Chiefs to wear throwback uniforms

[Hammock Parties]

Awesome!

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/chi...y/1102859.html

The Cowboys and Texans shared the Dallas market in competing football leagues in the early 1960s but never settled the matter of supremacy on the field.

They will get a chance this season. The Texans, who in 1963 moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs, will play the Cowboys at Arrowhead Stadium. The NFL on Monday granted the teams permission to wear their original uniforms and helmets from their inaugural seasons of 1960.

“Personally, that’s something I’m excited about,” Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said. “Even though the Cowboys weren’t part of the AFL, their history is linked with that of the AFL and the Chiefs.”

The Chiefs will wear the same throwback uniforms and helmets for two other games this season. Both will come against a rival from the AFC West. One will be at Arrowhead, the other on the road.

The game against the Cowboys might mean the most to Hunt. His late father, Lamar Hunt, founded the Texans and the AFL in 1960. The NFL launched the Cowboys that same season to battle him for the Dallas market.

The Cowboys chased the Texans out of town after three seasons. Because they played in separate leagues, the teams never played one another.

“I have no doubt my father challenged (Cowboys owner) Clint Murchison probably many times during those three years,” Hunt said. “I’m sure the NFL told Clint he couldn’t play a team from that upstart league. So we’ll finally have a chance to do that.

“This will be a fun way to remember what happened 50 years ago.”

The Chiefs and Cowboys have played eight times in the regular season since the AFL and NFL merged in 1970. Dallas won five times.

[Jethopper]

Could it be....It.....IT IS!!!! ITS THE OL' MARYLAND-I!!!!!

[BigRock]

Originally Posted by MagicHef

Or he could use this one:

He's like LOL CUTLER

[Jethopper]

The color guard bringing the flags into the stadiums should wear throwbacks also.... Pantaloons, 8 peice wool suits with brass buttons, monocle, and wielding a standard issue brown bess musket with all the queens trimmings.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by Jethopper

The color guard bringing the flags into the stadiums should wear throwbacks also.... Pantaloons, 8 peice wool suits with brass buttons, monocle, and wielding a standard issue brown bess musket with all the queens trimmings.

TO THE CORDOBA!!!! CRANK THE ELO!!!!!

REP!

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by Jethopper

The color guard bringing the flags into the stadiums should wear throwbacks also.... Pantaloons, 8 peice wool suits with brass buttons, monocle, and wielding a standard issue brown bess musket with all the queens trimmings.

friggin hilarious!

[wild1]

eh, one game against Dallas I can see, but three times?

[aturnis]

Originally Posted by Mr. Krab's

The problem is that this ISN'T Texas!!!

The problem is that this isn't just a style or a color, this actually shows a outline picture of another state on the uniform.

The problem is the picture of the other state that is on the helmet is still active in the NFL.

The problem is the other state on our helmet will actually be our OPPONENT in one of these games.

It's beyond stupid



**** Texas, **** everyone in Texas


If they use the AFL logo instead and i'm fine with it.

Yes, we understand that your, among others, understanding of the history of the Kansas City Chiefs is lacking. Maybe we can convince you to educate yourself though. Try watching the History of the Kansas City Chiefs. Which C-MAC has been so kind as to provide you the opportunity to watch at anytime you please.

The Dallas Texans aren't just the team the Kansas City Chiefs USED to be. They ARE the Kansas City Chiefs, they are Lamar Hunts heart and soul, they ARE the NFL. Anyone who doesn't recognize this, is an idiot. You should be honored to have the opportunity to see their likeness displayed proudly by the Chiefs, and yet...you are not.

In response to this mindset brought forth by a few "uneducated" Chiefs fans on this board, I've written this rebuttal. I admit I borrowed heavily from Wikipedia, but re-wrote a lot of it, b/c I didn't care for the way it was all written. All in all, you should get the point.


