The line started forming in front of the Yahoo Sports set at 3 p.m.
Up ahead, people were still snaking through a short cue in front of the Old Spice set to spend a couple seconds with Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey, one of a handful of players doing a meet-and-greet through the brand’s area at Friday afternoon’s NFL Experience.
But Jason Etzen was planning ahead.
At 5:30 p.m., Patrick Mahomes would start signing autographs for 30 minutes. Wearing Mahomes shirts and jerseys, the Olathe North High graduate and his two kids, Heinrich, 7, and Sarang, 8, were not going to miss the chance to meet the Chiefs’s star quarterback.