@HonestlyJayden Thank you I have always said I had the utmost respect for Alex however he really showed his true colors when he came back after that horrible injury my kids told me "Mom it takes the heart of a true champion to do what he did"So @Iconhulk Gong lol 🤪
Grew up in KC in the 70's and 80's this was great to watch. Steve Fuller was the first starting quarterback that I really have a memory of being our starting guy. I was born in '71 and I was aware of Dawson, but watched him play so young and past their prime years I don't remember him as much. All my life when we'd have great defenses, or the best running game, or the best defensive end or the best running back or whatever or we'd go 11-5 or 13-3 and people would get excited I would always say we aren't going to really do anything until we get another championship caliber quarterback. The kind of guys who can win you an important game in the last 2 minutes. The kind of thing that we Elway made a career of doing to the Chiefs when I was growing up. People would say "no but....we have x,y,z" and I'd be proven right season after season. Hell people got so excited when Montana came to town, but I knew that was going no where at the end of his career like that. It seemed more like a publicity stunt than a legitimate move for the team. I guess waiting over 40 years for another championship caliber quarterback was worth it as we finally were paid back in bunches with Mahomes who has an unbelievable skillet physically and mentally. I moved away from KC after school and lived away for over 25 years, and through blind luck returned in 2018 just in time for the current team to take shape. My dad had been a Chiefs fan since year 1, even having season tickets in the late 60's, including the Superbowl I and IV years. He had to give those tickets up by 70 season due to having kids, mortgages, life, etc. It struck me as we watched KC win Superbowl 54 together that he had watched them win as a 25 year old young man, and had suffered for 50 years and watched them win again as 75 year old man with grandkids who were young adults. I wasn't going to go to the parade, but it was my wife ..(who wasn't born/from KC area at all..born/raised in Hawaii..which is where I lived all those years away) that said "We should go...this might be a once in a lifetime thing and it would be neat to look at the pictures and say we were there and the kids too". So I took the day off work and the KC metro school districts gave the kids the day off..and we went and had a great day. I grew up with a terrible Chiefs team many seasons, so it didn't seam odd to me...it must have been really rough for my dad having a powerhouse team as a young man...and then enduring the next 50 years. Great memories and good times.
I too suffered for 50years since 1975 I really became a chiefs fan I was 14 and to see the chiefs finally become king of the hill for a couple of seasons I'm still bitter because of how I've watched the league take away certain things in the nfl because of the chiefs for instance the kickoff return now every time they had had a good return watch for a flag automatically it comes out because the chiefs had tyreek hill back there returning kicks game chaser now the chiefs lost him the over time rule they just changed it because buffalo didn't touch the ball I overtime but what about the chiefs when they didn't get a chance to touch the ball in overtime against the pats in the chamber game before this and of course they made the chiefs lay down twice last season to the Bengals just to let them in the SB yeah the game has changed a lot its time 6hat I back off I'm too old to get stressed out over some I can't control but boy do I miss the good ol days when football was real
Great story you told there!! I started watching football in 72… became a husker fan and Otis Taylor made me a Chiefs fan at 9 years old in El Dorado! 50 years of fair to bad qb play….. zero dominant wide outs!!! Then Tyreek!!! Oh my heart was joy filled But Alex wasn’t a big enough cannon. Then I hear we got the kid from Texas tech!!!!!! I became the most obnoxious Facebook poster in history for 4 months!!! Thank you LORD for making a Patrick and a Tyreek ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️thank you for your post! Facebook has since banned me for life Too many posts about the FBI I imagine 🤣🤣🤣🤣😎 ❤❤❤
Alex Smith was on fire in his last year. Balled like a savage. I had heard Mahomes was good in college, but damn. Smith was warming up KC for the best stretch of football in Chiefs history. Lamar would have loved to see this, I think he knew how close his team was, Lenny's told him already though. Clark's done a swell job, just get that G-E-H-A off Arrowhead field.
Andy’s time with KC has brought as many conference championships & Super Bowls as the previous 45 years (I’m timing that from the Super Bowl era, since the Chiefs had a good amount of success in the old AFL).
