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Originally Posted by gblowfish
Neil went to Denver to stick it to the Chiefs.
Plain and simple.
That "Now I get to play for the good guys" comment he told Horseface should ban him from Arrowhead for life.
He should NEVER have been put in the team HOF. He doesn't belong there, nor does Jack Steadman. Steadman was Lamar's room mate at SMU, and ran the team into the ground for 20 years after Stram left. He ran the Chiefs and Worlds of Fun, at the same time, and in exactly the same manner. Both as light, mindless entertainment. He was the ultimate Nepotism/Peter Principle in action. Yeah, he worked there a long time, and he was the GM when Arrowhead was built, but so what? How many Superbowls did he win? Zip. How many playoff games did he win? Zip. How come the Chiefs don't measure success by what they've won? Everybody else does. Perhaps that's why they haven't sniffed the Superbowl in more than 40 years.
I'm grumpy today. And I despise Neil Smith. Whoever brought his name up should be slapped.
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Steadman was the GM when the Chiefs went to SB I and IV.
He also was resposnsible for drafting most of the core group that Marty took to the playoffs in the early-mid nineties.
Where Steadman failed was in finding the right coach, though I still believe that he did find the coach to have success with in Marv Levy, who got a raw deal, getting fired after the a strike shortened season in '82.