February 8, 2023 • 33 mins
Days before the Super Bowl, Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt joins Peter to discuss the franchise’s model of consistency, the hiring of Andy Reid in 2013, the drafting of Patrick Mahomes in 2017, and his family’s love and passion for both football and soccer.
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The Season with Peter Schreeger as a production of the
NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. Welcome everybody to a Super
Bowl Week edition of the Season with Peter Schreger. I
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am so thrilled to have two different podcasts here from Arizona.
Both of them are with very influential people in the NFL,
and both of them make for very unique guests in
a crowded space of NFL podcasts. You see, I got
here to Arizona and I said, did we get an
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next player? Do we get maybe a current player, Do
we get a former, you know, league executive, somebody, anyone,
maybe one of the guys calling the games? And that
all would be great. I thought, for this week's podcast,
let's get two guests, the two lead dogs of both
of these franchises. Yes, in this episode, it is going
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to be chairman and CEO of the Kansas City Chiefs,
mister Clark Hunt. And in part two, which is going
to be posting shortly thereafter, it is the chairman and
CEO of the Philadelphia Eagles, mister Jeffrey Lorie's quick background
on Clark Hunt. He became CEO of the Chiefs in
twenty ten his father, Lamar Hunt. Of course, when the
legends of football history passed away and Clark took over.
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He was officially CEO in twenty ten, and he has
been the driving force behind the resurgence of the Chiefs franchise.
The Chiefs have won eight AFC West titles and have
been to the playoffs ten different times since twenty ten alone.
They are AFC champions this year. They were AFC champions
two years ago, they were AFC Champions three years ago.
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That means Clark has hoisted the Lamar Hunt Trophy three
of the past four seasons. He's also done incredible things
with the org chart. When he took over, it was
the GM reports to the owner and so on and
so forth. No, no, he changed things. He said, let's
restructure the organization and how this thing is built. The
coach directly reports to the owner. The GM directly reports
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to the owner, and that was in twenty thirteen. It
also sinks up quite nicely with the hiring of maybe
the most influential person in this Chief's organization on the field,
mister Andy Reid. I'm excited to ask Clark about the
hiring of Andy Reid. How that all went down. And
I'm also going to ask about the hiring of Brett Veach,
which was an internal hire in twenty seventeen as a
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general manager. But Clark, of course, when he brought in
Andy Reid, Andy Reid, he himself took Brett Veach from
Philadelphia with him to Kansas City. Look, Clark Hunt is
a leading voice among a lot of the NFL owners
because of the different committees he's on. He's on the
NFL Finance Committees, on the Personal Conduct committees, on the
International committees, on the Management Council Executive Committee, and he
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played a key role in a lot of those CBA
dealings both in twenty eleven and in twenty twenty. This
dude loves his Chiefs. He loves his Chiefs. It is
a family business. And he is there at every game
and he is there on the crowns and arrowhead when
you see them take the field every Sunday in those
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home games. I am excited to bring on Clark Hunt
as gentleman, the CEO and chairman of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Mister Clark Hunt, and with no further ado, I'm excited
about this guest. He's the chairman and CEO of the
Kansas City Chiefs, and his team is in the Super
Bowl yet again, and they are now AFC champions the
third time in four years. Clark Hunt, Welcome to the
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season with Peter Schreker. Yeah, thank you very much. It's
a pleasure to be on with you today. Yeah. Look,
we're thrilled to have you. You know, the Andy Reid
storyline is playing such a huge role. But I feel
like there's this vague memory of Okay, well, Reid is
done with the Eagles, but three days later joins the
Kansas City Chiefs. I always wanted to know where were
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you in that process and the Chiefs organization as to
getting Andy right on board and away we go. Since
twenty thirteen, one of the most successful franchises in football. Yeah,
we're looking back. It's hard to believe that it's been
almost ten years ago, and how blessed we are to
have Andy. I remember, you know, calling him on Monday
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was referred to black Monday around the league. We had
just parted ways with our former coach, and I've heard
that Andy had been let go, and so I called
his cell phone, thinking, well, you know, I'm just gonna
be leaving a message and hopefully called me back later,
but he picked up and you know, which, you know,
shocked me. I'm not sure I was ready to talk
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to him. So we had a great conversation. We set
up an interview a couple of days later, which ended
up being in Philadelphia at FBO at the airport. You're
at the airport and if I remember, it was like
here the Chiefs are, and then there's always rumors that
like the Cardinals want to interview, and you read, but
it never even got to that point. The story goes,
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you guys meet, It's a nine hour interview, if I'm
not mistaken, maybe even longer. And by the end of
the day, Andy Reid was like, let's go. I'm the
new Chiefs head coach. Yeah. It was an amazing day.
We were supposed to have about a three or four
hour interview, and you know, we just hit it off.
And I had some of the chief staff there with
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me so he'd have an opportunity to visit with them,
and it was clear we had had a lot to
talk about it, and it just just kept going and going,
and eventually he told me, you see that plane out there.
I was supposed to get on that to go to Arizona.
Is that right? It was there in the part it
was there, like on the runway, it was it was
just outside, you know, with the step down, you know,
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ready for him to get on it. And you know,
he made the decision not to make that trip because
I think he felt like there was a really good
chemistry with me and the others who were there representing
the organization. So the interview, you're right, we went on
nine hours, which is a hard way. I'm not sure
was talked about for nine hours, but but we did,
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and uh, you know, we agreed to get together a
couple days later in Kansas City. He wanted to come
see our facilities and he wanted his wife came in
to get a chance to see Kansas City. And so
they came in on Friday, my wife that Tammy a tour.
I took Andy to the facility. He saw everything, loved
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what he saw, and by the end of the day
we had to sign contract. That's unbelievable. I love that.
That's a monumental moment in Chief's history. I think another
monumental moment might be the day that number fifteen was drafted.
Can you take us through your day that draft morning
when you wake up and you might have word that
we might be traded up. And when the pick was
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in and Patrick Holmes becomes the next quarterback of the
Kansas City Chiefs. Well, a lot of work went into
that decision, and our general manager Brett Leach was the
first one to get on Patrick and he started showing
Andy clips of Patrick's Texas Tech games a couple of
years before. You know, Patrick was ready to leave and
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declare for the draft. And like Brett does on a
lot of things, you know, he's pretty persistent, and he did.
