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What are we doing? Nearly contracting COVID-19 before the Super Bowl in the name of haircuts, apparently. Gotta look fresh for the pandemic, you know how it is.
If you’re understandably confused by any of that, here’s what just happened. Two players on the Kansas City Chiefs, former 49ers center Daniel Kilgore and Demarcus Robinson, were placed on the NFL’s Reserve/COVID-19 list due to close contact.
This happened due to a haircut. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, a barber who was going to cut the hair of at least 20 Chiefs players and staffers, tested positive for COVID-19, with a result that came back while he was cutting Kilgore’s hair.
Among those 20-plus? Patrick Mahomes. Now, the NFL has its COVID-19 protocols, but does anyone really believe that the Super Bowl would be held without Mahomes playing in it?
Chiefs’ C Daniel Kilgore was mid haircut when the barber was notified that he was Covid positive. Kilgore and the barber both were wearing masks. Kilgore has to stay home this week, but has tested negative and can return Saturday, fly with the team and play Sunday, per source. https://t.co/oWfjJX1qIr
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) February 3, 2021
Kilgore had a sense of humor about the whole incident, putting out this photoshop of himself on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/DanielKilgore67/status/1357084642378211328?s=20
