Want to go to tonight’s Chiefs season opener at Arrowhead? Tickets remain for the game
The Chiefs kick off their season in less than two hours. And if you want to go to the game, even with the limited seating the Chiefs had announced due to the pandemic, you’re in luck.
StubHub shows many tickets available, starting as low as $120 but mostly in the $150 range. Capacity for the game was being capped at about 16,000 inside Arrowhead Stadium, which usually holds about 76,000 for a full house.
The fact that tickets are plentifully available is one thing, but how that availability meshes with the Chiefs’ “pod” seating system, wherein fans are required to sit in groups separated by others, is unclear.
And it’s hard to say what’s keeping the seats from being as full as the Chiefs’ 22%-of-capacity policy would otherwise allow. Perhaps it’s because the weather has been unseasonably cool and wet in Kansas City, with a steady drizzle falling throughout most of the day.
There’s also the continuing COVID-19 pandemic to consider, though the Chiefs and NFL believe the safety measures they’ve installed for this game, and others that will admit fans this weekend, should be sufficient to protect attendees from catching the illness — so long as those fans comply.
Kickoff against the Houston Texans is at 7:20 p.m. Central Time, but celebration of the team’s Super Bowl championship and observance of social-justice issues begins earlier.
Here’s the schedule for this evening.
This story was originally published September 10, 2020 at 4:29 PM.