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1960s Kansas City Chiefs Postcards

June 14, 2013 By 9 Comments
bert coan postcard

I purchased a postcard the other day.  No, it didn’t come from one of those ubiquitous carousel display racks, but rather from eBay.  It is a beautiful color postcard of the Kansas City Chiefs running back, Bert Coan running downfield.  In the backfield Len Dawson watches Coan’s progress, as does downed Chargers lineman, George Gross, [...]

Filed Under: AFL, American Football League, Bert Coan, Kansas City Chiefs, Len Dawson

NFL vs. AFL, or How I Learned to Recognize Fact from Fiction

May 31, 2012 By 5 Comments

by Guest Blogger, and author of Remember the AFL, Dave Steidel MYTH: “AFL players were a bunch of ‘NFL Rejects’”.  In the NFL they were known as “the Phoenix” players.  Rising from the ashes of one team only to be recreated and hit the highest of highs with another; players who had been put out [...]

Filed Under: AFL, Babe Parilli, George Blanda, Jack Kemp, Len Dawson, Tobin Rote

>1962 AFL Most Valuable Players – Len Dawson & Cookie Gilchrist

April 10, 2012 By 1 Comment

> The AFL’s third season of play, 1962, was an interesting year for several reasons.  It was the last year of the Dallas Texans and New York Titans, as those clubs would return in 1963, reincarnated as the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets.  While the Houston Oilers returned to their third consecutive championship [...]

Filed Under: AFL, American Football League, Buffalo Bills, Cookie Gilchrist, Dallas Texans, Kansas City Chiefs, Len Dawson