Sons of Anarchy: 5 Times We Felt Bad For Chibs (& 5 Times We Hated Him)

In the current, Mayans MC timeline, Filip “Chibs” Telford is the current president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original (SAMCRO). Before appearing in the spinoff/sequel, he had a recurring role in the critically acclaimed FX series Son’s Of Anarchy.

Chibs appeared in 88 episodes in total. He began as the Club’s Sergeant At Arms before rising to be Vice President, and then President after Jax Teller left the position. Chibs was one of the more level-headed characters, but in as much as we felt bad for him sometimes, there are things that made us really hate him too.

10 Felt Bad: Jimmy O Taking His Wife And Daughter Away From Him

In the Season 2 episode titled “Balm,” it was revealed that Jimmy O kicked Chibs out of Ireland as well as the IRA, and took his wife and daughter for himself. Jimmy was also responsible for the visible scars on Chibs’ face. Furthermore, Jimmy O threatened to get intimate with his daughter.

That’s definitely too much for one man to bear. Chibs stayed strong though. After being kicked out of Ireland, Chibs became a SAMBEL prospect before later joining SAMCRO when the latter patched over to the former.

9 Hated: Becoming An Informant

ATF’s Agent June Stahl tried to convince Chibs to be an informant against the IRA, and she almost succeeded. Stahl had realized that the True IRA had Chibs’ family and knew that Chibs badly wanted to get them back. She promised Chibs that she would get his estranged wife and daughter and also give immunity to SAMCRO.

However, Stahl was never willing to give immunity to SAMCRO, and Chibs should have known this. He was very willing to sign the deal because he hated Jimmy O. Luckily, Chibs changed his mind in the final moment, but the fact that he even considered it made him look bad.

8 Felt Sorry: Getting Caught Up In An Explosion

In the Season 2 episode titled “Smite,” Chibs was getting ready to move a minivan that had been towed by a TM truck. He soon realized something was wrong when the starter made a strange but familiar sound.

Chibs jumped out in time to survive, but the blast still hit him hard. His head knocked against the pavement and he had to stay at the St. Thomas Hospital for a huge part of the season.

7 Hated: Wanted To Stay In The Gun Business

When a kid shot up his school and the gun used was linked back to SAMCRO, Jax made the decision to stop dealing with the IRA and get out of the arms business. However, despite all the terrible things the IRA had done to him, Chibs wanted SAMCRO to remain in the business.

Like Jax, the school shooting alone should have made his conscience grow in size. Wanting to stay in the business meant he was willing to risk more incidents like that happening. Jax was even willing to link the IRA to August Marks, but Chibs wasn’t seeing any sense in this.

6 Felt Sorry: The Death Of His Nephew Padraic Telford

When Jax went to Ireland to got get Abel in the third season, Chibs accompanied him. There, he met his nephew Padraic Telford at the SAMBEL clubhouse. Given how excited the two were to see each other, it was clear that they were very close.

Sadly, Liam O’Neill (the Sergeant at Arms of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club’s Belfast, Northern Ireland chapter) set up a bomb to blow up Jax and his team. Padraic was killed in the explosion, and the feeling of loss was clearly visible on the face of Chibs.

5 Hated: Abandoning Juice

Juice was always a troubled gangster. Bad luck seemed to follow him on every turn. When he attempted to commit suicide, Chibs offered to become his mentor. He felt pity for him and promised to make him a better man. But he didn’t do that.

Juice just kept on getting worse and worse, since he was on his own most of the time. When Juice finally fell out with the club, he tried to get some advice from Chibs. He should never have bothered, since Chibs simply told him: “If I were you, I’d take that gun, put it in my mouth, and pull the trigger.”

4 Felt Sorry: Watching Opie Get Beaten To Death

After Tig attempted to kill Leroy Wayne and ended up accidentally killing Veronica Pope, the Sons found themselves in huge trouble with gang leader Damon Pope. Despite Tig offering himself up as a sacrifice, Pope insisted that Chibs, Tig and Jax got to prison. He wanted them to be killed by one of his gangs inside.

They were jailed at Stockton, where they temporarily got protection from Mexican inmates thanks to SAMCRO’s deal with the cartel. Sadly, Opie ended up taking the fall later on, and the scene where the normally tough Chibs screamed as he watched him get beaten to death was totally heartbreaking.

3 Hated: Threatening Lieutenant Althea Jarry After She Broke Off Their Relationship

In the seventh season, Chibs began dating Lieutenant Althea Jarry who was heading the Charming-Morada Sub-Station of the San Joaquin Sheriff’s Department. Other members of the club found this amusing, because no known gangster had dated a cop before.

The two always argued and made up in the most unconventional of places, including the top of a cop car. But it was never meant to work. After Chibs learned about Jax’s impending demise, he met with Jarry, who broke off their relationship. He didn’t take it too kindly, telling her that cops who get SAMCRO’s bad side end up dead.

2 Felt Sorry: Learning That Jax Is “Going To Meet Mr. Mayhem”

When a SAMCRO member did something unforgivable, he would “Meet Mr. Mayhem.” This was a phrase that the biker gang used to mean that someone was going to be sent to the afterlife. After Jax killed Jury because he thought he was ratting out SAMCRO to the Chinese, it was clear he had to pay for that mistake.

Jax told Chibs later in the seventh season that he had confessed to the other presidents about killing Jury, and thus he was going to “Meet Mr. Mayhem.” Chibs was clearly distraught, since Jax was a brother to him.

1 Hated: Using Half-Sack

In the first season, Chibs took Half-Sack under his wing (something which never ends well) and trained him to be a bare-knuckle boxer. Chibs then entered him into a boxing competition so that the club could raise money to buy more weapons. The question is: why not steal? They are gangsters after all.

This all seemed unnecessary. Half-Sack proved to be a worthy fighter and reached the final, only to be told by Chibs that he has to lose because they bet on the opponent. All that work just to lose?

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