Podcast: Apathy takes hold of an exhausted Kansas City Chiefs fan base
As this Kansas City Chiefs season deflates, apathy sets in through the exhausted fan base.
Sunday’s game against The New York Jets was a “must-win game.” Unfortunately the Kansas City Chiefs lost. This week is must-win game against the Raiders, theoretically. Then next week against the Chargers would be another. But why would you expect the next three weeks to go any differently than the last seven?
The Chiefs’ expectations were inflated so tremendously through the first five weeks. Win after win, the big red balloon of Super Bowl aspirations kept expanding and we were enraptured. Then the loss to the Steelers squeezed a good portion of the air out, but the balloon, while less marvelous than it was a week prior, still lived.
Then week by painful week, opponents squeezed the air out of the balloon, out of the team, out of the Super Bowl aspirations, and out of the fanbase.
Then Josh McCown appeared in front of this sad, sagging, barely-but-somehow functional balloon. Then it was Josh McCown, swaggering in and stabbing the balloon with a pin, finding yet another way to push the air out of the team, the hopes, and the fan base.
Now, apathy sets in. All playoff expectations have completely gone. The excitement for Sundays has completely gone. The hope for better weeks ahead has completely gone. And now it’s just a matter of time.
It may be to New England or Pittsburgh in the divisional round of the playoffs. It may be to a team in the wild card round. It may be to the Raiders and Chargers these next two weeks, but the 2017 Chiefs are going to, eventually, completely deflate into disappointment.
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And that is a terrible place for a fan base to be. Hopeless, unenergized and feeling utterly duped. Even with the completely reasonable possibility that the Chiefs could still win the AFC West, it feels like there’s very, very little to root for.
Also on today’s show: Breaking down both sides of the ball vs. the Jets and solving the Marcus Peters conversation in five minutes.
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