The Team That History Forgot

The 1960s Kansas City Chiefs

Rick Gosselin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
9781496243102 (ISBN)

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While the Kansas City Chiefs are the NFL’s newest dynasty, winning three Super Bowls since 2020, most fans don’t recall the team’s earliest successful years before decades of futility. What about the underdog losers of that very first Super Bowl? When the Kansas City Chiefs played the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I in 1967, they had only been in existence for seven seasons and were tasked with the monumental burden of representing the still-fledgling American Football League against the NFL’s team of the decade.

The Chiefs won their first AFL Championship in 1962, as the Dallas Texans, when owner Lamar Hunt decided the Dallas market couldn’t support two pro football teams-it could barely support one. After just three seasons, the Texans relocated to Kansas City, where they became the Chiefs. Under future Hall-of-Famers Len Dawson, Buck Buchanan, and Johnny Robinson, they were the winningest AFL team and helped integrate pro football more than any other team in the 1960s.

In The Team That History Forgot, Rick Gosselin explores the team’s struggles and triumphs in its early years, the competition created by the AFL in player signing wars, the recruitment of athletes from historically Black colleges and universities, the loss of the franchise identity with the move from Texas to Kansas City, the first Super Bowl and the humiliating loss against the Packers, and the moves the Chiefs made to recover from that loss and win Super Bowl IV, the last game before the two rival leagues finally merged in 1970. The early Chiefs set a bar for excellence that the team continues to pursue today.

Rick Gosselin is a Pro Football Hall of Fame journalist who has covered the Detroit Lions, New York Giants, Kansas City Chiefs, and Dallas Cowboys. He became a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee in 1988 and has served on the board’s senior committee for more than twenty years. He is the author of Goodfellows: The Champions of St. Ambrose. Andy Reid is the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs.

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: The AFL
Chapter 2: The Dallas Texans
Chapter 3: Dallas
Chapter 4: Len Dawson
Chapter 5: Johnny Robinson
Chapter 6: Kansas City
Chapter 7: HBCU
Chapter 8: Bobby Bell
Chapter 9: The AFL West
Chapter 10: The Merger
Chapter 11: Mike Garrett
Chapter 12: The Buffalo Bills
Chapter 13: Hank Stram
Chapter 14: Western Dominance
Chapter 15: The Rockpile
Chapter 16: A Dallas Showdown?
Chapter 17: The Lombardi Packers
Chapter 18: A Fear of the Unknown
Chapter 19: The College All-Star Game
Chapter 20: Otis Taylor
Chapter 21: The Hammer
Chapter 22: The Interview
Chapter 23: Hope
Chapter 24: Adjustments
Chapter 25: The Interception
Chapter 26: The Sting of Defeat
Chapter 27: Jan Stenerud
Chapter 28: Willie Lanier
Chapter 29: The Chicago Bears
Chapter 30: The Long Road Back
Chapter 31: The Minnesota Vikings
Chapter 32: The Dallas Cowboys
Epilogue
Acknowledgements

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Vorwort	Andy Reid
Zusatzinfo	44 photographs, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781496243102 / 9781496243102
Zustand	Neuware