WNBA star Caitlin Clark explains her long-time Kansas City #Chiefs fandom to Travis Kelce | @EdEastonJr
The Kansas City Chiefs have fans everywhere around the world that span generations. The recent success starring Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce has garnered new members of Chiefs Kingdom as the team attempts the Super Bowl three-peat.
On the latest episode of the New Heights podcast, WNBA star Caitlin Cark joined the Kelce brothers to explain her Chiefs fandom, which dates back to her childhood and prominence in the family.
“I had family in Kansas City, and I grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, which is only three hours from Kansas City,” said Clark. “So that’s just the closest NFL team; my dad was a big Chiefs fan growing up. People think I’m like a bandwagon Chiefs fan, I’m like, ‘No, I was there before Patrick (Mahomes) and Travis.’ We were ride or dies, so we’ve been big fans.”
The 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year helped bring more viewers to the league and became a nationally recognized star in basketball. Clark also mentioned being a fan of Taylor Swift and attending ‘The Eras Tour’ but has yet to watch a Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium.
Ed Easton Jr. spoke to NBA champion Rasheed Wallace about his new show and his reason for becoming a Kansas City #Chiefs fan. | @EdEastonJr
The Kansas City Chiefs have many famous fans who are involved in many forms of entertainment.
Each has a story about how they found their fandom, but few have a better tale to tell than NBA champion Rasheed Wallace, who recently sat down with Ed Easton Jr. to talk about his venture into podcasting and his status as a Chiefs superfan.
Speaking about his new career as a content creator, Wallace made it clear that he was getting used to being back in the spotlight:
“The podcast is different from regular broadcasting, or normal sitting-behind-the-desk medium because then you can’t say what you want to say, because you’re on public TV, and all that you got to have good etiquette,” Wallace explained. “But with the podcast, it’s easy because you can say what you want; I’m saying you can cuss and do everything you can. You can really be you. That’s one thing I like about it, and that was an easy transition for me because most of my fans know sometimes, I got a little potty mouth, but that’s definitely part of it.”
Wallace initially expressed no interest in doing a podcast until he received encouragement from former Portland Trail Blazers teammate Bonzi Wells.
“My guy Bonzi Wells got me started in the podcast stuff,” Wallace said. “He was one year do it for years before him, and I finally did a show some years back called ‘Let’s Get Technical.’ He kept telling me, ‘Man, we need a podcast.’ He was saying this around the same time when Matt (Barnes) and Stephen (Jackson) started ‘All the Smoke,’ and he was saying this, then I was like, ‘Man, I’m not trying to do that.’ “
On The Sheed & Tyler Show, an Underdog Fantasy production, Rasheed Wallace, Bonzi Wells, and TylerIAm offer their unfiltered takes on the NBA and various sports, both past and present.
“So, finally, I broke down and started it. Then after Bonzi got hired, as him and I got hired into the collegiate world as coaches, you know that pretty much threw a wrench into that,” said Wallace. “However, we still kept our relationship with one of the head guys over there at Underdog Fantasy, and then once he moved over there, he’s like, ‘Hey, look, you guys need to come on over and have a show.’ So that’s how Tyler and I got started.”
For years, the four-time NBA All-Star didn’t have a favorite NFL team but always followed one player. The legendary quarterback who famously joined Kansas City in the early 1990s turned Wallace into a lifetime fan.
Said Wallace:
“I became a Chiefs fan in 1992, and the reason being, I was a Montana fan; Joe Montana got traded from the Niners. I wasn’t a Niners fan — an individual of football. I didn’t have a team at the time, and then when he got traded, nobody I knew was a Chiefs fan. And so I was like, ‘Oh, man, that’s perfect; we were still in the gutter.’ We weren’t winning. I said, ‘OK, that’s just my team.’ I stuck with them through all the days. That’s the whole Trent Green, then the Alex Smith (eras). I have been there since ’92 for my guys, and now that we are finally winning, it feels stupendous.”
“The Sheed & Tyler Show,” an Underdog Fantasy production, airs new episodes on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
