Why You A Kansas City Chiefs Fan?

Where there are idiotic raider fans and front running charger fans. And the chiefs have always been that under dog class organization who care about their fans and players.

Actually attended my first game at Arrowhead (preseason game) the week before I was born. Didn’t attend my next one for another 24 years when I finally made it out there in 2006 for Raiders week. Family moved out of KC when I was two, went to Chicago until 1988, then Hawaii until 1991, and then settled down in Southern California since then.

Growing up, my dad was an old-school AFL fan and his favorite team was the Jets because he lived in NY as a kid and young adult. As I got to the age where I started watching and understanding football, I had no team. The Raiders and Rams were the home teams in L.A. at the time, but I hadn’t picked a favorite. Then I started playing Pop Warner and they put me at OLB. And then, I watched Derrick Thomas play.

The Chiefs defense of the Early 90’s was the most fearsome force I’d ever seen. And the way that stadium rocked during home games was unlike anything else in the NFL. I was a fan of tenacious defense, and in the Derrick Thomas-led Chiefs, I saw the best. Given that I was born in KC, loved the color red, and appreciated the way that defense struck fear, it was only natural. As much as I loved the entertainment value and scoring of the Vermeil years, I’ve been waiting with baited breath for the Chiefs to return to that tough as shit defensive identity that I fell in love with. The first half at NE was exactly what I want to see every half of every game: going up against one of the elite offenses in the NFL and shutting them down, confusing them, and smacking the everloving crap out of them.

visits to summer training camp multiple times every year. Dawson, Bell, Buchanan, Culp, Lanier, Tyrer, Podolak, Budde, etc. etc. etc. Saw ’em all, got autographs from them all….. awesome memories!

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Despite being born, and spending most of my life in SC, I have always been a Chiefs fan. My parents are both Chiefs fans. My brothers are Chiefs fans. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins are all Chiefs fans. My girlfriend (wisely) converted to Chiefdom.

Gotta admit though, I do cheer for the Panthers…except when they play the Chiefs.

Do you guys remember the starter jackets back in the day?
That is how i became a Chiefs fan. Back in 93, my mom bought me a Chiefs starter jacket, and its been on ever since. I wouldnt trade anything for the world, i will always love my Chiefs till the end!!

I used to look at all the cool stuff in the Sears catalog and most of it wasn’t available for the Chiefs! Did get a “varsity” style jacket in red and gold with gold leather sleeves (early 70s)

Knowing that Marty was a straight pimp, the fam bought season tickets before finding a place to live. Been going to every game since. Had to watch that bitch Elway punk my Browns in ‘87 and ’88 only to come to KC and have him punk the Chiefs. Can’t buy a bucket.

 My mom was always a HUGE football fan so it rubbed off. She was big into the Chiefs because they drafted her cousin(Steve Fuller) and has remained loyal ever since. He fandom rubbed off on me. The chiefs were the shit too when I was growing up in the 90’s.

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Fingernails will be painted alternating red and gold, too, dammit.

After the baseball strike in the 90s I remember deciding I wanted to follow another sport for once. For the longest time I was a die hard Royals fan and loved George Brett. The strike really rubbed me the wrong way so I decided to start following the NFL. Obviously with being from Kansas City the most logical team to follow and cheer for was the Chiefs.

Ironically before moving to KC my grandpa also cheered for Green Bay while living in Iowa. I picked them as my 2nd favorite team.

I was forever a Royals fan, I was that little boy with a transistor radio listening whenever the boys in Blue were playing. I loved playing the Yankees and Red Sox and Tigers. Ohhhhh I hated the A’s that had left and took the Royals to heart. Spanky and the boys were mine and then we GOT GOOD! Your 1980 was amazingly awesome for me as I got to Read about the Royals kicking Ass and winning the American League and playing the Phillies in the World Series, Damn Air Force Boot camp took me away from sharing that season. 1985 was damn the best thing ever :) and then the whole thing fell apart…..

