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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Overland Park
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Len Dawson has passed - RIP
https://kmbc.com/article/len-dawson-...at-87/40943140
https://www.chiefs.com/news/chiefs-m...4l3P21ZulRpgwc Chiefs Mourn the Passing of Franchise Legend Len Dawson Aug 24, 2022 at 07:47 AM The Kansas City Chiefs are saddened to share the passing of Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback, Chiefs legend and Kansas City icon, Len Dawson. "My family and I are heartbroken. Len Dawson is synonymous with the Kansas City Chiefs. Len embraced and came to embody Kansas City and the people that call it home. You would be hard-pressed to find a player who had a bigger impact in shaping the organization as we know it today than Len Dawson did," Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt said. "I admired Len my entire life – first as a Hall of Fame player on the field, and later as he transitioned into a successful broadcasting career. Throughout his remarkable career, Len made it a priority to give back to the community that he loved. The franchise has lost a true legend. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Linda and his family." Dawson was the heart and soul of the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs franchise during his illustrious14-year Chiefs career, helping make the franchise one of professional football's premier teams while becoming one of the game's elite passers. Under the leadership of PFHOF Head Coach Hank Stram, who brought Dawson to the Texans/Chiefs franchise in 1962, Dawson's Chiefs were perennial contenders and won American Football League Championships in 1962, 1966 and 1969. He earned the Most Valuable Player award for Super Bowl IV when he directed Kansas City to a 23-7 win over the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings. Dawson won the AFL passing title four times and still holds the franchise's career records for pass attempts (3,696), completions (2,115), passing yards (28,507) and touchdowns (237). He was named to six AFL All-Star teams and one Pro Bowl squad, and also earned AFL Player of the Year honors for the 1962 season. Dawson started 158 regular season games for Kansas City, the most of any quarterback in franchise history. He led the AFL in passing four different seasons (1962, 1964, 1966 and 1968), pacing the AFL in completion percentage eight times, including a string of six-straight seasons from 1964-69. Dawson was recognized as the 1973 NFL Man of the Year, one of five Chiefs players to ever earn the honor. He retired from professional football on May 1, 1976. He was enshrined into the Chiefs Hall of Fame in 1979 and was immortalized at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, in 1987. He was also enshrined in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1996. Dawson enjoyed an equally legendary broadcasting career that began during his playing days. In 1966 he served as a sports anchor with KMBC Radio and as sports director for KMBC-TV while serving as the club's signal caller. Following his retirement from professional football after the 1975 season, Dawson joined NBC and served as a color analyst on NFL games until 1982. He then joined the Chiefs Radio Network as a color commentator in 1984, serving on the team's radio crew for 35 years. While working NFL games for NBC, Dawson embarked on what would become a 24-year run that spanned four decades (1977-2001) as the host of HBO's popular "Inside the NFL," cable television's longest-running series and the first NFL-related program to air on cable. For his contributions to broadcasting, Dawson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as the recipient of the Hall's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2012. He became just the third individual in professional football history to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a broadcaster, joining Dan Dierdorf and Frank Gifford. In 2014, Dawson was honored with the Lamar Hunt Award for Professional Football at the 44th Annual NFL 101 Awards, recognizing his contributions both on and off the field that helped shape the National Football League into the preeminent professional sports league in America. In 2017, the club renamed the television broadcast booth inside GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium the Len Dawson Broadcast Booth in honor of Dawson's accomplishments both on the field and as a broadcaster. Dawson began his professional career as a first-round draft pick of the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers in 1957. He went on to land with Cleveland in 1960 but was cut by the Browns prior to the 1962 season, at which point he was signed by the Dallas Texans as a free agent on July 2, 1962. In total he spent 19 years as a quarterback in the NFL/AFL. The Alliance, Ohio, native attended Purdue University where he was a three-year starter at quarterback for the Boilermakers (1954-56) and ended his career as the university's leader in career passing yards and touchdown passes. Last edited by Dartgod; 08-24-2022 at 11:37 AM.. |
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#256 |
Snacks Are Under My Apron
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Thank You Lenny, Godspeed
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Loved Len Dawson. Those old Raider/Chiefs games were what made me a fan. Godspeed Len. You were one of the good ones.
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I’m a Mahomo!
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I might have posted this somewhere else on here, but Jackie Dawson, Len's first wife, was a patient of my Dad's.
Dawson also used to eat lunch with a group of doctors on the Plaza on a regular basis, back when a group of MD's and an NFL quarterback could be considered relative social peers, and my Dad was part of that group. In fact, his peers in the hospital used to call my Dad Lenny, b/c he was this funny looking Filipino doctor back when there were only 3 Filipino doctors practicing in Kansas City. My Dad had what seemed to them an odd first name (Leonardo), but also part of it was because they thought my Dad didn't crack under pressure just like the no. 1 sports hero in KC. My Dad did have a bit of an odd background in medicine in that he had first practiced in the rural Philippines, which meant he did things very few doctors educated in the US medical system would do. For example, my father was once confronted with the aftermath of a wild bar fight in the Philippines where someone pulled a butterfly knife (Filipino martial arts are known for their slick knife fighting techniques). He ended up having to treat a guy with half of his face hanging off his skull and no on call plastic surgeon to summon. This was before emergency medicine was its own highly-developed specialty even in the United States. It was a sort of sink or swim situation, and my Dad later became a gastroenterologist in the US, so this was WAY out of his area of knowledge. These kind of experiences helped him develop resilience when things didn't go according to plan. So, for me, Len Dawson always makes me think of my Dad's medical career. My Dad also had a nodding acquaintance with a number of the players from the Super Bowl 4 era. Jim Tyrer lived across the street from my family when I was a very small child and Fred Arbanas had a house about a block away. Jan Stenerud was also a patient of my dad as well as Vince Costello, who was the D coordinator of the Chiefs in the 70's and was middle linebacker for the Browns during the Jim Brown era. Last edited by JohnnyV13; 08-27-2022 at 04:19 PM.. |
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Anybody know where we can get a shirt like Hall is wearing.
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It was not a fair catch
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Please keep this as Lenny the cool lounge forever
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#267 |
In Mahomes I trust!
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My man cave tribute to "Lenny the Cool"...
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Lenny Tribute at Arrowhead on Thursday (9/1).
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Fight, build, win!
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: KC
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Lenny Dawson Tribute today at Arrowhead from 1 PM to 9 PM. The public is welcome and free.
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