This past season represented the 60th year for the Chiefs in Kansas City. Over the year, we highlighted some of the history of the franchise since Lamar Hunt officially announced on February 8, 1963, that his team was coming to town. This is Part 9 and the final entry in the series.
Lamar Hunt never lived to see his franchise return to the Super Bowl. He passed away on
December 13, 2006, and the mantle of leadership passed to his children, led by Clark Hunt, who became the club’s chairman of the board.
It has been a little more than 60 years since Hunt brought his football franchise to Kansas City and realized a world championship following the 1969 season. It would take 50 years since then to realize a second world championship, but only four more to achieve back-to-back titles for the first time in NFL history in 19 years.
After coming up an overtime short of reaching the Super Bowl in 2018, Head Coach Andy Reid’s team raised the Lamar Hunt Trophy, named after its founder, the following year and reached the Super Bowl for the first time in 50 years.
With one of the best all-around rosters in the NFL – led by league MVP quarterback Patrick Mahomes – the Chiefs took home the NFL crown in 2019 and eventually reached four Super Bowls over a five-year span, topping the AFC West for eight consecutive seasons, and winning championships again in 2022 and 2023.
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