The claim appeared in an article published by SpaceXMania on June 6, 2024, entitled “Breaking: NFL Team Kansas City Chiefs Refuses To Participate In Pride Month, ‘It’s Extremely Woke’” (archived here), which opened:
In a surprising and controversial decision, the Kansas City Chiefs, one of the NFL’s most prominent teams, have announced that they will not participate in this year’s Pride Month celebrations. The team has stated that they consider the event “extremely woke”, which sparked widespread debate and attracted both praise and criticism from various quarters.
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The article claims that the announcement not to participate in Pride Month was made via an “official statement” directly from the team’s “front office.” When searching the News tab on Chiefs.com, the official website of the NFL team, Lead Stories found no official statement supporting this claim.
Lead Stories performed a search using keywords in the Google News archive of thousands of credible information sites, visible here, which found no credible documents or reports to support the claim (archived here).
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