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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 Hunts would not be financially ruined without Chiefs fans. You are kidding yourself if you think the Chiefs are any more than a small part of the pie when it comes to the Hunt fortune. As with most owners the team is the fun investment. FYI...Clark is the Chairman of the Board and the majority owner. The Chiefs are owned by 5 different Hunts.