Sophie Cunningham Wants Chiefs Fans to Stay Humble After Playoffs Miss

The Kansas City Chiefs are now 6-9 in the season after the Week 16 loss to the Tennessee Titans at the Nissan Stadium.

Sophie Cunningham Wants Chiefs Fans to Stay Humble After Playoffs Miss

Patrick Mahomes, Sophie Cunningham in circle (Images via NBC News/SI)

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Last Sunday, the Los Angeles Chargers handed the Kansas City Chiefs the hardest defeat in a decade. The Chargers salvaged a 16-13 win at Arrowhead Stadium in Week 15 and eliminated the Chiefs from the postseason. Just a week ago, the Houston Texans gave an initial taste of the impending crash out when they defeated the Chiefs and removed them from the AFC West title contention.

The Chiefs have made the postseason for the past ten seasons and stood a chance to match the New England Patriots’ record for most consecutive postseasons if they had qualified this year. They also held the divisional title for nine straight seasons since 2016. After Sunday’s loss to the Tennessee Titans, the Chiefs will also have their first losing season since 2012.

The dynastical run has faced its first hurdle, and the injury to their star player and signal caller Patrick Mahomes in Week 15 sealed the coffin of pain. Amid these testing times, Sophie Cunningham, a professional basketball player and a Kansas City Chiefs fan, had a word for the Chiefs fandom.

The elimination and injury have prompted at least a sizable number of fans to criticize Mahomes and put forth the motion of a rebuild with a new quarterback. In light of this, the 29-year-old Indiana Fever shooting guard claimed that a decade of winning has spoiled them. She advised them to be humble and start stacking people up around Mahomes.

We’ve gotten spoiled, we’ve gotten used to winning and it’s time for us to be a little bit humble. I think people are letting their emotions talk on social media. It’s time to start stacking people up around Mahomes. you do not want to miss out on this human that is phenomenal.

Sophie Cunningham said via Show Me Something Podcast

Kansas City is reeling with postseason miss for reasons more than one

In the past seven seasons, the Kansas City Chiefs had highs and lows, not in the regular season but in the conference game or the Super Bowl. The current conundrum is new to them, at least the young fans who have started worshipping the team in the past decade. The Chiefs have one of the highest increases in fan bases in the last ten years.

Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce
Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce (Image via SI)

It is also new to the business owners, who have lost out on postseason revenue. The team has had numerous fans settling in the city during the playoffs and generating local income. According to Visit KC, each home playoff game last year was estimated to generate about $16 million in economic impact.

Anthony Bonino, the owner and general manager of The Quaff, a bar in Kansas City, told the news portal early this year that the bar is almost always full during the playoffs. As one of the then locations to serve food in KC post 11 at night, The Quaff takes steps to welcome the playoff crowd.

The Quaff will be among several establishments that will be seeing reductions in the early half of the year’s revenues. Alexandria Purington, a bartender in one of the hip locations in the city, Tanner’s Bar and Grill, told Morgan Riddell of KCTV that the next two months will be different this time around. However, she hoped that the fans would still catch the game and visit the bar during the playoffs despite the Chiefs not being in it.

As the Chiefs miss out on the playoffs, the next big thing Kansas City is expecting will be the FIFA World Cup 2026 in the summer. The Arrowhead Stadium will host six games, including reigning champions’ Argentina’s opening game against Algeria on June 16, 2026.

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