There are 6 more days until the 2018 NFL Draft. Each day we’ll provide a bit of fun facts about the Kansas City Chiefs… or perhaps a trivia question. Since we have “6” days until this draft… the theme today is 6.
Today we feature the 1966 Kansas City Chiefs. Many forget that the 1966 Kansas City Chiefs were in the first “Super Bowl” simply because they lost that game. In actuality, there was no “Super Bowl” at that time… just a joint league championship. The Green Bay Packers had won the NFL Championship and the Chiefs had won the AFL Championship. The two leagues decided they would pit their champions against each other, presumably to see which league was best. By winning the first two Super Bowls, the Green Bay Packers had many believing that the “old-league NFL” was the better league. However, when the upstart Jets and then returning K.C. Chiefs manhandled both the Baltimore Colts and the Minnesota Vikings in consecutive years, the game was afoot… and the joint process was in full tilt.
So, the Chiefs win over the Vikings had a great amount of significance which is lost on many fans today. Here’s a team photo of that 1966 team with Head Coach Hank Stram holding the 1966 football (just to let everyone know what year it really was). I wish teams maintained that tradition, I like the idea that some got out some white shoe polish and doctored up a football).
Trivia Question 6: Until rookie RB Kareem Hunt came along and rushed 272 times in 2017… this K.C. RB had 60 more rushing attempts in his rookie year than the next closest rookie RB on the Chiefs all-time list.
Who was it?
Scroll to the bottom of this page and turn your computer upside down for the answer. 🙂
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