! Made me feel so proud to be a chief fan. Also (kinda odd that LJ is in my proudest moments, coinceidence honestly) the last time we played the steelers, before this last year, when LJ caught Troy Polamalu from behind and yanked him down by his hair. That was the best thing to happen at the end of a play that really pissed me off.
by motrepip on Feb 23, 2010 9:04 PM CST via mobile reply actions
A NFL record 8 rushing td’s was a good day too!
by motrepip on Feb 23, 2010 9:13 PM CST via mobile reply actions
93
Beating the Oilers and playing for the Lamar Hunt trophy
was the most exciting thing For me as a Chief’s fan since Super bowl lV.
The most important thing you can do in life is help other people.
13-3 season
it included Priest’s TD record, and the chiefs were offensively the best team in the NFL. (Reminded me to the chargers last season).
I think Derrick Thomas is getting the most votes for sentimental reasons, and the joe montana is getting them… well because of joe montana.
Plus i dont consider 17-20 years… recent memory.
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