The Hunt family has owned the Chiefs since their initial founding as the AFL's Dallas Texans in 1960. Lamar Hunt Sr. founded the team that would become the Chiefs and the American Football League ...

Kansas City Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt comes from a family that has played a big hand in shaping American football. Her ...

Another brother, Lamar Hunt, cofounded the American Football League. Lamar Hunt founded the American Football League (AFL) in 1959 to rival the National Football League (NFL) after being refused ...

Lamar Hunt served as a positive influence on the game of football for 47 years dating back to his conception of the American Football League in '59. He was the first AFL figure to be enshrined ...

But you can’t call a Kansas City team the Texans. In May, Lamar Hunt announced he had settled on a new name: the reigning AFL champions would be called the Chiefs. In the years since ...

The Super Bowl name, surprisingly, originated from a child's bouncy toy and a casual remark by Kansas City Chiefs' owner Lamar Hunt during a 1966 league meeting. Although initially called the AFL ...

Lamar Hunt, founded the Chiefs as the Dallas Texans in 1960. He pressed the NFL to admit a Dallas expansion franchise but was denied, so he founded the AFL and launched the franchise in that league.

The first was slated for January 1967. At first, it was known just as the AFL-NFL Championship Game. Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt is regarded as the first who began using the term Super Bowl.

And the AFL was founded by Lamar Hunt, who was the owner of the Chiefs until he died in 2006. So the “A” is the AFL symbol that’s also a Lamar Hunt tribute. There you have it!

The trophy given to the winners of the AFC championship game has been named the Lamar Hunt Trophy since 1984. It's named after Hunt (Sr.), the founder of the Chiefs and the AFL. There is another ...