The call to @fanudike has us tearing up 🥹 pic.twitter.com/bJryHPc8S1
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) April 29, 2023
The Kansas City Chiefs have released a behind-the-scenes video of Kansas State DE Felix Anudike-Uzomah receiving the call that he’d been selected by his hometown team.
Clark Hunt got on the phone with him to let him know that he’d be the newest member of the Chiefs and the waterworks began to flow.
“Bruh, you don’t understand,” Anudike-Uzomah said, fighting back tears. “I’ve dreamed of this my whole life.”
He’d later speak with Brett Veach, Andy Reid and Steve Spagnuolo. As he spoke with Coach Reid, the pick was announced and you could hear his family and friends go wild.
“It was amazing,” Anudike-Uzomah told reporters on Thursday. “It was just a lot of people, a lot of emotions. (My friends and family) were more excited than me, for sure. It was just – first of all, I wanted a small (amount of) people because I’m a type of person that (doesn’t) like all the attention on me, so I just need my family. But it worked out good. I got drafted by literally my favorite team growing up, so it’s just definitely a dream come true.”
A Kansas City native, who played high school football in Lee’s Summit, Anudike-Uzomah grew up a Chiefs fan during the Matt Cassel era. He detailed his fandom of the team to reporters later that night.
“It’s (my) number one love,” Anudike-Uzomah explained. “I remember going to my first Chiefs game back when I was seven years old, from there I just fell in love with this. Back in the (former QB) Matt Cassel days – it’s funny – back in the Matt Cassel days, back whenever we were like 1‐12 and we beat the Green Bay Packers and we were all excited because we just beat, like, the Packers at the time – it’s a dream come true. Also, I just remember me and my friends just went up to training camp just to watch (Travis) Kelce and the Chiefs literally just play. It’s coming full circle which is crazy and it’s unbelievable that I’m even in this position now. I’m a Kansas City Chief. So, I’m definitely going to celebrate with my family and (everyone) else. I’m thankful for the Kansas City Chiefs fans because I was one of the Kansas City Chiefs fans, so I know how die-hard we are for the Chiefs.”