I get him. You know, he's awesome. We love to
have him. And then went through the process. Patrick came
in for one of the visits in the lead up
to the draft. You know, Andy took him through the
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quiz that he likes to give quarterbacks and Patrick a
face that and so then they decided to bring me
in to watch a little tape of Patrick. And I
don't watch watch tape of players that were going to draft,
but they wanted to show me how special this player
was and why they wanted to move from late in
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the first round up to the tenth pick to get them.
So they showed me a few clips, you know, including
you know, one of Patrick's roll to your left, flip
your body around, throw the ball six yards, you know,
with sidearm, throw into the end zone. I was like,
that's that's pretty special. That's pretty good. Yeah, And so
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then we had the engineer of the trade and our
general manager at the time, John Dorsey, did a great
job of working with the Buffalo Bills to work out
a trade that we would execute that Patrick was still
on the board. Of course, we didn't let anybody know
who we were going after because we felt there were
some teams at eleven, twelve, and thirteen that wanted Patrick's
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and if they knew we were going to ten to
get Patrid, they might have jumped over us going to
the seven eighth, ninth pick so they could take them.
And we were all pretty nervous. You know. It was
probably our as into the draft before it was our
turn to pick, and you know, we had a lot
of nerves. And then he was there. You know, the
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excitement was unbelievable. That's an incredible story. And since then,
you know, the teams come out of the woodwork thing. Yeah,
we actually had them really high on our draft for it.
It's like the Chiefs did it. They made the move,
they were decisive, they had a quarterback, we take them
to the playoffs, and that kind of gut decision in
the conviction to do it. I think that's symbolic with
a lot of decisions the Chiefs have made as an organization. Look,
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you officially became the title of CEO in twenty ten.
Of course you've always been with the organization in some
capacity and in that time eight AFC West titles and
ten playoff appearances. It's consistency in a league that is
stacked and wants parody. What do you think is the
greatest thing that you could attribute to that consistency and
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this culture of winning in Kansas City? Well, as I
was taking over, one of my goals was to turn
us into a consistent winner. And of course there were
other organizations and NFL who had done that. Pittsburgh Steelers
across several decades had been a consistent winner, and of
course the Patriots more recently are the best example of it.
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And it's a very hard thing to attend because there's
so much turnover in the NFL on a yearly basis.
Of course, it all starts with your head coach, right,
you got to find the right head coach and somebody
that you can work with for the long term. And
we've been blessed with that with Andy now now for
ten years. And then Brett's been our general manager for
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about five years and he has done a phenomenal job.
He and Andy worked really well together. They're generally on
the same page, which you have to have with your
head coach and general manager. And then of course, you know,
having franchise quarterback I think is really the last piece
in the puzzle. And you're right. We had a tremendous
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quarterback and Alex Smith who led us to a lot
of success, a lot of playoffers, but Patword has now
just taken it to another level and we really have
the foundation. I think you know that they can not
only hopefully win a Super Bowl on Sunday, but continue
being successful going forward. Yeah, and we'll see on Sunday
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how it goes either way. The consistency and the success
to say three at the last four years as AFC
champions in this day and age where there's unprecedented you know,
strength to schedule the draft the way it's built. The
NFL is supposed to be a league that turns over
and the Chiefs, you guys are there every single year.
I find you interesting in the NFL's grand scheme because
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you're not just a part of the Chiefs. You're also
a chairman of the NFL Finance Committee, you serve on
the Personal Conduct Committee, you're in the International Committee, the
Management Council, Executive Committee. And having covered the labor deals
over the last twenty years, I know in twenty eleven
and twenty twenty what an influential person you were in
those conversations that To have those titles and to really
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dive into the NFL on the shield as a whole,
that's that's a commitment, but it's also a love. I
know your family history with the league and of course
with the sport, but you personally to play all those
different roles, where all those different hats, that's next level.
What what do you think about doing all that stuff
and what drives you to play a bigger role for
the league than not just the Chiefs, chairman and CEO. Well,
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first of all, I enjoy it. I love the league
responsibilities that I have. It is a lot of work,
but by working on many league initiatives that I'm involved with.
I'm indirectly making the Kansas City Chiefs better because it's
making the NFL better. I also think it's an advantage
for the Chiefs that I'm plugged into what's going on
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at the league office and the many initiatives that they have.
I'm aware of those. You know. Being involved in the
labor discussions has given me a good understanding of the
salary camp and how that works. So when I'm talking
to Brett Beach and our sary camp guys, I've got
some context there. So I think it's beneficial in many regards.
But first and foremost, I just really enjoy it. Yeah. Now,
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and the international stuff is huge. We got as a
show Good Morning Football, got to go to London and
Germany this year and to see the outpouring, and of
course we got the great announcement with the Chiefs in
Germany just a couple of weeks ago. I know that's
a piece that's close to your heart in a passion
of years. The international aspect, When did that come about?
And why are you so heavily invested in international expansion
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and growth of the NFL. Well, it really goes back
to my dad and his involvement with the league's international
affirst back in the eighties and nineties, and of course
that manifested himself in the league playing preseason games, which
the Chiefs played preseason games in Germany, in Japan, in Mexico,
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you know. So my dad was all about having the
Chiefs represent the NFL in those initiatives. And then of
course we also had NFL Europe, which is, you know,
something that our organization supported. Over time, we received a
number of players who got their careers going in the
NFL Europe and then came to the NFL. Ultimately, the
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league pivoted and decided that we've got to be bolder,
and over the last ten to twelve years, the league
decided really the best way to build a fan base
internationally is to play regular season games, and that's something
that we've embraced as well, playing a game in London,
playing a game in Mexico City a few years ago,
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and then, as you mentioned, we've got the game coming
up in Germany, and now the league has given the
teams the ability to market internationally here in the last
eighteen months or so, and the Chiefs were awarded the
rights to Germany in Mexico, and so we've been working
on that and we really just think getting to play
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a game there next year is really going to cause
the Chiefs Kingdom to continue to grow in Germany and
throughout Europe. You know, it's a Tampa Bay Seattle game.
We were over there in Munich and I'm walking down
the street with one of my co hosts and I
see a Chiefs bar in Munich. You've got Seattle and
Tampa Bay playing, but there was a Chiefs dedicated sports bar.
