It's 1:30 in the morning so nothing I say in this post can be held against me.

I hear people talk about chord progressions like they are magical things. I'm not much of a musician but I don't get it.

Isn't a progression just a succession of chords in a key? For example, C-F-G7 or C-Am-Bb-G-C-Em-G7-C.

Is it the way they're played or what? Why are people so hung up on them? You can go to dozens if not hundreds of websites and find chords to songs.