Sixth-year pro Chase Daniel is leaning on his smarts, intangibles and the confidence he gained from his performance against the Chargers in December in battle for the Kansas City Chiefs’ backup quarterback job.

Performers and animals from the UniverSoul Circus paraded north on Prospect Avenue from 39th Street to a rally that filled the parking lot of the Linwood Shopping Center. The guest of honor was Ka’Vyea Tyson-Curry, the 10-year-old boy who was paralyzed from the waist down in a shooting that killed his father earlier this year. But the event had to be stopped by organizers after multiple fights broke out.

Late last year, the Robertson family of the cable TV smash “Duck Dynasty” waded into a treacherous swamp. Outrage exploded after Phil Robertson, the show’s long-bearded patriarch, called homosexuality a sin and denied seeing black people mistreated in the pre-civil rights Deep South.