Pick your Arrowhead Stadium parking problem for the Chiefs regular-season opener on Sept. 11. The list from frustrated customers is long.
There are fans like Tom Hook, who entered through Gate 4 around 10:30 a.m., never saw a parking attendant, crawled bumper-to-bumper around the perimeter for an hour before taking matters into his own hands. He drove through a coned off aisle and persuaded fans to clear enough space in their tailgate to create a space.
“It was total chaos,” said Hook, a season-ticket holder who lives in Houston and travels to most home games.
The reasons varied, but the feeling of traffic and parking chaos was mutual for thousands of fans who attended that game and took their seats much later than anticipated, if they didn’t bail on the game.