Chiefs fans share their football superstitions at Power & Light

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The first game of the NFL’s regular season kicked off at Arrowhead Stadium while hundreds of Chiefs fans watched at Power and Light .

While some fans watched on the big screen, others joined podcast hosts from The Athletic to talk about their football superstitions.

Madelyn Luke and Kami Warner told FOX4 that their family won’t watch the Chiefs when they aren’t playing well.

“My dad usually gets so mad he gets up from his chair and feeds his cows,” Luke said.

“He can listen to it on the radio, when he watches it on TV, they do bad but when he listens to it in the pasture it’s game on!”

Other superstitions require a little more work, like Chiefs fan Skyler Thompson. For him, the tradition started during the 2019 Super Bowl.

“The first half was not going well so me and a couple buddies got together, and we said hey we have to switch jerseys,” Thompson explained.

“We needed to switch it up, we swapped jerseys for the second half and they won obviously.”

He said the tradition continued through the previous Super Bowls as well.

“3 Super Bowls later, 2 more [since 2019], it’s the same tradition, we can’t stop now,” he said.

“It will be going on every Super Bowl the Chiefs make, basically forever, I hope!”

While fans think it’s their superstitions that have caused success, The Athletic’s Robert Mays says, they’re just that good. But much like the superstitions, he can’t explain it.

“The normal logic and rules and limitations that you’d put on an NFL team don’t seem to apply to them,” Mays said.

“It feels like they’re running up the score legacy-wise at this point. It’s not a matter of like whether these guys should be in the Hall of Fame. It’s a matter of how much distance between them and their peers at each of these positions when they eventually get there.”

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