Kansas City Chiefs fans are being called the worst fans in the National Football League. I will now attempt to break down all the reasons why.
Recently, Kansas City Chiefs fans were named the worst in the NFL. According to a study put on by the Emory University Department of Football Analytics, the Chiefs fan base is horrible.
This may come as a surprise to many. With Arrowhead Stadium being packed each home game, the insane tailgate parties, and a city where the water turns red each year the Friday before each home opener. There is also that certain World Record that the Chiefs fans hold. Loud Noises!!!
According to this study, fans of the Chiefs ranked dead last overall, as well as last in social edacity, or was it social equity? Let’s face it, Chiefs fans are horrible.
Social equity is a cute phrase to show how often Chiefs fans get involved in social media. But last place? Embarrassing.
Chiefs fans don’t go on social media because they could care less about anybody but themselves. They’re too busy mourning a loss or chugging beers in celebration. They just do not care what other people think. Chiefs fans are always self righteous and self centered. There is no interest to expand the fan base.
So while Cowboys fans and Patriots fans hit up Instatwit and share their undying love for their team, Chiefs fans swim in their own concoction of tears and cheap whiskey.
Let’s get down to it
One doesn’t have to look too far to see how horrible they really are. Very recently the NFL witnessed a general manager walk out of his Chiefs office forever.
Why else would the general manager just up and leave after building a powerhouse organization—especially since the off season is basically over now? Because year in and year out he has to deal with Chiefs fans.
If you have ever had the misfortune of being drug out to a Chiefs game, then I apologize. As you sit there trying to enjoy an afternoon of football, those annoying Chiefs fans do not shut up, even for a minute. Often times after a touchdown is scored, with music in the background, they scream out on how they are going to “beat the hell out of you”. These fans will make sure you know it too, repeating “you” over and over again.
Please do not bring your children to Arrowhead.
The fans are so unruly in Kansas City they often fly military aircraft over the stadium before each game for security reasons. Let that soak in for a minute.
These Chiefs fans are aggressive as well. In unison they chant, while making motions of chopping innocent people in two.
They paint their cars red, often with license plates and window stickers of arrow-shaped weapons. They dawn clothes of red, white and yellow. Flags of their kingdom wave in front of their homes. This ragtag group of fans have no bounds.
Did you know that if you cut a Chiefs fan they even bleed red? True story.
Chiefs fans are a unique travesty
When these people get around each other, there are no strangers. Take a stroll around the parking lot before a game and random Chiefs fans will share their barbeque and their beer with you. More times than not, if you accept their gratitude, you become one of them. So watch out. Power in numbers. Large, loud, and ruthless numbers.
When you do show up to watch a game at Arrowhead and happen to be wearing red, you will be accepted with open arms by Chiefs fans. Don’t you dare wear any other color, those same fans will verbally abuse you in a manner where the team you are rooting fors’ mom seems to always be involved. Tread lightly and use extreme caution if you show up in orange and blue, silver and black, or anything that resembles a lightning bolt.
Chiefs fans also become recluses on game day. If they watch from home, they lock the doors and turn off their phones. For three hours a week fathers become a shell of themselves. Husbands tend to forget their wife and kids exist. As long as their team is on the field, nothing else matters. If you are a guest in their home and the Chiefs lose, you will be asked to leave and will never be invited over on game day again.
These people get emotional with their team. It’s more of a relationship than pure fandom. Imagine 70+ thousand overprotective boyfriends in the crowd. The way Chiefs fans love their team falls just short of admirable, as it also causes hardships among those that love them most.
Chiefs fans are also those annoying fans that use “we” instead of “they” when talking about the Chiefs.
Chiefs fans are horrible hosts as well
Imagine you get invited to a house party and each time you start trying to talk you are interrupted. Interrupted by the whole party, in unison. loudly.
Ask Tom Brady how rude and thoughtless Chiefs fans are. The night Guinness showed up for the decibel record, the Patriots were the invited guest for the evening. Throughout the game Chiefs fans refused to let Brady run his offense. The end result was a beatdown of the friendly visitor 41-14. How hated would Chiefs fans be if they came with that kind of enthusiasm eight times a year?
The great John Elway was so flustered in 1990 that the ref actually threatened to charge the Chiefs a timeout if the fans didn’t let Elway be great. The insubordinate fans did not comply, thus the Broncos were sent home with a loss.
Chiefs fans are the sole reason opponents hate playing at Arrowhead.
Beware if you wander into Chiefs Kingdom, you will never come out the same.
Perhaps Chiefs fans can be the most horrible fans they have ever been in 2017.