[Hammock Parties]

Wisdom.

Most Chief fans hate the Broncos largely because they are better than the Chiefs and more successful than them at frankly everything.

In those moments you have two choices: You can deny reality and concoct some kind of narrative to hide yourself from the truth. Chief fans opt for this choice and thus we get their usual bull****: Broncos cheat, the NFL is fixed, the Broncos are lucky, the League likes the Broncos and hates the Chiefs.

Alternately you can accept the truth, which is that the Chiefs lack success because they have made poor choices, have a culture of losing and believe in shortcuts and cheap solutions.

It's not the Broncos fault for the Chiefs being bad. It's the Chiefs' fault. It's their job to beat the Broncos. It's their job to beat the rest of the league. And they have done a poor job of it. They go safe in the draft every year, despite several years of high picks, and somehow they still whiff. They REFUSE to draft and play a quarterback opting instead for castoffs and retreads.

Compare that to Elway who drafts a QB every damn draft even when he has someone like Peyton Manning under center. Even using high picks to do so. That's someone who recognizes the value in the position and is constantly looking to be aggressive about improving. Now he's got two under rookie contracts because of this approach.

Chief fans have two trajectories. One leads to a denial of reality, which usually leads to bitterness and resentment towards those who succeed. The other leads to accountability and recognition of where the fault really is.

It's the difference between typical loser on the internet who rips on other people and blames everyone around them for their life's problems and the guy who sees he has to be the one to make a change and stops looking for other people to bail him out.

See: lottery, waiting for that perfect job opportunity or the perfect woman to just fall out of the air.

You can substitute these for the Chiefs: Waiting for the refs to bail you out, waiting for a cast off QB to turn into Joe Montana or a "better coach" to magically turn your average team into world beaters.