Chiefs pay homage to Taylor Swift with unique competition at World's Largest Tailgate
The Kansas City Chiefs had a fun day planned prior to the team's season opener against the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night. Once again, they will host the "World's Largest Tailgate: The Tailgate Games" with an experience featuring Arrowhead Stadium’s iconic tailgate experience, a celebration of Chiefs fans’ welcoming spirit, and highlights a fun and […]
The Kansas City Chiefs had a fun day planned prior to the team's season opener against the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night. Once again, they will host the "World's Largest Tailgate: The Tailgate Games" with an experience featuring Arrowhead Stadium’s iconic tailgate experience, a celebration of Chiefs fans’ welcoming spirit, and highlights a fun and friendly competition.
And of course, the team has to pay homage to Taylor Swift, who has become a very important part of Chiefs Kingdom.
The team announce on Tuesday that they are incorporating a Friendship Bracelet Challenge.
"The fast-paced contest will be ongoing throughout the World’s Largest Tailgate: Tailgate Games as members from both teams will face off in a head-to-head showdown to make the most Chiefs-colored friendship bracelets during the 60-minute pregame show.
All bracelets made during the Friendship Bracelet Challenge, as well as the unused bracelet materials, will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City and distributed to the children and families that they serve" the team said in a statement.
Why Friendship Bracelets?
The friendship bracelet phenomenon began at the start of Swift's Era's Tour.
In her song, 'You’re on Your Own, Kid,' Swift sings, "So, make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it."
Because of that line, fans across the world starting making tons of friendship bracelets to trade with one another at games. Some fans even started to give some bracelets to Travis Kelce during the game
So now, this has become the universal symbol for Swifties everywhere.
Anytime Kelce goes anywhere now, he is handed bracelets from tons of Swifties, having gained a lot of new Chiefs fans simply due to his relationship with the singer.
Here are the other competitions at this year's experience:
- The Sauce Relay – a relay race in which participants will traverse an obstacle course while carrying containers of BBQ sauce. At the finish line, competitors will pour the remaining sauce into a bucket, and the team with the heaviest bucket when the timer runs out wins.
- The 2-Minute Drill – a passing challenge where participants wear helmets with blacked-out visors and must attempt to complete as many passes into cardboard cutouts as possible in two minutes.
- Coach’s Cheeseburger Challenge – a cheeseburger assembly challenge with a twist: chefs won’t be able to use their own hands but will instead rely on a partner’s hands from behind them. The competitor who is using their hands will be blindfolded and the competitor in front has to guide their partner. The team that assembles the most cheeseburgers within the time limit wins.
- Chiefs Cup – a variation on the traditional flip cup competition where the cups get progressively larger throughout the game. Before competitors can begin flipping their cup they have to dump a cupful of confetti on their heads. The first team to flip all its cups wins.
Fans who aren't at Arrowhead Stadium can watch at www.ChiefsLive.com beginning at 5:00 p.m. CT.
