Kansas City Chiefs Fans Endure Winter Of Discontent 2026

Sadly, what is for certain for many football fans this weekend is that glory days of the Kansas City Chiefs are now nothing more than an increasingly distant memory. 

A brief survey reveals so many problems looming over the franchise . . . 

Super Bowl champion QB Patrick Mahomes was badly injured and will likely never return to top form. 

Fan fave Travis Kelce looks forward to a high profile media career and has all but check out of the game. 

A lopsided taxpayer funded move to Kansas has disheartened the fan base on both sides of the State Line and ruined the illusion of hometown loyalty by way of a brazen money grab worth BILLIONS to enrich owners at the cost of impending sales tax spikes on the low-end.

Finally . . . 

To add insult to injury, the hometown champs have now been overlooked amid what is usually a time of celebration . . . 

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For the Kansas City Chiefs, this is normally a celebratory time of year. The Chiefs are typically in the playoffs, and All-Pro rosters are being announced, which means there are multiple Kansas City players being named to both the first- and second-team roster.

Not this year, however. This year the Chiefs got skipped over big time, and names like quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce are missing in action on this year’s roster.

Accordingly . . . 

The "worst of times" for Kansas City Chiefs fans and this return to normal for anybody who followed the franchise before 2015 inspires tonight's www.TonysKansasCity.com playlist. . .

Because our song lists are always about nostalgia . . . Back in 1997, Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger emerged from the muck of the Seattle "grunge" scene and struck a chord with music fans who yearned for sardonic music that defied genres. The tune is part emo, pop & even offer a sing-along chorus nod to the ancient days of arena rock.

Something a tad more recent . . . In the glory daze before COVID Foster The People released a masterpiece of a video for their single "worst nites" that is more cinematic than anything Americans have witnessed on movie screens in nearly a decade.

The sublime track "Hard Times" from Paramore might have been pop music hitting "peak millennial" as a generation of youthful Americans slowly came to the realization that popular music was better in the 80s and then started trying to emulate those "vibes" for enthusiastic fans.

For the bridge . . . We admit that we love Styx if only because they admit that most of their music is cringe-y and they're still complaining about the music biz well into old age. And so, "The Best Of Times" speaks to bittersweet old memories that were never really that great . . .

Now . . . Most hacks would finish a playlist like this with something uplifting and that's nice but TKC readers expect something more honest. And so we'll share one of our favorite tunes and a great story . . . Fans of cinema might remember that the 1966 track "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet was featured in The Wolf of Wall Street. It was fitting tune and part of Martin Scorsese's overall brilliance BUT . . . What we really like about the piece is this bit of lore . . . 

According to American jazz legend, the song was a "massive hit, in part because the audience reaction captured on the album made the track feel vibrant and alive" and that was achieved by way of an open bar during the live recording session that was never accurately documented in order to protect the innocent & guilty alike. The story isn't pretty but it's realistic, inspiring and serves as a place to pause for tonight.

As always, thanks for reading this week and have a safe & fun Saturday night.