While the Kansas City Chiefs are the NFL’s newest dynasty, winning three Super Bowls since 2020, most fans don’t recall the team’s earliest successful years before decades of futility. What about the underdog losers of that very first Super Bowl? When the Kansas City Chiefs played the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I in 1967, they had only been in existence for seven seasons and were tasked with the monumental burden of representing the still-fledgling American Football League against the NFL’s team of the decade.
The Chiefs won their first AFL Championship in 1962, as the Dallas Texans, when owner Lamar Hunt decided the Dallas market couldn’t support two pro football teams—it could barely support one. After just three seasons, the Texans relocated to Kansas City, where they became the Chiefs. Under future Hall-of-Famers Len Dawson, Buck Buchanan, and Johnny Robinson, they were the winningest AFL team and helped integrate pro football more than any other team in the 1960s.
In The Team That History Forgot, Rick Gosselin explores the team’s struggles and triumphs in its early years, the competition created by the AFL in player signing wars, the recruitment of athletes from historically Black colleges and universities, the loss of the franchise identity with the move from Texas to Kansas City, the first Super Bowl and the humiliating loss against the Packers, and the moves the Chiefs made to recover from that loss and win Super Bowl IV, the last game before the two rival leagues finally merged in 1970. The early Chiefs set a bar for excellence that the team continues to pursue today.
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North American HistoryTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. The AFL
- 2. The Dallas Texans
- 3. Dallas
- 4. Len Dawson
- 5. Johnny Robinson
- 6. Kansas City
- 7. HBCU
- 8. Bobby Bell
- 9. The AFL West
- 10. The Merger
- 11. Mike Garrett
- 12. The Buffalo Bills
- 13. Hank Stram
- 14. Western Dominance
- 15. The Rockpile
- 16. A Dallas Showdown?
- 17. The Lombardi Packers
- 18. A Fear of the Unknown
- 19. The College All-Star Game
- 20. Otis Taylor
- 21. The Hammer
- 22. The Interview
- 23. Hope
- 24. Adjustments
- 25. The Interception
- 26. The Sting of Defeat
- 27. Jan Stenerud
- 28. Willie Lanier
- 29. The Chicago Bears
- 30. The Long Road Back
- 31. The Minnesota Vikings
- 32. The Dallas Cowboys
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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