-- I'm not melting down.
 

See you in August.

Yeah, here on Monday I'm starting to come back to reality. I've been a ****ing wreck the last couple of days, and should give a huge shoutout to my wonderful, beautiful, understanding, wife who not only bled with me on Saturday, but has absolutely stood by my side and was more understanding than most women would be after something like that went down. I took it as hard as I've taken any loss with the ONLY exception possibly being 1998 against Denver. Even then, I'm not sure I took that one harder. I'm just too old to cry over this team anymore.

tl;dr - I love my wife, and I'm lucky to have her.

I guess I am taking the loss well after all.

It didn't start that way.

At the end of the game I told my wife I might be done with the NFL all-together. It took a few hours of playing with the kids to realize that I can't control what a bunch of dumb-**** athletes and coaches do.

I watched and enjoyed the playoff games yesterday.

I am still baffled from time to time about how they managed to lose, but it fades quickly.

Getting older and more mature helps a lot.

I realized this shortly after the game when I was destroyed and my wife and kids looked at me with corcern. It sucks, it hurts, but it's just a game. If your biggest problem is your football team letting you down again life is not so bad.

Had this team gone back and forth with the Colts all day with all of those players going down we'd be extremly proud. Just hard to stomach it the way it happened. However, if you think about it the Donks did the exact same thing against Pats this year. I think it maybe a lot more common in the arena football NFL.

melt in progress

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Group Hug!

I'm fine with the loss now.

I thought the 2-14 season killed all of my hope, but I let myself believe briefly and this is what I deserve for being a Chiefs fan.

I have Kansas basketball to get me through these most troubling of times.

You guys take this way too seriously. I made up my mind years ago that the Chiefs failures are their problem - not mine. If you were stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire do you think they would stop the team buss to help you?

I am good at letting this shit go pretty quickly. I initially have my temper tantrums, which feel REALLY good to release at the time, and then, nothing. By Sunday morning, I was done being upset. I'm just more embarrassed for this Franchise than anything else. It just goes to show, it doesn't pay to get emotionally invested in shit that you have NO control over - especially sports.

Did you lose a bet? If not I may drive down there and kick you in the nuts for that avatar.

these young men seem to really respond to Andy. Charles and Davis and most other players. We just didn't understand how to finish it - again - huge lesson.

LMAO

I told my buddy that I watched the KU pants shitting with that the Chiefs had used all of my sorrow. After that gay ass fumble TD I let hope go and hardened myself to it. It just so happened to carry over to the KU game.

If you paid them enough.

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I Love You, Man.

I'm with ya. It didn't end the way we all wanted, but I had one HELL of a time being a Chiefs fan this year. To be honest, I've loved being a Chiefs fan since I was 5. The ups and downs, highs and lows are part of the beauty of the whole thing. The idea that some day we'll stand alone with the trophy is what keeps us coming back. I often wonder if I'll have the same drive as a fan after we win the Super Bowl...I love this city and I love my teams. I was super disappointed after the Royals didn't make it in last season, but I am beyond Pumped to get back to the K and I'm hopeful that the boys in blue finally turn it around this year.

Being a fan, at least to me, isn't just about seeing your team win a championship...or even be successful, really. It's about the experience. It's about enjoying 3 hours a week with friends and family and like-minded people and forgetting about your everyday stresses. The Chiefs and Royals do that for me...and that's why I come back.

Sure, this loss hurts. I teared up in the stands. But I made memories with my brother and fiancee on that road trip that I'll take with me for the rest of my life...and no amount of losing can ever diminish how important that is.

anymore I just laugh. because it's so comical at this point. the odds are probably worse for them to achieve so little than they are to succeed.....yet we defy odds. That amuses me.

Saturdays are my 'football' days now. The Chiefs are not an after thought yet, but getting there. At least in terms of passion

AAAHHHAHHAHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGG!

I'm not melting down either, but I needed to do that.

Injuries completely obliterated any chance the team had in that game. The defense ****ing let us down....but Jesus Christ. Charles goes down and the offense doesn't miss a beat. I considered us lucky at that point. Then Flowers goes down....and we have no one to cover Hilton. Avery goes down and we completely lose the ability to stretch the defense. Then Hemmingway......then Houston. Jesus ****.

you forgot Niles

Shit....him as well. I've never seen so many key injuries in one game. It was ****ing unreal.

jamarle churlez helmut needs more padding!!!

i too, have cooled down. we're still cursed ;), but hopefully this will lead to bigger and better things now. baby steps and so forth. go chuefs.

If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Kniles Davis.

Gotta remember what's important... none of that hit me until I had kids 12 years ago. It's pointless to get bent out of shape about this stuff as if it's life or death.

Yeah, I get on this board and talk noise from time to time, but if DEN were to sh*t the bed on Sunday and lose... in the end, it's just a game that I'm a fan of watching. If they win it all - awesome, if they fall short - oh well.

Or your team has been in ****ing 6 SB's...:mad:

pretty sure i've said that numerous times in gamethreads. ;)

This. 20 years ago I couldn't cope and had more energy to get angry. Now I'm desensitized.

Thanks to Red for some levity. Happy New Year!

great post..I kind of regret starting my Indy thread, other than stating it was my baby girl who brought me back to center...all my wife cared about was us getting home safely through the oncoming snowmaggedon.

Eh, don't regret it. It had to be said. We were both so frustrated and ready to say **** this team! but you and I both know we'll both be back come August, just like most people on this board.

That's one thing I hate about football season. Now we have to wait until frigging July. Half a damned year because of 1 point. 1 lousy point.

At least the Royals can piss us off first.

too long of a wait.

/will miss most of you guys.......:evil:

After today I have no idea where to start...

And I am not even taking about the games this past weekend...