These 4 sisters came from all across the country to reunite for the Chiefs’ Super Bowl
Their last name is Gandhi, and yes, they are related to the famed Indian activist: He’s their great-great grandfather.
But that’s a story for another time. Today, these four sisters — Alka, Anita, Ann and Anji — are focused on football. They’re in New Orleans, having flown in from homes in four different cities to attend Super Bowl Sunday.
“We’re all die-hard fans,” Anji said. “We’ve been following the Chiefs since we were little kids in the 80s.”
Anji’s an attorney in Jefferson City. Alka arrived from Arlington, Virginia, where she is an economics lecturer. Ann’s a nurse in Kansas City. Anita’s an MBA living in Nashville.
They grew up in Topeka, where their parents settled in 1978 after stints in Ohio and Michigan. (Their father, Shanti, is a doctor who later served in the Kansas House of Representatives after retiring from his practice.)
“They were always big football fans wherever they lived,” Alka said. “So once we were in Kansas, it was the Chiefs. We suffered through the ‘80s, had heartbreak in the ‘90s. Then we all moved away.”
The Patrick Mahomes era has given the sisters more excuses to get together. They attended the 2019 AFC Championship (a loss at Arrowhead to the Tom Brady-led Patriots) and last year’s AFC championship in Baltimore (a win, and an easy commute for Alka). They also pooled their money together to buy their parents tickets to the big game in Miami in 2020 — the Chiefs’ first championship in 50 years.
But the sisters had still never been to a Super Bowl. After last year’s victory, they agreed that they’d go in 2025 if the Chiefs were in it.
“We booked our hotel in August, and bought our tickets a month ago,” Alka said.
“I bought mine a week ago,” Anji said.
“We’ve agreed to not tell each other how much we spent on the tickets,” Alka said.
Alka brought along her son, Reid, and Anji came with her daughter, Mira, who happens to live in Philadelphia.
“She doesn’t wear her Chiefs stuff up there,” Anji said.
This story was originally published February 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM.