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I mean, I'm like, oh, certainly it's just expats who
live over here. And I walked in and it was Germans,
Germans who loved the Kansas City Chiefs, and I said,
all right, this is more than just hey, we're gonna
put a game in there and leave. This is a
commitment from the NFL and it's starting to pay off.
I also know you're very invested in the World Cup
and what that means to Kansas City coming up in
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twenty twenty six. And soccer runs deep in your family.
You yourself or the captain of the SMU soccer team,
obviously your father's amazing involvement in soccer in the States.
To know that there's gonna be a World Cup game
played in Kansas City. What's that mean to you? Yeah,
really really special. If you go back to the nineteen
ninety World World Cups, the US also hosted. My dad
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made that ort to get games in Kansas City, and
ultimately FIFA made the decision not to do that. And
so when the opportunity resurfaced on the twenty six World Cup,
we jumped on and worked really hard and it's just
an incredible win for the city to get to be
one of the World Cup posts. There's no better way
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to market a city on an international stage than getting
to host a World Cup game. So we're really excited
about it. It'll be a special moment for our family
when that first game kicks off an Arrowhead because there
was no place that my dad loved better than Arrowhead Stadium,
and you know, having a World Cup game played played
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in that venue is going to be really really special
for the listeners. Can you just shed a little light
on your father's connection to soccer in America? I think,
I mean, I've read the book Michael McCambridge. Your dad's
commitment to soccer as well as football is the stuff
of legend yeah, happy to do that just from a
contact standpoint. And and I want to tell the whole
story because it's long, But the NFL and my dad's
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American Football League had agreed to merge in nineteen sixty six.
After a big struggle in battle for five or six
years and having succeeded with the AFL, I think my
dad decided that he needed a new challenge, and so
in nineteen sixty seven he got involved with what became
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the North American Soccer League, which was really the first
division soccer league in the United States. His team with
the Dallas Tornado that played in Dallas, and that league
lasted about fifteen years. He'd actually fallen in love with
the sport first seeing a game with my mother when
she was in Ireland on a fellowship. He went over
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and visited her and they saw a pro game. I
think that may have been his first pro game. And
then he saw the nineteen sixty sixth Final between West
Germany and England, which is considered George best, one of
the great finals of all the time, and he was
captivated by the fans. And as he looked at that
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game on TV, he said, you know that game has
played on the field that looks about the same size
as the American football field. So I think part of
his motivation was, Hey, we could have a soccer league
and here in the US they could play mostly in
the summer and play in these new stadiums that were
being built at the time. So the process to build
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Arrowhead was actually under way in sixty six sixty seven.
The same thing with Texas Stadium in Dallas. That effort
was already underway, and he knew that stadium was going
to be built and so he thought, hey, this will
just be be a perfect fit. As it turned out,
he was about forty years early with that. Uh you know,
it's a great visionary but his vision on soccer was
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a little bit early. But as soon as the opportunity
came back around in nineteen nine six when Major League
Soccer started, he jumped in with both feet. We started
out owning two franchises, one in Kansas City, one in Columbus, Ohio.
We later added Dallas to the portfolio, so we were
running three MLS teams at once, and you know, he
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loved it, even though it was really really hard. You know,
now that league has really taken off over the last
ten to fifteen years, and we're going to have the
World Cup back, as you mentioned, which I think will
just be a celebration of what soccer has become in
the United States. What a cool story. That's an amazing story.
I love that you personally. Let's go back a couple
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of years twenty nineteen. This amazing run Sammy Watkins catches
that deep pass in the AFC Championship game, and like,
you get the chills down your spine. You're like, this
actually might happen. It's been fifty years. We're going back
to the Super Bowl, that AFC Championship game against Tennessee.
I know everyone focuses on the Super Bowl and hoisting
the Lombardy, they have to think hoisting the trophy with
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your father's name on it and going back to Super
Bowl that was pretty special stuff as well. Yeah, it
absolutely was. There'll never be an experience again like that
twenty nineteen season, in part because of the journey that
took to get there. Right, it had been fifty years
since the Chiefs had appeared in a Super Bowl. We
had never held the trophy that has my dad's name
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on it, or trophy given the AFC champion and to
stand on that stage, you know, after that game, received
that trophy, had my mother kiss it, which still brings
tears in my eyes just thinking about, and then looking
up at our fans who had stayed glued through their
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seat even though it was seventeen degrees and they'd been
out four or five hours freezing, and nobody left because
it was such a special moment and so important to
Kansas City. So I'll never forget that for sure. And then,
of course, you know, closing the deal in Miami a
couple of weeks later, winning the Labari Trophy, you know,
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made it truly a perfect season. Yeah, and the Chiefs
fans are a nationwide fan base. You know, we've had
on the podcast two of them who happened to be celebrities.
Paul Rudd is a is a huge Chief than he
came on early in the season. Eric stone Street last week,
I know you started the game by banging the drum.
Eric took over in the fourth quarter and got everyone
going Super Bowl Sunday, They'll both be there. Where will
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you be And what is your day like as you
gear up to say, hey, let's hoist this thing one
more time. Take us through the day. Of Clark Hunt
and the family as you gear up for Super Bowl
fifty seven. Yeah, well, we'll start out the morning at
the hotel. And something that Jonathan Craft shared with me
a few years ago when we were going to Super
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Bowl fifty four was to make sure you take some
time that warning to just reflect on where you are
and what you're doing. It's really easy on Super Bowl
Sunday to be at one of them after the other,
which will certainly do in the afternoon, but in the morning,
I think it'll just be some quiet family time, just
really celebrating the fact that we're back in the Super Bowl.
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Then we'll go to the stadium. The Chiefs have a
tailgate party plan for our staff and some fans and
friends who are going to be there, So I'll swing
by and uh, you know, say a lot of the
group there. Then I'll head over to the NFL tailgate party,
eat some shrimp. Probably that's gonna say like are we
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hanging or are we like tens? I feel like I
would be just like a drum that day. Yeah, you know,
I've wanted to really be calm until the balls in
the air. So first of all, there's nothing I can
do that he can't do anything at that point. Yeah, yeah,
I can't do anything, you know, you know, during the game,
et cetera. But you know, before the game, I've wanted
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to be freely relaxed, but the tension will definitely build
is as we head towards takoff and as soon as
the balls in the air, my nerves will be crazy.
