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Originally Posted by wazu
I think both are very different. The Royals were on a short timeline and we knew that. In 2014 I guess I felt different than you. I was crushed by the loss. I still had hope for next year, but I know how difficult it is to get back and so it really destroyed a lot of the joy of everything else that happened. Then when they came out in 2015 and dominated it was so special. As Rany put it the 2015 Royals "turned the 2014 Royals into a prologue."
But with Chiefs I know they'll be around for awhile. And winning last year takes some pressure off of any one year. I'm way less down about this loss than I was about the Royals in 2014. We have Superman playing for our team, and the future is bright. Not just this next season, but for 10-15 years.
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Yeah, I 100% have that mindset with the Chiefs.... as angry as the officiating made me the other night, the loss didn't really upset me all that much. I'm old, I've seen some shit... tip your cap and move on.... and yeah, as long as Mahomes is healthy and a Chief and the organization isn't ridiculously incompetent, they'll be in the conversation just about every year.
I just think the perception out there with the legacy BS, he gets hyped up to the point that he's invincible, so people are quick to tear him down. As a fan, getting that first SB win does take off a ton of nervousness and what not.
And yeah, it's hard to explain with the '14 Royals... maybe just because I had lost my interest in them for a long while at that point. I had listened to them on the radio as a kid, baseball was the only sport I didn't completely suck at for a while, collected baseball cards, the whole bit.... and then I kind of watched some in '13 and IIRC didn't really start paying attention until at least mid-season '14.
So, as opposed to someone following the team through those years who may have seen at least a playoff appearance coming (of course, no one saw the WS thing coming), it was a weird mix of like jumping on a bandwagon for a few months, but for a long lost love. I wasn't worried about the end result, I was just happy to have it back in my life, heh.
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tried to approach '15 with the same mentality and watched every game possible that year... but, of course everyone knew that was it after that season, so not winning it that year would have stung a bit since it was so damn fun to watch.