Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt can't recall the 100th or the 200th victories in franchise history. But he'll have a lasting memory of No. 300.
Lamar Hunt never flaunted it. Despite the considerable difference in bank account balances, the Kansas City Chiefs' owner never acted like he was better than you. Mainly because he didn't think he was.
For someone whose family name smacked of wealth, Lamar Hunt simply never showed it. Literally. Lamar was a genuinely nice person, but he never carried cash with him.
The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce has honored 53 people over five decades as “Kansas Citian of the Year.”
For the last few weeks, at straight-up five minutes after 3 o'clock, Lamar Hunt has left the plush Thanksgiving Tower in downtown Dallas, or a mountain of paperwork at home, and gone for daily radiation treatments.
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A cold December wind fluttered the Chiefs flag outside of Christabell Jones’ car, and she sat in an empty parking lot at 11 a.m., waiting for the doors to open. The invitation to say goodbye to Lamar Hunt was open to anybody, billionaire owners in Armani suits, 83-year-old season-ticket holders.
Len Dawson, in a sharp suit worthy of a TV broadcasting veteran, posed the question as a sort of real-life “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce has honored 53 people over five decades as “Kansas Citian of the Year.”
Lamar Hunt, the founder of the Kansas City Chiefs, the man who named the Super Bowl and a guy who once tried to buy Alcatraz, called the cell phone a couple of years ago when my wife and I were in the doctor’s office with our oldest daughter.
DALLAS | At precisely 12:30 p.m. Saturday, the church bells tolled at Highland Park United Methodist Church as the limousines pulled in front of Moody Coliseum on the Southern Methodist University campus.
Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt can't recall the 100th or the 200th victories in franchise history. But he'll have a lasting memory of No. 300.
When the Dallas Texans moved some 40 years ago, they nearly became the New Orleans Saints. Ain't it great they ended up in KC? If not for Lamar Hunt's decision, we may have never been major league.
Carl Peterson can add one more title to the longest title in professional football - president/general manager/CEO and virtual co-owner. Lamar Hunt described himself as a "fan," and I believe that's mostly the way he conducts himself as owner. Day to day, it's Peterson's club.
Lamar Hunt is part-owner of the Bulls, not to mention the Chiefs and two pro soccer teams. He is in six different halls of fame. He named the Super Bowl, for crying out loud. He has never met Michael Jordan. "Sometimes," Lamar Hunt says, "beauty is best appreciated from afar."
Lamar Hunt got into all this for the games. He loves the games. When he was a child, growing up in that weird and wonderful world of J.R. Ewing Texas oil, he would hang around in the yard, take a tennis ball and a piece of chalk, and invent his own little games.
The story that best describes Lamar Hunt might be the Michael Jordan story. This is from a few years back.
