HE PICKED HER up in a tidy red crossover hatchback with leather seats, dodging light traffic and awkward silence on a September night in Arizona. It was just dinner and drinks between two Kansas City Chiefs fans, not a date, although now Lindsay True wonders if he thought it was. She knew only his first name -- Xaviar.
They'd met through Chiefs Twitter, a community bound by devotion to its NFL team. There, he was ChiefsAholic, one of the most famous fans in the Kingdom. He entertained his 40,000-plus followers with stories of a freewheeling, sports-crazed bachelor who put big bets on the Chiefs while traveling the country to support them.