Just keep matriculating the ball down the field, Len!
Condolences to family and friends of Len Dawson.
RIP, Len. He was my newscaster when I was a kid.
One of the most icon football pictures - Dawson smoking a cigarette and drinking fresca during a game. RIP from a Raider fan.
Fifty years until they snatch another Super Bowl, which Dawson wanted for the young guy.
Sorry to hear this. He matriculated the ball down the field well in the Chiefs first Super Bowl win. Also enjoyed him and Nick Buonoconti back on the old HBO NFL show (which is now on SHO and unwatchable). RIP Len Dawson, Super Chief.
I sat up very early in the morning to listen to the game on AFVN radio soon after my arrival in South Vietnan. It was exciting.
Prayers to Len’s family. I guess GOD needed another QB in heaven. RIP, Len...
‘RIP Len!’
to put it very simply, my favorite, along with Paul Hornung...they met in Super Bowl I, when I was a senior in high school, though Hornung didn’t play due to a pinched nerve...
He had a fairly average arm, but he knew what to do with the ball.
I attended or watched a lot of Len Dawson football games. My dad took me to two games the Chiefs played in Kansas City the first year they arrived in KC. I then was addicted. The first Super Bowl and then the first win were incredible times for Kansas City.
Often times the good players are not good broadcasters but Lenny was great at both. Fifty-Nine years since I first saw him play — wow.
I want to see a Super Bowl today where one team gets only water, while the other gets Gatorade, played outdoors in the sweltering humidity of New Orleans.
Then tell me the team with only water had a chance.
The Vikings defeated the browns in sub freezing temperature a week earlier, and then had to head to New Orleans, No, the Super Dome was not yet built.
Is it any wonder the Chiefs ran circles around the vaunted Purple Eaters?
The fix was in. The Chiefs had to win.
Just as the fix was in for thew Saints to go all the way when they won it all, with the referees ignoring the illegal hits and the fact they had QB hit contracts out for the defense to play dirty.
OK, OK, I am still a bit upset 52 some years later.
I guess that when you get to Super Bowl LVI, some of the players in the first ones will already be LXXXVII.
Now I feel old, I remember watching him play.
Lenny the Cool.
Enjoyed him after his playing days as chiefs radio broadcast with Bill Grigsby another Kansas City legend. Mitch Holtus and Kevin Harlen. He had such great chemistry in the broadcast booth.
He was also great on KMBC as a sportscaster and director of sports.
Rip Lenny.
RIP.