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Kansas City Chiefs
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The
Kansas City Cheifs are one of four teams
that play in the Western Division of the
American Football Conferece of the National
Football League. The team is now based in
Kansas City, Missouri. It first played as
the Dallas Texans in the American Football
Conference. The The team is owned by Hall of
Famer Lamar Hunt, who founded the team along
with their original league, the American
Football League, in 1960. Hank Stram, an
assistant at the University of Miami, was
hired as the team’s first head coach. Two
years later Stram produced a powerful
offense with quarterback Len Dawson, veteran
running back Abner Hayes, and rookie running
back Curtis McClinton. The Dallas
Texans,defeated the Houston Oilers in a
dramatic 1962 AFL championship which went
into double overtime.The three stars helped
the team acheive that title.Dawson was named
the player of the year, McClinton rookie of
the year, and Stram coach of the year. When
the team was moved to Kansas City in 1963,
the new name was selected by a fan contest. |
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The name is derived from the then Mayor
of Kansas City, H. Roe "Chief"
Bartle,who was highly involved in
persuading Hunt to move from Dallas to
K.C.It is rumoured - though unconfirmed
- that Hunt actually considered keeping
the team name as it was, and playing as
the "Kansas City Texans."The team won 43
games between 1966 and 1969.Kansas City
then won another title in 1969 and
became the only team in AFL history to
win three championships. The franchise
recorded the best record in the 10-year
history of the American Football League,
highlighted by a win in Super Bowl IV.
Although the Minnesota Vikings were
heavily favored in Super Bowl IV, Kansas
City upset the NFL champions 23-7 to
complete the AFL vs. NFL portion of the
Super Bowl series tied at two wins each.
It was the last game ever played by an
AFL team.The Texans-Chiefs' 10-season
AFL record of 92-50-5 was the best of
any AFL team. Head coach Hank Stram
became the only man to serve as a head
coach throughout the AFL's history. |
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The
Kansas City Chiefs joined the National
Football League when the two League merged
in 1970.In 1971 Stram led the Chiefs to the
American Football Conference (AFC) Western
Division title in their second year in the
league. That year, in a double-overtime
divisional playoff game on Christmas Day,
the Miami Dolphins defeated Kansas City in
the longest game in NFL history. It lasted
82 minutes 40 seconds. The Christmas Day
double-overtime playoff loss to Miami, would
be their last playoff appearance until the
1986 Chiefs captured a wild-card playoff
berth, having only two winning seasons
between 1974 and 1986.They did not get to
the playoffs for 15 straight years. |
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The Chiefs were perennial playoff
contenders under coach Marty
Schottenheimer from 1989-1998.Marty
Schottenheimer became coach after new
President and General Manager Carl
Peterson, hired him in 1989. With
Schottenheimer, the Cheifs would collect
six straight playoff appearances, three
AFC West championships, nine winning
seasons, and 76 consecutive soldout
games at Arrowhead. Since 1992, no NFL
team has a better regular season home
winning percentage than Kansas City
(27-5 (.844) record).In 2001, former
Philadelphia Eagles and St. Louis Rams
head coach Dick Vermeil took over the
reins as Chiefs head coach. Vermeil is
the ninth head coach in the 44-year
history of the franchise. Vermeil came
to Kansas City while on a coaching
hiatus, after winning Super Bowl XXXIV
with the St. Louis Rams. |
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The
Kansas City cheifs have retired the numbers
#3 Jan Stenerud (Placekicker), #16 Len
Dawson (Quarterback), #28 Abner Haynes
(Running Back),#33 Stone Johnson (Running
Back),#36 Mack Lee Hill (Running Back),#63
Willie Lanier (Linebacker), #78 Bobby Bell
(Linebacker) and #86 Buck Buchanan (Defense
Tackle. The Kansas City Cheifs home stadium
is the Arrowhead Stadium, which was opened
on August 12, 1972 and seats 79,451. |
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Franklin, Maroney help Barat break groundSuburban Journals, MO - 9 hours agoLaurence Maroney, running back for the New England Patriots, and Will Franklin, wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs, were both on hand for the ... |
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