Was Derek Thomas the best sackman in Kansas City Chiefs history?
AFL ORIGINS 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000 to present – Arrowhead Stadium 1958 Lamar Hunt’s efforts to acquire an expansion NFL franchise for his hometown of Dallas were rebuked by the league. However, his desire to secure a professional football franchise was further heightened after watching the historic ‘58 NFL Championship Game between Baltimore and the N.Y. Giants. 1959 After another attempt at landing an NFL expansion franchise for Dallas was spurned, NFL officials suggested that Hunt contact the Wolfner family, owners of the Chicago Cardinals franchise. Violet Bidwell Wolfner, mother of current Cardinals owner William Bidwell, and her husband Walter eventually agreed to sell Hunt 20 percent of the Cardinals franchise. Hunt declined the opportunity. He then conceived the concept of forming a second league. “Why wouldn’t a second league work,” Hunt recalled. “There was an American and National League in baseball, why not football?” Hunt contacted several other individuals wh