Now I know you're competitive, and not because of the
way that you conduct your business with football. I know
it because Eric stone Street told me about a Washers
tournament in training camp. Can you go into this a
little bit. What do we got going on? And how
are you beating stone Street in a competitive game? So
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we had a lot of competitive people around me. The
Juice organization and our general manager, Bred Beach came up
with a Washers tournament for the mostly for the personnel staff,
and this year was the second or third version of that.
I had not gotten drafted to play in the past
year versions, but Bred told me about it when it
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was and I made sure that I was there for it.
And I'd never played Washers, so it was a new experience.
And you know, we had about sixteen teams and multiple
rounds and face off with stone Street at one point
and you got the better of him. And I'm not sure.
I'm not sure he's over right. He's still talking about it.
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But but anyhow, it was. It was a lot, a
lot of fun. And Mike Bradway, who's on our staff,
and I wait, we missed to pull out the victory.
And so I'm the reigning Wash Roos champion. Okay, so
you had never played before your first time out there,
you win. I mean, this is like having Isaiah Pacheco
and Jalen Watson and these rookies come out of nowhere
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and be making make plays in the AFC Championship Game.
This is the parallel. That's what I'm gonna say. Yeah, well,
maybe maybe we were just foreshadowing how important rookies were
going to base. You're setting the table and no doubt
ten rookies all that playing a role on this team.
Four was going to start in Super Bowl. I can't
say enough about the rookie class here. Uh. In closing, Clark,
thanks for doing this. The Hunt Family Foundation does incredible
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work and I know that's a passion as well. Several
different initiatives. I know education is one of them that's
close to your heart. What does the foundation working on
these days and where could listeners kind of direct their tension. Yeah, well,
we've had a charitable effort really since my dad bought
the team to Kansas City back in the sixties. That
was something that he focused on with the players and
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staff and you wanted to make sure that they were
contributing to the community. And that's something that we've just
carried on and really elevated over the last ten or
fifteen years. And we do a lot of stuff with education,
as you mentioned, a lot of children's initiatives in Kansas City,
and then we've really focused the last several years on
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supporting the players in their efforts. And of course you're
probably aware that Patrick Mahomes is up with Walter Payton
Man of the Year at NFL Honors tomorrow night, and
I think he has a great chance to win. I
went to his foundation's banquet a month ago and were
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so impressed by the great work he's doing in Kansas City.
So if you want to support something, let's support the
fifteen and Mahomies Foundation, which is the name of Patrick's foundation.
I love it. I start wish you good luck. You know,
this is a football game but for what the Chiefs
have done over the last decade and changes is it's
the stuff that you know, dynasties are built on. I
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know you guys don't like using those kind of words,
but the success is unparalleled right now in the NFL,
and you guys are one of the class organizations of
the league. Congratulations on everything and good luck on Sunday. Clark, right, well,
thanks very much and so fun being on with you today.
Awesome guys. Clark Hunt, CEO and chairman of the Kansas
City Chiefs joining us from Super Bowl in Arizona. So
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if he's seven is Sunday, we'll see how it all
goes down. But we know the Chiefs are in very
good hands. Clark Hunt, CEO and Chairman of the Kansas
City Chiefs. You're not getting that interview everywhere else. I
appreciate him taking the time. Busy week, as you heard,
he's pulling for Patrick Mahomes to win Walter Peyton Man
of the Year. We were discussing that earlier in the week,
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and I didn't think of my homes because I was thinking,
all right, you've got all these other guys who aren't
in the Super Bowl. I wonder if can my homes
be the winner of the Wilter Pitton Man of the Year.
Either way, go google Lamar Hunt and the soccer stuff
sounds incredible. The AFL stuff with Lamar Hunt is I'm
telling you, I watch what is it call it hang
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Time about the Lakers and the eight a winning time
the Lakers in the eighties. I swear there is a
show or a movie to be made fictionalized, of course,
with a little bit of flavor of the start of
the AFL, because those were the wild, wild West days
of football. Then the merger with the NFL and Lamar
Hunts front center and all of it. That's Clark's dad.
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He passes the Chiefs of course, go through a few
head coaches, you know, they go through a couple general managers,
and then Andy Reid and eventually Brett Veach and now
there the model of consistency in the NFL. Really like
the Chiefs organization. I really like the Eagles organization. In
part two of this podcast, which you will get on
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your feed coming up shortly, I also am going to
sit down with Jeffrey Lorie, the president, the chairman, and
the CEO of the Philadelphia Eagles. That's going to be
Part two. Click on that next really interesting stuff. His
perspective on the Andy Reid transition from Philly to Kansas City,
and of course what makes the Eagles such a successful organization.
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cousin Fletcher Cox on the Philadelphia Eagles. A year later,
playoffs he's their game breaker. And right now, Kenneth Gainwell
hasn't any time touchdown of plus three ten in the
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Super Bowl, and he's got a receiving yards over eleven
point five at minus one fifteen. Meanwhile, everyone's talking about Pacheco.
Jerrick McKinnon is an interesting player on the Kansas City Chiefs.
He's there running back who does all the blocking on
those passing downs, but also all the receptions when they
do those little dumpoffs from Mahomes. Jerick McKinnon receiving yards,
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if he goes over twenty and a half yards, that's
minus one twenty. If he goes under twenty and a
half yards, it's one ten. His rushing yards over nineteen
and a half rushing yards it's minus one twenty. Under
nineteen and a half rushing yards, it's minus one ten.
I would just say this. McKinnon catching the ball has
been a big theme for the Kansas City Chiefs, and
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the last one Jalen Hurts over a half interception, under
a half interception. If you want to say it's over,
he's gonna throw a pick, it's plus one oh five.
If you say he's not gonna throw a pick, it's
minus one thirty five. Those are three players and three
different things that I would be watching in this game.
Not everyone else is talking about Gainwell and McKinnon. I
assure you Gainwell and McKinnon will be playing roles in
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I will be guess what would you say? I would
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Kansas City Chiefs Aaron Andrews will take it during the game,
and then I will be back in postgame doing interviews
with the players, and we'll see might be Clark Kant,
might be Jeffrey Lorie. We're not sure how it's gonna
work either way. I will be a part of that
covered for Fox. Cannot wait, and also just want to
thank all you guys for listening. There's a part two
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will love it. If you're not an Eagles fan, you'll
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more interesting guys in the league and doesn't talk often
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NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. Welcome everybody to a Super
Bowl Week edition of the Season with Peter Schreger. I
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am so thrilled to have two different podcasts here from Arizona.
