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Originally Posted by Woogieman

When Jack Steadman was named GM in 1966, the NFL was more a car club than a multi-billion $ enterprise...guys with money getting together, show off their cars, but was more of a reason to drink a few beers and show off their status. Hunt ran the Chiefs like this his entire life, he did not have the same drive to win as Al Davis et al, and hired business buddies with little to no football background to run the org. His scouting dept. literally knew as much as you and I about college football with the info we currently have. Drafts were abysmal, there was no focus on QB (even though all the SB champs of the era had HoF QBs)...drafting so high every year, you could hardly miss out on talent, but without a comprehensive rebuild plan like Parcells brought to the moribund Giants, they just floundered year after year. Several franchises did. I think it was Bill Walsh, Parcells, and Joe Gibbs that demonstrated to the league that they will anally rape you in the SB if you don't have a top notch scouting/personell dept., a HC that is also a highly organized CEO, and get a QB capable of running an efficient offense without TOs.

In the decade of the 80s, only Thiesmann and McMahon weren't multi-SB champs, and only the Bears didn't have a multi SB HC.

I'm too young to have witnessed it, but this is the thoughts my family always left me with. The organization did not make the transition out of the good old boys cigar club era and into the more modern management era fast enough and it set them back at least a decade. So much of the league was changing and growing during that time and anyone who was slow to react got left behind.