I was 13 and in 8th grade. After watching the Chiefs beat the Raiders for the AFL championship, I knew no other team could beat them. Everyone at school was talking up the Vikings, 13 -point favorites. I let it be known that I'd bet a quarter (yes, a quarter!) on the Chiefs, even-up, to win the game outright, against anyone and everyone in the school. Monday morning, kids stood in line in the cafeteria to pay me off: five dollars and twenty-five cents, a fortune for a kid in those days. I love this team even though I'm a 55-year-long 49er fan. They were so much fun to watch, and such a class act on and off the field. This team is what pro football is all about.
Awesome story. Lifelong 49er fans as well though I grew up in the 80s. Those Dick Nolan teams of the 70s fascinate me and the names are sadly lost in history.
The drought is over. Chiefs are the champs in 2020. I hope Lenny, Jim, Willie, Otis and the rest of the surviving '69 Chiefs had a good time watching it happen.
I rooted for any AFL team vs the NFL so it was the Jet's and then the Chief's those 2 years. My poor Patriots came along eventually with Steve Grogan and others in the 70's. Go AFL!!!
I thought this was good, but I think they dropped the ball on several good players being mentioned, especially Bobby Bell. When they said that the Chiefs had the best linebacker corp in football, they should have immediately brought Bobby Bell's name up and added a segment into this video, even if brief. He was a freak. They didn't even get close to showing him justice.
@@jmad627 One of the most underrated, under celebrated and not talked about to ever play the position! I'd easily put him in the Top 10 overall to play any of the LB spots
@@jmad627 I put him right up there - LT and Butkus were the standard, but Bell is not far behind them! Lambert, Ham, Derrick Thomas - Bell is easily in that vicinity! And I can't forget Ray Lewis
10 members of the 1969 Chiefs are in the NFL Hall of Fame. One of the greatest defenses in the history of the game!! Otis Taylor needs to be in Canton soon!!
That's exactly why I love watching old highlights of the 60's/70's/80's and even the 90's of the NFL. The players back then had alot more charisma to them. That and they played more for the love of the game, not a paycheck. Not to mention they were tough as nails too. Can't say that about today's players.
Len Dawson was an iconic quarterback who will be greatly missed by football fans! It was great to see Kansas City win the Super Bowl in 1970 against Minnesota after the Chiefs were embarrassed by Green Bay 35-10 in the first Super Bowl. It is ironic that Len and Jim Lynch passed away one month from each other ( Len - August 24, 2022 and Jim Lynch July 21,2022).
I love how eloquently and business-like these men speak. Hank Stramm set a standard for his team. A standard that is still carried on by coaches today.
ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION ABOUT THIS STATEMENT!!! Otis Taylor was a better wide receiver than MOST of the wide receivers who are currently in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I think it's pretty easy to see that Taylor has been kept out of the Hall because of his choice to play in the American Football League as opposed to playing in the NFL. Unfortunately, too many of the people who vote on who makes the Hall of Fame and who doesn't, are leftover NFL sycophants and media types who were loyal to the NFL, Pete Rozelle and his cronies of that era. They used the LAME rationale that Taylor played in the AFL, which they considered a weaker league than the NFL at the time. Truth be told, Taylor was the best wide receiver IN PRO FOOTBALL for the latter part of the 1960's and early 70's, and had there been inter-league play at that time, Taylor would've burned NFL defensive backs too! And while we're on the subject, Johnny Robinson, Chiefs safety during the 1960's and Super Bowl Championship team of 1970 should also be in the Pro Football Hall. But, just like Otis Taylor, he's been kept out for the same reasons. Utterly disgraceful! Long live the AFL!!!
For a variety of reasons. On performance alone, his stats stack up against most anyone's from his era. Then there was the matter of his historical significance in the game. He caught the passes that turned the games against the Jets in NY in both the regular season and post-season games. And that catch of the sideline pass from Dawson from beneath the Chiefs goal posts in the final AFL Championship Game. And of course, the 46 yard touchdown in the Super Bowl was the FINAL touchdown in AFL history. But his historic significance begins with his signing. He was the poster child for the AFL-NFL signing wars when Lloyd Wells coaxed him out of his hotel room when the Dallas Cowboys had stashed him away, Wells brought him, signed, sealed and delivered, to the Chiefs in what many considered one of the great heists in pro football history. (Now think how much sooner Dallas might have won a Super Bowl if they'd had Bob Hayes on one side and Otis Taylor on the other!) How all this gets overlooked by the Pro Football Hall of Fame voters is just evidence of how little they know of the game's history. Otis Taylor absolutely belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And I could name at least two other Chiefs from that team that belong, too. Johnny Robinson and Jim Lynch both belong as well. It's funny, but having grown up in KC at the time, we think back on that Chiefs team of the '60s and all the attention was given to the offense. Indeed, Hank Stram's offense was innovative in ways that defied conventional thinking at the time. But it was the defense that put most of the players in the Hall of Fame. A few more deserve to go.
I'm a Bills fan but I watched Mean Joe Greene say in an interview one time that the Steel Curtain defensive front 7 modeled themselves after the Chiefs defensive front 7 of the 1966-71 era. High praise from the greatest DT who has ever played in my opinion. Congrats to the Chiefs on winning the 2019 AFC Championship. They should've won it in 2018 too. I'd like to see them knock off the 49ers in SB54. The 49ers have enough Lombardi trophies and it's been 50 years for the Chiefs
+Jeremy Thompson I guess being a Bills fan is like being a Vikings fan. Only Vikings did not lose 4 Superbowls in a row. Bills being the only team to have gone 4 times in a row.
Mahomes is tough to hate...such a class dude...unlike Tyreke Hill,& others. Mahomes is an amazing player also. But as a Bronco fan, I loved that 50yr drought. There was nothing any KC fan could say to me..."whatever you try saying..weve been to 8 SBs,& won 3...since your last appearance." Those days are over now,& with Mahomes...ya may catch us on the 8 appearances, by the times he's done. We still have scoreboard, but KC might win 3 straight next yr, I'll be surprised if they don't. Mahomes may supplant Brady as the GOAT someday, though long ways to go on that. Won't be able to keep all these offensive guys for long...but Mahomes probably doesn't need much help. Borderline unfair that he may have the most talented offensive supporting cast ever...right now. I don't see anybody challenging them, in either conference, but hope Im wrong. This dude came within OT in AFC title game, of getting them to SB in 2018, with a truly awful defense. They aren't awful anymore. Not great, but much improved last year,& better than they need now...with that offense. Reid is a great coach also...though I don't like the free pass he get's from the media, for never having issues with guys character. The media loves him, so they rarely bring it up. Maybe he is altruistic,& thinks he can help them as people...like Tom Osbourne used to be. But no doubt part of it, is their talent. If Tyreke Hill was an average 5th WR..he wouldn't be sticking with him. He isn't giving 10th chances to backup olineman, as far as I know. But ya can't deny Reid is an offensive whiz. Speaking of 5th WR, that's the most amazing,& frustrating part of that KC offense. Yes, they have insane star talent-Mahomes, Hill, Kelce...the rookie rb from LSU. But their depth of talent is what's amazing. Their 5th,& 6th WR's...would be #3s, on most teams...probably even #2s on a few teams. Leveon Bell is your frikin back up rb...maybe even the 3rd guy at times...that's just insane. Bad time to be a KC hater. But I guess it had to switch. KC had a lot of good, playoff teams, over those 50 yrs...or at least the 35 or so, that I remember. (I'm 44) But they rarely got to even the AFC title game all those years,& never a SB. You guys had to deal with Elway,& then the 4 yrs of Peyton...pulling a lot of miracles out on ya,& watch them go to a lot of SBs. I guess karma is getting us back now! If only those f#&!ing Bears had drafted Mahomes, instead of Trubisky. I knew drafting Trubisky was a big mistake, at the time. But not cuz of Mahomes, I rarely saw him at Tx Tech,& had no clue how he'd turn out. It was Deshshawn Watson I couldn't believe they passed on for Mitch. If not for Jimmy G melting down, they'd be 51yrs, no rings. But KC was the superior team,& the gap is much larger this season, between them,& everybody else.
@@jasonsmith5226 For me as a Patriots fan, should Mahomes be the next goat, I have no problem with it. Mahomes is a BEAST. The Chiefs just might be the team of this decade if Mahomes and co continue to dominate.
@@jasonsmith5226 What do you have to say about Mahomes now after he wasn't able to help his team score a touchdown and he wasn't able to beat an old guy like Tom Brady whom you say Mahomes was going to surpass? He had to beat Tom Brady to begin with and he couldn't. The Chiefs won't be a dynasty, the Buccaneers exposed them in the last Super Bowl and all the NFL teams will study that film to stop them. You will see that next season the Chiefs won't be the team they used to be.
I'm a lifelong Pats fan but the 69 Super Chiefs are my favorite team All-time. That team was nearly perfect, huge and fast. More importantly they proved, without doubt, that the AFL was just as good as the NFL and better at times.
Thank you for this Antone. The 1969 Chiefs were also MY favorite team of all time. As a 12-year old kid who attended Chiefs games in the Huddle Club section located in a corner of Municipal Stadium down the 3rd base line where you could only see 2/3rd of the field, (I actually saw myself in this video, patting Jan Stenerud on the back as he walked down to the field) I loved the Chiefs. I never sat there for more than the first 10 minutes of the game anyway, but instead, sneaked over to the Wolfpack section located behind the benches. Many times I had occasion to talk to the Chiefs players while standing next to the fence, as they were only a few feet away. They were cordial, decent and classy. The day the Chiefs won Super Bowl 4 over the Vikings and shut the mouths of the old-guard NFL types, was the happiest day of my young life. The current Chiefs are a talented team and I will always pull for them. But the 1969 Chiefs will always be MY Chiefs. Thanks for posting. Long Live the AFL!!!
Antone, I can happily overlook you being a Pats fan, because of your love for the 69 Chiefs. Thank you brother, as a lifelong Chiefs fan & someone who's actually eaten breakfast with a few of those Hall of Famers from that team, it means a lot to hear fans from other teams, hold our Super Bowl team in such high regard. AFL forever baybuh!
@@jasonhallowell7379 Hi Jason. Just curious, which of the Chiefs Hall of Famers were you able to break bread with? What a treat that would be for this 55-year die hard!. Long Live the AFL!!!
@@jasonhallowell7379 Now THAT'S a buffet I'm sorry I missed. Both guys, Budde and Holub, were characters. Had I been there I'm not sure I would've eaten any chicken, as it's kinda hard to eat when you're laughing so hard and continuously. But I would've paid a cover charge just to sit there and listen to the stories they must've told. Lucky you. Long Live the AFL!!!
I LOVE the story of the 1969 Kansas City Chiefs. And welcome back to the Super Bowl (54) after a 50-year absence. Losing their starting quarterback for half the season, having a bevy of talent including from HBCU's, this was indeed one the greatest Super Bowl teams in NFL history.
I remember watching that game on TV. I was 9yrs old.. And it was glorious. I have waited 50 (grief-vious) yrs for this game to arrive(superbowl 54). And I have a feeling it will be glorious! All the right things are aligned - for the future 50 years from now to look back and love this game as it thunders down the road of time. Go Chiefs!!.. for Lenny and Hank and Lamar and all the boys! GO CHIEFS!!!!!!..
