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The Kansas City Chiefs were founded in 1959 by Lamar Hunt as a charter member of the American Football League. The team began play in 1960 as the Dallas Texans and moved to Kansas City in 1963, adopting the Chiefs name on May 26 of that year.
The Kansas City Chiefs have won four Super Bowl championships: Super Bowl IV in 1969, Super Bowl LIV in 2019, Super Bowl LVII in 2022, and Super Bowl LVIII in 2023. The 2023 title made them the seventh franchise to win four Super Bowls.
Patrick Mahomes is the Chiefs' starting quarterback who made his first NFL start on the 31st of December 2017. He has won two NFL MVP Awards (2018 and 2022), four Super Bowl MVP Awards, and holds the record for career quarterback rating among quarterbacks with a minimum of 1,500 attempts at 103.9. He signed a ten-year, $503-million contract extension in 2020, then the largest contract in North American sports history.
The Chiefs were named after Harold Roe Bartle, the Kansas City mayor who persuaded Lamar Hunt to relocate the team from Dallas in 1963. Bartle held the nickname "Chief" from his role as Scout Executive and founder of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say, a scouting society. A fan contest selected the name in his honor, not as a reference to Native Americans.
On the 29th of September 2014, Kansas City Chiefs fans set the Guinness World Record for loudest crowd in an outdoor stadium at 142.2 decibels, recorded during a Monday Night Football game against the New England Patriots. The record came after fans had previously set and then regained the record following a brief period when the Seattle Seahawks held it.
Lamar Hunt founded the American Football League in 1959 after the NFL refused to grant him an expansion franchise. His Dallas Texans, which became the Chiefs, won three AFL championships in 1962, 1966, and 1969, more than any other team in the league. Hunt also proposed the name "Super Bowl" for the merged league's championship game, inspired by a toy called a Super Ball his children were playing with.