Owner Lamar Hunt and his son, team chairman Clark Hunt, watched the Chiefs play a preseason game here in 2006. Kansas City Star archives As the Kansas City Chiefs enter the playoffs this year ...

Rick Stewart//Getty Images Lamar Hunt in 1996. In 1959, Lamar Hunt (b. 1932, d. 2006), the son of an oil tycoon H. L. Hunt, founded a new football league (the American Football League) and a new ...

The Hunt family's ownership of the Chiefs dates back to the team's founding (as the Dallas Texans) by Lamar Hunt Sr. in 1959. That makes the Hunts one of the longest-tenured ownership groups in ...