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Kansas City Chiefs

The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division.

Kansas City Chiefs

Red, gold, white[4][5][6]
     

Warpaint (1963–1988, 2009–2020)
K. C. Wolf (1989–present)

Hunt family[7][8]

Clark Hunt

The team was founded in 1959 as the Dallas Texans by businessman Lamar Hunt, and was a charter member of the American Football League (AFL).[12] In spring 1963, the team relocated to Kansas City,[13][14] and assumed its current name.[15][16] The Chiefs joined the NFL as a result of the merger in 1970, and the team is valued at over $3.7 billion.[17] Following Hunt's death in 2006, his wife, Norma, and children became legal owners of the team. After Norma's death in 2023, the Hunt children inherited her stake in the franchise. Clark Hunt, one of the Hunt's children, has served as chairman and CEO since 2006 and is the ultimate authority over personnel decisions. He is also the team representative at league owner meetings.


The Chiefs won three AFL championships, in 1962, 1966, and 1969,[18][19] and were the second AFL team (after the New York Jets) to defeat an NFL team in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game, when they defeated the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV. That victory on January 11, 1970, was the final game before the leagues' merger went into full effect. The Chiefs were also the second team, after the Green Bay Packers (whom they played in Super Bowl I), to appear in more than one Super Bowl (and the first AFL team to do so) as well as the first to appear in the championship game in two different decades. Despite post-season success early in the franchise's history, winning five of their first six postseason games, the team struggled to find success in the playoffs for decades, including losing ten of eleven playoff games from the 1993/94 AFC Championship Game to 2017, which included an eight-game losing streak. Since then, the Chiefs have risen to dynastic performance under head coach Andy Reid, quarterback Patrick Mahomes, and tight end Travis Kelce, appearing in four Super Bowls since 2019 and winning three, LIV, LVII, and LVIII.[20][21][22]

List of Kansas City Chiefs seasons

Sports in the Kansas City metropolitan area

Althaus, Bill (2007). The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Kansas City Chiefs: Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments in Kansas City Chiefs History. Triumph Books.  978-1-57243-928-3.

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Gruver, Ed (1997). The American Football League: A Year-by-year History, 1960–1969. McFarland Publishing.  0-7864-0399-3.

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Herb, Patrick; Kuhbander, Brad; Looney, Josh; et al., eds. (2008). 2008 Kansas City Chiefs Media Guide. Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, Inc.

Hoskins, Alan (1999). Warpaths: The Illustrated History of the Kansas City Chiefs. Taylor Publishing Company.  0-87833-156-5.

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Maske, Mark (2007). . Penguin Group. ISBN 978-1-59420-141-7.

War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football's NFC East

McKenzie, Michael (1997). Arrowhead: Home of the Chiefs. Addax Publishing Group.  1-886110-11-5.

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Peterson, John E. (2003). The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History, 1954–1967. McFarland.  0-7864-1610-6.

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Stallard, Mark (2004). Kansas City Chiefs Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). Sports Publishing, LLC.  1-58261-834-8.

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