Arrowheads Abroad

December 31 2006: Kansas City Chiefs 35 – Jacksonville Jaguars 30 When the Chiefs made the trip to Jacksonville on New Year’s Eve 2006, the season was on a knife edge for both sides. Neither could win their division, but with a pair of 8 and 7 records, each team knew that a win could get… Continue reading Blast From The Past – Week 9

The Kansas City Chiefs had won Superbowl IV against the Minnesota Vikings, but opened the following season with a defeat to the same team. In week 2 of the 1970 season, the Chiefs needed to bounce back quickly. However they faced a tricky away tie at the Baltimore Colts, who were led by start quarterback… Continue reading Blast From The Past – Week 8

December 21 1997: Kansas City Chiefs 25 – New Orleans Saints 13 Starting in the late 1980s, a series of good – and sometimes great – Chiefs teams, had finished with a winning record in 8 consecutive seasons. By the time we welcomed Mike Ditka’s Saints to Arrowhead at the end of the 1997 season,… Continue reading Blast From The Past – Week 7

November 14 1993: Kansas City Chiefs 31 – Los Angeles Raiders 20 When the old rivals met in the LA Memorial Coliseum in November 1993, both had above average teams. Jeff Hostetler was running the show at QB for the Raiders, with future Hall of Famer Tim Brown as his main target man, and they… Continue reading Blast From The Past – Week 5

September 6 1981: Kansas City Chiefs 37 Pittsburgh Steelers 33 Herm Levy was Head Coach of the Chiefs for 5 seasons, from 1978 to 1982. These weren’t especially successful times for the team, with no playoff appearances – and certainly didn’t give any clue that, in his next job, Levy would take the Buffalo Bills… Continue reading Blast From The Past – Week 4