My family moved to Kansas City in 1969. I was just a young lad.
Ironically, today I am wearing a KC Chiefs t-shirt with Arrowhead and 1969 print.
No matter how you slice it, that team was bad ass!
Posted on 06/23/2022 1:11:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Some day I would like to write book about the way the NFL stole the Super Bowl from Bud Grant and the Vikings in 1969. It was there best team ever, and later years the team was over the hill and beat fair and square by the Dolphins, Stealers, and the Raiders, but the Chiefs did NOT beat the Vikings, Gatorade and the NFL/AFL merger committee did.
Even at that, in the other 3 Super Bowls, they were the best the NFC could muster.
I love your write up. I’d like to throw in for consideration the great Dave Winfield: an allstar level player at basketball, baseball.
Did he die “suddenly”?”
Is there a better way to go at 93 years of age?
Great idea
What do you think happened? Was there a bad call?
Hunt was aslo the one who spearheaded the merger with the AFL and the NFL. He was the President of the AFL and chairman of the AFL merger committee. You believe he did not let the NFL committee members in on how the game is set up for a huge KC win, and thus the merger will happen? They must have all laughed all the way to the bank.
Now after. Gatorade was created by the university President, he got his friend Lamar hunt to let his player use a Gatorade instead of water, which had been the only thing players had always drank.
Come Super Bowl time, the Chiefs players were so fired up and energetic they never slowed down. The Vikings player with. their vaunted Defense were on rubber legs by half time and out of gas in the humidity and heat. Kansas ran all over them like they were amateurs.
The tests from the university that created Gatorade, knew that the electrolytes would make athletes more durable, than this drinking water. He got Hunt to use it. Later they even ran commercials on how the chiefs drank it and won, thus promoting the benefits
This is drug enhancement to the umpteenth degree, and even if it was not illegal it was so unethical it was pathetic.
How would you like to see any sports game played by professionals where one side gets water, and the other side pretty much gets energy drinks that promote stamina and strength?
Would you ever see one team allowed to have such drinks, while the other side is only allowed water?
Well, even if legal at the time, there should at least be a forever asterisk next to the Chiefs win and at most they should have their trophy taken away
Yet, like I stayed, the NFL, and AFL needed the merger too take place, it benefited all that they merged, and so they needed to have the AFL win. The years. earlier Joe Namath and the Jets upset the Colts, now they had the most powerful team, with the easiest Defense in years they could humble to make the AFL legitimate, and thus go ahead with the merger the next year, which is what happened.
One more thing, Lamar Hunt was still burning over the Viking ownership group who dropped their deal with the AFL to join them 1961. At the last minute the Viking owners instead accepted the an offer from the NFL to join them as a new franchise. Hunt was furious, because he was counting on a Midwest team for the AFL, to help legitimize the new league.
Well he got his revenge thanks to the Florida Gators new breakthrough formula that has since made the university billions through the years, and helped turn the NFL into the mega money make it has been through the years, all at the expense of the Minnesota Vikings.
Yea, I hold grudges a long time. I was a young Viking fan back then, and have been ever since. Well up until the kneeling BLM crap started. I was a subscriber and a die hard purple bleeding Viking fan who even purchased the NFL ticked every year since it started in 1996. Sadly, I gave up on football when the crap began and haven't watched it since,
Hmmm. I wouldn’t drink Gatorade.
The culprits are the ones who decided to screw with the results of what should have been a fair Championship. Lamar Hunt owner of the AFL KC Chiefs, and Tex Schramm, NFL owner of the Dallas Cowboys are the main culprits. A reason I have both this clubs
What they did was worse than what Shoeless Joe Jackson did, because they were the owners. To this day the media sports critics continue belittle and hate Bench for his gambling, yet no one ever vilifies Hunt or Schramm for the scheme they concocted. I was even promoting the idea that Kansas City not be allowed to drink Gatorade when they won the Super Bowl a couple years ago. Unfortunate a committee I put together of, me, myself, and I, failed to get any attention.
Uhh Gatorade was concocted at the University of Florida, not Florida State.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Retzlaff
Slightly before my time, but was an executive for the Philadelphia Eagles later on.
Ok I got the university wrong but all else is fact
Well FSU tried to come up with their own version, Seminade.
It only sold well in San Francisco.
Too funny
Nobody can stop the 65 Toss Power Trap!
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