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2. Why KC are Chiefs

Sun Feb 7, 2021, 01:33 PM

Feb 2021

Saw this story this week.

A 1955 profile in Time Magazine described 300-pound mayor and Boy Scout leader H. Roe Bartle as the “most imposing feature on the Kansas City landscape….outsized only by his own voice.”

That voice boomed, promoted and amused, earning Bartle hefty fees as a public speaker. But never did he use it more effectively than when pitching his city to a visiting football executive named Lamar Hunt.

Bartle acquired his nickname “the Chief” through his many years as a Boy Scout executive. When Hunt moved his Dallas Texans team to Kansas City in 1963, “Chiefs” popped up time and again in a name-the-team contest.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article54955480.html

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That's interesting PJMcK Feb 2021 #3

Yeah, there is that. liberal N proud Feb 2021 #6

Yeah. And it's Arrowhead Stadium... Blue_playwright Feb 2021 #7

Pretty white-washed excuse from what I can read. Cobalt Violet Feb 2021 #8

Another DUer Wawannabe Feb 2021 #4

#chiefskingdom!!! Blue_playwright Feb 2021 #5

Chiefs, yes. yonder Feb 2021 #9

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+1 and a big effin OOPS. Did I say Brady? yonder Feb 2021 #16

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Did not know that. Much peace to him and his family. yonder Feb 2021 #11

I agree. He always struck me as one of the more likeable coaches. alwaysinasnit Feb 2021 #12

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