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Originally Posted by morphius
The 1980's had a lot of fans going? The Royals were not even TRYING to be competitive, so people stopped going. The Chiefs were awful long enough in the 80's, so people stopped going.
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I worked a post-strike game against the Raiders at Arrowhead in 1982 (an NFL strike season) that seemed to have fewer than 20,000 fans in it (although the official attendance was 26,307
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_K..._Chiefs_season). Granted, it was cold as hell and the Chiefs sucked, but that was not deep into the 1980's. That was 1982. When I was a kid in the late 1970's and early 80's, you could go out to Arrowhead on game day and be sure to get a ticket cheap to see the game and have plenty of elbow room because half the stadium would be empty.