So it was only appropriate that his Chiefs were the AFL’s reprehensive in the first of these games billed as the AFL-NFL Championship Game. Super Bowl I: Lamar Hunt, who was the driving force behind the formation of AFL, won a significant victory when the NFL and AFL agreed to play a World Championship game after the season. Using a dazzling I-formation offense and a smothering defense, the Chiefs dominated the Bills in Buffalo, 31-7, on New Year’s Day to win the franchise’s second AFL crown and earned a place in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game. ![]() The Chiefs would finish with an 11-2-1 record, winning the Western Division by three games to set up a rematch with the Bills in Buffalo in the AFL Championship Game. Kansas City got kicker Mike Mercer for a fifth-round pick, solidifying one of the squad’s few weaknesses. The Chiefs dropped a 29-14 decision to the Bills, but after the contest, Chiefs coach Hank Stram and Buffalo head coach Joe Collier negotiated a trade in the middle of the field. After starting the season 3-0 on the road, a crowd of 43,885, the largest ever to witness a sports event in Kansas City, turned out for the home opener against the defending AFL champion Buffalo Bills, the home opener against the defending AFL champion Buffalo Bills. The Chiefs would finish with a 7-5-2 record, losing three games by a field goal or less.ġ966: The Chiefs make another significant improvement through the draft, signing running back Mike Garrett even though he was also drafted by his hometown Los Angeles Rams. Tragedy also hit the Chiefs again, when running back Mack Lee Hill died on the operating table after relatively routine knee surgery late in the season. The Chiefs were able to pick up wide receiver Otis Taylor from Prairie View. An average of just 18,126 fans attended each home game, prompting discussion at the AFL owners’ meeting about the Chiefs’ future in Kansas City.ġ965: The Chiefs made Kansas star Gale Sayers their first-round draft pick, but lost him in a bidding war with the Chicago Bears. Holub, Fred Arbanas, and Johnny Robinson, missed several games with injuries. The heavyhearted Chiefs started their first season in Kansas City win with a 59-7 victory over the Broncos in Denver but managed just one win and two ties in its next nine games on their way to a disappointing 5-7-2 record.ġ964: The Chiefs struggled to a 7-7 record as many of the team’s best players, including E.J. The Chiefs would go on to retire his number 33 in his honor. Another rookie, Stone Johnson, would never make it to his rookie season, after sustaining a severe spinal cord injury, which would lead to his untimely death. ![]() Buck Buchanan, Ed Budde, and Bobby Bell became starters right away and would play a combined 526 games with the Chiefs. Ironically there once was an NFL team named the Kansas City Cowboys. The defending AFL Champions got ready for their first season in Kansas City with one of the strongest drafts ever. ® SEAHAWKS, SEAHAWKS LOGO, SPIRIT OF 12, WE ARE 12, BRING ON THE 12, LEGION OF BOOM, 12 and 12S are trademarks of the Seattle Seahawks.1963: After conceding Dallas to the Cowboys, the Dallas Texans became the Kansas City Chiefs.
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