Grow up in Kansas City in the 1950s and 1960s and you’ll find any sports fan worth his salt recalling the joy of Christmas morning, accompanied later by pain following the playing of the Chiefs Christmas Day game of 1971, the team’s final game played at the city’s old Municipal Stadium.
Oddly enough, to late Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt, a deeply spiritual person in his own right and a generally positive one by most accounts, he considered that game to be a memorable one even though it ended in defeat.