Lamar Hunt loved sports, and most of all, in the late 1950's, he loved football. His dream was to bring professional football to his hometown of Dallas, TX. So, in 1959, on the strength of his great inherited oil wealth, Hunt applied for a National Football League expansion franchise. He was turned down. At this time, professional football was a distant second to Major League Baseball in the hearts of the American people. The thinking among NFL executives was that the league must be careful not to "oversaturate" the market by expanding too quickly.

So in 1960, Hunt decided to respond to the NFL's decision. Hunt took it upon himself, along with fellow Texan and oil man K.S. Bud Adams of Houston(who had also tried and failed to be granted an NFL franchise) to form the American Football League. Hunt and Adams rallied six other like-minded wealthy men to form this new league. The group of the eight founders of the AFL teams was referred to as the "Foolish Club." Hunt's goal was to bring professional football to Texas and to acquire an NFL team for the Hunt family. Hunt became owner of the Dallas Texans and hired future hall-of-famer Hank Stram as the team's first head coach.

In his first words to his team, head coach Hank Stram said to his players and personnel, "I don't know how long this league is going to last. I don't know what will happen, but when the end comes, I want to make sure, that we are going to wind up being, the winning est team, in the history of the American Football League".

Later in 1960, in response to this move by Hunt and the "Foolish Eight" the NFL, who just months before had turned down Lamar Hunt's request for an expansion team, created the Dallas Cowboys. A strategy designed specifically to drive the AFL out of Dallas.

The Dallas Texans won the AFL Championship in 1962 over the 2-time defending champion Houston Oilers in the longest professional game ever played as of that time and were one of the most successful AFL teams in the league's early days. But the Texans' success failed to draw fans in large numbers, as the Texans had to compete for fan loyalty with their cross-town NFL rivals, the Dallas Cowboys.

Though the Texans/Chiefs had always considered themselves to be vaunted rivals of the Dallas Cowboys. The two teams never faced off in competition while residing in the same city. I for one, consider this match-up to be quite fitting for the AFL's 50th anniversary, and one that I know Clark Hunt, wishes he father were still alive to see.

It is obvious to you, what the Chiefs do for you and Kansas City, but you should open your eyes to what Lamar Hunt and the Texans did for the Chiefs. Without the Texans, the Chiefs, and the NFL as we know it, would cease to be.

The effect the AFL has had on football have been long standing. The rosters of the AFL were always stocked with a certain number of players who would have excelled in any league -- and that number grew as the 1960s progressed. The best AFL coaches and owners, many of them new to the pro game, brought color, excitement and important new strategic and marketing ideas to pro football, which had often been dominated by play-calling which overrated the value of eliminating mistakes and underrated the element of surprise. While the NFL was always almost certainly the better league as a whole, the best teams of the AFL were increasingly the equals of any team in the NFL.

The AFL also substantially raised football players' salaries by frequently bidding against the NFL for the top college stars. It was the NFL's concern for containing salaries, more than anything else, that led a reluctant NFL to accept a merger between the two leagues in 1970. The older league could no longer claim to be far superior because by then the AFL champion New York Jets had defeated the vaunted Baltimore Colts of the NFL to win the Super Bowl. The Chiefs' triumph over the Vikings the following season further showcased the AFL's ability.

Today's "descendants" from the AFL, the Patriots, Bills, Jets, Titans, Broncos, Chiefs, Raiders, Chargers, Dolphins and Bengals would not have existed if it hadn’t been for Lamar Hunt. What’s more, the NFL’s Cowboys, created specifically to drive the AFL out of Dallas, would not have existed. Neither would the Vikings, an NFL franchise that was given to Max Winter to pull out of the original eight-team American Football League; nor would the Falcons, which the NFL gave to Rankin Smith to deter him from the AFL’s Miami franchise. Neither would the Saints, whose franchise was granted by the NFL after certain Louisiana congressmen pushed the AFL-NFL merger to completion. Or the Houston Texans, created to replace the Houston Oilers after they moved to Tennessee and became the Tennessee Titans. Thus, fifteen professional football teams would not have existed in fifteen cities today, if Lamar Hunt had not had the vision and the courage to “fight the establishment”.

