CLASS OF 2020 Wayne Burch (Stoutland High School/Southwest Baptist University/Camdenton High School) Matt Burgess (Parkview High School/University of Missouri) Mark DeLozier (Kickapoo High School/University of Tulsa) Michael Fox (Meridian (Miss.) High School/Missouri State University) Jason O’Neal (Fair Grove High School/Southwest Baptist University) Kellen Overstreet (Penney High School/University of Wyoming) Mark Smith (Webb City High School/University… Read more »
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Team: Kansas City Chiefs
Porter Ellett
As a kid, Porter Ellett lost the use of his right arm in an accident and, as a teenager, it had to be amputated up to the shoulder. However, Ellett soldiered ahead and wasn’t about to let the situation get the best of him. And now look. Ellett just finished his seventh season on the… Read more »
Howard Ellfeldt
Howard J. Ellfeldt attended the University of Kansas before completing his M.D. in Orthopedic Surgery in 1968. He served in the US Army and founded Kansas City Bone and Joint Clinic. Ellfeldt also served as team physician for the Kansas City Kings and the Kansas City Chiefs. He was inducted in Missouri Sports Hall of… Read more »
Bud Epps
For teens who think they have no future in sports if they aren’t destined for the pros, don’t overlook roles just as valuable as the clean-up hitter or quarterback. Just ask Bud Epps. A 1972 graduate of St. Joseph Central High School, Epps once was pulled aside by John Henage (MSHOF 2015), at the time… Read more »
The Farmer Family
Mike Farmer loves telling this story. It’s about his dad, Elliott, the second baseman of the early 1930s Missouri Tigers baseball teams. “I remember being told by friends of his that he never went down swinging,” Mike says with a chuckle. “Hitting a baseball to him was (as easy) as catching a baseball.” In the… Read more »
Mike Garrett
It’s been deemed by the Sporting News as the most iconic play in Kansas City Chiefs history. The “65 Toss Power Trap,” ordered by coach Hank Stram and forever captured on the grainy footage of NFL Films, in essence secured the Chiefs’ Super Bowl IV victory in January 1970. Mike Garrett, the man who scored the 5-yard… Read more »
Trent Green
Originally drafted by the San Diego Chargers in 1993, Trent Green became a NFL starter in 1998 with the Washington Redskins. The following year he signed a four year contract with the St. Louis Rams. After a season ending injury in a pre-season game, he was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs. In 2003, Green… Read more »
Bill Grigsby
Bill Grigsby has a lengthy background in broadcasting sporting events. He is in his 31st year as color commentator for the Kansas City Chiefs – a longevity record in the National Football League. He began his broadcasting career in Joplin as a play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankee farm club, the Joplin Miners. He… Read more »
Tim Grunhard
Tim Grunhard laughs about it now. After all, he was just a rookie. But the first time he walked into the Kansas City Chiefs locker room, he assumed the “old guy” standing next to his locker was just another assistant coach. Turns out, it was his mentor for his 1990 rookie season – future Hall… Read more »
Art Hains
There’s no other way to say it. He was on his death bed, stricken by a severe case of West Nile virus. Doctors sent him to one hospital after another, and friends back home in the Ozarks feared the worst as news reports and social media updates scrolled across their smartphones. This was the fall… Read more »
Tamba Hali
Back in 1990, the Kansas City Chiefs were kicking off their golden era, with Arrowhead Stadium abuzz on Sundays in the fall. On the other side of the world, an 8-year-old kid in the war-torn West African country of Liberia was thinking of picking up a gun and joining the fight in a merciless civil… Read more »
Dante Hall
Ask the man known as “The Human Joystick” of his favorite play of a mile-long NFL highlight reel and he smiles that trademark smile. You see, Dante Hall figures Kansas City Chiefs fans assume it’s the one against the Denver Broncos in 2002. They actually might like his favorite one better. And his final quote,… Read more »
Jack Harry
He initially cut his teeth in radio while in college, got drafted into the Army and worked for the Armed Forces Network while stationed in the Panama Canal Zone – “There was a price on our heads,” he recalled – and ultimately parachuted into the Kansas City media market. And, then, Jack Harry never left,… Read more »
Priest Holmes
Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Priest Holmes was raised in San Antonio, Texas. Holmes played football at John Marshall High School, where he led his school to the state championship game. After graduating from high school in 1992, he attended the University of Texas at Austin. In 1997, his NFL career took him to play… Read more »
Danan Hughes
In a minor league baseball clubhouse in Helena, Montana, with the warm summer sun of 1993 waiting outside, he found himself at a career crossroads. Not that it was a negative. Not by a long shot. There Danan Hughes was, in his second year in the Milwaukee Brewers farm system and just a year removed… Read more »
Lamar Hunt
As the organizer of the American Football League over 30 years ago, Lamar Hunt’s activities helped positively change the game of football. Hunt is among those most responsible for the development, direction, and design of the modern-day National Football League. As the founder of the Chiefs franchise, Hunt helped provide Kansas City with a team… Read more »