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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Let's be honest, it's pretty easy to hate the Chiefs. The team doesn't give a damn about its fans, it just milks the Arrowhead mystique and shucks and devours its denizens en masse.
Clark Hunt doesn't care about football, and I don't really think that Lamar did after about 1975. They seem pretty content to make money off of revenue sharing and attempt to make the occasional wave to peak fan interest, so the turnstiles will keep rotating. They just raped the taxpayers into funding the vast majority of their stadium renovations while putting out some of the worst products in any two+ (soon to be 3) year period in NFL history.
People conflate Lamar Hunt the renegade who started the AFL with Lamar Hunt, the satisfied multimillionaire who could sit back and reap the rewards from one game while frivolously pissing away money on his real sports-related passion.
The Chiefs fans should be treated as first class citizens to the Hunts, because they'd be financially ruined without them, but they're really second class. They have been very adept at hoodwinking their customers into believing that was true in the 1960's is true now.
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The most ridiculous thing about the whole Hunt situation is that he invested $25,000 to start the Chiefs. It's not like he had to shell out $1 billion dollar franchise fee like the Texans owner or even $250 million like the Jags and Panthers.
$25,000.00.
These guys (Hunt, Brown, Wilson, Bud Adams) were
businessmen. Period.
They saw an opportunity in the marketplace and exploited it.
And now, nearly all of them are
billionaires.
If you told me I could invest $25k and 50 years later, it would be worth a
billion dollars, I'd tell you to sign me up yesterday.
Their worship is beyond me.