Chiefs to wear throwback uniforms

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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.