Both of them are with very influential people in the NFL,
and both of them make for very unique guests in
a crowded space of NFL podcasts. You see, I got
here to Arizona and I said, did we get an
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next player? Do we get maybe a current player, Do
we get a former, you know, league executive, somebody, anyone,
maybe one of the guys calling the games? And that
all would be great. I thought, for this week's podcast,
let's get two guests, the two lead dogs of both
of these franchises. Yes, in this episode, it is going
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to be chairman and CEO of the Kansas City Chiefs,
mister Clark Hunt. And in part two, which is going
to be posting shortly thereafter, it is the chairman and
CEO of the Philadelphia Eagles, mister Jeffrey Lorie's quick background
on Clark Hunt. He became CEO of the Chiefs in
twenty ten his father, Lamar Hunt. Of course, when the
legends of football history passed away and Clark took over.
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He was officially CEO in twenty ten, and he has
been the driving force behind the resurgence of the Chiefs franchise.
The Chiefs have won eight AFC West titles and have
been to the playoffs ten different times since twenty ten alone.
They are AFC champions this year. They were AFC champions
two years ago, they were AFC Champions three years ago.
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That means Clark has hoisted the Lamar Hunt Trophy three
of the past four seasons. He's also done incredible things
with the org chart. When he took over, it was
the GM reports to the owner and so on and
so forth. No, no, he changed things. He said, let's
restructure the organization and how this thing is built. The
coach directly reports to the owner. The GM directly reports
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to the owner, and that was in twenty thirteen. It
also sinks up quite nicely with the hiring of maybe
the most influential person in this Chief's organization on the field,
mister Andy Reid. I'm excited to ask Clark about the
hiring of Andy Reid. How that all went down. And
I'm also going to ask about the hiring of Brett Veach,
which was an internal hire in twenty seventeen as a
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general manager. But Clark, of course, when he brought in
Andy Reid, Andy Reid, he himself took Brett Veach from
Philadelphia with him to Kansas City. Look, Clark Hunt is
a leading voice among a lot of the NFL owners
because of the different committees he's on. He's on the
NFL Finance Committees, on the Personal Conduct committees, on the
International committees, on the Management Council Executive Committee, and he
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played a key role in a lot of those CBA
dealings both in twenty eleven and in twenty twenty. This
dude loves his Chiefs. He loves his Chiefs. It is
a family business. And he is there at every game
and he is there on the crowns and arrowhead when
you see them take the field every Sunday in those
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home games. I am excited to bring on Clark Hunt
as gentleman, the CEO and chairman of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Mister Clark Hunt, and with no further ado, I'm excited
about this guest. He's the chairman and CEO of the
Kansas City Chiefs, and his team is in the Super
Bowl yet again, and they are now AFC champions the
third time in four years. Clark Hunt, Welcome to the
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season with Peter Schreker. Yeah, thank you very much. It's
a pleasure to be on with you today. Yeah. Look,
we're thrilled to have you. You know, the Andy Reid
storyline is playing such a huge role. But I feel
like there's this vague memory of Okay, well, Reid is
done with the Eagles, but three days later joins the
Kansas City Chiefs. I always wanted to know where were
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you in that process and the Chiefs organization as to
getting Andy right on board and away we go. Since
twenty thirteen, one of the most successful franchises in football. Yeah,
we're looking back. It's hard to believe that it's been
almost ten years ago, and how blessed we are to
have Andy. I remember, you know, calling him on Monday
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was referred to black Monday around the league. We had
just parted ways with our former coach, and I've heard
that Andy had been let go, and so I called
his cell phone, thinking, well, you know, I'm just gonna
be leaving a message and hopefully called me back later,
but he picked up and you know, which, you know,
shocked me. I'm not sure I was ready to talk
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to him. So we had a great conversation. We set
up an interview a couple of days later, which ended
up being in Philadelphia at FBO at the airport. You're
at the airport and if I remember, it was like
here the Chiefs are, and then there's always rumors that
like the Cardinals want to interview, and you read, but
it never even got to that point. The story goes,
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you guys meet, It's a nine hour interview, if I'm
not mistaken, maybe even longer. And by the end of
the day, Andy Reid was like, let's go. I'm the
new Chiefs head coach. Yeah. It was an amazing day.
We were supposed to have about a three or four
hour interview, and you know, we just hit it off.
And I had some of the chief staff there with
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me so he'd have an opportunity to visit with them,
and it was clear we had had a lot to
talk about it, and it just just kept going and going,
and eventually he told me, you see that plane out there.
I was supposed to get on that to go to Arizona.
Is that right? It was there in the part it
was there, like on the runway, it was it was
just outside, you know, with the step down, you know,
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ready for him to get on it. And you know,
he made the decision not to make that trip because
I think he felt like there was a really good
chemistry with me and the others who were there representing
the organization. So the interview, you're right, we went on
nine hours, which is a hard way. I'm not sure
was talked about for nine hours, but but we did,
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and uh, you know, we agreed to get together a
couple days later in Kansas City. He wanted to come
see our facilities and he wanted his wife came in
to get a chance to see Kansas City. And so
they came in on Friday, my wife that Tammy a tour.
I took Andy to the facility. He saw everything, loved
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what he saw, and by the end of the day
we had to sign contract. That's unbelievable. I love that.
That's a monumental moment in Chief's history. I think another
monumental moment might be the day that number fifteen was drafted.
Can you take us through your day that draft morning
when you wake up and you might have word that
we might be traded up. And when the pick was
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in and Patrick Holmes becomes the next quarterback of the
Kansas City Chiefs. Well, a lot of work went into
that decision, and our general manager Brett Leach was the
first one to get on Patrick and he started showing
Andy clips of Patrick's Texas Tech games a couple of
years before. You know, Patrick was ready to leave and
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declare for the draft. And like Brett does on a
lot of things, you know, he's pretty persistent, and he did.
I get him. You know, he's awesome. We love to
have him. And then went through the process. Patrick came
in for one of the visits in the lead up
to the draft. You know, Andy took him through the
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quiz that he likes to give quarterbacks and Patrick a
face that and so then they decided to bring me
in to watch a little tape of Patrick. And I
don't watch watch tape of players that were going to draft,
but they wanted to show me how special this player
was and why they wanted to move from late in
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the first round up to the tenth pick to get them.
