Joe Delaney - I-435 & BBQ Contest Projects **6/29 I-435 Project Accomplished!**

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

We did it!

CELEBRATE! @MoDOT has OFFICIALLY APPROVED the Memorial Highway honoring @Chiefs RB Joe Delaney.

The location of the memorial: I-435 from State Hwy 350 to Raytown Rd in Jackson County.

One sign will appear at each end of the route. They will be fabricated in 6-9 weeks. pic.twitter.com/X5Rrxl4j3z

— Joe Delaney Memorial Highway Project (@ClayWendler) May 4, 2021

This is awesome. We are on this stretch of highway every time we drive up for a game! Local news story:

https://www.ozarksfirst.com/local-ne...VNbacfMnxci9Rw

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Heading to a game at Arrowhead Stadium will soon hold even more meaning.

Missouri lawmakers approved a plan to honor the late Kansas City Chief, Joe Delaney.

A two-mile stretch of Interstate 435 from State Highway 350 to Raytown Road will be named Joe Delaney Memorial Highway.

Crews will eventually install two signs announcing the honor. One sign will be installed at each end of the route. It will take between six and nine weeks to make the signs, but it’s not yet known when they will be added to the highway.

Delaney was a running back and played two seasons in the NFL with the Chiefs.

He drowned on June 29, 1983, while trying to rescue three children from a pond in Louisiana. He saved the life of a boy, but the two other children died with him.

In 2020, 37 years after his death, a monument was dedicated in Delaney’s honor near the pond where he died.