Dungver Post: Chiefs fatigue has taken hold and gotten old. Will it ever end?

[JohnnyHammersticks]

I love the smell of Donk tears in the morning. Smells like....victory.

Renck: Chiefs fatigue has taken hold and gotten old. Will it ever end?
Mahomes, Kelce, Reid on endless commercials hard to stomach in Broncos Country

The Chiefs have become the Patriots. And that is not a compliment. At least not in these parts.

I am getting irritable in my 50s. Losing patience for reruns. What started innocently five years ago has become a full-blown annoyance.

It all began when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl in 2019. They stepped onto the biggest stage, stopped paging Dr. Heimlich and announced themselves as a power. Cap tip. Congratulations. What has happened since is unfathomable and unacceptable. They have gone from fantastic to dynastic, appearing in four Super Bowls in five years and winning three.

The diagnosis: Chiefs fatigue. And there is no vaccine. I checked when I got my flu shot.

Symptoms include lack of enthusiasm, rolled eyes, mood swings, boredom, bloodshot eyes and blurred vision.

The Chiefs deserve all the attention they get. But I am over it.

It traces back to my life as a writer. You root for the story. And the Broncos-Chiefs games have been more predictable than a Scooby-Doo cartoon. The Broncos devise a mischievous scheme, get punched in the face and insist they would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling refs.

Denver has lost eight straight in Kansas City and 16 of their last 17 overall.

Pulling for the undefeated Chiefs has become like rooting for Apple stock.

Wasn’t it bad enough that we had to watch the Patriots follow this script from 2001 to 2007 and again from 2014 to 2018?

By 2015, I felt sorry for the Chiefs. I covered the game in 1998 when Shannon Sharpe drove Chiefs linebacker Derrick Thomas bonkers by allegedly reciting his girlfriend’s telephone number, drawing three personal fouls. I watched Peyton Manning spend four years putting their heart in a blender.

It was funny, if not unusually cruel. At one point, the Chiefs lost eight consecutive playoff games over 25 years. It was kind of sad. And even more hilarious.

Now they face Denver with a Joker’s grin. Sunday they are an eight-point favorite, fitting for a team that has won eight straight AFC West titles. The explanation for Chiefs fatigue is layered: No one threatens them in the division, they win too much, and they are omnipresent.

I can’t turn on the TV without seeing Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Andy Reid. Mahomes tells me what to eat (fresh at Subway), how to communicate (T-Mobile), who should clean my hair (Head & Shoulders) and where to bundle my home and auto insurance (State Farm). The only things missing are a hormone clinic, weight-loss diet, baked beans and a car dealership.

According to The Wall Street Journal, no celebrity appeared in more commercials during the 2023 season than Kelce. He promotes cereal, hardware, cable TV, soup, soda and sandwiches.

As for Reid, he steals the show with his “nuggies” spot with Mahomes for State Farm and his “great googly-moogly” line in a remake of the Snickers “” commercial.

These guys are fun. So is ice cream. But I don’t eat it for breakfast. Is their expiration date approaching soon?

If it isn’t bad enough, the coach and quarterback have imposters. Almost Andy Reid — a nice guy — looks, talks and acts like Big Red, sometimes helping out in commercials with the coach. He even appeared at a charity golf tournament in Fort Lupton in June.

And of course, Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola patterns his appearance and mannerisms off those of Mahomes, though he has struggled mightily to imitate the winning part.

Then, there is Taylor Swift. She is dating Kelce. I have no issue with broadcast cutaways to her at the games — it beats seeing a coach in an oversized sweatsuit staring at a laminated play sheet like he is splitting the atom.

It is the aggregate. The endless dominance with the ridiculous narrative that “nobody believes in us.”

It is a lot. They are like Amazon in red tops and white pants.

“Yeah, I am getting tired of the video they put up at the beginning of the annual (owners meetings) session here with Kansas City pictures,” Broncos owner/CEO Greg Penner told me in March. “I am ready for something different.”

The previously long-suffering Chiefs revel in this. They went from pity to an endless party. The Chiefs have become Duke basketball under Coach K. They are the Yankees with Kelce as Derek Jeter and Mahomes as Mariano Rivera. America’s Team is the one playing against them.

