If you drive due east from Maloney’s Sports Bar and Grill in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kansas, it takes about 10 minutes to get to State Line Road, which runs north-south straddling the Missouri border.
The lively bar has been a popular gathering spot for Chiefs fans for two decades, particularly on game days when the team is on the road. In the last several months, some of the people who work at Maloney’s have noticed an uptick in Missouri license plates in the parking lot.
That likely will again be the case when the bar opens its doors Sunday at 11 a.m., six-and-a-half hours before the Chiefs again host the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship game 20 miles to the northeast at Arrowhead Stadium.
