Tag: John Amos

12 celebrity fans of the Kansas City Chiefs, including Jason Sudeikis and (duh) Taylor Swift

The Chiefs have a TON of famous fans.

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in 2024 and has been updated for the 2025 Super Bowl.

If you like tracking celebrity sightings at sporting events, it is a busy time to follow the Kansas City Chiefs. Especially as they take on the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2025 Super Bowl on Sunday in New Orleans.

Taylor Swift has attended numerous games while supporting her partner, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. As such, particularly last season, we saw many of her very famous friends (including Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively as well as Cara Delevingne and Keileigh Teller) at Kansas City games.

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It was not long ago that a mic’d up Paul Rudd was the most excited while celebrating on the field with the players after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl. He and his son also gave the most adorable interview following a big victory.

But it wasn’t the first time that the famous actor celebrated on the field after Kansas City won the Super Bowl. Rudd was also joined by Eric Stonestreet (the actor who played Cameron in Modern Family) when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl in 2020.

Here are some of the other most notable names rooting for Kansas City:

John Amos once tried his hand at football before becoming a groundbreaking actor

Amos was a huge Chiefs fan.

John Amos may no longer be with us, but his cultural impact will be felt for generations through the films and projects he played a role in. Good Times, Coming to America, Roots. The list goes on.

But, before Amos was the groundbreaking actor that so many came to know and love, he tried his hand at several other things — one of which was football.

Amos played football at Colorado State University, according to the Hollywood Reporter. He had training camp tryouts with the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs when the teams were still in the American Football League.

Amos was cut by 13 pro and semipro football teams in his 20s, according to the Washington Post. His attempts weren’t just one-offs — he gave the sport a real shot. He didn’t officially play, but Amos remained a diehard Chiefs fan.

Amos kept that passion with him through the years despite never latching on to a team. In a Facebook post last year, he posted photos of him in his various football uniforms ahead of the NFL season.

I don’t know if the Chiefs or the NFL will do anything for Amos, but it certainly would be a fantastic gesture if the team did.