Great Players in Kansas City Chiefs Football: Begins at the Beginning of AFL Football and Continues Through the Andy Reid Era


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This book is written for those of us who love Kansas City Chiefs Football. and who want to know the stories about all those great KC and Texans players and their great championships and Super Bowl victories.From the very beginning, the book moves you one season at a time, one player ate a time, but rapidly through the Texans / Chiefs ages. We meet the great immortal Dallas Texans players from their first best QB Len Dawson all the way to the Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes, the current team's field general. Through the years we also stop to look at some great running backs like Priest Holmes and Abner Haynes, and Marcus Allen as well as great linemen and linebackers such as Derrick Thomas, Tamba Hali and E. J. Holub.Besides these great players, you've heard of many other great KC players over the years who helped power Kansas City with 481 wins. This book often stops in time and talks about a particular great KC player such as Tony Gonzales, Dante Hall, Johnny Robinson, Buck Buchanan, and of course this year's Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes. Some of these greats played on the Dallas Texans and others played on the KC Chiefs and some played on both. That is why their record is so great. Some played when the team was in the AFL and others played in the NFL and of course some played in both leaguesThose of us who enjoy the teams coming out every week in the fall know that it was because hundreds of Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Texans players in the 60 years of football that created the Chiefs winning tradition. While the coaches masterminded the victories, the Dallas Texans and the Kansas City players provided the scoring and the excitement. From day one, the Texans/Chiefs had a winning program-even in the early days when the AFL was a startup and coach Hank Stram was just a kid. Look at the recent record and you will find the best AFL team that now is the best team in the NFL. Kansas City fans need this book on their bookshelves to be able to read the many great players' stories about how the team pulled this off.This book is your finest source for a great read on your favorite players on your favorite professional football team . It gives you the opportunity to study the history of its great players. It is for your reading pleasure but it also is a great reference for when you want to see how a particular Dallas Texan or KC great player performed during his career. If you are a Kansas City Chiefs fan. you will not want to put this book down until you know every great player's name and a lot more about their stories.




The 50 Greatest Players in Kansas City Chiefs History


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In The 50 Greatest Players in Kansas City Chiefs History, sports historian Robert W. Cohen ranks the top 50 players ever to perform for one of the NFL's most historic franchises. This work includes quotes from the subjects themselves and former teammates, photos, recaps of memorable performances and greatest individual seasons, as well as a statistical summary of each player's career with the Chiefs. The Chiefs' best are profiled here in what is bound to be a much discussed book among the team's broad fan base. An added bonus are the "honorable mentions," the next 25 players who have contributed to the Chiefs' astounding run as one of America's great sports teams.




Tales from the Kansas City Chiefs Sideline


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Beginning with their founding as the Dallas Texans of the American Football League in 1960, the Kansas City Chiefs have been one of professional football’s most storied franchises. In Tales from the Kansas City Chiefs Sideline, veteran sportswriter Bob Gretz brings the team’s rich history to life. Gretz begins with the Chiefs’ visionary, 27-year-old owner Lamar Hunt, who founded not only a team but an entire league. After the Texans won the AFL championship in 1962, Hunt moved the team out of his hometown to Kansas City. Two Super Bowl appearances as the representative of the AFL culminated in a Chiefs’ championship in 1970, despite being a double-digit underdog to the Minnesota Vikings. It would be the final game featuring an AFL team, as the Chiefs and nine other teams merged with the NFL. Gretz covers the battles leading up to the merger along with the high and low points in team history—the lean years (1972–88); the “Carl and Marty” era, when the team made the play-offs in six consecutive seasons; the “Joe and Marcus” show of 1993; the dismal 2008 season; and the team’s 2013 renewal under Andy Reid and John Dorsey. Tales from the Kansas City Chiefs Sideline is a must-have for any Chiefs fan! Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.




