Super Chiefs: Stories from the Kansas City Chiefs Glory Days

by Mark Stallard

Lamar Hunt’s pro football franchise from the “Mickey Mouse” league reached its pinnacle on a January Sunday in New Orleans—his Chiefs defeated the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings to become Super Bowl champions. It was the defining moment for the American Football League’s best team. SUPER CHIEFS is a collection of narratives, anecdotes, and stories from the Kansas City Chiefs glorious decade (1960-69) in the AFL. The Chiefs won more games than any other team in the league, captured three AFL championships, and placed seven players on the All-Time AFL team. It wasn’t easy. Fighting through a change of cities, various setbacks, and tragedies, the Chiefs also recorded many triumphs as they rose to the top of the pro football world.

196 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 24, 2013

About the author

When he decided to be a writer, it was sports that pulled and pushed at Mark Stallard, and eventually, his writing. A native Kansan, Stallard was born in Topeka, but his father's nomadic, wandering blood kept the family on the move, and by the time he was seven, Stallard had lived in five different Kansas communities. Lessons learned--make friends easily, look back with a sense of loss, move forward.

After attending high school in Ralston, Nebraska, he returned to the Sunflower state to study Education and English at the University of Kansas. Stallard also studied journalism at Wichita State University, winning the school's top Journalism Merit Award for magazine writing. Stallard eventually covered sports for the Wichita Eagle, as well as writing for other magazines. In 1993, he received a Master of Liberal Arts from Baker University.

After writing and submitting proposals for several different book ideas, Stallard landed his first book deal almost by accident, and Kansas Royals Facts & Trivia was published--although just barely--in 1999. Since then, Stallard has written and published more than 10 other books, including Kansas City Chiefs Encyclopedia (third edition, August, 2013), AFL to Arrowhead, Wildcats to Powercats, Tales from the Jayhawks Gridiron, Then Landry Said to Staubach...., and Otis Taylor: Football from My Own Heart.

The third edition of Tales from the Jayhawks Locker Room was published in 2012 and received a high-praise, 5-star review on Amazon: "Great book! If you're a Jayhawks fan, I guarantee you'll enjoy this. Very well written and an easy read, I finished it in one day. Highly recommended."

SUPER CHIEFS and Legacy of Blue are Stallard's most recent books.