Pre Mahomes and pre Super Bowl era, we celebrated Dane turning 16 by bringing him to Kansas City to watch a Chiefs game. Wanting to always make sure birthdays are celebrated in style, we had a limo pick us up from the house and take us to the airport. The plane was a puddle hopper but the flight was quick and we arrived in KC full of anticipation.
To start, we found out when we arrived to the hotel we were actually staying at the same place as the opposing team (which was the San Diego Chargers) so that was pretty cool. Dane didn’t think it was, but his football loving parents did. The funny awkward moment was being in the elevator with Dane in his Chiefs gear and standing next to us was Ekeler, one of the runningbacks for the Chargers. We ordered room service daily for breakfast and Dane got to open his presents in the hotel room. We did some sight seeing Saturday, mainly to check out the stadium before game day and Dane was stoked to also get to see his KC Royals stadium too.
Game day came upon us and it was COLD! Part of the gift for Dane was to get a full stadium tour. We arrived early to get that started, and it was cool to see the history of the stadium and the team as we toured around. Icing on the cake for him was when we stepped into an elevator to go down to the field level and we were joined by the KC Chiefs cheerleaders – who proceeded to sing “happy birthday” when they found out we were celebrating. That was a smile that couldn’t get wiped away and only got bigger as we got to the field and watched some of his favorite players warming up.
The stadium is all concrete – and it was bitter cold. It was colder inside the stadium where I was buying hot chocolate then it was in the stands. Chiefs fans are some of the most passionate, and just being there in their element was too much fun. The outcome didn’t make our fan that happy (they lost) but it was definitely a trip of awesome memories overall. Fast forward to Super Bowl 51 and we watched that fan overcome with joy as his team got another trophy finally.
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