@@liammessano8962, my guess is ..uhhhh.. KCeeee.. 31... SAN FRANCISCO....its coming to me...24..yeah that's it, 31-24..no..no wait, that score will be 31-23..yeah..no..its 31-20. Who wants to bet me?
Seriously, 50 years? You guys definitely deserved this Super Bowl, but expect plenty more. Every year a team does well but rest of the league takes care of them the next season. Not the chiefs. Been consistently good for the past 5 years and now they’re scary. The Patriots dynasty just died and now it’s your turn to take the throne. Oh, and please destroy an NFC team in the process haha. Let em know that the AFL teams are still boss.
I really like Hank Stram's philosophy in which it does not matter whether you're black or white it does matter how good you are in playing football. This was just one year after the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated at the Lorraine hotel in Memphis. Dr. King himself would have been proud to see the Chiefs during the year following his passing.
@@robertsprouse9282 True that. I saw a game Briscoe QB-d the Broncs vs the Chiefs in 1968, and he was sensational. Loved watching Briscoe QB the Broncos. And I couldn't figure out why they didn't leave him there as the starting QB, but he ended up in Miami as a wide receiver and excelled at that too.
Bud Grant said it best in the post interview comments when asked what happened. "We played a fine football team. Kansas City deserved to win and certainly you couldn't ask for a better team to represent professional football as our champions." He had all the class Hank Stram didn't. I believe Stram was quoted as saying, "That's what happens when the offense of the 70s meets the defense of the 60s. In September of 1970, 8 months later, these two teams played again. Minnesota won 27-10 without Joe Kapp. Bud Grant's comment, "I think we've heard enough about the offense of the 70s."
Well Leonard you and The Chiefs won that SuperBowl Jan 11,1970 for me!! It was My 3rd Birthday. I was Born in 67. So I saw The 1st Super Bowl in my Mothers arms. They were sad that Packers won but I was nice to be able to understand why Dad wasn’t home till late on that 3rd Birthday but He grabbed me and said “Happy Birthday Baby! Lenny and The Chiefs won The Super Bowl for you as your Birthday present!!” Now 50 years later on my 53rd Birthday weekend #15 Got me back as a fan and got us back to The Super Bowel. For my 50th my Husband went to great lengths to get me your Jersey #16. We have been together 16 years but married 15. Being a number person you see the irony of it all. My Husband was a Panther’s fan till all the malarky went down. He knew the coach and Kegly . He has just latched on to The Chief’s with all his Southern Heart. When we win I’m getting him a #15 Moholms Jersey to make him an official Chief’s fan. We were going to be in KC for Thanksgiving and The Lighting of The Plaza. We were also going to renew our vows Nov 7. But his company screwed everyone’s taxes up. .... So no wedding and no coming home after 40 years being gone...🥺
Georga Linkous-Long I was also born on January 11,1967. Saw my Baltimore Colts the following year. Since then I saw my Baltimore Ravens won 2 Super Bowls. I hope Kansas City beats San Francisco so you can get to enjoy your moment of happiness. I also wish that you and your husband can renew your vows soon. I’ll be watching it on Groundhog Day and Mahomes can get that offense going!!! I also went to Tennessee so I wish Eric Berry was still there but things happen. Dustin Colquitt will join his dad and have a super bowl ring.
I've watched this episode over and over. SO well presented. I was 11 years old when all of this occurred. I was a Chiefs fan almost from birth, and I got so fixated on them that I was known to cry whenever they lost. Jan. 11, 1970 was possibly the best day of my life---before the recent Chief's SB wins. But it was more special back then because it was novel, it was only SB IV, and the AFL was STILL considered inferior. It was such a perfect triumph for the Chiefs, Lenny, and KC, all those years ago. Many thanks to NFL Films!
With Patrick Mahomes at the helm, the future is certainly bright for the Chiefs. Another fun fact, when Joe Montana joined the Chiefs in 1993, Len Dawson actually offered to let him wear his retired number 16, but Joe declined and decided to go with 19 instead. A truly classy gesture from Joe Cool!
As a long suffering Chiefs fan through the terrible 80's, Martyball with it's ups and cataclysmic downs during the 90's, and the run of mediocrity since then I'm so happy the Super Bowl drought has ended 50 years later. I really hope the Mahomes' era lasts with make up SB's for my heart that's been broken so many times. The only thing missing is hearing Len Dawson calling the games play by play-he just barely missed this year. It's encouraging seeing Mahomes wearing a Len Dawson hoodie in tribute.
Congratulations 2 The 2019 Kansas City Chiefs: Super Bowl 54 Champions! 50 Years Later! Len Dawson, Willie Lanier & Jim Lynch, Otis Taylor, Legendary Head Coach Hank Stram & Their Beloved Owner The Late Great Lamar Hunt & The Rest Of The 1969 Super Bowl Championship Team Would Be Proud! Go, Chiefs! ❤️💛
Did U Know Last Night In SB 54 That HC Andy Reid Won His 222nd Career Game As HC On 2/2/2020? Coincidence? Oh, Yeah! Congratulations, Coach! 🏆 🌎 Champion! Finally, After 21 Years! Go, Chiefs! ❤️💛
To Scooby Carr: I agree with you 100% on both of your posts. To me, the REAL Chiefs will always be the guys who played in the mid to late 1960's through the early 1970's and most, if not all of them were respectable, decent men with families. As a Kansas City native and a Chiefs fan since 1964, I was one of many who got to know the Chiefs players and sometimes their families during that era and also fell in love with the American Football League. Back then they played for the love of the game because the money wasn't great and the circumstances could be very tough. But when one of them would score a touchdown, most of them would flip the ball to the officials, go back to the sideline and act as though it was no big deal. I'll always pull for the Chiefs, regardless of the opponent or situation. Today's Chiefs could well end up being known as a Dynasty in the making. Long live the AFL!
The victory over the raiders was a giant hurdle for the chiefs as oakland had their number in recent years although the earlier oakland wins in 69 were very tight ganes.I had the sense that once the chiefs beat the jets and then the raiders on the road that they could notbe stopped. No disrespect to the vikings but when the chiefs beat the raiders, that was the heavyweight title fight. What was dissapointing for me was that they never came close again.in the 1970 season, they won only half their games, and played some stinkers....then in 71, they lost that two overtime game- but frankly their defense wasnt nearly as goodas in 69.someday, maybe before i die, they can win it all again...
As a Vikings NFL AFL KC and Oakland Fan since 1968 I fell the same way. I could see change in the early 70s and now It just all about greed by the NFL the owners and the players.
I hope a lot of the old guys from this super bowl chiefs team make it to Miami this sunday . they should be welcomed with open arms . these guys were the best . rest in peace , buck b.
Lateral on a long pass route, QB knee injury, final touchdown was a run with the lead. Yeah, they did a lot of things the same. The only thing they didn't try was the 65 TOSS POWER TRAP
I can remember ALL of that! The stadium on Brooklyn,when we would sneak in and watch the games,with our scraps and fries from Bryant's.And we would stand on the corner of 39th and Walnut and watch for Otis Taylor to come by in his 70 Olds Tornado(brown with a black top)with OT 89 on the front license plate,he lived at 4057 Walnut,Inglenook Apts.We would talk to him and shake his hand.I'll NEVER 4get that!!!! And I was a guest sports caster with Len Dawson on channel 9 too!!!! CHIEFS 4EVER!!
Otis Taylor in his book "The Need to Win" has said that he didn't like the move from Municipal Stadium to Arrowhead Stadium in 1972. He said that the intimacy of the old stadium was lost on the move to Arrowhead-and he also said he loved the neighbourhood of Municipal Stadium--he also missed the real grass at Municipal Stadium as the artificial turf at Arrowhead resulted in many injuries--unfortunately today Mr Taylor suffers from a severe form of Parkinson's disease which he feels may be due to the concussions he suffered playing receiver for the Chiefs
It took awhile but KC finally got players in..the same thing is going to happen with my DENVER BRONCOS 1990's crew.. and GRADISHAR AND WRIGHT from the '70's. NALEN, AND SCHLERETH, ELAM, AND NEIL SMITH need to be put in from the '90's BRONCS..
As a ten year old boy growing up in Kansas City I have a hard time believing that was 50 years ago. Forgot a lot of the nuisances of that season but they came rushing back.
Leonard and Henry! Dawson deserved that one. Grew up watching him on the news and HBO of course. And hearing him on KCFX doing play by play with the great Mitch Holthus (best in the business) on game days. A classier bunch of pro football players and staff there's never been...
I had to watch this to tribute Len Dawson. Although I hate the Chiefs as a Pats fan, I did love how they and the Jets gave the AFL respectability in Super Bowl 3&4.
I typed in "Chiefs America's Game" to find this, forgetting that they have won two super bowls in the last four years. Instead of seeing it at the top, I had to scroll down to find this episode. It puts into perspective how far this franchise has come.
The 1969 Chiefs were not the best of all time, but this is my favorite episode of the America's Game series. These men were pure class, and the cohesion on this team was special.
The Municipal Stadium field was looked after by George Toma (The God of "Sod")-he came up with the idea of painting the helmet logo of the Chiefs home opponent that week on one side of the 50 yd line with the Chiefs logo on the other side. His care of the field was legendary and when the NFL-AFL merger was announced-then NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle attended a game at Municipal Stadium and came away so impressed by Mr. Toma's work that he hired him to look after many of the Super Bowl fields that followed
I was in River Falls for Chiefs training camp, Vermeil was the coach and I think Trent Green was the QB. Len Dawson was standing alone, I asked if he would sign my son's football. Mr. Dawson couldn't have been nicer. Still have the ball, Mr. Dawson has a beautiful signature.
It's difficult to imagine that with KC being a perinial contender almost every year over the past 50 years the franchise is going back to to the big dance for only the first time since then. I'd have to guess that the 99% of the parents of today's roster weren't even born.
Come again..You guys did not make the playoffs from 1971 to the mid 80's, and have not been to the playoffs as much as my BRONCOS since 1977. WE HAVE BEEN TO EIGHT SBOWLS, WINNING 3..the CHIEFS have not been perennial contenders in the last 50 years; are u kidding? DENVER if memory serves, has only 10 sub- .500 seasons in the past 47 seasons, 29 over .500 seasons, 37 at least .500, or better, and 22 playoff spots, with 8 AFC TITLES, and 15 AFC WEST CROWNS.. And KC since 1973? UNITED IN ORANGE..
I love it at 29:45 where Willie Lanier comments on Otis Taylor's controversial catch in the AFL championship game against Oakland--"well of course he was (in bounds-smile)" he knew he wasn't but without any challenge flags in those days the officials rulings always stood
Yet, they tapped his helmet just before his catch= pass interference, and there was a forceout rule then. As soon as Taylor caught it and tapped one foot, he was bumped out of bounce making it impossible for foot#2 to come down, unless it was not hit= forceout= catch..
