Xavier Babudar aka Chiefsaholic Had an Additional 14.5 Years Added to His Prison Stay, Will Serve a Total of 32 Years in Prison for Bank Robbery, Masked Assault, and Removal of Ankle Monitor
Whenever I see an NFL superfan on TV, I like to imagine them as someone's father. Just a perfectly regular, responsible parent who loves his children, is a volunteer assistant coach travel soccer coach, is always there to help them build their science fair volcanoes. During the week he works as an Accounting Manager at the Sherwin-Williams corporate office. His neighbors will catch him outside mowing the lawn or taking his dog for a morning walk. They'll wave hello and make boring weather-based small talk.
By all accounts he's a run-of-the-mill, suburban gentleman. Except every Sunday morning he wakes up at 5am to paint his entire body orange and meticulously dress himself in a flamboyant Halloween costume so he can drink upwards up 20 beers, scream unspeakable things at professional athletes, and completely lose his shit over the 3-7 Cleveland Browns.
The juxtaposition of "humble father-of-three" and "NFL superfan" has always cracks me up. I like to think there's a handful of fathers (or mothers) out there who fit that mold. But when I see the story of Chiefsaholic, I can't help but think to myself, "Oh... maybe these guys are just fucking insane. I guess that makes more sense."
If you're unfamiliar with the legend of Chiefsaholic, there's a whole documentary about him, 'Chiefsaholic' on Amazon Prime. But in short, he was a long time Chiefs fan who paid for his tickets by robbing banks. Oftentimes the bank robberies were committed en route to Chiefs' away games. The man robbed a confirmed 11 banks across 7 states, earning himself a reported $850,000 in the process. Yesterday, an Oklahoma judge sentenced Xavier "Chiefsaholic" Babudar to 32 years (he was actually already sentenced to a 17 1/2 year federal sentence, but the state of Oklahoma wasn't quite satisfied with that)
ESPN - Infamous Kansas City Chiefs superfan Xaviar Babudar was sentenced in an Oklahoma courtroom Monday to 32 years in prison, 2½ years after authorities caught him in the state as he fled from a local bank robbery.
Babudar, known as ChiefsAholic, is already serving a 17½-year federal sentence for robbing banks in seven states from 2022 to 2023. But the Tulsa County district attorney's office wanted him to serve more time and sought a life sentence for the 30-year-old. His sentence is concurrent, meaning he'll serve an additional 14½ years in an Oklahoma penitentiary after his federal term ends.
"It was offensive to me," said Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler, "that a serial robber could victimize as many hardworking Americans as this guy did all across the country and only receive 17½ years from the federal government.
Chiefsaholic didn't go down without a fight. Which is probably why the state of Oklahoma was so adamant about doubling the length of his sentence. When the news of what Chiefsaholic was doing initially made headlines in 2022 following a failed robbery in Bixby, Oklahoma (on his way to Houston for Week 15 - Chiefs @ Texans), he was released on bond. But almost immediately after his release, he hit a $100k bet on the Chiefs, and proceeded to cut off his ankle monitor and go on the run. While on the run, he robbed two more banks before he was caught by the FBI in California just a few months later.
Even after the additional bank robberies, I personally still thought Chiefsaholic had a chance to get off relatively easy. That he might be a free man in time to witness the Patrick Mahomes retirement tour. Just listen to his lawyer. How could you not think Chiefsaholic deserves another chance after hearing this?
I really thought those football references were gonna do it for him. Apparently the jury wasn't a part of Chiefs Kingdom. They flagged him 32 years for unsportsmanlike armed robbery, masked assault, and removal of an ankle monitor.
Chiefsaholic had a hell of a run. His contribution to the Kansas City Chiefs as "fan in wolf costume" surely played a major role in helping Patrick Mahomes to his first Super Bowl in 2020. Even after his arrest, I like to think the mark he left on the organization helped propel the Chiefs to back-to-back championships in 2023 & 2024 as well. He'll go down in history as one of the NFL's great superfans. All things considered, he wasn't too shabby of a bank robber either. If only he'd stopped after the first few successful robberies, used the money to launch a social media career, and not gambled away all his savings. Had he played his cards right (which of course would have required him to be a halfway sane human being) he may have been able to live out a pretty good life. He just got greedy. Let that be a lesson to all the mentally unstable NFL superfans out there who are funding their expensive hobby with criminal activity. Quit while you're ahead. Do a couple jobs, make a couple hundred thousand, go viral a couple times, and parlay that into a job at Barstool Sports where your clinical insanity will be celebrated and rewarded with a full-time salary.
