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Chiefs’ Justin Reid laments price of Super Bowl LIX tickets with family set to watch him

Kansas City Chiefs star Justin Reid is extra motivated to play in Super Bowl LIX.

Reid could be a part of history if the Chiefs win their third straight, as no other NFL team has won three consecutive Super Bowl titles since the NFL and AFL began playing each other in the 1960s. But this year’s game means a little more.

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Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid addresses the media before NFL football practice, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

The star safety was born in Prairieville, Louisiana, about 65 miles northwest of New Orleans where the game will be held. He starred at Dutchtown High School before he committed to Stanford and played three years with the Cardinal.

He told the Kansas City Star he bought as many as 30 Super Bowl tickets for his friends and family to watch him play against the Philadelphia Eagles. The average Super Bowl ticket price has been around $7,900, according to StubHub.

“We’re excited to play, and we’re chasing glory,” he told the newspaper. “But we’ve got to win just for me to break even.”

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Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid (20) pursues Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) during the first half of the AFC Championship NFL football game, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

The Kansas City Star noted that participating players receive two tickets and can purchase more. In Super Bowl LVII, players could buy up to 13 more tickets. After that, it’s back to the secondary market.

Reid and the Chiefs do receive a bonus if they win the game. They reportedly received $164,000 for their win last year.

The defensive back signed with the Chiefs before the 2022 season after four years with the Houston Texans. He signed a three-year, $31.5 million deal. He’s made $9.99 million this season.

This year, he had 87 tackles and two interceptions as Kansas City finished the regular season 15-2 and earned a first-round bye.

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He had five tackles against the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship and seven tackles against the Houston Texans in the divisional round.

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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.

February 3, 2025
NFL legend laments difficulty of beating Chiefs: ‘You gotta beat the refs, you gotta beat Taylor Swift’

Pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Reed underscored the difficulty of defeating the Kansas City Chiefs at their home stadium amid frustrations with the loss the Buffalo Bills suffered in the AFC Championship.

Reed, who starred as a Bills wide receiver during the team’s four straight Super Bowl losses, watched again as the team fell short against the Chiefs. He touched on the controversy surrounding the questionable calls from officials that seem to favor Kansas City as well.

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Pro Football Hall of Fame member Andre Reed before the game between the New England Patriots and the Buffalo Bills at New Era Field in Orchard Park, New York, on Oct. 29, 2018. (Rich Barnes-USA Today Sports)

Needless to say, the seven-time Pro Bowler was hot.

“The bottom line is you just gotta go out there and not play against the refs, but you kind of to a center point,” Reed said on “The Jim Rome Show.” “A lot of Chiefs are going to tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about. That might be the case. But when you go into Kansas City, you gotta beat a lot of people. You gotta beat the team, you gotta beat the fans, you gotta beat the refs, you gotta beat Taylor Swift. You gotta beat everybody.

“If you just go out there and throw that all out the window and beat Kansas City at their own game, and beat them, that all is never gonna be said. Yesterday we didn’t do that.”

Reed said he wasn’t sure if the Bills would have won if the Xavier Worthy catch was overturned to be an incomplete pass and if Josh Allen got the first down on a 4th-and-1 play.

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Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes celebrates after defeating the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship game on Jan. 26, 2025, in Kansas City. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

But it was those two plays that had fans wondering what officials were looking at the entire game.

Despite many eyebrows being raised, Dean Blandino, the NFL’s former head of officiating, says he doesn’t see favoritism toward the Chiefs.

“People are talking about officiating a little too much.… It’s always going to be a part of the conversation,” Blandino told TMZ Sports.

“Do teams get breaks at times? They do. And not every call is right. And sometimes that happens. I think it evens out over time. Me watching it, I don’t see these games and say the Chiefs are getting all these calls. These are close, close plays, and they happened to go in the Chiefs’ favor on Sunday.”

Blandino also disputed any notion there is some sort of conspiracy to favor the Chiefs.

“I get it. I’m a fan first. I grew up in New York as a Knicks fan watching Michael Jordan crush my dreams and saying, ‘The league wants Michael Jordan in the championships.’ Ultimately, when you’re a part of the NFL and you realize, for it to really be a conspiracy, do you know the amount of people that would have to be involved?

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“Someone somewhere would slip up, and it would get out. If there was a room in the NFL office where they were writing the script, they never invited me, and I was the head of officiating. I feel like I’d be a pretty important contributor to that. I get it. People are passionate. I just think, sometimes, officials make mistakes… sometimes, when you have a team that has been this successful, I think it’s par for the course.”

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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.

January 29, 2025
NCAA transgender female runner laments issue with spikes despite clobbering competition at meet

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) transgender runner Sadie Schreiner boasted about a victory at a women’s track and field meet over the weekend.

Schreiner won the 200-meter event with a time of 25.17 seconds. SUNY Brockport’s Lexi Rodriguez finished in second place with a time of 26.92 seconds. Fisher College’s Abigail Dorunda (27.00), Makenna Manson (27.63) and Allison Nickson (27.82) rounded out the top 5.

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Sadie Schreiner, center, races to qualify in the 400m race at the 2024 NCAA DIII outdoor track and field championships at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium on May 24, 2024 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“Not the race I was looking for at all this week, my spikes nearly fell off on the turn and with a poor start my time wasn’t nearly what I wanted,” the RIT runner wrote in an Instagram post.

“The good news is that the season just started, and I’m going to leave everything on the track at nationals,” Schreiner added with a transgender pride flag emoji.

Schreiner is one of a few NCAA transgender female athletes who compete against biological women despite the organization’s attempt to clamp down on the issue.

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Schreiner is an advocate for trans-inclusion in women’s sports and complained last month about the lack of support from schools in the NCAA transfer portal.

“Trying to transfer into D1 has made it abundantly clear that people are too afraid to support me,” Schreiner wrote on Instagram. “I aimed to transfer in order to not only improve my athletic ability in a more competitive environment, but to help with the funds I needed to complete my degree.

Sadie Schreiner puts a transgender flag in her hair before heading to the awards stand after finishing 3rd in the finals of the 200m race at the 2024 NCAA DIII outdoor track and field championships at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium on May 25, 2024 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“It will now likely be impossible to do so, but whether (it’s) in D3 or somewhere else I will be competing this year.”

Schreiner is still at RIT and still apparently winning.

Last season, Schreiner earned All-American honors in outdoor track. The New Jersey native finished in third place in the 200-meter and eighth in the 400-meter races at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

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Schreiner won the 200-meter race at the Atlantic Region Indoor Championships and finished in ninth in the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships.

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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.

January 28, 2025