Clark Hunt didn’t exactly blend into the crowd outside MetLife Stadium on Sunday.
At the World Cup final in New Jersey, a man with a microphone for Kalshi, the predictions-market platform, spent time asking fans how much they paid to get in. The answers came fast and expensive: one woman said she shelled out $20,000, and when asked what she did for a living, she replied, “I’m a model.”
A businessman from Hong Kong said his ticket cost $200,000. Another attendee, who said he owned Welch’s Fruit Snacks, said he had been invited rather than buying in himself. When the interviewer pressed him on his background, the man laughed and said, “Google me.”
Chris Christie was also among the fans approached. The former New Jersey governor said he “didn’t spend anything, a friend invited me.”
The interviewer didn’t recognize him and asked what he did for a living. Christie answered, “I’m a consultant.”
Elsewhere in the crowd, a man who said he was a “painter of houses” said he paid $96,000 for his seat. A young Argentina fan said his dad paid $73,000.
And one man holding a suit jacket and a bottle of water summed up the whole scene with a grin, saying he had paid “Not enough. There’s no experience like the World Cup final,”
Then came Hunt, standing there in glasses with his jacket in hand, and the question that tied the whole thing together: what does he do for a living?
“I’m chairman and CEO of the Kansas City Chiefs,” said Clark Hunt.
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