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My connection with the Chiefs is almost cosmic. I was just a kid growing up in Columbia, when I realized that rooting for the only Missouri NFL team - the St. Louis Cardinals - was hopeless. So, as kids will do, I decided I'd pick a new team to follow. And I decided the way I'd do it was to turn on the TV and the team playing at that time with the lead would be the team I would follow.
So on that Sunday afternoon, I turned on the TV and the game was between the Buffalo Bills and the Dallas Texans. Texans were in the lead, so that was my team.
Went out and traded for all of their football cards I could get and learned all I could about the Texans. And they were winners. My dad couldn't stand hearing all the time about some team from Dallas.
Then the next year - low and behold - they moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs. As a little kid, I thought they'd moved there just for me. And my dad even started following them, too.
I've followed them ever since. And I thank God Buffalo wasn't in the lead that day when I turned on the TV.
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