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Kansas City Chiefs fans looking to unwind connected nan Main River during nan team's enactment successful Frankfurt, Germany will person specified an opportunity aboard nan team's caller vessel, dubbed The ChampionShip.
The reddish riverboat, emblazoned pinch nan images of Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, is offering instrumentality entree for €10 per person.
But for those who wish to position Sunday's crippled aboard nan ship, a €45 summons tin beryllium purchased, offering nutrient and non-alcoholic beverages. And for €5 more, alcohol will beryllium provided arsenic well.
Various experiences connected nan vessel see a 'draft moment,' wherever fans tin person their pictures taken holding a Chiefs jersey, arsenic good arsenic different photograph opportunity successful which participants are captured catching a pass.
There's moreover a postgame property conference, wherever fans tin section questions arsenic if they're caput coach Andy Reid, Travis Kelce aliases Patrick Mahomes.
The Chiefs' ChampionShip is seen drifting down nan Main River successful Frankfurt, Germany
One of nan team's 3 Lombardi Trophies is emblazoned connected nan broadside of nan vessel
The vessel will beryllium docked adjacent the Eiserner Steg (iron footbridge) successful Frankfurt this Sunday
As for nan crippled itself, nan awesome storyline going into Sunday's matchup is Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill facing his erstwhile team, nan Chiefs.
Chiefs president Clark Hunt typically has a sound successful astir awesome trades involving his franchise, and that presumably includes nan 1 that sent nan record-setting wide receiver to nan Dolphins for a package of draught picks early past year.
Hill was owed for a large statement extension, and cash-strapped astatine nan time, nan Chiefs decided to nonstop him to Miami, which besides fulfilled his wishes. And while Hill has flourished alongside backmost Tua Tagovailoa, helping to springiness nan Dolphins nan league's No. 1 offense, nan Chiefs utilized galore of those picks to build nan league's No. 2-ranked walk and scoring defense.
'I deliberation that was a waste and acquisition that worked retired good for some parties,' said Hunt, whose defending Super Bowl champions look Hill for nan first clip Sunday erstwhile nan Chiefs (6-2) play nan Dolphins (6-2) astatine Deutsche Bank Park successful Frankfurt, Germany.
'Tyreek is an unthinkable subordinate and has done good pinch nan Dolphins,' Hunt said, 'but I besides deliberation it has benefited nan Chiefs. The draught compensation we received — a batch of that superior was utilized to amended our defense.'
The Chiefs person made judge that immoderate passers by will cognize nan squad has won 3 Super Bowls
Tyreek Hill and nan Dolphins will look his erstwhile team, nan Chiefs, this Sunday successful Frankfurt
Still, fixed nan measurement nan Chiefs person struggled to find a reliable pass-catcher besides, and nan measurement that Hill is putting up numbers this season, cipher would quibble if Hunt had a spot of buyer's remorse.
It was nan Chiefs who gave him a chance successful 2016, erstwhile galore NFL teams would not touch him successful nan draught aft his off-the-field problems successful college. And it was pinch nan Chiefs that Hill became 1 of nan league's astir move playmakers, going to nan Pro Bowl six times, making 3 All-Pro teams and mounting a slew of records while winning a Super Bowl ring.
Hill has been astatine his champion successful his 2nd play pinch nan Dolphins, though. He leads nan NFL pinch 1,014 yards receiving, putting him connected gait to go nan first 2,000-yard receiver, while starring nan convention pinch 8 touchdown receptions.
Travis Kelce (left) and Patrick Mahomes (right) person now won 2 Super Bowls together
To put that successful perspective, nan entirety of nan Chiefs' wide receiver corps has mixed for 1,185 yards and six touchdowns.
'It's conscionable different game,' Hill insisted. 'It's conscionable for illustration if you're successful precocious schoolhouse and you move to a different city, it's still ball. At nan extremity of nan day, my occupation is to spell retired location and do what I've been doing each year.'
The Chiefs had a fewer games during Hill's tenure pinch them erstwhile opponents were to support him nether control, and possibly Reid and protect coordinator Steve Spagnuolo tin thin connected those experiences to incorporate him Sunday.
'He's a awesome play. That's nan bottommost line,' Reid said. 'You mightiness slow him down, but he's going to make plays somewhere. That's what makes him nan subordinate he is. He has speed, quickness and he's smart.'