So they showed me a few clips, you know, including
you know, one of Patrick's roll to your left, flip
your body around, throw the ball six yards, you know,
with sidearm, throw into the end zone. I was like,
that's that's pretty special. That's pretty good. Yeah, And so
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then we had the engineer of the trade and our
general manager at the time, John Dorsey, did a great
job of working with the Buffalo Bills to work out
a trade that we would execute that Patrick was still
on the board. Of course, we didn't let anybody know
who we were going after because we felt there were
some teams at eleven, twelve, and thirteen that wanted Patrick's
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and if they knew we were going to ten to
get Patrid, they might have jumped over us going to
the seven eighth, ninth pick so they could take them.
And we were all pretty nervous. You know. It was
probably our as into the draft before it was our
turn to pick, and you know, we had a lot
of nerves. And then he was there. You know, the
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excitement was unbelievable. That's an incredible story. And since then,
you know, the teams come out of the woodwork thing. Yeah,
we actually had them really high on our draft for it.
It's like the Chiefs did it. They made the move,
they were decisive, they had a quarterback, we take them
to the playoffs, and that kind of gut decision in
the conviction to do it. I think that's symbolic with
a lot of decisions the Chiefs have made as an organization. Look,
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you officially became the title of CEO in twenty ten.
Of course you've always been with the organization in some
capacity and in that time eight AFC West titles and
ten playoff appearances. It's consistency in a league that is
stacked and wants parody. What do you think is the
greatest thing that you could attribute to that consistency and
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this culture of winning in Kansas City? Well, as I
was taking over, one of my goals was to turn
us into a consistent winner. And of course there were
other organizations and NFL who had done that. Pittsburgh Steelers
across several decades had been a consistent winner, and of
course the Patriots more recently are the best example of it.
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And it's a very hard thing to attend because there's
so much turnover in the NFL on a yearly basis.
Of course, it all starts with your head coach, right,
you got to find the right head coach and somebody
that you can work with for the long term. And
we've been blessed with that with Andy now now for
ten years. And then Brett's been our general manager for
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about five years and he has done a phenomenal job.
He and Andy worked really well together. They're generally on
the same page, which you have to have with your
head coach and general manager. And then of course, you know,
having franchise quarterback I think is really the last piece
in the puzzle. And you're right. We had a tremendous
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quarterback and Alex Smith who led us to a lot
of success, a lot of playoffers, but Patword has now
just taken it to another level and we really have
the foundation. I think you know that they can not
only hopefully win a Super Bowl on Sunday, but continue
being successful going forward. Yeah, and we'll see on Sunday
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how it goes either way. The consistency and the success
to say three at the last four years as AFC
champions in this day and age where there's unprecedented you know,
strength to schedule the draft the way it's built. The
NFL is supposed to be a league that turns over
and the Chiefs, you guys are there every single year.
I find you interesting in the NFL's grand scheme because
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you're not just a part of the Chiefs. You're also
a chairman of the NFL Finance Committee, you serve on
the Personal Conduct Committee, you're in the International Committee, the
Management Council, Executive Committee. And having covered the labor deals
over the last twenty years, I know in twenty eleven
and twenty twenty what an influential person you were in
those conversations that To have those titles and to really
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dive into the NFL on the shield as a whole,
that's that's a commitment, but it's also a love. I
know your family history with the league and of course
with the sport, but you personally to play all those
different roles, where all those different hats, that's next level.
What what do you think about doing all that stuff
and what drives you to play a bigger role for
the league than not just the Chiefs, chairman and CEO. Well,
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first of all, I enjoy it. I love the league
responsibilities that I have. It is a lot of work,
but by working on many league initiatives that I'm involved with.
I'm indirectly making the Kansas City Chiefs better because it's
making the NFL better. I also think it's an advantage
for the Chiefs that I'm plugged into what's going on
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at the league office and the many initiatives that they have.
I'm aware of those. You know. Being involved in the
labor discussions has given me a good understanding of the
salary camp and how that works. So when I'm talking
to Brett Beach and our sary camp guys, I've got
some context there. So I think it's beneficial in many regards.
But first and foremost, I just really enjoy it. Yeah. Now,
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and the international stuff is huge. We got as a
show Good Morning Football, got to go to London and
Germany this year and to see the outpouring, and of
course we got the great announcement with the Chiefs in
Germany just a couple of weeks ago. I know that's
a piece that's close to your heart in a passion
of years. The international aspect, When did that come about?
And why are you so heavily invested in international expansion
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and growth of the NFL. Well, it really goes back
to my dad and his involvement with the league's international
affirst back in the eighties and nineties, and of course
that manifested himself in the league playing preseason games, which
the Chiefs played preseason games in Germany, in Japan, in Mexico,
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you know. So my dad was all about having the
Chiefs represent the NFL in those initiatives. And then of
course we also had NFL Europe, which is, you know,
something that our organization supported. Over time, we received a
number of players who got their careers going in the
NFL Europe and then came to the NFL. Ultimately, the
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league pivoted and decided that we've got to be bolder,
and over the last ten to twelve years, the league
decided really the best way to build a fan base
internationally is to play regular season games, and that's something
that we've embraced as well, playing a game in London,
playing a game in Mexico City a few years ago,
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and then, as you mentioned, we've got the game coming
up in Germany, and now the league has given the
teams the ability to market internationally here in the last
eighteen months or so, and the Chiefs were awarded the
rights to Germany in Mexico, and so we've been working
on that and we really just think getting to play
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a game there next year is really going to cause
the Chiefs Kingdom to continue to grow in Germany and
throughout Europe. You know, it's a Tampa Bay Seattle game.
We were over there in Munich and I'm walking down
the street with one of my co hosts and I
see a Chiefs bar in Munich. You've got Seattle and
Tampa Bay playing, but there was a Chiefs dedicated sports bar.
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I mean, I'm like, oh, certainly it's just expats who
live over here. And I walked in and it was Germans,
Germans who loved the Kansas City Chiefs, and I said,
all right, this is more than just hey, we're gonna
put a game in there and leave. This is a
commitment from the NFL and it's starting to pay off.
I also know you're very invested in the World Cup
and what that means to Kansas City coming up in
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twenty twenty six. And soccer runs deep in your family.
