The Chiefs head coach has had undoubtedly had a lot on his plate since winning a second consecutive Super Bowl earlier this year. From Rashee Rice’s legal issues following a bizarre hit and run incident, to kicker Harrison Butker’s now infamously controversial speech at a private school, there have been no shortage of headaches for both coach and franchise alike.
As you may have seen, the Kansas City Chiefs have a rather strange schedule awaiting them in the 2024-25 season. Now, while some have attributed that to Taylor Swift, which you can read more about here, the reality is that the Chiefs will be playing on every day of the week except Tuesday this season, something we’ve not seen before. To be clear, the reigning Super Bowl champions will play 14 of their 17 games at 4:25 p.m. ET or later. This is of course on top of the fact that they will play their season opener on Thursday, a game on Black Friday, another in Week 16 on Saturday, and finally one in Week 17 on Christmas Day which happens to fall on a Wednesday.
release doesn’t seem to care. “It’s the first time in my career that this has happened, it’s unique and you know how we are, we don’t really care. They can give us a Tuesday game if they want, and we’ll be okay there, too,” Reid said, via a Chiefs transcript. “We work through it, we’ll play anybody, anywhere, whatever they want to do. We’re on board.” Now, it’s worth noting that the NFL clearly took these things into account, scheduling the Chiefs for eight standalone games which is in fact a league-high. On the other hand, that’s also tied to the networks as well who clearly want a piece of the Chiefs’ pie.
