The game lasted 77 minutes and 54 seconds, which still stands as the longest championship game in professional football history. The game was broadcast nationally on ABC and the Texans defeated the Oilers 20–17 in double overtime. In their third season, the Texans strolled to an 11–3 record and a berth in the team's first American Football League Championship Game, against the Houston Oilers. In the franchise's first two seasons, the team managed only an 8–6 and 6–8 record, respectively.
While the team averaged a league-best 24,500 at the Cotton Bowl, the Texans gained less attention due to the AFL's relatively lower profile compared to the NFL's. The Texans were to have exclusive access to the stadium until the NFL put an expansion team, the Dallas Cowboys, there. The Texans shared the Cotton Bowl with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys for three seasons.
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Quarterback Len Dawson led the Chiefs to victory in Super Bowl IV and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987. After Stram was hired, Don Klosterman was hired as head scout, and was credited by many for bringing a wealth of talent to the Texans after luring it away from the NFL, often hiding players and using creative means to land them. Hunt hired a little-known assistant coach from the University of Miami football team, Hank Stram, to be the team's head coach after the job offer was declined by Bud Wilkinson and Tom Landry. The NFL turned him down, so Hunt then established the American Football League and started his own team, the Dallas Texans, to begin play in 1960. After unsuccessful attempts to purchase and relocate the NFL's Chicago Cardinals to his hometown of Dallas, Texas, Hunt went to the NFL and asked to create an expansion franchise in Dallas.
Hunt's desire to secure a football team was heightened after watching the 1958 NFL Championship Game between the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts. In 1959, Lamar Hunt began discussions with other businessmen to establish a professional football league that would rival the National Football League. Main article: History of the Kansas City Chiefs American Football League Since then, the Chiefs have risen to dynastic performance under head coach Andy Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahomes, appearing in three Super Bowls since 2019 and winning two, LIV and LVII. Despite post-season success early in the franchise's history, winning five of their first six postseason games, the team struggled to find success in the playoffs for decades, including losing ten of eleven playoff games from 1993 to 2017, which included an eight-game losing streak. The Chiefs were also the second team, after the Green Bay Packers (whom they played in Super Bowl I), to appear in more than one Super Bowl (and the first AFL team to do so) as well as the first to appear in the championship game in two different decades.
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That victory on January 11, 1970, was the final game before the leagues' merger went into full effect. The Chiefs won three AFL championships, in 1962, 1966, and 1969, and were the second AFL team (after the New York Jets) to defeat an NFL team in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game, when they defeated the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV. While the elder Hunt's ownership stakes passed to his widow and children after his death in 2006, Clark is the operating head of the franchise he represents the Chiefs at all league meetings, and has ultimate authority on personnel changes. Hunt's son, Clark Hunt, serves as chairman and CEO. The Chiefs joined the NFL as a result of the merger in 1970, and the team is valued at over $3.7 billion. In spring 1963, the team relocated to Kansas City, and assumed its current name. The team was founded in 1959 as the Dallas Texans by businessman Lamar Hunt, and was a charter member of the American Football League (AFL). The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri.
† – Does not include the two AFL championships won by the team during the same seasons as their Super Bowl appearances. AFL championships (pre-1970 AFL–NFL merger) (3).The Legion of Zoom (offense, 2018–2021).The Redwood Forest (defense, 1966–1971).
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