Best of KC 2023: ChiefsAholic turned superfandom into Wolf Day Afternoon

Illustration by W David Keith

This month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some of our current favorite things about Kansas City in 2023. We’ll be publishing these items online throughout November. 

With the continued success of the Kansas City Chiefs, fandom in the city has reached an all-time high. So towering that one diehard fan even turned to robbing banks, as long as it meant that he could watch his beloved football team take the field on Sundays.

Xaviar Babudar, better known as ChiefsAholic, received national publicity last December for all of the wrong things. He was charged with bank robbery in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, after he had allegedly robbed the Tulsa Teachers Federal Credit Union, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Babudar was released on bond in February of this year and later removed his ankle monitor in an attempt to flee prosecution in March. Three months later, he was found in Lincoln, California, and taken into custody once again.

In August, Badudar was indicted on one count of bank theft, three counts of armed bank robbery, four counts of transporting stolen property across state lines, and 11 counts of money laundering. He pleaded not guilty to all charges, and his trial is set for January 8, 2024.