That’s true. He turned it around for the Chiefs because he came in 2013. Then Alex Smith got the Chiefs back in the playoffs but I give the Chiefs credit for years of drafting though by John Dorsey. Then Brett Veach.
@@derekmathews1557 yay for Veach! Carl Peterson was such an ego-maniac he ruined it for the chiefs with many players because he thought he was so darn important. Best thing the chiefs ever did was to get rid of the giant donkey whole.
@@AtSafeDistance , well he was good at first but you are right eventually he developed too big an ego and stuff to do his job. Now we in a whole different place now.
That 11-3 record that you credited to Elvis Grbac BELONGS TO RICH GANNON who played most of the season while Elvis was sidelined with an injury. IT WAS BECAUSE OF GANNON that the Chiefs clinched a #1 seed in the playoffs.
Someone remembers! Then we lost Rich Gannon to the Raiders and he went on to be a 4x Pro Bowler and MVP until the Gruden Bowl where he threw 5 interceptions. I was like 8 years old and I still remember being upset when we got the news that we were sticking with Grbac.
Len Dawson is now a reporter for a Kansas City news station. They usually do a high school game of the week. My high school was one of the games this man came to. Got to shake his hand and we was wearing his super bowl ring. This was back in 2012. But I actually got to hold his super bowl ring. Something I will never forget
@@tobig5956, yep sure did. Len Dawson is easily one of the greatest Chiefs players ever. He is a sports reporter for the Kansas City news station and always does Chiefs games.
When he had Alex Smith things turned around for the Chiefs I was at that divisional playoff game in arrowhead back in the 2016 season against the steelers.
Great vid. Great presentation. Fitting in some really obscure clips. Reminding me of my childhood. Well done all around. You put props on the right guys.
For the life of me, I just don’t understand why we didn’t draft a QB in the first round for so many years- Huard, Croyle, Orton, Thigpen-very dark days at that position
All those seasons we had a part of a great team. We could never get past the hump. Lots of great players. Now we have a great team top of the AFC and looking great for a bit. Lets go CHIEF
Been watching the Chiefs since 1964. I forgot most of these names, and decades of heartbreak and embarrassment. We're so lucky to have Andy and Patrick. That's what it took to break the curse.
Before we had Alex Smith and then Mahomes, we had Len Dawson, Joe “The Comeback Kid aka Joe Cool” Montana, Brodie Croyle, Damon Huard, Matt Cassel, etc.
The summary sounds legit but it hurt a lot more than saying the quarterback's and the team's record. We had great defense and weak offense. Great offense and sorry special teams. Great offense and terrible defense. Great regular season records and blown out in the post season. I remember a time when if we beat the Raiders and Broncos then it was considered a winning season because eff both of those teams for life. I used to marvel at the new ways the Chiefs could come up with a loss when victory was all but assured. I was so jaded and shell-shocked as a lifetime Chiefs fan that it took some serious effort to trust in Mahomes. I'll never take his genius and talent for granted. Those were dark times, dark and disappointing but now, we're entering a Golden Era!
let’s just say we were never a threat before Patrick. not even w Mr. Checkdown Alex Smith. that’s why we’re so cocky now. Patrick made us into THAT team
Well is what it is but 2 Superbowl appearances in the Mahomes Era alone 😏 Since 2018 the only other team to do that is the LA Rams 🐏 pretty cool for me at least 🏈🏈
@@Iconhulk Could you even fathom what Alex Smith did to the culture that he brought into San Francisco, Kansas City, and to Washington now! He may not be the best quarterback but he's a leader and the mentor that Colin Kaepernick, Patrick Mahomes and even Taylor Heinecke needed to take that next level. I hope your dumbass learns that being a influential football player doesn't have to be about stats, okay?
No he didn’t. Mahomes is responsible for his success and because of his hard work. And listening to Andy Reid. Reid and Mahomes have become the top head coaching combo in the league. Alex Smith threw no TDs in 2014.
