Chiefs helped make Super Bowl the spectacle it is today

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For those old enough to remember, this is a nostalgic piece. I was a junior in high school and at halftime, my mom asked my boyfriend and I to run up to the store to get something. I will never forget how deserted the streets were. It was like a ghost town. And when we got to the store, all the employees were sitting in front of a TV watching the halftime show. Then that night we went downtown and there was a huge party. Some of my friends went to the airport to meet the team when they came in late that night. It was still the old downtown airport, they hadn't opened KCI yet. You could stand on the runway and meet people as they got off the plane and my friend got Len Dawson's autograph.

Good times and so much fun.

By RANDY COVITZ
The Kansas City Star

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. | Tonight, Len Dawson will be in the Super Bowl spotlight again.

Dawson, the Chiefs Hall of Fame quarterback, will hand the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winners of Super Bowl XLIV — 40 years after he and his Kansas City teammates helped spark the transformation of this game from curiosity to national holiday.

“To think we were part of that and what jump-started what this is all about today…” reflected Dawson, the game’s MVP when the Chiefs shocked heavily favored Minnesota 23-7 on Jan. 11, 1970, in New Orleans.

“No one would have dreamed in those days it would be this kind of spectacle.”

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1. Neat, go chiefs!

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2. My Dad and I watched the game at a cousin's house in

Prairie Village. We all went outside at half time and convinced ourselves we were going to win. I still remember how smug Lombardi was after the game. This year was the first time I cheered for an NFC team to win the big game when the Raiders weren't in it.