Chiefs Flag Is Not Buried Under Allegiant Stadium, Despite Long-Time Reports To Contrary

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The Kansas City Chiefs not only have Taylor Swift on their side heading into the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, but also a good omen buried underneath the turf at Allegiant Stadium. Or so they thought.

Not long after the Chiefs punched their ticket to the Super Bowl this past weekend, a story from 2017 resurfaced on social media about the construction of the stadium set to host Super Bowl XLIII later this month. Seven years ago, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that a construction worker named Gerard DeCosta buried a Chiefs flag underneath the stadium.

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According to the Review-Journal, a Chiefs fan named Chris Scherzer posted a photo of DeCosta and the Chiefs banner with the inscription "Chiefs Kingdom" on his Facebook page. "Flag buried in dirt, encased in concrete, with a stadium built on top of it," the message said. "Chiefs 1, Raiders 0. Las Vegas," the caption read.

DeCosta uploaded the same photo to his Twitter account after the Chiefs came to Vegas and beat the Raiders in 2020. The photo even made its way to the desk Mark Badain, the Raiders president at the time, who attempted to get to the bottom of the story by contacting local labor union leader Tommy White, who oversaw the construction of the stadium.

DeCosta instantly became a legend among Chiefs fans and an enemy to Raiders fans, but unfortunately the epic story is nothing but fiction.

Given that the story resurfaced with the Super Bowl coming up in less than two weeks time, Fox 59 news went out to confirm or debunk DeCosta's story and tracked down White all these years later.

When asked whether or not the story of burying the flag was legitimate or not, White held up the exact same ‘Chiefs Kingdom’ flag seen in DeCosta's photo.

"He just told me the full story about it," White said as he held up the flag. "This is his flag. It’s never been buried."

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