Hank Stram and Kansas City Football
He was there at the key moments of football history: Lamar Hunt’s football career at SMU, when Hunt started the AFL and the Dallas Texans, when the Texans moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs, victory in Super Bowl IV.
Hank Stram (1923-2005) is a name associated with the great players of football in Kansas City in the 1960’s and 1970’s like Len Dawson, Willie Lanier, Fred Arbanas, Jim Lynch, Jan Stenerud, Otis Taylor and Bobby Bell.
The library has a number of books and videos on Stram and the Kansas City Chiefs for young and old, including:
They’re Playing My Game by Hank Stram, with Lou Schadt. A unique look at Hank Stram and his incredible 17-year career as a football coach with the Texans/Chiefs (1960-1974) and New Orleans Saints (1976-1977) and his successful second career as an analyst for CBS television and in the radio booth on Monday Night Football. It’s full of fun stories: marathon ping pong matches in his basement with Lamar Hunt, the team dress code (he didn’t want any of his players mistaken for a scruffy Oakland Raider), being honored at a post-Super Bowl luncheon emceed by Bob Ueker(?!).Like a Rose: Life Lessons From a Training Camp with Hank Stram and the Kansas City Chiefs by Crick Telander. More than 30 years ago, Rick Telander was drafted out of 
Northwestern University by a Kansas City Chiefs team filled with future Pro Football Hall of Famers and coached by the legendary Hank Stram. In 2004, Telander found the tattered, spiral-bound journal he kept while in that training camp and, after rereading the entries he kept until being cut from the team, was amazed and moved by the life lessons he took away from that once-in-a-lifetime experience and how they can be applied to people's lives today.
Northwestern University by a Kansas City Chiefs team filled with future Pro Football Hall of Famers and coached by the legendary Hank Stram. In 2004, Telander found the tattered, spiral-bound journal he kept while in that training camp and, after rereading the entries he kept until being cut from the team, was amazed and moved by the life lessons he took away from that once-in-a-lifetime experience and how they can be applied to people's lives today.For younger fans, start out with these, both titled The Story of the Kansas City Chiefs, one by Nate Frisch (2014) and another by Scott Caffrey (2010).