Missouri is my Fave and the Chiefs took the reigns from the Royals. Life is Good to be a Fan. Always

Yep just in time to see the ball snapped directly into Todd Blackledge’s head. Moms was a Chiefs fan. Her older brother, a Raider’s fan. I’ve lived through being thrown out of my uncle’s house on Christmas a few years back when the Chiefs beat the Raiders. I remember wearing so many clothes that I couldn’t move so me and moms could go out to the games early in the morning on those COLD winter days. Never have I seen such a beautiful sight; all the bbq, the smoke, the sea of red and all the friendly (and many times drunken) people ready to make opposing teams lives a living hell

These memories and many more to come is why I am a Chiefs fan.

To a die hard Deron Cherry fan. Ever since then I been hooked. And with no basketball team and I hate baseball, latched on to the Chiefs from the get go. I’ll always hold down my Chiefs. And when I’m gone, I hope my kids put me to rest in my throwback authentic DT jersey and carry on the Chiefs! GO CHIEFS!

Military famil barely had enough time to maintain an apartment and we were off to Germany. But not before they adorned me in Chiefs gear since it was the local flavor. I grew up looking at my baby pictures thinkin it was my fate to be a Chiefs fan, and it’s the only pro team I’ve rooted for my whole life.

I live in Charlotte now, and most people want to take pics with me in my Chiefs jersey cause they’ve never met a Chiefs fan in “real life”. I’ll ride with my team for life…..

Don’t know if I can remember the first game I ever went to, but I’ve prolly been to about 50 games. I was born in KC in 1984 and have lived here all my life. My whole entire family is Chiefs fans so naturally it was ingrained in me from birth. But a few things that stick out in my mind were watching all the memorable games from the 90’s that you can remember. My immediate family and I all went up to the airport after the 93 playoff win against the Oilers to greet the team because we were so stoked. That, BTW, was the only game I’ve ever cried from (obviously from joy). Although the 95’ playoff game almost made me cry from a different emotion :-/ DT is my favorite all-time player like a lot of people my age. He was simply an icon of the decade. I also cried when he died. That was the end of an era for our Chiefs and also an end of am era in my life when my mom and stepdad divorced and I moved out with my dad. Now I have a son of my own and am old enough to own my own season tickets (5th year). I look forward to teaching him everything about the Chiefs and hopefully he will see all the awesome things I’ve been blessed enough to see in my lifetime as a Chiefs fan and MORE. One day I know bleeding red and gold will finally reward me with what we all yearn for: another Super Bowl Title…

He was a Kansas City boy, born and bred.

We lived in that mid-western metropolis for my first and most impressionable 7 years of life.

My uncle lived within blocks of the storied Municipal Stadium – one could hear the roar on any given Sunday..

My aunt lived in Liberty, where I witnessed the sights and sounds of their practice field..

But what did it for me, was that cold January morning in 1970 when I was mesmerized by the total domination of a favored Minnesota team by Lanier and his lads..

From my dad, to me, to my son..
FOREVER CHIEFS FANS

Watching my boys up the middle, Big Dan Saleaumua and Joe Phillips, collapse the pocket…Neil Smith, Pellom McDaniels, Tracy Simien and his bad-ass visor…

And who could forget DT…God rest his soul…

It was Minnesota or KC on the television when I was a kid, and I got sick of seeing teams like Phoenix kick the hell out of Denny’s boys. (Disclosure—I still own Vikes gear, and am a “part time” Viking fan. That means I watch maybe two Vikes games a year, at this point).

Watching Elvis waste his God-given talent during the late Schotty and Gun years got me the unflattering nickname “Grbac” in college. To this day, if I see any guys from my dorm who were about two or three years ahead of me in school, I’m still addressed by that name.

I always bleed red and gold, and will always be a fan…no matter what other people say.

..offered to me in 1994. Having come from from Detroit to start my career, my reaction was, “Meh…”. The offeror’s reaction was, “WTF!” So I took them, and drove to the stadium and thought fog was rolling in (until I rolled down the window – it was BBQ!). I’d never had real BBQ, and never been to an NFL game.

