KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In a maze of hallways that the crowds don’t see at Arrowhead Stadium, Dan Meers unlocked a bright red door. Inside, the room is packed with decades full of memory-making and ...

The man who dresses as KC Wolf for a living once received a request to appear at a funeral. In costume. They wanted him to be a pallbearer — wanted a googly-eyed mascot to help carry the body of a ...

There weren’t many people working full-time as NFL mascots in 1989, when Dan Meers became the Kansas City Chiefs’ KC Wolf. In the almost 30 years since, he’s seen the mascot community grow into a ...

Since his introduction, the wolf, embodied by the energetic KC Wolf, has become an iconic symbol of Kansas City, connecting the team with its fan base. Grew up in ex-Yugoslavia and developed early a ...

The Chiefs' mascot is a wolf named KC Wolf. It has been around since 1989, but it is not the organization’s first representative — before KC Wolf, there was a live animal mascot discontinued for ...

As Dan Meers can tell you, it’s not all fun and frivolity being an NFL mascot. Meers, who plays KC Wolf for the Kansas City Chiefs, nearly lost his life on the job. It happened Nov. 23, 2013, when ...

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