Quite often, team mascots in sports don’t get much attention. But on Tuesday, some big news dropped having to do with one of the longest-tenured mascots in the NFL.
Dan Meers, who has dressed up as “KC Wolf,” the official mascot of the Kansas City Chiefs, announced his retirement. He had been “KC Wolf” since 1990, and he was even the league’s first mascot to be inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame.
Chiefs superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes took to his personal X account to pay his respects to Meers, and he did so with a simple emoji of a goat, as if to say Meers is the greatest of all time.
Meers had a brief stint as a mascot for Major League Baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals before joining the Chiefs. Before that, he was “Truman the Tiger” for the University of Missouri, the school he graduated from in 1990.
The Chiefs are one of those franchises that don’t necessarily need a mascot to promote themselves. They’re the NFL’s resident dynasty, having won three Super Bowl championships in the last six seasons, and more could be on the way.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes © Denny Medley-Imagn Images
Mahomes and crew went 15-2 last season and were looking to become the first team to win three straight Super Bowls. But they ended up falling short in the big game to the Philadelphia Eagles by a final score of 40-22.
Still, they should be back in the hunt this coming season, especially with promising young wide receiver Rashee Rice returning from the LCL and hamstring injuries he suffered in Week 4 last year.
