Am no Chiefs fan, but am a fan of NFL history (pro football). And this 1969 Chiefs defense doesnt get talked about enough. They were VERY VERY good. Highly underrated.
Loved watching Otis Taylor! When my friend and I were about 10 years old, her dad invited Jan Stenerud to dinner at their CC. She and I just sat there were giggling in the bathroom. Here we were in the middle of Kansas with this gorgeous Swede! ❤️🥰
Loved watching Otis Taylor! When my friend and I were about 10 years old, her dad invited Jan Stenerud to dinner at their CC. She and I just sat there were giggling in the bathroom. Here we were in the middle of Kansas with this gorgeous Swede! ❤️🥰
Loved watching Otis Taylor! When my friend and I were about 10 years old, her dad invited Jan Stenerud to dinner at their CC. She and I just sat there were giggling in the bathroom. Here we were in the middle of Kansas with this gorgeous Swede! ❤️🥰
Loved watching Otis Taylor! When my friend and I were about 10 years old, her dad invited Jan Stenerud to dinner at their CC. She and I just sat there were giggling in the bathroom. Here we were in the middle of Kansas with this gorgeous Swede! ❤️🥰
Loved watching Otis Taylor! When my friend and I were about 10 years old, her dad invited Jan Stenerud to dinner at their CC. She and I just sat there were giggling in the bathroom. Here we were in the middle of Kansas with this gorgeous Swede! ❤️🥰
Thanks man. Otis Taylor was the reason I became a Chiefs fan when I was 9 back in 1969. The Broncos, especially during the Elway years, always kicked the Chiefs.
In Otis Taylor's book: "The Need to Win" he talked about how much he loved playing at the old Municipal Stadium in KC. The field was natural grass and in those days fans that sold the most season tickets would get to wear red jackets with the KC Chief emblem on them and stand in the endzone during the pre-game introductions to welcome the players. Then there was a painted horse ("War Paint") that ran up and down the sidelines whenever the Chiefs scored a TD. Many of the players didn't welcome the move to Arrowhead in 1972 as the intimacy of Municipal Stadium was lost and the field was artificial turf which was harder on joints/knees.
I was there and was 20 years old at the time. Worked in an office on Grand Avenue on probably the 5th floor. We put a big sign in the window and some of the confetti raining down would be some that we threw.
Amazing how they keep digging these old clips up. Otis Taylor made me a Chiefs fan. How he didn't make the HOF ticks a ton of people off. Emmit Thomas, their cornerback made it, but he sure seemed to get burned a lot.
Although the 1968 New York Jets first showed the world that afl teams could match up to the much older NFL, the 1969 Kansas City Chiefs reinforced it which led to the merger in 1970.
The Chiefs' victory in Super Bowl IV was almost as important as the Jets' victory a year earlier because it validated the Jets' dominance and the argument that the AFL was the equal the NFL and fully ready for the merger
I have access to all of them from 1963-69 at least. Also for the 1960 and 62 Dallas Texans. If you just search RU-vid you can most of them. 64 and 65 apparently aren't on RU-vid. I'll see if I can correct that by years end. I know I have most of their early 70s yearbooks somewhere too but I would have to look and see which years. I know I put up a 71 video at one point.
OT Jim Tyrer murdered his wife and then shot himself immediately afterwards with the same gun. Who would’ve thought what was in store for many of these players after their football careers were over?
NFL FILMS loved to dub fake-ish soundbites. You had 1966 &'67 DON MEREDITH'S "DADGUMITs" added in, and 'actor' STEVE SABOL's voiced "AHHH..OPEN YOUR EYES REF..." all tossed into the SUPER BOWL IV HIGHLITES..hysterical. NFLFILMS looked at their job not just as quasi-journalists, but asssss...MOVIE NARRATIVE MAKERS even if they had to gild the lily.. As a matter of fact, Steve Sabol has his voice dubbed in.. in a few more SUPER BOWLS. Meanwhile, JOE KAPP was seemingly constantly bumping into his runningbacks and having to keep the ball. Was it his rbacks or KAPP that forgot the play, lol? And who would believe that KC CHIEFS QBACK LENNY DAWSON would die before the hard livin' KAPP? "INJUN JOE" now 84 who is of hispanic/los Indios and germanic descent, is still alive. His head coach with the VIKINGS is, too. Kapp's head coach with the Vikes is the oldest living former NBA CHAMP, and former NFL(PRE-REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE MERGER CHAMP) AND CFL CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING HEAD COACH..AND OLDEST LIVING NFL PRO BOWL PLAYER..AND NFL PRO FTBALL HALL OF FAMER..97 YEARS YOUNG= HARRY PETER "BUD" GRANT JR.. I believe I would go by "BUD" too.. Lol.. JOE KAPP himself 84, is the first and only NEW MEXICO born NFL starting qback to ever play in the SUPER BOWL, although he grew up in NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. Anyway, great job of putting this together..and unlike NFL NETWORK'S SUPER BOWL MARATHON on the off weekend before the SBOWL, you put on the SUPE IV mention of MINNY'S 12 GAME WINNING STREAK, as narrator FACENDA said= "The longest winning streak in 35 years." Unfortunately for Vikes fans, the team ended 2-2 in their last four games. Yep..