In 1972, Lamar Hunt became the first American Football League personage inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A true testament to the lasting effect his life has left on the game of football. The trophy presented to each year's AFC Champions is named the Lamar Hunt Trophy. In 1984, Hunt was also inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.

[L.A. Chieffan]

Originally Posted by aturnis

Yes, we understand that your, among others, understanding of the history of the Kansas City Chiefs is lacking. Maybe we can convince you to educate yourself though. Try watching the Histoy of the Kansas City Chiefs. Which C-MAC has been so kind as to provide you the opportunity to watch at anytime you please.

The Dallas Texans aren't just the team the Kansas City Chiefs USED to be. They ARE the Kansas City Chiefs, they are Lamar Hunts heart and soul, they ARE the NFL. Anyone who doesn't recognize this, is an idiot. You should be honored to have the opportunity to see their likeness displayed proudly by the Chiefs, and yet...you are not.


Lamar Hunt loved sports, and most of all, in the late 1950's, he loved football. His dream was to bring professional football to his hometown of Dallas, TX. So, in 1959, on the strength of his great inherited oil wealth, Hunt applied for a National Football League expansion franchise. He was turned down. At this time, professional football was a distant second to Major League Baseball in the hearts of the American people. The thinking among NFL executives was that the league must be careful not to "oversaturate" the market by expanding too quickly.

So in 1960, Hunt decided to respond to the NFL's decision. Hunt took it upon himself, along with fellow Texan and oil man K.S. Bud Adams of Houston(who had also tried and failed to be granted an NFL franchise) to form the American Football League. Hunt and Adams rallied six other like-minded wealthy men to form this new league. The group of the eight founders of the AFL teams was referred to as the "Foolish Club." Hunt's goal was to bring professional football to Texas and to acquire an NFL team for the Hunt family. Hunt became owner of the Dallas Texans and hired future hall-of-famer Hank Stram as the team's first head coach.

In his first words to his team, head coach Hank Stram said to his players and personnel, "I don't know how long this league is going to last. I don't know what will happen, but when the end comes, I want to make sure, that we are going to wind up being, the winning est team, in the history of the American Football League".

Later in 1960, in response to this move by Hunt and the "Foolish Eight" the NFL, who just months before had turned down Lamar Hunt's request for an expansion team, created the Dallas Cowboys. A strategy designed specifically to drive the AFL out of Dallas.

The Dallas Texans won the AFL Championship in 1962 over the 2-time defending champion Houston Oilers in the longest professional game ever played as of that time and were one of the most successful AFL teams in the league's early days. But the Texans' success failed to draw fans in large numbers, as the Texans had to compete for fan loyalty with their cross-town NFL rivals, the Dallas Cowboys.

Though the Texans/Chiefs had always considered themselves to be vaunted rivals of the Dallas Cowboys. The two teams never faced off in competition while residing in the same city. I for one, consider this match-up to be quite fitting for the AFL's 50th anniversary, and one that I know Clark Hunt, wishes he father were still alive to see.

It is obvious to you, what the Chiefs do for you and Kansas City, but you should open your eyes to what Lamar Hunt and the Texans did for the Chiefs. Without the Texans, the Chiefs, and the NFL as we know it, would cease to be.

The effect the AFL has had on football have been long standing. The rosters of the AFL were always stocked with a certain number of players who would have excelled in any league -- and that number grew as the 1960s progressed. The best AFL coaches and owners, many of them new to the pro game, brought color, excitement and important new strategic and marketing ideas to pro football, which had often been dominated by play-calling which overrated the value of eliminating mistakes and underrated the element of surprise. While the NFL was always almost certainly the better league as a whole, the best teams of the AFL were increasingly the equals of any team in the NFL.