Kingdom


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After 50 years of waiting, Kansas City Chiefs fans were hungry for a return to Super Bowl glory. In 2020, their patience was rewarded in dramatic, exuberant fashion with a second-half comeback for the ages against the San Francisco 49ers. ESPN's Adam Teicher expertly retraces the team's unforgettable championship season as well as the moves and moments that made it all possible—the hiring of head coach Andy Reid in 2013, drafting future-MVP Patrick Mahomes, the heart-wrenching AFC Championship loss to the Patriots in 2019 that lingered in the mind of every player, and more. Teicher captures the mood of the team week by week, every step of the way, profiling numerous players, coaches, and key figures.




Kansas City Chiefs


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This title examines the history of the Kansas City Chiefs, telling the story of the franchise and its top players, greatest games, and most thrilling moments. This book includes informative sidebars, high-energy photos, a timeline, a team file, and a glossary. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.




Kansas City Chiefs Legends


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The Kansas City Chiefs have enjoyed great success the last 50-plus years, having played in Super Bowl I, and later winning their first title in Super Bowl IV. Now the Chiefs appear to be on the verge of winning the Super Bowl once again In Kansas City Chiefs Legends, fans can relive the best of a golden era of football with stories from Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, Len Dawson, Christian Okoye, Jamaal Charles, Priest Holmes, Nick Lowery, Deron Cherry and other Chiefs greats. Watch as Mahomes takes the city and NFL by storm throwing 50 touchdown passes and winning the NFL MVP award in his first year as a starting quarterback. Dance with Kelce as he becomes the best tight end in the game. Hear the roar of the crowd after a Derrick Thomas sack. And go for a ride with Okoye as he runs over and away from defenders. From Lamar Hunt founding the franchise, to the days of Hank Stram and his innovative new offense, to the Marty Schottenheimer and Carl Peterson years, to the team's run to the 2019 AFC championship game, it's all here in Kansas City Chiefs Legends, the ultimate tribute book for fans of Chiefs Kingdom.




Arrowhead Home of the Chiefs


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Arrowhead: Home of the Chiefs is a monument to imaginative and aesthetic sports arena architecture, still after 25 seasons. While other arenas of its era are being replaced, Arrowhead continues to draw compliments as the best there is for football. Relive 25 years of Kansas City Chiefs football history in Arrowhead: Home of the Chiefs, the official history of the Kansas City Chiefs and Arrowhead Stadium.




The Game Changers: Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid


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In 2020 the Kansas City Chiefs reached the top of the football mountain and won Super Bowl LIV. In 2021, they almost did it again. Over the past three NFL seasons, they have been the most consistent team in the league, regularly laying waste to their opponents and winning big. But how did they get there? And where do they go from here? And most importantly, who are the two men that have turned an entire franchise around. In The Game Changers: Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid, you will get the whole story on how a quarterback and coach pairing for the ages was able to change the fortunes of one of the most beleaguered franchises in all of sports. Loaded with statistics, game recaps, and behind-the-scenes looks, The Game Changers is THE book for anyone who wants to know about the hottest team in America. You will discover how Patrick Mahomes went from a high-school baseball pitcher who dabbled in football to the best quarterback in the world. You will be electrified by the journey of Andy Reid: a football genius who overcame repeated failure and a damaged reputation to rise to the highest echelons of coaching. You will also learn all about the Chiefs' biggest opponents and the various legends that populate the team, like Travis Kelce, Tyreek Hill, and the Legion of Zoom. The perfect book for any football fan who wants to flex their knowledge next game day or even the novice who is just getting into the game and wants a new favorite team. Open it up today and get in the game!




Kansas City Chiefs


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Get your football fanatic readers into the action. Inside the NFL uses chronological narratives to tell the beginnings of the Kansas City Chiefs, relate the greatest and lowest moments of the team, introduce the best players and coaches, and share other fun facts that help round out Chiefs' history. Mini-biographies, sidebars, fun facts, fantastic quotes, and full-color, action-packed photographs will bring the NFL to your library.




Warpaths


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From the team's meager beginning as the Dallas Texans in the fledgling American Football League in the sixties, through the ups and downs of the seventies and eighties, to the rebirth of their winning ways in the nineties, Warpaths: The Illustrated History of the Kansas City Chiefs follows one of the NFL's most popular teams through victories, setbacks, and struggles for respect.