Sunday, January 02, 2005

Birthday: Hank Stram

While serving as an assistant coach for his alum, Purdue, Hank Stram was hired to be the first head coach of the Dallas Texans of the new American Football League in 1959. The Texans won the 1962 AFL Championship and proceeded to move to Kansas City where they would become the Chiefs. Stram coached his team to to Superbowl I where he lost to the Packers. But three years later he gave credence to the AFL by beating the favored Vikings in the Superbowl. He ended his career in 1977 with the New Orleans Saints. His Texans/Chiefs teams won more games than any other AFL organization.

Hank Stram was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2003.

If he died today, he would be worth 18 points for Greg.

1 comment:

Greg (Rug) said...

Just to follow up. For those of you who watch NFL films. Hank's most famous quote is, "They're killing me Whitey, they're killing me"