‘Run it Back’ remix: Check out Blane Howard’s Chiefs anthem

KANSAS CITY, Mo — The song “Run it Back” back has become the theme song of the Kansas City Chiefs push for back-to-back Super Bowl wins.

From the first strum, Chiefs fans know “Run it Back,” written and performed by a man from Arkansas who now lives in Nashville with roots in the Chiefs Kingdom.

“My Grandpa always had the Chiefs on the TV. If they were playing, he always has Chief’s jersey on,” Blane Howard said. “Matter of fact, when I was a kid, we flew to Disney World and he had his Chiefs jersey on the plane talking to just random people about the Chiefs.”

“Run it Back” gained momentum online among Chiefs fans, but it was when the Chiefs organization contacted Howard for permission to play it at Arrowhead during the AFC playoffs in the 2020-2021 season that he knew it would be a hit.

“It was played in the stadium against the Browns in the third quarter,” Howard said. “It was pretty cool for me to be watching the game and to hear it like coming through my TV screen. That was really cool.”

The song exploded after that. Fans created their videos of Howard’s song, including students at Pleasant Ridge Elementary School in Easton, Kansas. The students released “The Kid Kingdom Remix” (with Howard’s permission, of course).

“It has been so hard this year because we are a really tight-knit community. We love to be together, do everything together. What this video has done for us is interject back in that joy that we have and that these kids bring to us every day,” said the school’s principal, Amanda Brimer.

In the COVID-19 restriction order in 2021, the school’s music teacher, Jeremiah Nichol said “It’s provided an opportunity for the parents to do things, you they can’t even come in the building. They can’t come to eat lunch with their child. And then it was like cool, you want us to bring streamers and balloons and build letters. It was just an explosion. This is what happens when you shut down the ability for parents to interact with the school. They’re just waiting for a moment.”

All fans believe that the Chiefs team will be “Run it back” again to the 2023 Super bowl and take the Lombardi trophy back home

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