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Chiefs owner, pro-sports visionary Hunt dies at 74
Topic Started: Dec 14 2006, 02:04 AM (102 Views)
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Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, son of a famous and wealthy Texas family who became a pro sports visionary and author of the term "Super Bowl,'' died Wednesday night at a Dallas hospital.

He was 74.

Bob Moore, the Chiefs public relations director, said Hunt died at 11 p.m. EST from complications of cancer.

Hunt battled prostate cancer since 1998 and completed a round of radiation treatments in November. He was hospitalized at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas around Thanksgiving with a partially collapsed lung.

The son of Texas oilman H.L. Hunt tried unsuccessfully to buy an NFL team in the late 1950s, and when continually rebuffed, he persuaded several other wealthy sportsmen to form the American Football League to compete with the NFL.

His Dallas Texans moved to Kansas City in 1963 and became the Chiefs. Several years later, the NFL was forced to merge with Hunt's successful AFL, and the modern league was born.

Long an eloquent spokesman for the league and for small-market teams such as Kansas City, Hunt in 1972 became the first AFL figure inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The AFC championship trophy is named after him and, coincidentally, it was Hunt who gave the Super Bowl its name.

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