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Lamar Hunt

kcballboykcballboy Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭
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Doesn't sound too good for one of the NFL's founding fathers. Hopefully everthing works out.


Lamar Hunt
Travis

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  • JrMacdaddyJrMacdaddy Posts: 506 ✭✭


    << <i>NFL's founding fathers >>



    I think you mean AFL.
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭
    I wish him the best, although if he does move on to the Great Gridiron in the Sky I won't miss his perennial attempts to wrest the Thanksgiving game away from my mighty Lions.
  • kcballboykcballboy Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>NFL's founding fathers >>



    I think you mean AFL. >>



    Which later merged with the NFL to become the league we know today.
    Travis
  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,087 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those AFL owners sure had their work cut out for them trying to get respect for their league. Lamar and the Chiefs offered Gale Sayers more money than the Bears did when he came out of college but Sayers turned him down because he wanted to play and prove himself against the best and he felt that was the NFL.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,029 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RIP
  • valion87valion87 Posts: 72 ✭
    Prayers and thoughts to his family.
  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭
    Lamar Hunt came up with the name "Super Bowl". He got the inspiration from a popular childrens toy of the time called a "super ball".
    It was a small ball made of rubber but designed to bounce in unpredictable ways, it was a lot of fun and I owned one myself.

    It was undecided what to call the new championship game and he said something like "well, if there is a "super ball" why can't we
    have a "super bowl"? or something similar to that. The name was accepted and the rest as they say is history.
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