When Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas was built, a worker said he buried a Chiefs Kingdom flag in the field. Kansas City has never lost a game there, sparking a controversial conspiracy theory.
The Kansas City Chiefs are undefeated at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, and Gerard DeCosta, a construction worker who lives in Hawaii, says that may have something to do with him.
DeCosta lives almost 4,000 miles from Kansas City, but he’s a major Chiefs fan and the Chiefs nurse a long and bitter rivalry against the Las Vegas Raiders. Late in 2017, his company assigned him to work on a new stadium the hated Raiders were building in Las Vegas.
“As soon as I got the opportunity, I knew what I had planned already,” DeCosta recalls.
The plan: Bury a “Chiefs Kingdom” flag under the rival team’s home field. Plant a curse in enemy territory.
A tweet went up picturing DeCosta in his white hardhat, standing at the construction site, holding the cheerful red and gold banner. The tweet said the flag was now encased in concrete under the middle of the playing field.
All hell broke loose.
“When this first happened, I get the phone call from the president of the Raiders. He’s like, ‘Did you see what’s going on, you know, social media? Did they really plant this flag at the stadium?'” remembers Tommy White, the business manager and secretary treasurer of Laborers Union Local 872 in Las Vegas.