The AFL also substantially raised football players' salaries by frequently bidding against the NFL for the top college stars. It was the NFL's concern for containing salaries, more than anything else, that led a reluctant NFL to accept a merger between the two leagues in 1970. The older league could no longer claim to be far superior because by then the AFL champion New York Jets had defeated the vaunted Baltimore Colts of the NFL to win the Super Bowl. The Chiefs' triumph over the Vikings the following season further showcased the AFL's ability.

Today's "descendants" from the AFL, the Patriots, Bills, Jets, Titans, Broncos, Chiefs, Raiders, Chargers, Dolphins and Bengals would not have existed if it hadn’t been for Lamar Hunt. What’s more, the NFL’s Cowboys, created specifically to drive the AFL out of Dallas, would not have existed. Neither would the Vikings, an NFL franchise that was given to Max Winter to pull out of the original eight-team American Football League; nor would the Falcons, which the NFL gave to Rankin Smith to deter him from the AFL’s Miami franchise. Neither would the Saints, whose franchise was granted by the NFL after certain Louisiana congressmen pushed the AFL-NFL merger to completion. Or the Houston Texans, created to replace the Houston Oilers after they moved to Tennessee and became the Tennessee Titans. Thus, fifteen professional football teams would not have existed in fifteen cities today, if Lamar Hunt had not had the vision and the courage to “fight the establishment”.

In 1972, Lamar Hunt became the first American Football League personage inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A true testament to the lasting effect his life has left on the game of football. The trophy presented to each year's AFC Champions is named the Lamar Hunt Trophy. In 1984, Hunt was also inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.

**** that, deys got texas on the helmet man

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Chiefs Cheerleaders upgraded to "Modern Chiefs Look":

[aturnis]

Also, if you are truly unhappy with the Chiefs decision to wear the Texans helmet, please don't refer to http://www.jotform.com/form/90822940333 for options. As far as I know, I don't believe the Chiefs ever wore but one of those symbols on their helmet. I could be wrong, and correct me if I am, but I don't think they wore any but the Arrowhead.

If you REALLY want to see a different CHIEFS throwback helmet, check out the 1:49 mark in History of the Kansas City Chiefs on C-MAC's page.

Though, I think doing so would be a huge disrespect to Lamar Hunt.

[mikey23545]

Originally Posted by Darth CarlSatan

Chiefs Cheerleaders upgraded to "Modern Chiefs Look":

Damn, Claythan, if you can't handle your booze any better than this, you better give it up.

[Wile_E_Coyote]

Haley loves him some Bowe. But then again, he couldn't go with 88 or 27 & Cassel's is unknown

[Hammock Parties]

Jesus Christ, DCS and I are SEPARATE PEOPLE, reerun. Get it through your thick skull.

[Mr. Krab]

Originally Posted by aturnis

Also, if you are truly unhappy with the Chiefs decision to wear the Texans helmet, please don't refer to http://www.jotform.com/form/90822940333 for options. As far as I know, I don't believe the Chiefs ever wore but one of those symbols on their helmet. I could be wrong, and correct me if I am, but I don't think they wore any but the Arrowhead.

If you REALLY want to see a different CHIEFS throwback helmet, check out the 1:49 mark in History of the Kansas City Chiefs on C-MAC's page.

Though, I think doing so would be a huge disrespect to Lamar Hunt.

I understand where the Chiefs team evolved from and i understand the AFL and how it merged with the NFL. I also understand that the Hunts are basically Texans hanging out in KC making a living. I understand all of that and i imagine that is why Clark Hunt doesn't have a problem putting on his cowboy hat and boots and singing "They eyes of Texas are upon you" or some such goofy crap. Still doesn't mean i want the Kansas City Chiefs playing a game with a stupid picture of Texas on their helmet.

[googlegoogle]

Originally Posted by Claythan

Have some respect for the origins of the ****in' franchise you nitwits.

Their origins is BANKRUPTCY.

Chiefs are not the same team.

Just stupid. Good one Clarke.