One of the "good guys" of the NFL owners, the Chiefs Lamar Hunt has died at the age of 74.
He was a giant and a innovative mind in the NFL for decades. He will be sorely missed.
One of the "good guys" of the NFL owners, the Chiefs Lamar Hunt has died at the age of 74.
He was a giant and a innovative mind in the NFL for decades. He will be sorely missed.
IRL 2009: "Cars you can't see, driven by drivers you have never heard of, on a network you don't get"
"I'd hire your grandmother, if she brought a budget"- Bankrupt Indy Car team owner Tyler Tadevic, to Curt Cavin in December, on the tough standards he looks for when "hiring" driver talent.
If you haven't seen the caves that he converted to commercial warehouse space, you should. Its called the Subtropolis.
Center Grove Trojans
2008 5A Football State Champs
2011 Track State Champs
Coined the term 'Super Bowl'.
RIP
To a New Yorker like yourself, a hero is some type of weird sandwich. Not some nut who takes on three Tigers!
Instrumental in the start of the NASL, and current MLS (soccer leagues).
Amazing to think that he has starting an NFL franchise when he was 25 or 26 years old in 1960.
"Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and your going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down." -- Edward Blume
Lamar and his brother were also the backers for the World Tennis Tour of the early 1970s... nationally televised matches between Laver and Rosewald... Laver and Newcombe... Newcombe and Borg... Connors and etc. over a 4-5 year period has been given credit by some for having more to do with the Tennis mainstream breakout on TV of the 1970s than the major Open tournaments.Originally Posted by mattndallas
Really Tennis was huge in the 70s... I was there and remember.
I tell you... the older I get the more I feel like an anthropologist.
Well, technically, an AFL franchise that became an NFL franchise. Which makes it even more amazing, all considered...
I've noticed in multiple KC Star articles they're quoting Herm Edwards about how Mr. Hunt would call every Sunday night after games, and his first question would always be, "Am I bothering you?"
Great man, and he will be missed.
"Hey, I respect Humpy Wheeler, he’s a great promoter, but this is 400,000 people and more tradition and more of a spectacle than the Coca Cola 600 will ever have."
- John Barnes
Lamar Hunt was the definition of a sportsman. Local sports radio devoted their entire broadcasts to him today in Kansas City.
Others have mentioned his influence on the game of football. Here are 2 more. He was the driving force behind the NFL adopting the 2 point conversion. He also was responsible for adding Thanksgiving day games other than Detroit and Dallas.
He will be missed.
"The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior." - Stephen Hawking, The Universe In A Nutshell
If not for Lamar Hunt, the NFL wouldn't be what it is today.
RIP to one of the greatest sports visionares of our time. I often wondered how he would have done in CART or the IRL had he taken an interest in auto racing.
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