Lamar Hunt
Kanas City Chiefs Founder
Induction: 1969
Lamar Hunt, the founding father of the American Football League and the Kansas City Chiefs, is a man of vision. He dreamed of owning a professional football franchise, and when he couldn't find one in the National Football League, he and a group of "dremaers" banded together to form the AFL. The year was
His finest moment came 10 years later when the AFL founder was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame. In typical, umble Hunt fashion, he said that historic day, "My selection is symbolic of all the general managers, coaches and players who worked for the growth of the American Football League. The bespectacled Chiefs owner was 26 years old when he founded the AFL and fittingly, he was named the league's first representative into the Canton, Ohio football shrine.
Hunt's "young man's folly" came of age in 1970 when the AFL and NFL merged, with Hunt becoming the first president of the newly established American Football Conference. The native Texan's success goes far beyond the football field. he brought Kansas City the popular amusement parks of Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun. Hunt and his family are also investors in a first-division Major League Soccer franchise, the Kansas City Wizards. A graduate of Southern Methodist University, where he played collegiate football, Hunt and his wife, Norma, call Dallas home. Although they liv in Texas, the Hunts attend every home and away Chiefs game.
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