So you ask why? The fans (the best), the tailgating, Arrowhead, Montana, #58, KC Wolf, Martyball, Touchdown Kan-sas City! I’ve moved to St. Louis but still hooked.

From the day I was born i remember rooting for the Chiefs. My dad is a big Chiefs fan, i lived in a suburb of KC so i was supposed to be a Chiefs fan. I watched everygame, i rooted hard and felt bad when they lost. i was a fan. My earliest sports memory was watching the 2003 13-3 team. These reasons though, are not the reasons why i LOVE the Chiefs. My dad is a Mizzou guy, and i love KU, and while the Royals are my favorite baseball team, i have no problem rooting hard for the Rangers and the Braves. No, the reason i LOVE the Chiefs is the Monday night game last year. There have been 3 sporting events that have given me chills and possibly a tear or two in my life. The 2008 national championship game after Mario’s shot, Abby Wambach’s goal against Brazil this year (I for some reason have become rather passionate Womens soccer fan), and that monday night game. Maybe i just needed to mature and be able to think deeper before i could truly come to love a team, but the feelings that game gave me cemented forever that i could never, ever root for another NFL team except for the Chiefs. My love has only grown since then as I truly realized and identified myself with the nature of the team and the players on it. We’re an underdog and unappreciated when it comes to the field but off it there is no better organization as far as doing the right thing, and being good people, at least with the players. The player that defines the Chiefs most to me, though i wasnt alive to see him play, is Joe Delaney. I have worn his Throwback additon jersey that was released a few years ago every game the last two years, the man saved childrens lives, at the cost of his own and there is no greater sacrifice and no greater gift than life. I’m glad i came to love this team and hopefully before i die i see a Super Bowl win.
ps sorry for the length, and draft RGIII

later on it was for watching the Chiefs and grilling. I was a Chiefs fan before I became a football fan. Now I love football in nearly all shapes and forms.

I am, and always will be, completely devoted to the Chiefs regardless of what they do. I think it has been encoded into my DNA.

and have lived the subsequent 20 years here as well. My family has had season tickets since the late 80’s, (section 309, front row) and, while we had to get rid of two of them because they cost too much, we’ve still got two. My older brother, the jerk, gets to go to every game because he feels he’s entitled to it, but whatever. Unfortunately I wasn’t consciously aware of the Chiefs during the Marty years, and I really wish I had been. I grew up watching the Vermeil years and we were the most exciting team around. Unfortunately, our defense was a wet paper towel, so a lot of the excitement was tempered with an overwhelming sense of frustration at players like Eric Warfield and Ryan Sims.
My whole family is pretty much filled with huge Chiefs fans, most of them have lived here their whole lives, so the city itself is very ingrained into us.
i can’t wait for the day we finally win the Super Bowl. I’m a sports curse so that probably won’t happen in my life time, but I still have hope. I’ve thought about it a lot, and I will probably ball my eyes out if we win it. Football isn’t my favorite sport (soccer is), but the Chiefs are my favorite team. I love everything about the organization, and I can’t stand kids who grow up here and just pick the winning team. A lot of my friends do that. They’re randomly Packers fans (“I’ve always loved them”, yeah right pal, you just want to pick a winner) or the started rooting for the Patriots during their dynasty (this friend also became a Lakers fan around the same time). Needless to say, these two are insufferable, especially the Packers"Fan" because he’s also a Chiefs and does nothing but dog on the team. Anyways, I’m rambling now.
I just couldn’t imagine supporting another team. It just feels right.

until 2003, my senior year in high school, when my mother asked me for help with her family fantasy football league. I read up on some of the player rankings (specifically running backs). Priest Holmes was ranked as the 4th best option that year but and I liked his name so when our turn came up he was our first draft pick. That year he broke the touchdown record with 27 on the year.
    We didn’t win the championship that year (2nd place) but watching Priest run in TD after TD officially turned me onto football and the KC Chiefs. Gonzalez and Green didn’t hurt either. I’ve been bleeding red ever since.