The Kansas City Chiefs are having a dry run of sorts at Arrowhead Stadium today for training camp.
The Chiefs will hold training camp practice at Arrowhead Stadium in front of about 2,000 fans as a part of two season ticket member events being held during training camp. The team plans to go through some of the different things that will happen on game day. It’ll serve as a learning opportunity for the young players who’ve never been through an NFL game before and won’t ahead of the start of the season due to canceled preseason games.
Andy Reid explained the process during Friday’s media availability.
“Tomorrow we have our practice in the stadium,” Reid said. “I look forward to opening that up to the fans and giving them an opportunity to see, and also, we have to get the mechanics of game day down. We’ll function like that as a staff, all stay on the same sideline and come out of the tunnel and so on—the things that the guys don’t have a chance to do during preseason games. So, all in all, it will be beneficial. It’ll be beneficial for Mark Donovan and his crew to be able to set the stadium up and be able to go through that procedure—a good dry run for everybody.”
This process won’t just be a dry run for the coaches, players and staff, but also the stadium crew as they welcome fans to Arrowhead Stadium for the first time during the pandemic. It’ll serve as a nice ramp-up period before the Chiefs welcome 5,000 season ticket members for a similar event on Aug. 29 and nearly 17,000 fans to the stadium for Week 1 against the Houston Texans on Sept. 10.
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