Author: Kansas City Chiefs (Football team)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Football
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Game program includes 1969 AFL schedule, player and coach rosters, and highlights of support groups.

Author: Matthew C. Ehrlich
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252051505
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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A driving ambition linked Oakland and Kansas City in the 1960s. Each city sought the national attention and civic glory that came with being home to professional sports teams. Their successful campaigns to lure pro franchises ignited mutual rivalries in football and baseball that thrilled hometown fans. But even Super Bowl victories and World Series triumphs proved to be no defense against urban problems in the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. Matthew C. Ehrlich tells the fascinating history of these iconic sports towns. From early American Football League battles to Oakland's deft poaching of baseball's Kansas City Athletics, the cities emerged as fierce opponents from Day One. Ehrlich weaves a saga of athletic stars and folk heroes like Len Dawson, Al Davis, George Brett, and Reggie Jackson with a chronicle of two cities forced to confront the wrenching racial turmoil, labor conflict, and economic crises that arise when soaring aspirations collide with harsh realities.Colorful and thought-provoking, Kansas City vs. Oakland breaks down who won and who lost when big-time sports came to town.

Author: Tony Hunter
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1532172699
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51

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This title examines the history of the Kansas City Chiefs, telling the story of the franchise and its top players, greatest games, and most thrilling moments. This book includes informative sidebars, high-energy photos, a timeline, a team file, and a glossary. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.

Author: Brian Lester
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN: 1617872318
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Get your football fanatic readers into the action. Inside the NFL uses chronological narratives to tell the beginnings of the Kansas City Chiefs, relate the greatest and lowest moments of the team, introduce the best players and coaches, and share other fun facts that help round out Chiefs' history. Mini-biographies, sidebars, fun facts, fantastic quotes, and full-color, action-packed photographs will bring the NFL to your library.

Author: Allan Morey
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1681032643
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Known for being tough and relentless, the Oakland Raiders have often fought their way to the top of the NFL. Their first Super Bowl win in 1977 was under the direction of John Madden, one of the NFLÕs most famed icons. The Madden NFL video game series is named after him! Learn how the Oakland Raiders beat out their competition in this engaging title.

Author: Adam Teicher
Publisher: Triumph Books
ISBN: 1641255536
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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After 50 years of waiting, Kansas City Chiefs fans were hungry for a return to Super Bowl glory. In 2020, their patience was rewarded in dramatic, exuberant fashion with a second-half comeback for the ages against the San Francisco 49ers. ESPN's Adam Teicher expertly retraces the team's unforgettable championship season as well as the moves and moments that made it all possible—the hiring of head coach Andy Reid in 2013, drafting future-MVP Patrick Mahomes, the heart-wrenching AFC Championship loss to the Patriots in 2019 that lingered in the mind of every player, and more. Teicher captures the mood of the team week by week, every step of the way, profiling numerous players, coaches, and key figures.

Author: Tom Needham
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN: 1617872385
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Get your football fanatic readers into the action. Inside the NFL uses chronological narratives to tell the beginnings of the Oakland Raiders, relate the greatest and lowest moments of the team, introduce the best players and coaches, and share other fun facts that help round out Raiders' history. Mini-biographies, sidebars, fun facts, fantastic quotes, and full-color, action-packed photographs will bring the NFL to your library.

Author: Robert W. Cohen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493047868
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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In The 50 Greatest Players in Kansas City Chiefs History, sports historian Robert W. Cohen ranks the top 50 players ever to perform for one of the NFL's most historic franchises. This work includes quotes from the subjects themselves and former teammates, photos, recaps of memorable performances and greatest individual seasons, as well as a statistical summary of each player's career with the Chiefs. The Chiefs' best are profiled here in what is bound to be a much discussed book among the team's broad fan base. An added bonus are the "honorable mentions," the next 25 players who have contributed to the Chiefs' astounding run as one of America's great sports teams.

Author: Ivan Urena
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786473517
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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This book explains how the NFL determines each team's opponents and how the league's scheduling format has evolved throughout the years. It includes a history on the evolution of the pro football schedule, explores all of the scheduling formulas used in the National Football League, American Football League and the All-America Football Conference, and presents home-and-away opponent charts from 1933 through the 2017 season.

Author: Jeffrey J. Miller
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1550227971
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Rockin' the Rockpile is a complete and comprehensive history of the Buffalo Bills AFL era -- from the first meetings of the "Foolish Club" to the eventual merger with the senior NFL -- and it brings to life the stories of a bygone time that fans regard as Buffalo's golden age of sport. Rockin' the Rockpile resonates with the words of the men who lived it. More than 60 former players, coaches, and administrative staff -- including Ralph Wilson -- shared their thoughts and memories for this book. As this book was intended as a collective memoir of the Buffalo Bills' AFL era, those interviews constitute the foundation upon which this book was written. It offers the average fan a glimpse into the locker room, film room, whirlpool, coach's office, press box, as well as the huddle, to see and hear just what the players and coaches were thinking or saying during a significant game or play. The Buffalo Bills of the 1960s represent a special time in the collective conscience of Buffalonians, a time when their team was twice champion of the renegade American Football League, and when Jack Kemp, Billy Shaw, Cookie Gilchrist, Mike Stratton, Tom Sestak, Elbert Dubenion, Ron McDole, and O.J. Simpson, captured the imagination of an entire community. They were the antithesis of the high-scoring, pass-happy AFL. When high-powered offenses were the main attraction, the Bills competed, and won, with a ball-control offense and a stingy defense. For three consecutive years, Buffalo's defensive unit was the best in the league, and was one of the best throughout the AFL's history. Western New Yorkers loved this team and its successful approach -- the Buffalo Bills mirrored the community they represented.