Lotta old former 49ers quarterbacks over the years. Beyond that the Chiefs have subsisted on other teams traded backups or releases for most of my life. Amazing that none of their QB draft picks ever amounted to anything until Mahomes.
9:18 this was the beginning of the end for me not wanting Marty Schottenheimer anymore. Rich Gannon was clearly the better quarterback, and Rich Gannon lead our team to like a 10 wins in a row streak all the way to the playoffs, and then Marty says, “my starting quarterback does not lose his job due to injury“. So you took a hot streak quarterback that was killing the league, all the way to the playoffs, and then benched him for cold, Elvis Grbac? I was done with Marty at that point.
Your timeline is missing a few years. You stated Dawson "hurt his knee early in the next season" following the SB I loss to the Pack (4:00 mark). It was actually three seasons later they beat the Jets and went on to win the 1969 Super Bowl. The season where Mike Livingston replace Lee and they won it all was in the 1969 season, NOT the 1967 season. Mistakes like that detract from an otherwist interesting piece. If you don't believe me, look it up in any reputable NFL reference book.
Yeah, you're right. Not sure why I said that. I try to be meticulous when making videos, so when I make a simple mistake like that, it gets to me. Hope you enjoyed the rest of the video.
Well it depends. From 60-71 the Chiefs were one of the best teams in pro football. Between 72-88, the shine came off and we fell by the wayside. We had good, even great, teams in the 90s but always had bad luck in the playoffs. We fell off again from 98-01 but bounced back from 02-06. The suckage came back in 07 and didn’t stop until we hired Andy in 2013. There is a bit more to it than that, but I’m sure you get the idea.
in the early 2000s it was all brady and his troop of patriots Bills Dynasty Run design made me jealous of all that no chiefs all patriots and everybody else that got to the mountain NOT US!!!!!!! why🤦🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷 we were jokers not gambling on bringing good coaches and drafting good players too busy sucking and coming up short while everybody else hoisted lombardis basking in glory🤦 just a doormat for us
Copycat mohommies Boy Catfishing he’s family very disfunction not close his father leaving separate and don’t use Patrick || he’s shame of he’s own father since became super bowl whatever 😛Arrogant walk like a happy lady 💃🏻💃🏻🤪
Really? I love Dawson but you are fooling yourself if you think Mahomes isn’t the best Chiefs quarterback already. Mahomes doesn’t have to be Len Dawson. He can be himself.
@@derekmathews1557Dawson won three AFL championships, one Super Bowl, and two Super Bowl appearances. He led the league in completion percentage eight times, including a six year streak. He led the league in touchdown passes and passer rating multiple times. He did all of this in a time where the league’s rules were not nearly as forgiving for quarterbacks and the passing games, AND he was calling most of his own plays. I respect your opinion but I disagree. Mahomes isn’t there yet.
@@NapBoney , that’s your opinion man. First of all, Mahomes has thrown for 5000 yards twice, 50 TD once, 38, 37, and 41 TD the last three He’s played in 3 Super Bowls: He’s 2-1 in those Super Bowls, 5 straight AFC Championships and he’s 3-2 in those games. Mahomes is a fifth time all pro. He’s led the Chiefs to five division titles. 2SB, 2 MVP, 2 SB MVP. Len Dawson is great but Mahomes is rapidly killing the record books at such a rapid rate faster than anybody the NFL has ever seen. He’s 14-10 when his team is down 10 points or more. His winning percentage is about almost 60% the highest winning percentage in NFL history.
@@derekmathews1557 my only response to that is the rules of yesterday restricted the passing game and did not favor quarterbacks like the rules do today. You can’t compare players’ statistics from different eras, you can only compare them to players from their own era.
RIP Len Dawson. Alex Smith is a class individual and I am a fan for life. Thank you Football Gods for Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid. 60 Years of being a Chiefs fan..... It was worth the wait.
6:00 I’m glad we selected who we selected, throughout our existence, because it led to where we are now, but WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND would select Todd Blackledge over the other hall of famer QB’s in that draft class?!
