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Originally Posted by patteeu
Actually, what happened was that Kansas City moved in front of Minnesota by trading up from 8 to 6 with Dallas. But Jerry Jones took so long to finalize the deal that the clock ran out so Minnesota (at 7) had the opportunity to steal the pick. They sent their selection up through the proper channels and when the Chiefs realized what was going on, some quick thinking (or scared shitless) guy from the Chiefs' contingent hand carried the Chiefs' pick up to Tagliabue (or somewhere close) and beat Minnesota to the finish line.
This might have been what you meant by "KC moved in front of Minnesota" but it wasn't clear to me.
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Actually, Minnesota didn't really look bad until the next year, when they passed on their pick and two other teams rushed up ahead of them. Very amateurish.