When the chiefs happened to win the super bowl, it’s a sad coincidence that Coronavirus followed. Stay safe everyone. The chiefs will win plenty of Super Bowls this decade, nobody can stop Mahomes and Co. Don’t let misguided folks tell you he needs talent around him because he’s the next Manning/Brees/Brady type player. Reid absolutely deserved to win it all and even he knew it was time for a big cheeseburger.
@James BravomgDo I look like your 9th grade English teacher? I never asked you to submit an essay. Funny how your best attempt at insulting me was calling me a sixth-grader. At least write something that will anger me instead of trying to be Jimmy Fallon. You're excited about a Super Bowl win and that's great. But football is only a sport and the coronavirus is much more important. In case you haven't noticed, life is definitely not normal. Mahomes and Reid are fantastic. But we have yet to see how long they'll be great together. Chiefs cap space is atrocious. Mahomes isn't gonna be your quarterback forever.
@@areebahmed7354 Nice try Areeb. You wrote a fairly lengthy post the 1st time with a number of statements that put you in a bit of a condescending, smart-assed position, one that I felt deserved a well-written and direct reply. Yes, there IS accountability for the things we say, do and write in this life. So as a Chiefs fan who detected a degree of sarcasm from your text and in order to adequately address each point, additional verbiage was necessary. If it's too long for you, maybe you can get a friend or a relative to read it to you. To begin with, if I wanted to write something that was intended to anger you, that would've been far too easy, as that fragile psyche you've demonstrated here is clearly visible for all the readers to see. And I'm not sure if you've ever taken the time to proof-read your posts Areeb, but in your commentary you pretty well threw it out there for Chiefs fans or anyone else with a passing interest. So I guess it reverts back to the old rule of thumb about this kind of repartee: if you're gonna dish it out, you gotta expect to take it too. In your last paragraph you wrote: 'I was humble since sixth grade. In my comment, I clearly stated factual evidence. I didn't smear the Chiefs in any way either, so why are you having a temper tantrum?' I never had a temper tantrum. But I did I have a good laugh, right before I decided to reply. The part of my response that I believe you have now taken exception to was the portion where you stated how you believed that the only people who cared about the Chiefs championship were Chiefs fans, which is an untrue statement and absurd in a way. What's interesting about that statement is that many of the texts, e-mails and phone calls I received from friends and others just after the Chiefs Super Bowl victory included comments about how they were happy it wasn't the Patriots who won the Super Bowl. That statement had no bearing on me because I actually pulled for the Pats in all of their Super Bowls, primarily because they were an original AFL team (yes, I saw them play in Kansas City during the 1960's when they were the Boston Patriots with players like-....-look em' up...Jim Nance, Gino Cappeletti, Babe Parelli, Houston Antwine, Nick Bounticonti & Larry Eisenhower) and I am a long-time AFL fan. Then you finished your post by labeling me an idiot? My friend, I'll match my degrees (Under-graduate, Masters and PHD from several major institutions of learning around North America) against yours any day of the week, along with my real life experience in the professional, benevolent and published worlds that puts me, my body of work and leadership along with my level of intellect at an echelon probably well above yours, and possibly one you can't even begin to imagine. So that disparaging word "idiot" doesn't apply here either. Again, nice try. Though my reply was never intended to anger you, it WAS intended to possibly...edify you...to a degree in the knowledge that Chiefs fans aren't a bunch of uneducated, uncultured, unsophisticated hillbilly hacks (an assumption on my part, but I'm guessing that's the perception that you and possibly several other Pats fans might believe as many of you may not have ever traveled west of I-495, much less the Hudson River). I'm just not that mean-spirited. 'Mahomes won't be the Chiefs QB forever?' Fair to say, as anything is possible. But I don''t believe cap space will be an issue going forward as Mahomes has publicly stated that he wishes to stay in Kansas City and lead the team to more Super Bowls, even if it means he has to take less in order to do so. Furthermore, I don't believe the Chiefs organization would allow him to go someplace else as long as they're winning games, divisions, conferences and possibly more Super Bowls with him as QB. As for the Covid-19 pandemic, I'm not sure why you even wrote that in your response for this context as it really doesn't apply. The entire world is dealing with it. But since you did, I will state that my family and I have been proactively participating in voluntary efforts here within our community (including fundraising) in order to help as many people as is possible. Not sure what you've done in yours as that's your business. Finally, the comparisons to Jimmy Fallon are simply....out there! He is someone I don't find funny, entertaining or even worth watching, but who IS someone who motivates me to quickly change the channel. This will be my final post on this subject for I have better things to do. Good luck Areeb.
James Bravomg Hey James, hope you like the changes to my original comment. Nothing will take away from the fact that respect and compassion for our fellow football fans trumps trying to win an argument on the internet, or writing a long ass essay in the hopes that we sound smart.
Do you have any clue what you’ve just written? Sure, there’s accountability, but you forgot that this rule applies to you too. You’re fighting fire with fire and everyone knows that that’s a recipe for disaster. Sure, I was condescending, but you brought this to a whole new level. Time to bring in the big guns and finish you off, Kansas City versus Tennessee style! Thanks for the idea of "additional verbiage". Below I’ve pieced apart your argument with my thoughts and now have your evidence for the whole world to see how ridiculous you’ve been this whole time. Look at who here is getting approval within the small pool of folks watching this video. After further thought, my previous comment did appear to be partially attacking you. But I’ve now taken back those words so your point here is essentially pointless. The real question is, why didn’t you try to anger me if it was too easy? Let me guess: you were too afraid to embarrass yourself. How ironic given that you’ve proven to the entire internet that when one person makes your team look back you can’t hold your composure or remain civil. Notice how in my first response I keep my thoughts to within two paragraphs. I'm afraid you’re the only one here with the fragile psyche. You’d make internet trolls blush with how hard you’re trying to attack me. And why would I proofread my posts? I’m not the one trying to sound smart by writing essays. My intention was to explain that my original post was true. Not try to win an argument against an internet stranger. Or brag about my achievements in life. Actually, that’s a fair point about dishing it out, it's like taking an eye for an eye. However, is that rule really necessary to adhere to in this environment? It’s an internet discussion, not a court case. The environment matters and that rule-of-thumb flew right over your head. Well, luckily you’re old enough to not have temper tantrums. You’ve done the boomer equivalent by acting like a pretentious asshat to a member of a younger generation. Glad to hear that you had a good laugh. You’re only further demonstrating how insecure you really are to the entire world. Your other comments in other chains are a facade. I'm sure Adolf Hitler laughed like you at the mercy of his victims. I’m not taking exception to the fact that only Chiefs fan cared. Might be the case in 50 years though. It was wrong on my part. Hell, even I thought the chiefs win was amazing. Scoring 21 points in the fourth quarter is unreal. Congrats on your title, I guess. However, you’ve just proved that my previously false statement about “nobody caring about the chiefs win” was true by claiming that people were glad my Patriots didn’t win. If the Niners won, your friends would’ve notified their Niner fan friends that they were glad the Patriots didn’t win the Super Bowl. How is being AFL fan remotely related to this discussion? Do you even know what century this is? Being an AFL fan is not only unrelated to our discussion, but I’m also not getting the sense that I should breathe a sigh of relief. Not the time to be friendly because you’ve already established yourself as “Mr. Tough Guy”. But I do appreciate you not blindly hating my Patriots. The funny thing is that you can still be an idiot for thinking that typing an internet essay will do you any good in life. And if it did make you happier, I’m sorry, but you need to reconsider whatever the hell you’ve been doing for the past 50 years. Congratulations on your degrees, but they place no basis whatsoever in our discussion. A person with achievements of your caliber should be intelligent enough to understand that everything you’ve written so far was a waste of time. I highly doubt your track record in the field of academia is anywhere near as prestigious as the members of my family. Were you an MIT or Harvard graduate like many of them? They also have PhD’s at those aforementioned institutions. I guess a better word would be brainwashed. Brainwashed into thinking that your education automatically merits respect from others. Donald Trump was a student at an Ivy-League institution yet that doesn’t justify his idiocy in his response to the coronavirus outbreak. Please don’t tell me your vote in 2016 put him in office. I never said nor implied that Chiefs fans were idiots. The only impression I’m getting from you is that Chiefs fans are full of themselves and are too blinded by their own accolades in life to respect others. Thankfully that's false. No other Chiefs fans in this comment section are as misguided as you are. In fact, the Chiefs fans here are so much better than my fellow Pats fans. Our fanbase can be a toxic bunch and I really didn’t intend on bringing that energy here. Trust me, I’ve traveled past Kansas City several times in my life, but I’m not going to expand upon that. And if you weren’t trying to anger me, did it occur to you that at least being respectful was a better option? You definitely seem like the type of person that would throw food at the homeless. To continue, I said that "Mahomes won't be the Chiefs QB forever" as a Patriots fan that thought Brady was a Patriot for life. Don’t you hear 90% of players state that they want to stay with their teams? You can take Mahomes’ word for it now, but you’ll be devastated if he ever leaves the team. Legends like Montana, Manning, Favre, and so many others have switched teams. Mahomes isn’t special in that regard. My point above is true if they find a suitable replacement for Mahomes in a future draft. Players age and father time will catch up to Mahomes, like it or not. Just a heads up, it’s fun to talk about your team winning multiple Super Bowls after one win but how many teams in the 21st century won multiple championships not named the Ravens, Steelers, Giants, or Patriots? Welcome to the salary cap era. Well, COVID-19 is specifically the reason why you’re complaining about my original comment in the first place - and if not that, why you’re trying to let my guard down. So it was important to bring up. I still stand firm with my original point that COVID-19 is so much bigger than our sports, but I will wholeheartedly agree with you if you think it was an inappropriate decision on my behalf to include that topic with my original comment. Voluntary efforts? That’s great. I hope you’re maintaining the crucial six feet gap from others. Care to elaborate on exactly what types of voluntary efforts you are doing, not including fundraising? Not going to lie, I’m having trouble figuring out how anybody that could effectively help out with the pandemic could find the time to write an essay on the internet. Too bad you’ve decided that arguing with me was worth someone’s life. The work of doctors and healthcare workers in ER’s and hospitals right now will make any response you can come up with laughable. Well, thank the Lord! I genuinely thought you were insane thinking that you felt the need to respond in such a condescending manner in the form of a massive essay. Next time you write an essay, at least include paragraphs? It makes it easier for people to assume that you’re “superior” to me, which should not the point of a coherent or effective argument. With my original comment, I still stand firmly behind the idea that I was stating the obvious: when the Patriots won their Super Bowls, the vast majority of lives did not change, but after the Chiefs won Super Bowl 54, a worldwide pandemic struck. Sorry that you have to live with the bitter truth. It’s an unfortunate coincidence. This was all merely an observation I made, so there is no reason to continue rambling like a politician. It’s actually quite hilarious that I struck a nerve within your neurons and caused you to feel the need to type all that out. Hank Stram would be proud of me matriculating my points into your brain. Funny how the Chiefs players that won the '70 Super Bowl demonstrated more maturity that you did. So all that being said, feel free to reply, but I got no time for ol' folks that don't know much. As my driver's ed teacher once said, "You can't fix stupid." I'm afraid you've suffered a devastating defeat, my friend. And with that, this is my last response, so feel free to continue blubbering down below for everyone's entertainment. I guess that’s why your generation will always be stuck with the “boomer” tag. You’ve demonstrated to be the ambassador of that tag.