This week it is the Broncos. And there is no reason to think Denver will win. But someday this run — and Chiefs Fatigue — will end, hopefully before Mahomes is hawking life insurance and eating a spicy Italian sandwich with dentures.

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/11/0...-travis-kelce/

[Shiver Me Timbers]

Originally Posted by MMXcalibur

Living out here in Denver is fun.

Eat my ass, Donkos.

x2^

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by teedubya

The Broncos are kind of sad. And even more hilarious.

The Denver Broncos have participated in eight Super Bowls throughout their history. They have achieved victory in three of those appearances, resulting in a Super Bowl record of 3 wins and 5 losses.

We are FOUR in SIX. Hilarious huh?

Yeah but one of ours was when we were in the AFL, and everybody knows 2 SB losses = 1 win, so the Broncos actually have more /dumb **** Bronco Biff

[Shiver Me Timbers]

I really hope the score is something like 42-6. There is nothing better than Denver Sports/Donk talk radio after they lose bigly.

[TheGuardian]

If I was somehow made immortal there's not enough years in all of eternity I wouldn't relish that shit eating cheating ass team to suffer.

Rat Shanahan and Elways and that overrated POS Terrell Davis I will hate for all of eternity. The whole mile high salute shit, and Gibbs with his cheap ass "I can't play but I can cut your knees out from under you" chop block scheme.

The fact that this dude writes that and we had to endure the ****ing Elway fatigue is ironic.

[JohnnyHammersticks]

Originally Posted by Kiimo

Well played Kiimo...very, very well played.

[JohnnyHammersticks]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Best South Park episode ever

[TinyEvel]

LOLOLOL

Somewhere there is a politics and religion forum that bans anyone who talks about the Chiefs.

[BlackHelicopters]

Damn shame.

[DenverChief]

Just they wait until our starting WR group looks like this:

Hopkins
Brown
Worthy
JJSS
Watson
Hardman

They'll really be miserable then.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

The difference is even the Alex Chiefs would have eliminated Denver in the playoffs in that Superfarce 50 season. 30 to 0 in pile high earlier in the year. Robbed at Arrowhead on corrupt calls.

97 took cheating the cap, Crisco, and a terrible call on a Tony TD and a phantom hold on a FG for them to survive

[brdempsey69]

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brioni

The difference is even the Alex Chiefs would have eliminated Denver in the playoffs in that Superfarce 50 season. 30 to 0 in pile high earlier in the year. Robbed at Arrowhead on corrupt calls.

97 took cheating the cap, Crisco, and a terrible call on a Tony TD and a phantom hold on a FG for them to survive

And let us not forget those ridiculously easy last-place schedules that the Donkeys were gifted from 1996 -- 1998.

And regarding that Tony G force-out, you know full well if you'd had that same sequence occur with Turd Elway throwing the ball to one of his receivers, the officials would have ruled it a touchdown & said it was a force-out (that very thing happened in the Donks '97 game at SD).

[RunKC]

I need to print this article out and frame it. It’s beautiful!

[loochy]

Well I get it. It makes sense. But F U. It feels good to be on top.

[Gary Cooper]

This guy didn't write anything about Bo Nix and the current Broncos, who are actually overachieving this year. Nice reporting.

[InChiefsHeaven]

What a well written and thoughtful article. I agree with it 100%. Well, except the part where he thinks its a bad thing. I mean, I know a lot of fans of other teams who are just sick of the saturation, but this is what happens when you win. At everything.

I've posted this before, but I have what I would almost consider and unhealthy and unreasonable hatred of the Donks. I hate them worse than LV and the Chargers combined. I hate them more than I hated the Pats.

Theirs is a team that cannot lose enough as far as I'm concerned. The fact that so much of their losing over the last decade has come at the hands of the Chiefs is just so ****ing great.

Will they suck forever? Nah, nobody does. Well, maybe the Browns. I'm sure there will be a day when we might see them coming up on the schedule and think "Wow, Dungver game is gonna be a tough one, we'll need our A-game to win"...but it's not coming for a long while yet.

Call me petty. Call me small. Call me deranged. I don't care. I hate that team, and they can never lose too much. We need to piss pound them this Sunday.