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I first switched from being a Cowboys fan (like my stepdad) to a Chiefs fan in 1982 when we started 6-2 under Marv Levy and even my stepdad thought we would make the playoffs for the first time in my sentient life. We didn't. And we stupidly let Levy go. But I was hooked.
In 1986, I was the only one in my family who thought we had a chance to make the playoffs. We did and my whole extended family got together for the game. I was like, "Ohhh this is what rooting for a winning team is like. This is fun!"
We lost badly and fired the head coach in favor of the special teams coach. It did not go well.
That's basically all I remember from the 80s until 1989, when Marty arrived to introduce us to a whole new kind of pain.
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