One week from yesterday, the Chiefs will play in only their third Super Bowl. They are playing the San Fransisco Forty-Niners. I’m praying for a win. Andy Reid deserves it, as well as the rest of the coaches and team. At 62, and not in real good health, this may be my last one. All I can say is GO CHIEFS !!!!!!!!
Hang in there my man, young Patrick will lead us to glory!! Enjoy it. We made it!!! So many we all have lost that we wished were still here with us for this amazing time in KC football history!
I was a junior in high school and sent a letter to Sports illustrated the day after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl. They published it: Dear Sirs: Wham Bam Hank Stram Foul Ball Tex Maule (Maule was the NFL loving football writer for SI)
As a kid growing up in Western New York, I was very aware of how great the Kansas City Chiefs were. Our 1964 & '65 AFL champion Bills got rolled by the Chiefs in the 1966 AFL championship game; and I expected them to give the powerful Green Bay Packers all they could handle. It was and is to this day extremely gratifying to have seen our Jets and Chiefs crush the Colts and Vikings...clearly the best teams representing the older NFL in 1968 & '69. The AFL, now relegated to history, went out in as dominating a fashion as the historically great Packers took the first two championships. I'm surprised that 6 or 8 Chiefs aren't in Canton because those KC teams were LOADED!!!!...maybe even mostly on defense! Parenthetically, my all time favorite Bill, Andre Reed, always reminded me of #89 Otis Taylor..who is long overdue to be in the Hall of Fame!!
Thank you dantaniondb! Good of you to post this. Yes, Otis Taylor was clearly a DOMINANT wide receiver during the 1960's and early 1970's, regardless of his league affiliation. He played in the AFL but he would've dominated in the NFL too. His body of work is superior to many of the players who have made it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I'd estimate at least 2/3rds of them. Unfortunately for Otis, after he retired from football, he was eligible within a 5-year span to be voted into the Hall of Fame, but at that time there still existed WAAAY too many NFL loyalists who occupied voting positions for players to gain the Hall of Fame. Many of these covered the NFL during the 60's when the AFL was still working towards respectability in the pro football world. So any achievement in the AFL was seen as less than what was being done over in the NFL by these NFL sycophants. With time, many of these same people (mostly media types) died out and were replaced by people who were told they had to be loyal to the NFL or they wouldn't get the job, or they were too young to know about the AFL-NFL battles and dissent between the two leagues. So, shamefully, Otis Taylor fell through the cracks and was forgotten. Those of us who are still alive from that wonderful time need to band together and get a BUNCH of former AFL players into the conversations about Hall of Fame induction. Johnny Robinson of the Chiefs is getting in this summer, Otis, and many others should be right behind him. Long Live the AFL!!!
@@robertsprouse9282 ABSOLUTELY! He was a game-changer in some ways and had what I believe was a distinguished career. He'd be another AFL guy who should be in there. Ridiculous!
I actually got IN with One dollar , it was called a HUDDLE-CLUB Ticket( one dollar!!!).. I got to see many games growing up, ran up to standing room only the whole game!they made a" special helmet" just for #63 Willie Lanier cauz he hit so hard
17:23 Oh god, that's the hit that changed everything. Lynch is tackling the Bengals rookie QB Greg Cook. Bill Walsh was the OC under Paul Brown then and he said Cook was the Best QB he ever worked with. Yes. Cook got his shoulder destroyed by both the hit, the surgery, and playing while not healed. He was never the same. He pretty much died a very slow death. He wound up a painter and had some success but wound up living in an antic apartment on the wrong side of Cincinnati living with blue raccoons. Walsh would go on to create the West Coast offense around the much lesser talents of Virgil Carter. And spread his teachings everywhere.
Loved the AFL. The Bills were always my team but I was happy that the AFL had won their second consecutive Super Bowl and did it again convincingly just like the Jets had done the year before. The 69 Chiefs proved that Super Bowl 3 was no fluke and that the best AFL teams were just as good as the best NFL teams and even better in some cases. The 68 Colts and 69 Vikings were both absolutely dominant teams during the regular season and NFL playoffs but they seriously underestimated their AFL opponents and got beat pretty bad. SB's 3 and 4 weren't even as close as the 16-7 and 23-7 scores indicated. The AFL teams thoroughly dominated both games
Yeah, but 1960-1967 the AFL was no match for NFL teams, heck the 1961 Bills lost to a CFL team lol...then you had an original NFL team win Super Bowl V, other than the 2 Dolphin Victories and 3 Raiders Victories (Steelers were an original NFL team) the original NFL teams dominated the 70's and 80's (49ers are an original AAFC team) and most of the 90's until the 1997-1998 Broncos.
@@happybeingmiserable4668 Agreed' ; If the SB had began six years earlier, i can't imagine any AFL team, competing with those green bay teams, from 1960- 1967. Lombardi sort of stirred things up when he was asked, after SB I, how KC compared to the best teams in the NFL
@@davidr5961 True fact that the San Diego Chargers challenged the Bears to a game after the 1963 AFL championship wins by both. The Chargers told them they would play where ever they wanted to and they would even use the nfl balls. The Bears said no thanks.
Maybe the Chiefs should go back to their classic 1969 uniforms. Maybe then the Chiefs can be a true champion in football again. This is actually from a Bears fan of all people.
Hi again Scooby. You make a great point here. I'd be ALL for a throwback jersey SEASON. Forget about 1-game. If the 2019 season saw a jersey reversion to what was worn in 1969, I'd think Chiefs fans might be on board. The 1969 jerseys aren't too-too different from what they're currently wearing (color scheme is the same) but the trim around the sleeves and numbers would be noticeable. And old-school sewn-on letters for the names would be a nice touch. Long Live the AFL!!!
I was 13 and in 8th grade. After watching the Chiefs beat the Raiders for the AFL championship, I knew no other team could beat them. Everyone at school was talking up the Vikings, 13 -point favorites. I let it be known that I'd bet a quarter (yes, a quarter!) on the Chiefs, even-up, to win the game outright, against anyone and everyone in the school. Monday morning, kids stood in line in the cafeteria to pay me off: five dollars and twenty-five cents, a fortune for a kid in those days. I love this team even though I'm a 55-year-long 49er fan. They were so much fun to watch, and such a class act on and off the field. This team is what pro football is all about.
The Chiefs should have been a 4 point favorite!
Awesome story. Lifelong 49er fans as well though I grew up in the 80s. Those Dick Nolan teams of the 70s fascinate me and the names are sadly lost in history.
Hey, you could buy a gallon of gasoline for 25 cents back in those days! I too was in junior high in ‘68. Marvelous memories!
The drought is over. Chiefs are the champs in 2020. I hope Lenny, Jim, Willie, Otis and the rest of the surviving '69 Chiefs had a good time watching it happen.
*2019
2019 Chiefs* 2019-20
@Mr. Felix Yes congratulations to them.
Steelers fan here; congrats to KC for climbing that mountain again at last!
Much respect for the Chiefs. A true class franchise.
I'm a Jets fan and have been since 1968 but these guys--Dawson, Lanier, Bell etc were pure class
I rooted for any AFL team vs the NFL so it was the Jet's and then the Chief's those 2 years. My poor Patriots came along eventually with Steve Grogan and others in the 70's. Go AFL!!!
I thought this was good, but I think they dropped the ball on several good players being mentioned, especially Bobby Bell. When they said that the Chiefs had the best linebacker corp in football, they should have immediately brought Bobby Bell's name up and added a segment into this video, even if brief. He was a freak. They didn't even get close to showing him justice.
@@bujer121 Bobby Bell was a great all around football player.
@@jmad627 One of the most underrated, under celebrated and not talked about to ever play the position! I'd easily put him in the Top 10 overall to play any of the LB spots
@@jmad627 I put him right up there - LT and Butkus were the standard, but Bell is not far behind them! Lambert, Ham, Derrick Thomas - Bell is easily in that vicinity! And I can't forget Ray Lewis
10 members of the 1969 Chiefs are in the NFL Hall of Fame. One of the greatest defenses in the history of the game!! Otis Taylor needs to be in Canton soon!!
*Otis Taylor* NEEDS TO GO TO CANTON!!
As a Viking fan, it hurt watching this video especially at the end. But, what a GREAT football era that was!!! And what a GREAT Chiefs team!!!
Coaches today: *covering mouth with play sheet, whispering play call into mic*
Hank Stram: “HEY WHAT IF WE RAN THE 65 TOSS POWER TRAP”
That's hilarious!!!
All these guys seem more likable than so many players today. Respectful and not bragging. Maybe just a different era.
You just said it. A different era.
This Chiefs team is probably one of the greatest ever. And BTB, Jim Lynch should be in the Hall Of Fame.
I grew up watching NFL - AFL in Miami in 1966, good days
@@johnthesportsarchivist2600 otis taylor and johhny robinson too maybe even jerrel wilson.
That's exactly why I love watching old highlights of the 60's/70's/80's and even the 90's of the NFL. The players back then had alot more charisma to them. That and they played more for the love of the game, not a paycheck.
Not to mention they were tough as nails too. Can't say that about today's players.
Len Dawson was an iconic quarterback who will be greatly missed by football fans! It was great to see Kansas City win the Super Bowl in 1970 against Minnesota after the Chiefs were embarrassed by Green Bay 35-10 in the first Super Bowl.
It is ironic that Len and Jim Lynch passed away one month from each other ( Len - August 24, 2022 and Jim Lynch July 21,2022).
Rest In Peace Len Dawson!! Never forgotten!!
I love how eloquently and business-like these men speak. Hank Stramm set a standard for his team. A standard that is still carried on by coaches today.
Otis Taylor should be in the Hall of Fame.
ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION ABOUT THIS STATEMENT!!! Otis Taylor was a better wide receiver than MOST of the wide receivers who are currently in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I think it's pretty easy to see that Taylor has been kept out of the Hall because of his choice to play in the American Football League as opposed to playing in the NFL. Unfortunately, too many of the people who vote on who makes the Hall of Fame and who doesn't, are leftover NFL sycophants and media types who were loyal to the NFL, Pete Rozelle and his cronies of that era. They used the LAME rationale that Taylor played in the AFL, which they considered a weaker league than the NFL at the time. Truth be told, Taylor was the best wide receiver IN PRO FOOTBALL for the latter part of the 1960's and early 70's, and had there been inter-league play at that time, Taylor would've burned NFL defensive backs too! And while we're on the subject, Johnny Robinson, Chiefs safety during the 1960's and Super Bowl Championship team of 1970 should also be in the Pro Football Hall. But, just like Otis Taylor, he's been kept out for the same reasons. Utterly disgraceful! Long live the AFL!!!
So should about five other Chiefs from this team. Taylor, Johnny Robinson, Jim Tyrer, Fred Arbanas and E.J. Holub.
@@dietpepsivanilla3095 ABSOLUTELY 100% RIGHT!!!
Absolutely. I believe he's being denied because he pissed off the Cowboys and Tex Schramm by signing with KC.
