The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional
American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are
members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference
(AFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
Originally called the Dallas Texans, the
club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a charter member of
the American Football League. The team moved to Kansas City and
became the Chiefs in 1963 after then-Kansas City mayor H. Roe
Bartle guaranteed the team they would have increased ticket sales.
The Chiefs then joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL Merger.
The Chiefs hold the distinction of being
the second AFL team (after the New York Jets) to defeat an NFL
club in an AFL-NFL World Championship Game when they defeated
the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV.