Kansas City Chiefs
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Kansas City Chiefs | |
Established 1960 Play in Kansas City, Missouri |
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League/Conference affiliations | |
American Football League (1960-1969)
National Football League (1970–present)
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Team Details | |
Team colors | Red, White and Gold |
Mascot | K. C. Wolf (1985-present)
Warpaint (1963-1988) |
Personnel | |
Owner | The Hunt Family (Clark Hunt, chairman)[1] |
General Manager | Carl Peterson |
Head Coach | Herman Edwards |
Team history | |
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Championships | |
League Championships (3)†
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Conference Championships (0) | |
Division Championships (7)
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† - Does not include the AFL or NFL Championships won during the same seasons as the AFL-NFL Super Bowl Championships prior to the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger | |
Home fields | |
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The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team located in Kansas City, Missouri. The team is a part of the Western Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
Originally called the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League. The team moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs in 1963 after then-Kansas City mayor H. Roe Bartle promised the team they would have more ticket sales. The Chiefs then joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL Merger.
The Chiefs hold the distinction of being the second AFL team (after the New York Jets) to beat an NFL club in an AFL-NFL World Championship Game when they beat the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV.