Chiefs Asking for Memorabelia
 

Got this e-mail from Ange Coniglio who runs the "Remember the AFL" website. He got an email from our very own Bob "Rufus Dawes" Moore, current (for the moment anyway) KC Chiefs PR Director. Since Rufus didn't post this on the CP, I thought I would. Ange links to my Chiefs page on his website, God Bless Him:

Here's the E-mail:

Hello, AFL fans and former players:

Robert Moore, Director of Public Relations for the Kansas City Chiefs, has asked me to forward the following letter to you. If you can help him, please answer him directly at the e-mail address or telephone number shown in his letter.

Thanks.

Regards,

Ange Coniglio

www.remembertheafl.com


Dear Remember the AFL fans:

Lamar Hunt’s founding of the American Football League was a seminal moment in the history of American football. Therefore, it is appropriate that the league’s history be included in the new Hall of Honor paying tribute to the Kansas City Chiefs storied past in a renovated Arrowhead Stadium which is well into construction. The “Hall of Honor” is scheduled to open in 2010 and will contain the story of the AFL as well as tributes to the Chiefs Hall of Famers, the team’s Pro Football Hall of Fame members, the franchise’s various championships in the AFL and all the league’s championships, the top 30 games in team history along with the top 60 plays in team history. Photos and other memorabilia from the Dallas Texans/Kansas City past will line the walls of the lower concourse of the new Arrowhead.

But we need the help of devoted AFL fans. We are looking for archival items of interest from the league’s past to include:

· Uniform parts and helmets (especially early helmets from the Dallas Texans and Kansas City Chiefs or the New York Titans or an original jersey worn in Super Bowl I, II, III or IV.
· Distinctive souvenir pieces from the various cities that had AFL teams
· Curiosities that might tell a team or league story like a sombrero from the early days when Oakland owner Chet Soda hoped to call his team the Oakland Senors.
· Press materials from the various AFL drafts
· Game tickets, season tickets, or ticket brochures
· An “AFL-10th” patch worn in Super Bowl IV
· Various team logos
· Publicity photos like the one of Jack Kemp and Ron Mix modeling new Chargers uniforms in March of 1960.

You get the drift. These are but a few of the more obvious kinds of memorabilia we are looking to feature in Arrowhead’s Hall of Honor. You may have others that better tell the league’s story.

If you can aide our efforts it will make Lamar Hunt’s dream come true for those who weren’t around when the AFL drew your interest.

If you have items, we invite you to email us at questions@kcchiefs.com or call 816/920-4353.

Sincerely,

Robert B. Moore

Director of Public Relations

Kansas City Chiefs

I have a photo of me crying on Christmas Day 1971. Other than that, not much.

Actually, now that I think about it, somewhere in my archives I have a $1 check from the Kitty Clover Potato Chip company that is endorsed by Bobby Bell.

In about 1971, the Chiefs did a promotion where, if you ate five big bags of Kitty Clover potato chips and sent in the bag tops, you would get a $1 check signed by one of several Chiefs players. I agonized over whether to get Bobby Bell or Jan Stenerud, but went with Bell.

I think the promotion was called "Chiefs for Childhood Obesity."

Thats a touching story.
I have a football signed by the Super Bowl IV team. Wonder if the Chiefs have one of those in storage?
I also have a ball signed by every Chief in the HOF except Marcus Allen, Joe Montana and Emmitt Thomas.

I have (pride of my collection) World Champtionship patch with roster and results of

game unopened. Bet they would like this.

I have a Grbac jersey.

LOL


That's not memorabelia :D

AFL History would be darn cool. Hall of Honor is going to be pretty sweet.

I have some stuff from SBIV. but nothing from the AFL...


:(

bet the display is gonna be really cool, though.

they asled me for a costume, but I turned them down.

Back when I bought it, I couldn't spell Schottenheimer, so the Topps card found the trash.

Dude, You might want to reconsider that costume thing. You have a chance to be in the hall forever or at least your outfit does. I would think that would be pretty cool and very flattering to boot. Just my two cents.

Really?

which part?

:)