For a variety of reasons. On performance alone, his stats stack up against most anyone's from his era. Then there was the matter of his historical significance in the game. He caught the passes that turned the games against the Jets in NY in both the regular season and post-season games. And that catch of the sideline pass from Dawson from beneath the Chiefs goal posts in the final AFL Championship Game. And of course, the 46 yard touchdown in the Super Bowl was the FINAL touchdown in AFL history. But his historic significance begins with his signing. He was the poster child for the AFL-NFL signing wars when Lloyd Wells coaxed him out of his hotel room when the Dallas Cowboys had stashed him away, Wells brought him, signed, sealed and delivered, to the Chiefs in what many considered one of the great heists in pro football history. (Now think how much sooner Dallas might have won a Super Bowl if they'd had Bob Hayes on one side and Otis Taylor on the other!) How all this gets overlooked by the Pro Football Hall of Fame voters is just evidence of how little they know of the game's history. Otis Taylor absolutely belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And I could name at least two other Chiefs from that team that belong, too. Johnny Robinson and Jim Lynch both belong as well.
It's funny, but having grown up in KC at the time, we think back on that Chiefs team of the '60s and all the attention was given to the offense. Indeed, Hank Stram's offense was innovative in ways that defied conventional thinking at the time. But it was the defense that put most of the players in the Hall of Fame. A few more deserve to go.
I can't believe there was no mention of Buck Buchanan. That guy was a monster at DT. Double teaming him did no good at all.
Yes Indeed he was very scary guy
He was basically the Lawrence Taylor of his day. I know, LT was a Linebacker. But, he was everywhere just like LT.
Buck Buchanan is the main reason that Al Davis drafted Gene Upshaw. The Chiefs and Chargers had huge defensive lines in those days
@@jeremythompson9122 just made this video of the top 10 Chiefs of all time and mentioned this. ua-cam.com/video/jSywa7EJ-bM/v-deo.html
At least Emmitt Thomas (HOF) got a mention.
Andy should have the whole team watch video together before the big game. Very inspirational, indeed.
Thank you so much for the chance to relive one of my best memories of my life. The 69 Season with so many great football players. RIP Lenny.
I'm a Bills fan but I watched Mean Joe Greene say in an interview one time that the Steel Curtain defensive front 7 modeled themselves after the Chiefs defensive front 7 of the 1966-71 era. High praise from the greatest DT who has ever played in my opinion. Congrats to the Chiefs on winning the 2019 AFC Championship. They should've won it in 2018 too. I'd like to see them knock off the 49ers in SB54. The 49ers have enough Lombardi trophies and it's been 50 years for the Chiefs
+Jeremy Thompson I guess being a Bills fan is like being a Vikings fan. Only Vikings did not lose 4 Superbowls in a row. Bills being the only team to have gone 4 times in a row.
Congrats to the Chiefs on ending a 50 yr drought!
Mahomes is tough to hate...such a class dude...unlike Tyreke Hill,& others. Mahomes is an amazing player also. But as a Bronco fan, I loved that 50yr drought. There was nothing any KC fan could say to me..."whatever you try saying..weve been to 8 SBs,& won 3...since your last appearance." Those days are over now,& with Mahomes...ya may catch us on the 8 appearances, by the times he's done. We still have scoreboard, but KC might win 3 straight next yr, I'll be surprised if they don't. Mahomes may supplant Brady as the GOAT someday, though long ways to go on that. Won't be able to keep all these offensive guys for long...but Mahomes probably doesn't need much help. Borderline unfair that he may have the most talented offensive supporting cast ever...right now.
I don't see anybody challenging them, in either conference, but hope Im wrong. This dude came within OT in AFC title game, of getting them to SB in 2018, with a truly awful defense. They aren't awful anymore. Not great, but much improved last year,& better than they need now...with that offense. Reid is a great coach also...though I don't like the free pass he get's from the media, for never having issues with guys character. The media loves him, so they rarely bring it up. Maybe he is altruistic,& thinks he can help them as people...like Tom Osbourne used to be. But no doubt part of it, is their talent. If Tyreke Hill was an average 5th WR..he wouldn't be sticking with him. He isn't giving 10th chances to backup olineman, as far as I know. But ya can't deny Reid is an offensive whiz.
Speaking of 5th WR, that's the most amazing,& frustrating part of that KC offense. Yes, they have insane star talent-Mahomes, Hill, Kelce...the rookie rb from LSU. But their depth of talent is what's amazing. Their 5th,& 6th WR's...would be #3s, on most teams...probably even #2s on a few teams. Leveon Bell is your frikin back up rb...maybe even the 3rd guy at times...that's just insane.
Bad time to be a KC hater. But I guess it had to switch. KC had a lot of good, playoff teams, over those 50 yrs...or at least the 35 or so, that I remember. (I'm 44) But they rarely got to even the AFC title game all those years,& never a SB. You guys had to deal with Elway,& then the 4 yrs of Peyton...pulling a lot of miracles out on ya,& watch them go to a lot of SBs. I guess karma is getting us back now! If only those f#&!ing Bears had drafted Mahomes, instead of Trubisky. I knew drafting Trubisky was a big mistake, at the time. But not cuz of Mahomes, I rarely saw him at Tx Tech,& had no clue how he'd turn out. It was Deshshawn Watson I couldn't believe they passed on for Mitch. If not for Jimmy G melting down, they'd be 51yrs, no rings. But KC was the superior team,& the gap is much larger this season, between them,& everybody else.
@@jasonsmith5226 For me as a Patriots fan, should Mahomes be the next goat, I have no problem with it. Mahomes is a BEAST. The Chiefs just might be the team of this decade if Mahomes and co continue to dominate.
@@jasonsmith5226 What do you have to say about Mahomes now after he wasn't able to help his team score a touchdown and he wasn't able to beat an old guy like Tom Brady whom you say Mahomes was going to surpass? He had to beat Tom Brady to begin with and he couldn't. The Chiefs won't be a dynasty, the Buccaneers exposed them in the last Super Bowl and all the NFL teams will study that film to stop them. You will see that next season the Chiefs won't be the team they used to be.
Agree. Mahomes is likable just like Len Dawson. Classy organization since its inception.
@@finchborat Just look at it this way the Chiefs made the AFC, without the Chiefs there’s no Broncos or Patriots.
I'm a lifelong Pats fan but the 69 Super Chiefs are my favorite team All-time. That team was nearly perfect, huge and fast. More importantly they proved, without doubt, that the AFL was just as good as the NFL and better at times.
Thank you for this Antone. The 1969 Chiefs were also MY favorite team of all time. As a 12-year old kid who attended Chiefs games in the Huddle Club section located in a corner of Municipal Stadium down the 3rd base line where you could only see 2/3rd of the field, (I actually saw myself in this video, patting Jan Stenerud on the back as he walked down to the field) I loved the Chiefs. I never sat there for more than the first 10 minutes of the game anyway, but instead, sneaked over to the Wolfpack section located behind the benches. Many times I had occasion to talk to the Chiefs players while standing next to the fence, as they were only a few feet away. They were cordial, decent and classy. The day the Chiefs won Super Bowl 4 over the Vikings and shut the mouths of the old-guard NFL types, was the happiest day of my young life. The current Chiefs are a talented team and I will always pull for them. But the 1969 Chiefs will always be MY Chiefs. Thanks for posting. Long Live the AFL!!!
Antone, I can happily overlook you being a Pats fan, because of your love for the 69 Chiefs. Thank you brother, as a lifelong Chiefs fan & someone who's actually eaten breakfast with a few of those Hall of Famers from that team, it means a lot to hear fans from other teams, hold our Super Bowl team in such high regard. AFL forever baybuh!
@@jasonhallowell7379 Hi Jason. Just curious, which of the Chiefs Hall of Famers were you able to break bread with? What a treat that would be for this 55-year die hard!. Long Live the AFL!!!
@@Chiefsfansince-qb1kt Ed Budde and EJ Holub. 2 different occasions, eating at Gomer's Chicken, in the late 1990's.
@@jasonhallowell7379 Now THAT'S a buffet I'm sorry I missed. Both guys, Budde and Holub, were characters. Had I been there I'm not sure I would've eaten any chicken, as it's kinda hard to eat when you're laughing so hard and continuously. But I would've paid a cover charge just to sit there and listen to the stories they must've told. Lucky you. Long Live the AFL!!!
I LOVE the story of the 1969 Kansas City Chiefs. And welcome back to the Super Bowl (54) after a 50-year absence. Losing their starting quarterback for half the season, having a bevy of talent including from HBCU's, this was indeed one the greatest Super Bowl teams in NFL history.
Kansas city chiefs will do it again they will win it all super bowl 54
I remember watching that game on TV. I was 9yrs old.. And it was glorious. I have waited 50 (grief-vious) yrs for this game to arrive(superbowl 54). And I have a feeling it will be glorious!
All the right things are aligned - for the future 50 years from now to look back and love this game as it thunders down the road of time. Go Chiefs!!.. for Lenny and Hank and Lamar and all the boys! GO CHIEFS!!!!!!..
@@liammessano8962, my guess is ..uhhhh.. KCeeee.. 31...
SAN FRANCISCO....its coming to me...24..yeah that's it, 31-24..no..no wait, that score will be 31-23..yeah..no..its 31-20.
Who wants to bet me?
Mahomes missed 2 games. Hardly "half the season".
Mahomes gets hurt. 50 years later chiefs win the super bowl
Johnny Robinson finally made the HOF this yr, 2019. Congrats JR
LONG OVERDUE
Very much overdue. But no Otis Taylor is ridiculous. He should have been in LONG ago.
Jim Kersten it pisses me off
That defense had multiple Hall of Farmers at every level - line, linebackers, and secondary.
Hank Stram mic'd up was priceless
Were finally going back Fellas!!!!!! How bout those Chieeeffsssss!!!
We did it. I was a fetus when they won, I can finally appreciate the 1969 team too!
Yesssssssssss!!!
Congrats! From a Steelers fan.
@@chuckHart70 I was 14 and yes the CHEFS had a great team in 69.
Whose here after winning 2020 SB. Go Chiefs
CHIEFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HERE!!! Been pulling for the Chiefs since the mid-60's.
bet cho ass!😍
born 72. so glad thez got this!
Seriously, 50 years? You guys definitely deserved this Super Bowl, but expect plenty more. Every year a team does well but rest of the league takes care of them the next season. Not the chiefs. Been consistently good for the past 5 years and now they’re scary. The Patriots dynasty just died and now it’s your turn to take the throne. Oh, and please destroy an NFC team in the process haha. Let em know that the AFL teams are still boss.
I really like Hank Stram's philosophy in which it does not matter whether you're black or white it does matter how good you are in playing football. This was just one year after the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated at the Lorraine hotel in Memphis. Dr. King himself would have been proud to see the Chiefs during the year following his passing.
Scooby Carr Well said. He also signed lots of HBCU players back when it wasn’t popular. I truly believe sports helped to make race relations better.
Yet, it was my Denver Broncos who tried MARLIN BRISCOE AT QB..before BUFF. used JAMES HARRIS, or PITT tried JOE GILLIAM(GILLUM)..not KC.
@@robertsprouse9282 True that. I saw a game Briscoe QB-d the Broncs vs the Chiefs in 1968, and he was sensational. Loved watching Briscoe QB the Broncos. And I couldn't figure out why they didn't leave him there as the starting QB, but he ended up in Miami as a wide receiver and excelled at that too.