You yourself or the captain of the SMU soccer team,
obviously your father's amazing involvement in soccer in the States.
To know that there's gonna be a World Cup game
played in Kansas City. What's that mean to you? Yeah,
really really special. If you go back to the nineteen
ninety World World Cups, the US also hosted. My dad
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made that ort to get games in Kansas City, and
ultimately FIFA made the decision not to do that. And
so when the opportunity resurfaced on the twenty six World Cup,
we jumped on and worked really hard and it's just
an incredible win for the city to get to be
one of the World Cup posts. There's no better way
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to market a city on an international stage than getting
to host a World Cup game. So we're really excited
about it. It'll be a special moment for our family
when that first game kicks off an Arrowhead because there
was no place that my dad loved better than Arrowhead Stadium,
and you know, having a World Cup game played played
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in that venue is going to be really really special
for the listeners. Can you just shed a little light
on your father's connection to soccer in America? I think,
I mean, I've read the book Michael McCambridge. Your dad's
commitment to soccer as well as football is the stuff
of legend yeah, happy to do that just from a
contact standpoint. And and I want to tell the whole
story because it's long, But the NFL and my dad's
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American Football League had agreed to merge in nineteen sixty six.
After a big struggle in battle for five or six
years and having succeeded with the AFL, I think my
dad decided that he needed a new challenge, and so
in nineteen sixty seven he got involved with what became
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the North American Soccer League, which was really the first
division soccer league in the United States. His team with
the Dallas Tornado that played in Dallas, and that league
lasted about fifteen years. He'd actually fallen in love with
the sport first seeing a game with my mother when
she was in Ireland on a fellowship. He went over
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and visited her and they saw a pro game. I
think that may have been his first pro game. And
then he saw the nineteen sixty sixth Final between West
Germany and England, which is considered George best, one of
the great finals of all the time, and he was
captivated by the fans. And as he looked at that
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game on TV, he said, you know that game has
played on the field that looks about the same size
as the American football field. So I think part of
his motivation was, Hey, we could have a soccer league
and here in the US they could play mostly in
the summer and play in these new stadiums that were
being built at the time. So the process to build
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Arrowhead was actually under way in sixty six sixty seven.
The same thing with Texas Stadium in Dallas. That effort
was already underway, and he knew that stadium was going
to be built and so he thought, hey, this will
just be be a perfect fit. As it turned out,
he was about forty years early with that. Uh you know,
it's a great visionary but his vision on soccer was
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a little bit early. But as soon as the opportunity
came back around in nineteen nine six when Major League
Soccer started, he jumped in with both feet. We started
out owning two franchises, one in Kansas City, one in Columbus, Ohio.
We later added Dallas to the portfolio, so we were
running three MLS teams at once, and you know, he
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loved it, even though it was really really hard. You know,
now that league has really taken off over the last
ten to fifteen years, and we're going to have the
World Cup back, as you mentioned, which I think will
just be a celebration of what soccer has become in
the United States. What a cool story. That's an amazing story.
I love that you personally. Let's go back a couple
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of years twenty nineteen. This amazing run Sammy Watkins catches
that deep pass in the AFC Championship game, and like,
you get the chills down your spine. You're like, this
actually might happen. It's been fifty years. We're going back
to the Super Bowl, that AFC Championship game against Tennessee.
I know everyone focuses on the Super Bowl and hoisting
the Lombardy, they have to think hoisting the trophy with
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your father's name on it and going back to Super
Bowl that was pretty special stuff as well. Yeah, it
absolutely was. There'll never be an experience again like that
twenty nineteen season, in part because of the journey that
took to get there. Right, it had been fifty years
since the Chiefs had appeared in a Super Bowl. We
had never held the trophy that has my dad's name
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on it, or trophy given the AFC champion and to
stand on that stage, you know, after that game, received
that trophy, had my mother kiss it, which still brings
tears in my eyes just thinking about, and then looking
up at our fans who had stayed glued through their
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seat even though it was seventeen degrees and they'd been
out four or five hours freezing, and nobody left because
it was such a special moment and so important to
Kansas City. So I'll never forget that for sure. And then,
of course, you know, closing the deal in Miami a
couple of weeks later, winning the Labari Trophy, you know,
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made it truly a perfect season. Yeah, and the Chiefs
fans are a nationwide fan base. You know, we've had
on the podcast two of them who happened to be celebrities.
Paul Rudd is a is a huge Chief than he
came on early in the season. Eric stone Street last week,
I know you started the game by banging the drum.
Eric took over in the fourth quarter and got everyone
going Super Bowl Sunday, They'll both be there. Where will
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you be And what is your day like as you
gear up to say, hey, let's hoist this thing one
more time. Take us through the day. Of Clark Hunt
and the family as you gear up for Super Bowl
fifty seven. Yeah, well, we'll start out the morning at
the hotel. And something that Jonathan Craft shared with me
a few years ago when we were going to Super
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Bowl fifty four was to make sure you take some
time that warning to just reflect on where you are
and what you're doing. It's really easy on Super Bowl
Sunday to be at one of them after the other,
which will certainly do in the afternoon, but in the morning,
I think it'll just be some quiet family time, just
really celebrating the fact that we're back in the Super Bowl.
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Then we'll go to the stadium. The Chiefs have a
tailgate party plan for our staff and some fans and
friends who are going to be there, So I'll swing
by and uh, you know, say a lot of the
group there. Then I'll head over to the NFL tailgate party,
eat some shrimp. Probably that's gonna say like are we
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hanging or are we like tens? I feel like I
would be just like a drum that day. Yeah, you know,
I've wanted to really be calm until the balls in
the air. So first of all, there's nothing I can
do that he can't do anything at that point. Yeah, yeah,
I can't do anything, you know, you know, during the game,
et cetera. But you know, before the game, I've wanted
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to be freely relaxed, but the tension will definitely build
is as we head towards takoff and as soon as
the balls in the air, my nerves will be crazy.
Now I know you're competitive, and not because of the
way that you conduct your business with football. I know
it because Eric stone Street told me about a Washers
tournament in training camp. Can you go into this a
little bit. What do we got going on? And how
are you beating stone Street in a competitive game? So
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we had a lot of competitive people around me. The
Juice organization and our general manager, Bred Beach came up
with a Washers tournament for the mostly for the personnel staff,
and this year was the second or third version of that.
