Red Friday Flags

Chiefs fans traveled from as far as Chillicothe and Kansas City to buy special edition Super Bowl Champion flags, with the proceeds of sales going to the Ronald McDonald House

And as fans prepare for the 2020 superbowl champions to kick off the nfl season thursday night -- they have the opportunity to support a good cause.

ánatsá "get em' while you can."

Chiefs fans started lining up wednesday morning at the to get their red friday flag or two friends!"group of 30."

Mcdonalds says they've order 3 times the amount of flags this year as they have in past years going to want those special edition superbowl champions flags.

"right now, at this location we've sold over 1,000 flags.

We've got about 200 left here at our north belt location and i expect us to sell out in the next half."

The game plan is to raise $1 million for the ronald mcdonald house charities.

Red friday flag sales have always gone towards the charity, but mcdonalds officials say the fundraiser is even more important this year covid-19 pandemic has put a strain on the charity"there's a period of time where they couldn't have people in the house, so they were paying for those families to stay in hotel rooms. the financial burden on the house was significant.

This is a game changer for them and we hope to sell out really quickly."

There should be no problem raising that money fans have been pulling up all morning long game day.

Even kq2's chris roush made sure to pick up a flag"go chiefs!"

The special edition championship flag is $5 a pop.

You can buy them at any participating mcdonalds locations in st.

Joseph and kansas city.

All the proceeds support the ronald mcdonalds house charities in kc.

Reporting in st.

Joseph, kilee thomas, kq2 news here's a live look outside...