MLK's death changed the whole deal....what a shame
Man, you guys just made me love Hank more. Awesome coach and human being.
Great video.. Otis Taylor HOF... I was a fan of KC since 1966 during AFL days .. Giant fan since 1963.. love this history
The '69 Chiefs are one the most underrated team's of All-time. And Hank Stram was an innovator as a HC.
Lenny is a class act!
The 7th son of a 7th son !
He sure is! Why you think I go by Lenny The Cool?
Always have liked Dawson. He seems like a genuinely good guy.
I absolutely loved Coach Hank Stram.
So did NFL Films
Bud Grant said it best in the post interview comments when asked what happened. "We played a fine football team. Kansas City deserved to win and certainly you couldn't ask for a better team to represent professional football as our champions." He had all the class Hank Stram didn't. I believe Stram was quoted as saying, "That's what happens when the offense of the 70s meets the defense of the 60s. In September of 1970, 8 months later, these two teams played again. Minnesota won 27-10 without Joe Kapp. Bud Grant's comment, "I think we've heard enough about the offense of the 70s."
Hank Stram was the Truth lol. Dude was so cool
Giovanni Garcia "65 TOSS POWER TRAP"DO YOU REMEMBER THAT PLAY
He was perfect for that era !!!
Henry was a nerd
But he was a cool af kind of nerd tho 😂
Gee Garcia my Dad bought the cream colored trench coat that Hank Stram wore. I think I still have it.
Willie Lanier Forever a Chief. !!!
He's in the NFL 100
Go Chiefs!!!
He's my favorite player of all time
he WAS the heart an soul of that team in that time...way to go guys
50 years later and you finally did it again, Congratulations to Kansas City
Well Leonard you and The Chiefs won that SuperBowl Jan 11,1970 for me!! It was My 3rd Birthday. I was Born in 67. So I saw The 1st Super Bowl in my Mothers arms. They were sad that Packers won but I was nice to be able to understand why Dad wasn’t home till late on that 3rd Birthday but He grabbed me and said “Happy Birthday Baby! Lenny and The Chiefs won The Super Bowl for you as your Birthday present!!” Now 50 years later on my 53rd Birthday weekend #15 Got me back as a fan and got us back to The Super Bowel. For my 50th my Husband went to great lengths to get me your Jersey #16. We have been together 16 years but married 15. Being a number person you see the irony of it all. My Husband was a Panther’s fan till all the malarky went down. He knew the coach and Kegly . He has just latched on to The Chief’s with all his Southern Heart. When we win I’m getting him a #15 Moholms Jersey to make him an official Chief’s fan. We were going to be in KC for Thanksgiving and The Lighting of The Plaza. We were also going to renew our vows Nov 7. But his company screwed everyone’s taxes up. .... So no wedding and no coming home after 40 years being gone...🥺
Georga Linkous-Long I was also born on January 11,1967. Saw my Baltimore Colts the following year. Since then I saw my Baltimore Ravens won 2 Super Bowls. I hope Kansas City beats San Francisco so you can get to enjoy your moment of happiness. I also wish that you and your husband can renew your vows soon. I’ll be watching it on Groundhog Day and Mahomes can get that offense going!!! I also went to Tennessee so I wish Eric Berry was still there but things happen. Dustin Colquitt will join his dad and have a super bowl ring.
I've watched this episode over and over. SO well presented. I was 11 years old when all of this occurred. I was a Chiefs fan almost from birth, and I got so fixated on them that I was known to cry whenever they lost. Jan. 11, 1970 was possibly the best day of my life---before the recent Chief's SB wins. But it was more special back then because it was novel, it was only SB IV, and the AFL was STILL considered inferior. It was such a perfect triumph for the Chiefs, Lenny, and KC, all those years ago. Many thanks to NFL Films!
These guys are down to earth and appreciate what their doing and, most importantly, HAD A HELLUVA GOOD TIME!!
SB54,retribution for the 71 season,heartbreaking,KC Chiefs in a word.....Ed Podilak!!!
50 years since Super Bowl 4 and we're back baby!! THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS ARE BACK!!!
@Hector Rodriguez, MARTIN "ULTRA" SHEEN..again..
Or RIGGLE OR RUDD OR STONESTREET= ALL FROM KC.
With Patrick Mahomes at the helm, the future is certainly bright for the Chiefs. Another fun fact, when Joe Montana joined the Chiefs in 1993, Len Dawson actually offered to let him wear his retired number 16, but Joe declined and decided to go with 19 instead. A truly classy gesture from Joe Cool!
And Dawson was let go, in 58, by the Steelers, who had Jack Kemp, Earl Morrall and the recently acquired Bobby Layne, at QB.
Hey Hunt family...if you go throwback to the giant KC arrowhead helmet emblems you'll win the next SB....guaranteed! 🤫 Those were sick!
Loved the Video... I sure forgot a lot...thank you 65 Toss Power Trap... gr8 call Henry
Congratulations to the 2019 Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs
As a long suffering Chiefs fan through the terrible 80's, Martyball with it's ups and cataclysmic downs during the 90's, and the run of mediocrity since then I'm so happy the Super Bowl drought has ended 50 years later. I really hope the Mahomes' era lasts with make up SB's for my heart that's been broken so many times. The only thing missing is hearing Len Dawson calling the games play by play-he just barely missed this year. It's encouraging seeing Mahomes wearing a Len Dawson hoodie in tribute.
Congratulations 2 The 2019 Kansas City Chiefs: Super Bowl 54 Champions! 50 Years Later! Len Dawson, Willie Lanier & Jim Lynch, Otis Taylor, Legendary Head Coach Hank Stram & Their Beloved Owner The Late Great Lamar Hunt & The Rest Of The 1969 Super Bowl Championship Team Would Be Proud! Go, Chiefs! ❤️💛
Did U Know That CBS2 News NY Reporter Valerie Castro Has Family In Kansas 🌃? She Now Has Ties To The Kansas 🌃 Chiefs! She 🩸 Chiefs’ ❤️ Now!
Did U Know Last Night In SB 54 That HC Andy Reid Won His 222nd Career Game As HC On 2/2/2020? Coincidence? Oh, Yeah! Congratulations, Coach! 🏆 🌎 Champion! Finally, After 21 Years! Go, Chiefs! ❤️💛
@@johnmaring7056, happy for Coach Reid, pretty good case for Canton, too.
2022 and 2023 seasons, Super Bowl 57 and 58
I met Otis, Dawson, and Stram couple times and all very nice to talk to. Taylor should be in the HOF!
That’s amazing. Would love in travel in a time capsule and witness our first super bowl back then
To Scooby Carr: I agree with you 100% on both of your posts. To me, the REAL Chiefs will always be the guys who played in the mid to late 1960's through the early 1970's and most, if not all of them were respectable, decent men with families. As a Kansas City native and a Chiefs fan since 1964, I was one of many who got to know the Chiefs players and sometimes their families during that era and also fell in love with the American Football League. Back then they played for the love of the game because the money wasn't great and the circumstances could be very tough. But when one of them would score a touchdown, most of them would flip the ball to the officials, go back to the sideline and act as though it was no big deal. I'll always pull for the Chiefs, regardless of the opponent or situation. Today's Chiefs could well end up being known as a Dynasty in the making. Long live the AFL!
Chiefsfansince1964 Thanks very much and LET'S GO CHIEFS!
Ive followed them since 1968. 1969 was magic
The victory over the raiders was a giant hurdle for the chiefs as oakland had their number in recent years although the earlier oakland wins in 69 were very tight ganes.I had the sense that once the chiefs beat the jets and then the raiders on the road that they could notbe stopped. No disrespect to the vikings but when the chiefs beat the raiders, that was the heavyweight title fight. What was dissapointing for me was that they never came close again.in the 1970 season, they won only half their games, and played some stinkers....then in 71, they lost that two overtime game- but frankly their defense wasnt nearly as goodas in 69.someday, maybe before i die, they can win it all again...
The extent to which agents and TV networks contribute to the culture of unnecessary celebration is underestimated.
As a Vikings NFL AFL KC and Oakland Fan since 1968 I fell the same way. I could see change in the early 70s and now It just all about greed by the NFL the owners and the players.
I hope a lot of the old guys from this super bowl chiefs team make it to Miami this sunday . they should be welcomed with open arms . these guys were the best . rest in peace , buck b.
This is awesome.
Hey, Mahomes & co., matriculate the ball down the field and avenge these great players!
Fred Arbanas, underrated and half blind. Great inspiration!
Absolutely should be in Canton!
He was mugged in a KC park. That is how he lost his eye.
Lenny Dawson's dad would've wanted Lenny to play that day his dad died...RIP
That 69 Defense was one of the greatest in NFL History.
The 1969 Chief defense was as good as any defense ever. In the playoffs they faced the 3 highest scoring teams and gave up only 20 points!
50 years later, Kansas City finally made it to “The Big Dance”. GOOD LUCK CHIEFS!
Two of the three greats in this episode are gone. Pieces of my childhood, faded away.
RIP Mr. Dawson and Mr. Lynch.
wow what a matchup the chiefs and raiders were at that time
Both Len Dawson and Patrick Mahomes suffered knee injuries early in the season, and both recovered to lead their team to the Super Bowl.
Look chiefs kingdom. Our team is incredibble we ware the best i will.never forget.them🏈👉😊👈😎
Eerie similarities to this 2019 season... I feel like I just watched us win the Superbowl, just change the names. We got this! GO CHIEFS!!
We are winning this thing! This Super Bowl is for all the Chiefs Kingdom fans in this video who won't be there too see it
Complete with rotating, moving backfield= on 4th and one this time, not every play..
Lateral on a long pass route, QB knee injury, final touchdown was a run with the lead. Yeah, they did a lot of things the same. The only thing they didn't try was the 65 TOSS POWER TRAP
I can remember ALL of that! The stadium on Brooklyn,when we would sneak in and watch the games,with our scraps and fries from Bryant's.And we would stand on the corner of 39th and Walnut and watch for Otis Taylor to come by in his 70 Olds Tornado(brown with a black top)with OT 89 on the front license plate,he lived at 4057 Walnut,Inglenook Apts.We would talk to him and shake his hand.I'll NEVER 4get that!!!! And I was a guest sports caster with Len Dawson on channel 9 too!!!! CHIEFS 4EVER!!
Otis Taylor in his book "The Need to Win" has said that he didn't like the move from Municipal Stadium to Arrowhead Stadium in 1972. He said that the intimacy of the old stadium was lost on the move to Arrowhead-and he also said he loved the neighbourhood of Municipal Stadium--he also missed the real grass at Municipal Stadium as the artificial turf at Arrowhead resulted in many injuries--unfortunately today Mr Taylor suffers from a severe form of Parkinson's disease which he feels may be due to the concussions he suffered playing receiver for the Chiefs
8 Hall of Fame players on that team, 6 were on defense. I remember this magical season like it was yesterday.
It took awhile but KC finally got players in..the same thing is going to happen with my DENVER BRONCOS 1990's crew.. and GRADISHAR AND WRIGHT from the '70's.
NALEN, AND SCHLERETH, ELAM, AND NEIL SMITH need to be put in from the '90's BRONCS..
