Chiefs Owner Lamar Hunt Passes Away

[LeopardFan04]

We attended the same prep school, about 50 years apart...:nod: He is enshrined in the football, tennis, and soccer halls of fame...quite the life...


DALLAS -- Lamar Hunt, the pro sports visionary who owned the Kansas City Chiefs and came up with the term "Super Bowl," died Wednesday night. He was 74.

Hunt, a founder of the American Football League and one of the driving forces behind the AFL-NFL merger, died at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas of complications from prostate cancer, Chiefs spokesman Bob Moore said.

Hunt battled cancer for several years and was hospitalized the day before Thanksgiving with a partially collapsed lung. Doctors discovered that the cancer had spread, and Hunt had been under heavy sedation since last week.


http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2697040

[BearsCountry]

If you are a fan of the NFL, be very grateful to Lamar Hunt. Heck of a guy and a great owner, us Chiefs fans are very saddened right now.

[dbackjon]

R.I.P to a great visionary.

[HIU 93]

I listened to a great interview with him on Thanksgiving Day, just prior to the Chiefs game that day. He was a visionary. RIP Mr. Hunt.

[TheValleyRaider]

Great man, a visionary for the NFL, and a huge supporter of Soccer in the US. The oldest continually contested Soccer trophy in the US is named the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup in his honor.

He will be missed

[poly51]

At the start of the AFL, the Kansas City Chiefs were known as the Dallas Texans. After the first year of operation the team was $1,000,000 in the red. A reporter asked C.P. Hunt, Lamars father what he thought about that. He replied "If he does that for another 100 years he's gonna be in trouble."

[Go...gate]

At the start of the AFL, the Kansas City Chiefs were known as the Dallas Texans. After the first year of operation the team was $1,000,000 in the red. A reporter asked C.P. Hunt, Lamars father what he thought about that. He replied "If he does that for another 100 years he's gonna be in trouble."

Great quote! Here's to his perseverance and vision.

[furpal87]

Actually, the quote was another 180 years.

My story: My Dad worked for the Browns from 1978 to 1988, then the Chiefs from 1988 to 1998. He worked for probably the best all-timer owner, and in my opinion, the worst. The first time he met Lamar Hunt he thought he was the janitor. He was that unassuming a man. He would fly in Friday of the game, talk to the coaches about personal things, treat the team to a meal on Saturday, then watch the game Sunday. After the game, he would go down to the locker room, shake every player and coaches hand, thank them for the effort, win or lose, then wish them luck the next week, and fly home to Dallas first thing Monday. He would also spend whatever was necessary for the team. That's what an owner should model himself after/ Not the Snyders or Joneses or Steinbrenners of the world do.