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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — “Are you feeling good today, Chiefs Kingdom?” Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas shouted to a sea of football fans fresh from their town’s third Super Bowl victory in five years. At its highest moment of community pride, Kansas City experienced one of 21st-century American culture’s most traumatic events — a public mass shooting. “How," she asked, “can something go from this happy to this?”Everyone seemed to know someone who was there; that's the kind of town Kansas City is. “This is not Kansas City,” said Graves, who had stationed around 600 of her officers along the route in addition to 200 more from other agencies.

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☆ Patrick Mahomes won’t take consecutive Super Bowl titles for ‘granted’ as Kansas City Chiefs QB eyes ‘legendary’ three-peat
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Just a day after Patrick Mahomes lifted the Vince Lombardi Trophy aloft for the second time in as many years, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback already had his eyes set on more success. We’ll celebrate these few weeks, and then we’ll get right back at it.”After being named this year’s Super Bowl MVP, Mahomes traveled to Disneyland with his family as part of a yearly Super Bowl tradition. Notably, it was Mahomes who masterminded the superb 14-play, 75-yard touchdown drive in overtime which sealed the Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII win. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes celebrates winning Super Bowl LVIII. Some believe Mahomes could one day match, or even supersede, Brady’s Super Bowl title haul given the Chiefs’ current dominance.

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☆ Opinion: A thrilling Super Bowl that was also about something more
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Opinion Amy Bass | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Amy Bass Rodney BedsoleThis time around, football pundits wondered if Super Bowl LVIII would be the coronation of Chiefs coach Andy Reid and the establishment of a Kansas City dynasty with a third title in five years. This Super Bowl matchup, of course, had history. “We’re not done.”Key to any Super Bowl, of course, is the halftime show. Compared to Usher on roller skates, the commercials – which often take center stage of any Super Bowl broadcast — were relatively tame. “Taylor Swift is in Las Vegas,” commentator Ian Rappoport had assured Taylor Nation.

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☆ What to know about the Chiefs-49ers Super Bowl matchup
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Hannah Brewitt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Super Bowl LVIII is finally upon us and only two teams remain in the fight for the NFL’s biggest prize. Their next challenge is to defeat the Chiefs and win the franchise’s first Super Bowl title in nearly 30 years. Sunday’s matchup will be the second time in just four years that these two teams will meet in a Super Bowl. When the rivals squared off in Super Bowl LIV back in 2020, Kansas City came back from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to earn its first Super Bowl title since 1970. He’s won two Super Bowl titles, two Super Bowl MVP awards, and two league MVP awards - all before his 30th birthday.

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☆ Call them Chiefties? Meet the uber-fandom created when Taylor Swift entered her Travis Kelce era
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Jessica Simpson wears Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo's jersey number at a 2007 Eagles-Cowboys football game in Texas. LM Otero/APA swift understandingSwift first appeared at a Chiefs game in September before the now-couple confirmed their romance. Fans display signs in support of Taylor Swift during a Raiders-Chiefs football game in Kansas City in December. Amid the chaos of every day life – she has four kids – Swift’s music provides an escape. Taylor Swift celebrates with fans at the Dolphins-Chiefs football game in Kansas City in January.

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“She’s unbelievable, she’s rewriting the history books herself,” Travis Kelce said Monday night at Allegiant Stadium, where the Kansas City Chiefs will meet the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. “She seems to be enjoying the games and she’s a part of Chiefs Kingdom right now. “I think she’s been great for Chiefs Kingdom and also just the sport of football,” Bolton said. “It’s been fun to kind of gather the Swifties into Chiefs Kingdom and open them up to the football world and the sports world. “I have heard some of it, yes, and it is unbelievable,” Kelce said.

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(AP) — Travis Kelce is happy to have Taylor Swift on the Kansas City Chiefs bandwagon heading to the Super Bowl. Thanks for joining the team.”Whether Swift makes it to the Super Bowl against the 49ers on Feb. 11 in Las Vegas remains to be seen. Kelce and Swift have tried to keep their relationship out of the spotlight, though it has become increasingly difficult. Chiefs coach Andy Reid said last week that he appreciates the way Kelce has focused on his job amid everything else. “I haven’t really seen it affect him in any way," Reid said.

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☆ United and American Airlines add Super Bowl flights with a nod to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers are playing each other in this year’s Super Bowl, and airlines are excited about the potential match – that is, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. American Airlines and United both added special flights between Kansas City and Las Vegas airports over the Super Bowl weekend with special flights numbers that have Swifties and the Chiefs Kingdom taking notice. The flights will take off on Friday, February 9 and Saturday, February 10 from Kansas City to the host city. United is also adding Swift and Kelce-themed flight numbers between Kansas City and Las Vegas during the weekend, too. Airlines commonly added special flights to Super Bowl host cities for fans traveling to see the game.

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☆ Patrick Mahomes says Taylor Swift is now part of the ‘Chiefs Kingdom’
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-23 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Taylor Swift has become part of the “Chiefs Kingdom” and embraced by the team during her relationship with tight end Travis Kelce, according to Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes. “For us, there were a couple of jokes here and there at the beginning, but she’s just part of Chiefs Kingdom now. She’s part of the team,” Mahomes told Nate Burleson on “CBS Mornings.”“It’s cool that she’s embraced Brittany (Mahomes’ wife), and they’ve built a friendship as well. And then he started bringing Taylor around when he realised how cool of a person she is,” he added. Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes talk before a game.

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I like to look at it as ambitious, but we want to be the world’s team," Donovan said. 2 in “revenue generated from the international markets,” Donovan said. The Chiefs have played two other regular-season international games, winning in Mexico City in 2019 and in London four years earlier. The late Lamar Hunt was an early proponent of going international. As for becoming the world's team, Donovan acknowledges it won't be easy.

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