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    How Chiefs mascot KC Wolf nearly died on the job

    by Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times Feb 10, 2023 3 minutes
    Kansas City Chiefs mascot KC Wolf, with Dan Meers inside, outside of Arrowhead Stadium in the Kansas City parking lot.

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. — 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 Meers was practicing a stunt at Arrowhead Stadium for a game against the San Diego Chargers the next day. He was going to jump out of the lights at the top of the stadium on a bungee cord that would transition to a zip line carrying him

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