Nalen was a beast! Elam is deserving and Neil Smith was dominant first years.
As a ten year old boy growing up in Kansas City I have a hard time believing that was 50 years ago. Forgot a lot of the nuisances of that season but they came rushing back.
Leonard and Henry! Dawson deserved that one. Grew up watching him on the news and HBO of course. And hearing him on KCFX doing play by play with the great Mitch Holthus (best in the business) on game days. A classier bunch of pro football players and staff there's never been...
I had to watch this to tribute Len Dawson. Although I hate the Chiefs as a Pats fan, I did love how they and the Jets gave the AFL respectability in Super Bowl 3&4.
any newbie , " millennial " fan of the chiefs today , must MEMORIZE this story .
I typed in "Chiefs America's Game" to find this, forgetting that they have won two super bowls in the last four years. Instead of seeing it at the top, I had to scroll down to find this episode. It puts into perspective how far this franchise has come.
The 1969 Chiefs were not the best of all time, but this is my favorite episode of the America's Game series. These men were pure class, and the cohesion on this team was special.
Rest in peace Len Dawson. Football fans everywhere mourn the loss of a super bowl MVP and NFL legend. Man I love football.
The Municipal Stadium field was looked after by George Toma (The God of "Sod")-he came up with the idea of painting the helmet logo of the Chiefs home opponent that week on one side of the 50 yd line with the Chiefs logo on the other side. His care of the field was legendary and when the NFL-AFL merger was announced-then NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle attended a game at Municipal Stadium and came away so impressed by Mr. Toma's work that he hired him to look after many of the Super Bowl fields that followed
Man, those old Patriots unis were so much better than the ones they have now..
I was in River Falls for Chiefs training camp, Vermeil was the coach and I think Trent Green was the QB. Len Dawson was standing alone, I asked if he would sign my son's football. Mr. Dawson couldn't have been nicer. Still have the ball, Mr. Dawson has a beautiful signature.
That defense was brutal
@39:27...classic Hank Stram !! He must have been fun to play for ! He called himself " The Mentor " AWESOME !!
It's difficult to imagine that with KC being a perinial contender almost every year over the past 50 years the franchise is going back to to the big dance for only the first time since then. I'd have to guess that the 99% of the parents of today's roster weren't even born.
Come again..You guys did not make the playoffs from 1971 to the mid 80's, and have not been to the playoffs as much as my BRONCOS since 1977.
WE HAVE BEEN TO EIGHT SBOWLS, WINNING 3..the CHIEFS have not been perennial contenders in the last 50 years; are u kidding?
DENVER if memory serves, has only 10 sub-
.500 seasons in the past 47 seasons, 29 over .500 seasons, 37 at least .500, or better, and 22 playoff spots, with 8 AFC TITLES, and 15 AFC WEST CROWNS..
And KC since 1973?
UNITED IN ORANGE..
I remember when Len Dawson was on that HBO show and every year he would predict it's the year of the Chiefs
This is a well done series.
I love it at 29:45 where Willie Lanier comments on Otis Taylor's controversial catch in the AFL championship game against Oakland--"well of course he was (in bounds-smile)" he knew he wasn't but without any challenge flags in those days the officials rulings always stood
Yet, they tapped his helmet just before his catch= pass interference, and there was a forceout rule then. As soon as Taylor caught it and tapped one foot, he was bumped out of bounce making it impossible for foot#2 to come down, unless it was not hit= forceout= catch..
Bring the Vince Lombardi trophy home ...let’s go Chiefs
"Just keep matriculatin' the ball down the field boys!"
When the chiefs happened to win the super bowl, it’s a sad coincidence that Coronavirus followed. Stay safe everyone. The chiefs will win plenty of Super Bowls this decade, nobody can stop Mahomes and Co. Don’t let misguided folks tell you he needs talent around him because he’s the next Manning/Brees/Brady type player. Reid absolutely deserved to win it all and even he knew it was time for a big cheeseburger.
CHIEEEEEEFFFFFSSSSSS!
@James BravomgDo I look like your 9th grade English teacher? I never asked you to submit an essay. Funny how your best attempt at insulting me was calling me a sixth-grader. At least write something that will anger me instead of trying to be Jimmy Fallon. You're excited about a Super Bowl win and that's great. But football is only a sport and the coronavirus is much more important. In case you haven't noticed, life is definitely not normal. Mahomes and Reid are fantastic. But we have yet to see how long they'll be great together. Chiefs cap space is atrocious. Mahomes isn't gonna be your quarterback forever.
@@areebahmed7354 Nice try Areeb. You wrote a fairly lengthy post the 1st time with a number of statements that put you in a bit of a condescending, smart-assed position, one that I felt deserved a well-written and direct reply. Yes, there IS accountability for the things we say, do and write in this life. So as a Chiefs fan who detected a degree of sarcasm from your text and in order to adequately address each point, additional verbiage was necessary. If it's too long for you, maybe you can get a friend or a relative to read it to you. To begin with, if I wanted to write something that was intended to anger you, that would've been far too easy, as that fragile psyche you've demonstrated here is clearly visible for all the readers to see. And I'm not sure if you've ever taken the time to proof-read your posts Areeb, but in your commentary you pretty well threw it out there for Chiefs fans or anyone else with a passing interest. So I guess it reverts back to the old rule of thumb about this kind of repartee: if you're gonna dish it out, you gotta expect to take it too. In your last paragraph you wrote: 'I was humble since sixth grade. In my comment, I clearly stated factual evidence. I didn't smear the Chiefs in any way either, so why are you having a temper tantrum?' I never had a temper tantrum. But I did I have a good laugh, right before I decided to reply. The part of my response that I believe you have now taken exception to was the portion where you stated how you believed that the only people who cared about the Chiefs championship were Chiefs fans, which is an untrue statement and absurd in a way. What's interesting about that statement is that many of the texts, e-mails and phone calls I received from friends and others just after the Chiefs Super Bowl victory included comments about how they were happy it wasn't the Patriots who won the Super Bowl. That statement had no bearing on me because I actually pulled for the Pats in all of their Super Bowls, primarily because they were an original AFL team (yes, I saw them play in Kansas City during the 1960's when they were the Boston Patriots with players like-....-look em' up...Jim Nance, Gino Cappeletti, Babe Parelli, Houston Antwine, Nick Bounticonti & Larry Eisenhower) and I am a long-time AFL fan. Then you finished your post by labeling me an idiot? My friend, I'll match my degrees (Under-graduate, Masters and PHD from several major institutions of learning around North America) against yours any day of the week, along with my real life experience in the professional, benevolent and published worlds that puts me, my body of work and leadership along with my level of intellect at an echelon probably well above yours, and possibly one you can't even begin to imagine. So that disparaging word "idiot" doesn't apply here either. Again, nice try. Though my reply was never intended to anger you, it WAS intended to possibly...edify you...to a degree in the knowledge that Chiefs fans aren't a bunch of uneducated, uncultured, unsophisticated hillbilly hacks (an assumption on my part, but I'm guessing that's the perception that you and possibly several other Pats fans might believe as many of you may not have ever traveled west of I-495, much less the Hudson River). I'm just not that mean-spirited. 'Mahomes won't be the Chiefs QB forever?' Fair to say, as anything is possible. But I don''t believe cap space will be an issue going forward as Mahomes has publicly stated that he wishes to stay in Kansas City and lead the team to more Super Bowls, even if it means he has to take less in order to do so. Furthermore, I don't believe the Chiefs organization would allow him to go someplace else as long as they're winning games, divisions, conferences and possibly more Super Bowls with him as QB. As for the Covid-19 pandemic, I'm not sure why you even wrote that in your response for this context as it really doesn't apply. The entire world is dealing with it. But since you did, I will state that my family and I have been proactively participating in voluntary efforts here within our community (including fundraising) in order to help as many people as is possible. Not sure what you've done in yours as that's your business. Finally, the comparisons to Jimmy Fallon are simply....out there! He is someone I don't find funny, entertaining or even worth watching, but who IS someone who motivates me to quickly change the channel. This will be my final post on this subject for I have better things to do. Good luck Areeb.
James Bravomg Hey James, hope you like the changes to my original comment. Nothing will take away from the fact that respect and compassion for our fellow football fans trumps trying to win an argument on the internet, or writing a long ass essay in the hopes that we sound smart.
Do you have any clue what you’ve just written? Sure, there’s accountability, but you forgot that this rule applies to you too. You’re fighting fire with fire and everyone knows that that’s a recipe for disaster. Sure, I was condescending, but you brought this to a whole new level. Time to bring in the big guns and finish you off, Kansas City versus Tennessee style!
Thanks for the idea of "additional verbiage". Below I’ve pieced apart your argument with my thoughts and now have your evidence for the whole world to see how ridiculous you’ve been this whole time. Look at who here is getting approval within the small pool of folks watching this video.
After further thought, my previous comment did appear to be partially attacking you. But I’ve now taken back those words so your point here is essentially pointless. The real question is, why didn’t you try to anger me if it was too easy? Let me guess: you were too afraid to embarrass yourself. How ironic given that you’ve proven to the entire internet that when one person makes your team look back you can’t hold your composure or remain civil. Notice how in my first response I keep my thoughts to within two paragraphs. I'm afraid you’re the only one here with the fragile psyche. You’d make internet trolls blush with how hard you’re trying to attack me.
And why would I proofread my posts? I’m not the one trying to sound smart by writing essays. My intention was to explain that my original post was true. Not try to win an argument against an internet stranger. Or brag about my achievements in life.
Actually, that’s a fair point about dishing it out, it's like taking an eye for an eye. However, is that rule really necessary to adhere to in this environment? It’s an internet discussion, not a court case. The environment matters and that rule-of-thumb flew right over your head.
Well, luckily you’re old enough to not have temper tantrums. You’ve done the boomer equivalent by acting like a pretentious asshat to a member of a younger generation.
Glad to hear that you had a good laugh. You’re only further demonstrating how insecure you really are to the entire world. Your other comments in other chains are a facade. I'm sure Adolf Hitler laughed like you at the mercy of his victims.
I’m not taking exception to the fact that only Chiefs fan cared. Might be the case in 50 years though. It was wrong on my part. Hell, even I thought the chiefs win was amazing. Scoring 21 points in the fourth quarter is unreal. Congrats on your title, I guess.
However, you’ve just proved that my previously false statement about “nobody caring about the chiefs win” was true by claiming that people were glad my Patriots didn’t win. If the Niners won, your friends would’ve notified their Niner fan friends that they were glad the Patriots didn’t win the Super Bowl.
How is being AFL fan remotely related to this discussion? Do you even know what century this is? Being an AFL fan is not only unrelated to our discussion, but I’m also not getting the sense that I should breathe a sigh of relief. Not the time to be friendly because you’ve already established yourself as “Mr. Tough Guy”. But I do appreciate you not blindly hating my Patriots.
The funny thing is that you can still be an idiot for thinking that typing an internet essay will do you any good in life. And if it did make you happier, I’m sorry, but you need to reconsider whatever the hell you’ve been doing for the past 50 years.
