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Lamar Hunt was an American businessman born on the 2nd of August 1932, in El Dorado, Arkansas. He was the principal founder of the American Football League, Major League Soccer, and the North American Soccer League, and co-founded World Championship Tennis. He also founded and owned the Kansas City Chiefs.
Yes. In a letter dated the 25th of July 1966, to NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, Hunt used the term "Super Bowl" and noted it could probably be improved upon. The name was adopted by the media immediately and became official starting with the third annual game in 1969.
Hunt founded the AFL in August 1959 after the NFL rejected his application for an expansion franchise and refused to let him purchase the Chicago Cardinals. He approached other businessmen who had also been turned down by the NFL, and together the eight founders formed a rival league.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, Lamar Hunt and his brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt acquired roughly one-third of the world's silver supply. The price rose from $11 an ounce in September 1979 to $50 an ounce in January 1980, but collapsed on the 27th of March 1980, a day known as Silver Thursday. In September 1988, the Hunt brothers filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11.
Lamar Hunt was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972, the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1982, and the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1993. In 1999 the National Soccer Hall of Fame awarded him its Medal of Honor, which had been given to only three recipients in the award's history.
The U.S. Open Cup is the oldest ongoing national soccer tournament in the United States, founded in 1914. It was renamed in honor of Lamar Hunt to recognize his pioneering role in promoting professional soccer in the country.