I had not gotten drafted to play in the past
year versions, but Bred told me about it when it
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was and I made sure that I was there for it.
And I'd never played Washers, so it was a new experience.
And you know, we had about sixteen teams and multiple
rounds and face off with stone Street at one point
and you got the better of him. And I'm not sure.
I'm not sure he's over right. He's still talking about it.
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But but anyhow, it was. It was a lot, a
lot of fun. And Mike Bradway, who's on our staff,
and I wait, we missed to pull out the victory.
And so I'm the reigning Wash Roos champion. Okay, so
you had never played before your first time out there,
you win. I mean, this is like having Isaiah Pacheco
and Jalen Watson and these rookies come out of nowhere
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and be making make plays in the AFC Championship Game.
This is the parallel. That's what I'm gonna say. Yeah, well,
maybe maybe we were just foreshadowing how important rookies were
going to base. You're setting the table and no doubt
ten rookies all that playing a role on this team.
Four was going to start in Super Bowl. I can't
say enough about the rookie class here. Uh. In closing, Clark,
thanks for doing this. The Hunt Family Foundation does incredible
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work and I know that's a passion as well. Several
different initiatives. I know education is one of them that's
close to your heart. What does the foundation working on
these days and where could listeners kind of direct their tension. Yeah, well,
we've had a charitable effort really since my dad bought
the team to Kansas City back in the sixties. That
was something that he focused on with the players and
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staff and you wanted to make sure that they were
contributing to the community. And that's something that we've just
carried on and really elevated over the last ten or
fifteen years. And we do a lot of stuff with education,
as you mentioned, a lot of children's initiatives in Kansas City,
and then we've really focused the last several years on
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supporting the players in their efforts. And of course you're
probably aware that Patrick Mahomes is up with Walter Payton
Man of the Year at NFL Honors tomorrow night, and
I think he has a great chance to win. I
went to his foundation's banquet a month ago and were
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so impressed by the great work he's doing in Kansas City.
So if you want to support something, let's support the
fifteen and Mahomies Foundation, which is the name of Patrick's foundation.
I love it. I start wish you good luck. You know,
this is a football game but for what the Chiefs
have done over the last decade and changes is it's
the stuff that you know, dynasties are built on. I
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know you guys don't like using those kind of words,
but the success is unparalleled right now in the NFL,
and you guys are one of the class organizations of
the league. Congratulations on everything and good luck on Sunday. Clark, right, well,
thanks very much and so fun being on with you today.
Awesome guys. Clark Hunt, CEO and chairman of the Kansas
City Chiefs joining us from Super Bowl in Arizona. So
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if he's seven is Sunday, we'll see how it all
goes down. But we know the Chiefs are in very
good hands. Clark Hunt, CEO and Chairman of the Kansas
City Chiefs. You're not getting that interview everywhere else. I
appreciate him taking the time. Busy week, as you heard,
he's pulling for Patrick Mahomes to win Walter Peyton Man
of the Year. We were discussing that earlier in the week,
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and I didn't think of my homes because I was thinking,
all right, you've got all these other guys who aren't
in the Super Bowl. I wonder if can my homes
be the winner of the Wilter Pitton Man of the Year.
Either way, go google Lamar Hunt and the soccer stuff
sounds incredible. The AFL stuff with Lamar Hunt is I'm
telling you, I watch what is it call it hang
(27:27):
Time about the Lakers and the eight a winning time
the Lakers in the eighties. I swear there is a
show or a movie to be made fictionalized, of course,
with a little bit of flavor of the start of
the AFL, because those were the wild, wild West days
of football. Then the merger with the NFL and Lamar
Hunts front center and all of it. That's Clark's dad.
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He passes the Chiefs of course, go through a few
head coaches, you know, they go through a couple general managers,
and then Andy Reid and eventually Brett Veach and now
there the model of consistency in the NFL. Really like
the Chiefs organization. I really like the Eagles organization. In
part two of this podcast, which you will get on
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your feed coming up shortly, I also am going to
sit down with Jeffrey Lorie, the president, the chairman, and
the CEO of the Philadelphia Eagles. That's going to be
Part two. Click on that next really interesting stuff. His
perspective on the Andy Reid transition from Philly to Kansas City,
and of course what makes the Eagles such a successful organization.
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That's gonna be Part two. Our sponsor, Draft Kings. Let's
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I want to give you a couple names, a couple
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Start with Kenneth Gainwell. Kenneth Gainwell has an incredible story
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to him. He was a crazy athlete out of Yazoo City,
Mississippi in high school where he went to yaow Zoo
City County High and say yeah, Zoo County High. Gainwell
had one hundred touchdowns as the high school quarterback. Goes
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members to COVID. He himself said I'm not playing this
season health concerns. Goes into the draft and the Eagles
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playoffs he's their game breaker. And right now, Kenneth Gainwell
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Jerrick McKinnon is an interesting player on the Kansas City Chiefs.
He's there running back who does all the blocking on
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I would just say this. McKinnon catching the ball has
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podcast episode Again. I want to thank Jason English, the maestro,
the man behind the curtain, who's making this all happen,
Kurt Garand who is filling in nobly to help out
while are here on site in Arizona. I want to
thank the man Aaron Wong Kaufman, always tremendous on the podcast,
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and of course the NFL network side, Matthew Schneider, Jason Kleinman,
Meredith Batten, who has been fantastic and getting these podcasts
up and out the last few days. Guys, I'll be
on Good Morning Football all mornings throughout the week if
you're watching and you're listening, and of course on Suitabowl Sunday,
I will be guess what would you say? I would
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be prominently featured on the pregame show. I'm covering the
Kansas City Chiefs Aaron Andrews will take it during the game,
and then I will be back in postgame doing interviews
with the players, and we'll see might be Clark Kant,
might be Jeffrey Lorie. We're not sure how it's gonna
work either way. I will be a part of that
covered for Fox. Cannot wait, and also just want to
thank all you guys for listening. There's a part two
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coming right up now. If you're an Eagles fan, you
will love it. If you're not an Eagles fan, you'll
find it fascinating because Jeffrey Lorie is one of the
more interesting guys in the league and doesn't talk often
with podcasts, so I'm excited about that. Till then, everybody,
enjoy the football. The Season with Peter Schrager is a
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