{"product_id":"the-team-that-history-forgot-the-1960s-kansas-city-chiefs-hardback-9781496243102","title":"The Team That History Forgot; The 1960s Kansas City Chiefs (Hardback) 9781496243102","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Team That History Forgot\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe 1960s Kansas City Chiefs\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRick Gosselin (Author), Andy Reid (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496243102\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 44 photographs, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“If I could pick one person to write a history book about any era of football, give me \u003cb\u003eRick Gosselin\u003c\/b\u003e. His perspective on the Chiefs in \u003ci\u003eThe Team that History Forgot\u003c\/i\u003e is perfect, vivid, needed, and important. From his first sentence (Lamar Hunt’s nickname as a kid) to his last chapter (how Bob Lilly nearly was a Chief), Gosselin makes the roots of a proud franchise come to life. The stories in here absolutely sing.”-\u003cb\u003ePeter King\u003c\/b\u003e, veteran football writer and three-time National Sportswriter of the Year \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003cb\u003eRick Gosselin\u003c\/b\u003e is the best person to explain the history of the game, not because he has worked in the NFL for the past forty years, but because he has lived in the NFL studying the game, the players, the coaches and how champions are made. Gosselin educates us with vivid detail and storytelling on the best team no one seems to remember.”-\u003cb\u003eMichael Lombardi\u003c\/b\u003e, general manager for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels football team and author of \u003ci\u003eFootball Done Right: Setting the Record Straight on the Coaches, Players, and History of the NFL\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003cb\u003eRick Gosselin\u003c\/b\u003e has captured a forgotten time in the overall history of professional football, and he selected the premier team from a talent standpoint not only in the American Football League but the NFL as well. This is a wonderful journey back in time to the birth of the AFL and the dedication and wisdom of Lamar Hunt in his endeavor to ‘own a football team.’ Canton, Ohio is missing some exceptional players from those Chiefs’ teams. Otis Taylor, Jim Tyrer, and Ed Budde were elite players in any era at their respective positions.”-\u003cb\u003eRon Wolf\u003c\/b\u003e, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and former general manager of the Green Bay Packers\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhile the Kansas City Chiefs are the NFL’s newest dynasty, winning three Super Bowls since 2020, most fans don’t recall the team’s earliest successful years before decades of futility. What about the underdog losers of that very first Super Bowl? When the Kansas City Chiefs played the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I in 1967, they had only been in existence for seven seasons and were tasked with the monumental burden of representing the still-fledgling American Football League against the NFL’s team of the decade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Chiefs won their first AFL Championship in 1962, as the Dallas Texans, when owner Lamar Hunt decided the Dallas market couldn’t support two pro football teams-it could barely support one. After just three seasons, the Texans relocated to Kansas City, where they became the Chiefs. Under future Hall-of-Famers Len Dawson, Buck Buchanan, and Johnny Robinson, they were the winningest AFL team and helped integrate pro football more than any other team in the 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Team That History Forgot\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eRick Gosselin\u003c\/b\u003e explores the team’s struggles and triumphs in its early years, the competition created by the AFL in player signing wars, the recruitment of athletes from historically Black colleges and universities, the loss of the franchise identity with the move from Texas to Kansas City, the first Super Bowl and the humiliating loss against the Packers, and the moves the Chiefs made to recover from that loss and win Super Bowl IV, the last game before the two rival leagues finally merged in 1970. The early Chiefs set a bar for excellence that the team continues to pursue today.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The AFL\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: The Dallas Texans\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Dallas\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Len Dawson\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Johnny Robinson\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Kansas City\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: HBCU\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Bobby Bell\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: The AFL West\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: The Merger\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Mike Garrett\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: The Buffalo Bills\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: Hank Stram\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: Western Dominance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15: The Rockpile\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16: A Dallas Showdown?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17: The Lombardi Packers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 18: A Fear of the Unknown\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 19: The College All-Star Game\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 20: Otis Taylor\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 21: The Hammer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 22: The Interview\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 23: Hope\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 24: Adjustments\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 25: The Interception\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 26: The Sting of Defeat\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 27: Jan Stenerud\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 28: Willie Lanier\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 29: The Chicago Bears\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 30: The Long Road Back\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 31: The Minnesota Vikings\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 32: The Dallas Cowboys\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600288575768,"sku":"9781496243102","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-team-that-history-forgot-the-1960s-kansas-city-chiefs-hardback-9781496243102","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}