So, we ask Donnie, have we crossed the Chiefs-Broncos dividing line here in Ellis?It would seem like Facebook's map is a good breakdown of where main loyalties lie:
“I’d say a little further west.”
WaKeeney, Kan., is the geographic midway point between Kansas City and Denver, each about 300 miles away.
From this town and for the next 70 miles west, toward Colby, we hear people say “50/50” when asked about the breakdown of Chiefs and Broncos fans.
Granted, “50/50” is a safe, off-the-cuff estimate in a region so distant from big-time sports centers. After all, newspapers in western Kansas emphasize high school athletics. Many NFL fans back neither Denver nor Kansas City.
At Twisters II Bar & Grill in WaKeeney, customer Dick Dykema dons a Minnesota Vikings stocking cap.
“Lived here 30 years,” he said, “but I came from North Dakota. Close enough to Minnesota.”
Plenty of Dallas Cowboy fans here, too. Also Oakland fans, Pittsburgh fans.
But it’s all Chiefs versus Broncos this night at Twisters II.
In Goodland, Kan., 18 miles east of the Colorado border, it’s too obvious.
We’re in Mountain Standard Time. Goodlanders can get Denver’s NBC affiliate on cable TV. McDonald’s serves beverages in cups bearing the Broncos’ horse-head logo.
It’s Kansas, sure. But Jacque’s Hallmark shop hasn’t a stitch of Chiefs paraphernalia to go with the Broncos body stickers and toothbrush holders.
Hallmark clerk Mary Jane Sponsel doesn’t blink: “We have mostly Bronco fans.”
Of course, there is a huge minority of Browns fans in SW Ohio, but I would guess that this map gives a pretty good estimate of what the majority thinks.
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