Congratulations on your degrees, but they place no basis whatsoever in our discussion. A person with achievements of your caliber should be intelligent enough to understand that everything you’ve written so far was a waste of time. I highly doubt your track record in the field of academia is anywhere near as prestigious as the members of my family. Were you an MIT or Harvard graduate like many of them? They also have PhD’s at those aforementioned institutions. I guess a better word would be brainwashed. Brainwashed into thinking that your education automatically merits respect from others. Donald Trump was a student at an Ivy-League institution yet that doesn’t justify his idiocy in his response to the coronavirus outbreak. Please don’t tell me your vote in 2016 put him in office.
I never said nor implied that Chiefs fans were idiots. The only impression I’m getting from you is that Chiefs fans are full of themselves and are too blinded by their own accolades in life to respect others. Thankfully that's false. No other Chiefs fans in this comment section are as misguided as you are. In fact, the Chiefs fans here are so much better than my fellow Pats fans. Our fanbase can be a toxic bunch and I really didn’t intend on bringing that energy here. Trust me, I’ve traveled past Kansas City several times in my life, but I’m not going to expand upon that. And if you weren’t trying to anger me, did it occur to you that at least being respectful was a better option? You definitely seem like the type of person that would throw food at the homeless.
To continue, I said that "Mahomes won't be the Chiefs QB forever" as a Patriots fan that thought Brady was a Patriot for life. Don’t you hear 90% of players state that they want to stay with their teams? You can take Mahomes’ word for it now, but you’ll be devastated if he ever leaves the team. Legends like Montana, Manning, Favre, and so many others have switched teams. Mahomes isn’t special in that regard.
My point above is true if they find a suitable replacement for Mahomes in a future draft. Players age and father time will catch up to Mahomes, like it or not. Just a heads up, it’s fun to talk about your team winning multiple Super Bowls after one win but how many teams in the 21st century won multiple championships not named the Ravens, Steelers, Giants, or Patriots? Welcome to the salary cap era.
Well, COVID-19 is specifically the reason why you’re complaining about my original comment in the first place - and if not that, why you’re trying to let my guard down. So it was important to bring up. I still stand firm with my original point that COVID-19 is so much bigger than our sports, but I will wholeheartedly agree with you if you think it was an inappropriate decision on my behalf to include that topic with my original comment.
Voluntary efforts? That’s great. I hope you’re maintaining the crucial six feet gap from others. Care to elaborate on exactly what types of voluntary efforts you are doing, not including fundraising? Not going to lie, I’m having trouble figuring out how anybody that could effectively help out with the pandemic could find the time to write an essay on the internet. Too bad you’ve decided that arguing with me was worth someone’s life. The work of doctors and healthcare workers in ER’s and hospitals right now will make any response you can come up with laughable.
Well, thank the Lord! I genuinely thought you were insane thinking that you felt the need to respond in such a condescending manner in the form of a massive essay. Next time you write an essay, at least include paragraphs? It makes it easier for people to assume that you’re “superior” to me, which should not the point of a coherent or effective argument.
With my original comment, I still stand firmly behind the idea that I was stating the obvious: when the Patriots won their Super Bowls, the vast majority of lives did not change, but after the Chiefs won Super Bowl 54, a worldwide pandemic struck. Sorry that you have to live with the bitter truth. It’s an unfortunate coincidence. This was all merely an observation I made, so there is no reason to continue rambling like a politician. It’s actually quite hilarious that I struck a nerve within your neurons and caused you to feel the need to type all that out. Hank Stram would be proud of me matriculating my points into your brain. Funny how the Chiefs players that won the '70 Super Bowl demonstrated more maturity that you did.
So all that being said, feel free to reply, but I got no time for ol' folks that don't know much. As my driver's ed teacher once said, "You can't fix stupid." I'm afraid you've suffered a devastating defeat, my friend. And with that, this is my last response, so feel free to continue blubbering down below for everyone's entertainment.
I guess that’s why your generation will always be stuck with the “boomer” tag. You’ve demonstrated to be the ambassador of that tag.
35:12 Two legendary trumpet players: Doc Severenson (Johnny Carson's bandleader) and Al Hirt.
Very good video. Thanks for posting!
One week from yesterday, the Chiefs will play in only their third Super Bowl. They are playing the San Fransisco Forty-Niners. I’m praying for a win. Andy Reid deserves it, as well as the rest of the coaches and team. At 62, and not in real good health, this may be my last one. All I can say is
GO CHIEFS !!!!!!!!
Hang in there my man, young Patrick will lead us to glory!! Enjoy it. We made it!!! So many we all have lost that we wished were still here with us for this amazing time in KC football history!
Jack Huston indeed!
Interesting to learn that both our Super Bowl victory seasons had a major quarterback knee injury during the season.
I was a junior in high school and sent a letter to Sports illustrated the day after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl. They published it:
Dear Sirs:
Wham Bam Hank Stram
Foul Ball Tex Maule
(Maule was the NFL loving football writer for SI)
Hamilton MAULE was eating crow after SUPERS 3&4.
I'll always remember Hank Stram as Jack Buck's MNF radio sidekick.
Hank Stram said some funny things lol and he wasn’t trying to be funny. Classic
Here in 2023, watch this every year. Can’t forget where it all started!
RIP Jim Lynch, Hank Stram, Len Dawson, Otis Taylor
Now Len Dawson
Otis Taylor
As a kid growing up in Western New York, I was very aware of how great the Kansas City Chiefs were. Our 1964 & '65 AFL champion Bills got rolled by the Chiefs in the 1966 AFL championship game; and I expected them to give the powerful Green Bay Packers all they could handle.
It was and is to this day extremely gratifying to have seen our Jets and Chiefs crush the Colts and Vikings...clearly the best teams representing the older NFL in 1968 & '69. The AFL, now relegated to history, went out in as dominating a fashion as the historically great Packers took the first two championships.
I'm surprised that 6 or 8 Chiefs aren't in Canton because those KC teams were LOADED!!!!...maybe even mostly on defense! Parenthetically, my all time favorite Bill, Andre Reed, always reminded me of #89 Otis Taylor..who is long overdue to be in the Hall of Fame!!
Thank you dantaniondb! Good of you to post this. Yes, Otis Taylor was clearly a DOMINANT wide receiver during the 1960's and early 1970's, regardless of his league affiliation. He played in the AFL but he would've dominated in the NFL too. His body of work is superior to many of the players who have made it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I'd estimate at least 2/3rds of them. Unfortunately for Otis, after he retired from football, he was eligible within a 5-year span to be voted into the Hall of Fame, but at that time there still existed WAAAY too many NFL loyalists who occupied voting positions for players to gain the Hall of Fame. Many of these covered the NFL during the 60's when the AFL was still working towards respectability in the pro football world. So any achievement in the AFL was seen as less than what was being done over in the NFL by these NFL sycophants. With time, many of these same people (mostly media types) died out and were replaced by people who were told they had to be loyal to the NFL or they wouldn't get the job, or they were too young to know about the AFL-NFL battles and dissent between the two leagues. So, shamefully, Otis Taylor fell through the cracks and was forgotten. Those of us who are still alive from that wonderful time need to band together and get a BUNCH of former AFL players into the conversations about Hall of Fame induction. Johnny Robinson of the Chiefs is getting in this summer, Otis, and many others should be right behind him. Long Live the AFL!!!
@@Chiefsfansince-qb1kt, is GEORGE WEBSTER LBACKER OF HOUSTON IN THE HALL?
@@robertsprouse9282 ABSOLUTELY! He was a game-changer in some ways and had what I believe was a distinguished career. He'd be another AFL guy who should be in there. Ridiculous!
Whos here after the Chiefs just won Super Bowl 54?
After Super Bowl 58 earlier in 2024
I remember watching this game as a kid...
I actually got IN with One dollar , it was called a HUDDLE-CLUB Ticket( one dollar!!!).. I got to see many games growing up, ran up to standing room only the whole game!they made a" special helmet" just for #63 Willie Lanier cauz he hit so hard
How cool and humble are these old school players? Richard Sherman etc take note.
RIP Lenny! You were a great one!
At 14:30 that was my science teacher in H.S. Mr. Jim Kearney. Great teacher and had a great sense of humor.
I don't know why, I'm a Cowboys fan, but I have always been fascinated by this team. Even when I was a kid.
They started in Dallas..
17:23 Oh god, that's the hit that changed everything. Lynch is tackling the Bengals rookie QB Greg Cook. Bill Walsh was the OC under Paul Brown then and he said Cook was the Best QB he ever worked with. Yes. Cook got his shoulder destroyed by both the hit, the surgery, and playing while not healed. He was never the same. He pretty much died a very slow death. He wound up a painter and had some success but wound up living in an antic apartment on the wrong side of Cincinnati living with blue raccoons. Walsh would go on to create the West Coast offense around the much lesser talents of Virgil Carter. And spread his teachings everywhere.
This has to be the best America’s Game episode because of Hank Stram.
GO DAWSON!!! GO MAHOMES!!! GO CHIEFS!!!
Loved the AFL. The Bills were always my team but I was happy that the AFL had won their second consecutive Super Bowl and did it again convincingly just like the Jets had done the year before. The 69 Chiefs proved that Super Bowl 3 was no fluke and that the best AFL teams were just as good as the best NFL teams and even better in some cases. The 68 Colts and 69 Vikings were both absolutely dominant teams during the regular season and NFL playoffs but they seriously underestimated their AFL opponents and got beat pretty bad. SB's 3 and 4 weren't even as close as the 16-7 and 23-7 scores indicated. The AFL teams thoroughly dominated both games
Yeah, but 1960-1967 the AFL was no match for NFL teams, heck the 1961 Bills lost to a CFL team lol...then you had an original NFL team win Super Bowl V, other than the 2 Dolphin Victories and 3 Raiders Victories (Steelers were an original NFL team) the original NFL teams dominated the 70's and 80's (49ers are an original AAFC team) and most of the 90's until the 1997-1998 Broncos.
@@happybeingmiserable4668 Agreed' ; If the SB had began six years earlier, i can't imagine any AFL team, competing with those green bay teams, from 1960- 1967. Lombardi sort of stirred things up when he was asked, after SB I, how KC compared to the best teams in the NFL
@@davidr5961 True fact that the San Diego Chargers challenged the Bears to a game after the 1963 AFL championship wins by both. The Chargers told them they would play where ever they wanted to and they would even use the nfl balls. The Bears said no thanks.
Maybe the Chiefs should go back to their classic 1969 uniforms. Maybe then the Chiefs can be a true champion in football again. This is actually from a Bears fan of all people.
Scooby Carr KC has had several really good teams. But horrible luck in playoffs. They have had ex
There problem has been defense in recent years.
Hi again Scooby. You make a great point here. I'd be ALL for a throwback jersey SEASON. Forget about 1-game. If the 2019 season saw a jersey reversion to what was worn in 1969, I'd think Chiefs fans might be on board. The 1969 jerseys aren't too-too different from what they're currently wearing (color scheme is the same) but the trim around the sleeves and numbers would be noticeable. And old-school sewn-on letters for the names would be a nice touch. Long Live the AFL!!!
RIP Jim Lynch
Prayers from Patriots nation
Now Len Dawson
@@CalebWebster1218 And of everyone interviewed here, only Lanier is left.