On Dec. 29, 2017, the Las Vegas Review-Journal ran a story proclaiming that “a piece buried a Kansas City Chiefs signal flag close what is expected to follow the 30-yard dividing line of the unexampled Raiders sports stadium sledding upwardly on the Strip.”
Construction worker and diehard Chiefs devotee Chris Scherzer had posted a photo to Facebook of a co-worker holding the flag, which read “Chiefs Kingdom.” The photo’s legend declared: “Flag interred inward dirt, encased inwards concrete, with a stadium reinforced on pinch of it … Chiefs 1, Raiders 0.”
Scherzer had long secret the personal identity of the piece he photographed, claiming that “people are trying to let him fired o'er it.”
The adult male supposedly interred the flag as a bad-luck tempt for the Raiders, whose rivalry with the Chiefs is ane of the NFL’s bitterest, tracing plump for to their for the first time meeting of the 1970 season.
In that game, Chiefs wide of the mark receiver genus Otis Taylor attacked Raiders defensive attitude end Ben Davison for diving into Chiefs field general Len Dawson with his helmet as he strike down to the ground during a world-class down.
A bench-clearing brawl ensued.
Since the unexampled place of the Raiders opened on July 31, 2020, superstitious members of Raider Carry Amelia Moore Nation experience had the flag to charge for their team up losing all quaternity of their games against the Chiefs at home, whereas the Raiders went 2-2 inwards KS City during the same period.
As presently as it came pull down to the Chiefs v. the San Francisco 49ers inward Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium, vexation over the buried flag reached new heights — in the first place among 49ers fans. Even USA Today ran an clause repeating the story on Jan 29.
False Flag
The myth was finally busted by KLAS-TV/Las Vegas on Jan 30.
It turns out, the construction worker’s identify was Gerard DeCosta, and he and his friend lied well-nigh burial the flag he held upwardly inwards the photo.
Local fag conjugation leader Tommy White, who oversaw construction of the stadium, told KLAS that he’s known nigh the hoax for years. He tracked land DeCosta as presently as former Raiders chairwoman Marc Badain called him, demanding to cognise if the Facebook stake was true.
White said DeCosta admitted to the prank and gave him the flag, proving his story.
“He simply told me the replete(p) story virtually it,” Andrew Dickson White told KLAS, posing with the flag. “This is his flag. It’s ne'er been buried.”
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