Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs have some famous fans

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rob Riggle spent one long January day in 2019 trekking through snow and ice in Iceland to get to a remote location to film an episode of «Running Wild with Bear Grylls.»

At one point, he climbed a 40-foot ice wall. To his recollection, he ate a deer head for one of his meals. He would sleep that night on a glacier. He called the experience «hellish.''

He had one thought comforting him throughout the day. There was some semblance of satellite service, so he could follow the Kansas City Chiefs in their first AFC Championship Game in 25 years.

»The game started at maybe midnight and I couldn't get it on TV," Riggle recalled of the Chiefs' epic game against the New England Patriots. «But I had to know what was going on, and I could get updates maybe every five or 10 minutes.

»I thought we had the game won. It was like 3 in the morning, and I should have been sleeping because I had another full day of hiking and trudging through snow. But I followed it getting updates every five or 10 minutes. I wasn't going to miss that one."

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The Chiefs would lose 37-31 in overtime to Tom Brady and the Patriots. Riggle wasn't the only famous fan disappointed in the outcome.

Rock star Melissa Etheridge on occasion sings the national anthem before games at Arrowhead Stadium and won't miss the Chiefs on TV, even when she's on tour. Actor Eric Stonestreet, who starred in ABC's «Modern Family,» has a suite at Arrowhead. Paul Rudd has frequently been spotted on the sideline before games and celebrated with quarterback Patrick Mahomes on the field after