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Originally Posted by milkman
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.
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Steadman was a boob as an NFL GM. He was at the helm when they drafted Blackledge instead of Kelly or Marino. Nuff said there.
Super Bow I and IV were Hark Stram's baby. He made the personnel decisions. Steadman didn't get involved in the draft room until after Stram was fired. And guess who fired Stram? Guess who fired Levy?
King Carl was the GM, not Steadman, when Marty was drafting. It was King Carl who hired Marty. Steadman had been moved to a BS position that was pretty much ceremonial by that point. He actually volunteered to get out of the football side when King Carl came in, because he was such a piss poor football talent evaluator.
There's only three things Steadman has going for him.
1) He was Lamar Hunt's college room mate. That's how he got a job with the Chiefs.
2) He oversaw the original Arrowhead stadium construction.
3) He worked there for a long time -but big deal. So have a lot of the janitors at Arrowhead.
You have to put a lot of the 40 years of Super Bowl Chase Failure on Steadman. He was at the helm for a big chunk of that time. He also ran Worlds of Fun and the Chiefs at the same time for many of those years. I can make a pretty good argument that he ran both businesses exactly the same -for profit, and to generate mild entertainment value.
I'm glad his hand is off the wheel now. And the only reason he's in the Chiefs HOF is because he was Lamar's best buddy. Nepotism at its finest.