Brandon Spano
March 7, 2010

On Saturday night I wrote an article called: “Be Patient Chiefs Fans.” I thought it was pretty good. I had Colleen edit and publish it and hit the couch for some relaxing time. I fell asleep watching tape of a linebacker from Coastal Carolina. When I woke up on Sunday morning, I checked my facebook page and people were giving me thumbs up, the story had 5 stars on chiefscrowd.com and I had 2 emails from people saying that I need to keep pumping positivity into the Chiefs blogosphere. I was feeling pretty good.

Then, before I left the house, I figured I would check the chiefsinformer to see if anybody had commented and how many people had read the article. what I found was Krayfish dropping about 1000 words on me! Dude got ill on the keyboard. There was one quote that really caught my attention:

“When you can’t even win a playoff game in the span it takes for a child to become a full grown adult, there is something wrong with your way of doing business.”

So without further ado, here is……Krayfish Sounding Off (slightly edited)

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I think the issue many have with this FA so far is this; Its the trend! What trend you ask? Well there?s a saying that goes ?fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.? Got it? Yeah, because there is no saying for ?fool me for 40 years shame on?.? Trends.

The Chiefs have not attended a Super Bowl since two years removed from when blacks were a rare commodity in the NFL. Two years removed from when blacks had to drink from a different water fountain than whites. After you sit back for 40 years and watch a team do the same thing over and over again, 40 years mind you. Forty. That?s 39 +1 year. That?s a long ass time to observe. That?s long enough to establish a trend.

Lets pretend you and I have never heard of the sport of football. WE know NOTHING about it. For all we know it could be played with a tire jack and a golf ball by midgets. We have just been assigned the task of studying the sport and finding the best role model organization that football has to offer. Considering I know nothing about the sport, the first thing I would do is find out what its World Series equivalent is. We would then find out the ultimate goal for every organization, team and fan is to win the Superbowl.

So, I think it would be a logical approach to assume that if you found the organization(s) that had achieved that goal the most times over the existence of the sport, that would be a good organization to start with as your possible role model.

That would take us to the Steelers and a very very close second place Cowboys club. They have not just won the most Super Bowls of any other organization, they have done it consistently over time. They didn?t win all the rings in the 70?s only. Or in the 80?s only. They have a formula for winning that brings them back to the Super Bowl almost on schedule time and again like a merry go round.

They dip and they have their rebuilding years, but they consistently over time have proven that they can be trusted to put out a good to elite product almost every year with some exceptions. Overall, their fans can always have hope that they will see another Super Bowl in their lifetime. They can count on it. That?s called a trend also.

Its the exact opposite trend we have here in KC. Now, I am so loyal that if Al Davis bought the Chiefs I would still love them and only them. Doesn?t matter. I?m a lifer, a die hard fan. Win or lose, that?s my team. But it doesn?t mean I have to be a dumb ass either.

Our owners have established a pattern or trend that is well known to our enemies in the NFL. I live in Florida and I can promise you that our reputation as a ball club is of one that can not be taken as a legitimate threat to win a SB ever. We are one of those teams that when opposing teams fans hear that they are playing us in the playoffs, they probably first have to ask ?what?? because they can?t believe it, secondly they celebrate, because they know we can?t win a playoff game if Jesus himself were our QB.

That?s a trend. We are known as a cheapskate organization to OTHER fans. Like it or not, them?s the facts. I am telling you that I live in a melting pot here and with all the fans of all the different teams here, they all say the same thing. We?re punks. NO one takes this team seriously. Thanks Hunt family.

It all comes back to the owners. There is a philosophy that obviously works over in Pittsburgh and in Dallas. There is a philosiphy that is obviously flawed here in KC. When you can’t even win a playoff game in the span it takes for a child to become a full grown adult, there is something wrong with your way of doing business.

Lamar may have been the man in an era where sideburns and Pintos with wood paneling were cool. But he never evolved with the game. Athletes today don?t really and truly respect the athletes from back then the same way they do the athletes of today. The guys back then were mostly white, small and slow as a whole compared to today. The game is played very differently. The way the NFL has changed and grown into a monsterous mega business is different than even 25 years ago.

Since then, teams like the Cardinals have been to their first Super Bowl. The Saints have too. I could go on. Other tems manage to do it. We don?t ever. So when you are used to your ownership never spending big in Free Agency?..EVER?and they have NEVER won a Super Bowl, you put two and two together and say ?shouldn?t we do something different? Like maybe once? And see what happens?

And the excuse that players don?t want to play for losing teams is full of holes. That only holds true in a certain percentage of cases. Although sometimes that is truly the case, more often than not, it?s the money that gets the deal done. Ok? That?s the truth. If it weren?t the truth, then why did two FA?s go to the Lions? You can?t lose more than they do. But their wheelin? and dealin?.

They got a new GM, new coach new shiny QB and they came out swinging to make an impression so other FA?s might actually want to give the new regime a chance.

We never come out swinging. We never have. We wait until somebody is too old to be a starter somewhere else and then bargain hunt for them. And that NEVER WORKS either. As is evidenced by our dismal playoff and Super Bowl history. Right? So we didn?t need to break the bank. We didn?t need to trade away all our draft picks to make a splash. All we had to do was show up once and show the league that we?re changing the trend here in KC. That?s it is OK to come here, we?ll pay you. And you?ll have a chance at that Super Bowl ring that you want so much. WE can offer both. But no. We do nothing. Again. NOTHING.

That could still change. Your absolutley correct. And we could all be wrong about the lack of action on Pioli?s part. That just may happen. But after 40 years of the same thing, you tend to trust the trend.

Written By: KrayFish