Travel fatigue is real in professional sports and could prove challenging for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2025.
According to Bookies’ Bill Speros, the Chiefs will travel 21,695 miles for their eight away games during the 2025 NFL season. That ranks 10th in the NFL, but that ranking might not do the distance traveled justice. Despite being a centrally located NFL team, they’ve got a long way to go to face their opponents in 2025.
To put into perspective just how many miles the team will travel throughout the regular season, not including the playoffs, we can consider how many miles it’d take to traverse the entire Earth. Open up an encyclopedia and you’ll find that the planet’s circumference following the equator is approximately 24,901 miles. The circumference of the Earth, measured from the North Pole to the South Pole, is slightly smaller, at approximately 24,860 miles.
So, assuming no games get moved, the Chiefs will end the regular season 3,206 yards shy of traveling the entire circumference of the earth. The Indianapolis Colts, Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Seattle Seahawks, and Los Angeles Chargers aren’t so lucky.
During the 2025 NFL regular season, those teams will all travel the distance of the globe and then some. The Chargers have the worst travel distance in the league, which is great news for Kansas City, especially if they can take advantage of the yet-to-be-officially-announced Chiefs-Chargers game in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in Week 1. By the way, that’s calculated in the distance on the graphic above for both teams.
The Chiefs face three teams that rank in that top 7: Home games against the Colts and Chargers, an away game against the Jags, and the aforementioned Brazil game.