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The Global Chronicle

Who was Lamar Hunt, founder of Kansas City Chiefs?

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Daniel Hoffman

Updated on February 01, 2026

Norma Chase, who as the spouse of the late Kansas City Bosses organizer Lamar Chase went to every one of the 57 Super Bowl games, has died
She was 85 years of age
No reason for death was given

Norma Chase, who as the spouse of the late Kansas City Bosses pioneer Lamar Hunt went to every one of the 57 Super Bowl games, has died, the Chase family reported in a proclamation delivered by the group.

She was 85 years of age. No reason for death was given.

Our founder Lamar Hunt was born on this day in 1932. We remember his legacy and impact on the game that we all love.

— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) August 2, 2021


Lamar Chase, pioneer behind the American Football Association, elite athletics advertiser, and organizer and proprietor of the Kansas City Bosses who was chosen for the Master Football Lobby of Popularity in 1972, the Public Soccer Corridor of Notoriety in 1982, and the Global Tennis Lobby of Acclaim in 1993.

Chase was one of six kids born to Harold Lafayette “June” Chase, Jr., an oil leader, and Lyda Fortification Chase, a homemaker. The family moved to Tyler, Texas, in late 1933 and in 1938 migrated to Dallas, Texas, where Chase’s dad laid out the workplaces of the Chase Oil Organization.

As a young person Chase and his more established brother Fortification Chase read the paper and processed the games page by examining the case scores and participation quantities of different games. Lamar Chase accepted his secondary school training at the Slope School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he played halfback and filled in as commander of the varsity group during his senior year.

The recently made association and group confronted fierce opposition from the Public Football Association, which likewise settled a Dallas establishment. In May 1963 Chase moved the Dallas Texans to Kansas City, where no other expert football crew worked, and the Dallas Texans turned into the Kansas City Bosses.

After a year Chase wedded Norma Lynn Knobel. They had four youngsters. The two football gatherings kept on engaging each other for matchless quality, lastly in the spring of 1966 the two associations combined. Chase, who figured noticeably in the consolidation discussions, filled in as the AFL agent in chats with the Dallas Cattle rustler proprietor Tex Schramm and the NFL official Pete Rozelle.

Chase was additionally instrumental in arranging the primary football TV contract for the AFL groups. In 1970 Chase’s Kansas City Bosses caught a Super Bowl triumph for their proprietor.