You Know You Don’t Have to Hate the Chiefs, Right?
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As I’m sure you know, the Super Bowl is on February 11th between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers.
It’s a Super Bowl that not many people are happy about.
I’m included in that, because I like Super Bowls where I don’t have a rooting interest and can just watch.
And, full disclosure, I don’t like the 49ers. I’m a Seahawks fan.
It doesn’t let me change my opinions about them on the field. They’re still good as hell. I just don’t want them to win.
But my disinterest in a 49ers Super Bowl feels very insignificant to everyone else’s feelings towards the Kansas City Chiefs.
I thought I understood it.
After all, I didn’t like the early 2000s Lakers. I didn’t like the mid 2000’s USC Trojans. The New England Patriots were annoying as all hell. It’s cause they win, and the Chiefs keep winning.
So I thought I got it.
But this isn’t the same as those teams.
This is a deep, deep hatred.
And I do not get it at all.
What’s not to get? The NFL favors them! It’s clearly biased!
In the 2023 NFL season, the Kansas City Chiefs rank 21st in benefited yards from penalties.
They weren’t in the top 15 in 2022, either.
Alright, well Mahomes still whines constantly and gets all of the calls. The NFL at least favors him.
Here is a montage on YouTube made by user budleewiser of bad roughing the passer calls in 2022.
Jacoby Brissett is on here. Davis Mills is on here. Taylor Heinicke is on here.
The NFL protecting quarterbacks is not a Patrick Mahomes thing. It’s a league wide thing.
Well, Mahomes’ brother and wife are really annoying.
I’ll have to take your word for it. I don’t know that because I don’t see the stuff they post or do on social media.
It’s actually extremely easy to avoid all that stuff.
It doesn’t matter! I’m sick of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift too!
Why? They’re two people who are dating. What’s wrong with that?
Nothing is wrong with that, I just wish I didn’t see it during the games!
That’s 0.39% of the game itself, or 17 more seconds than B-Roll footage of crab cakes.
Doesn’t seem that bad to me.
It’s not just during the game, it’s after the game! Before the game! In between game weeks!
May I remind you of what I said earlier and that you can just avoid all that stuff.
Seriously, it’s SUPER easy to do!
Well, their fans are obnoxious as hell.
Have you met football fans?
Whatever. I just don’t like seeing them win all the time.
And that’s ok!
Like I said above, I didn’t like those dynasties. The NFL prides itself in parity, so it’s frustrating to go into the season in September knowing that the likely AFC representative will be the Chiefs.
I’d prefer it if it was the Ravens or the Bills or someone. But it’s not, and that’s annoying.
But this isn’t the Patriots dynasties.
There is no Spygate scandal. There is no deflategate scandal. There is no angry curmudgeon head coach that shows no emotion at all.
This is a team that wins a lot with, with no (revealed) cheating, and a cuddly walrus head coach who would probably rather be eating a cheeseburger than coaching football.
You can dislike the Chiefs for how much they win.
You don’t need to outright hate them.
