‘Almost Andy’: how one fan benefited most from the Chiefs’ winning run How a mercurial run helped put Kansas City on the world’s map while changing the life of one Chiefs superfan.
Kansas City wasn’t thought about in 1994 when host cities for the Fifa World Cup were selected, and while we can’t say for sure that the Chiefs putting KC on the global map is directly responsible for their landing 2026 World Cup games, the city’s enhanced profile couldn’t have hurt.
Though they may have missed the Hallmark Christmas film, centered around, you guessed it, a Kansas City Chiefs fan – Mahomes sat that one out.
A regular at games since 1983, Matt Black cheered on KC through very little thick and and a whole lot of thin, an era marked mostly by a series of sports tragedies overseen by then head coach Marty Schottenheimer.
The “halo effect” that has been bestowed onto Black (and more on him in a moment), has also dramatically sweetened the status of KC, a middle-American city of 510,000 residents that forms the seventh smallest--television market amongst NFL teams.
