Before Grant Curtis helped produce the “Spiderman” trilogy and “Oz: The Great and Powerful” and more recently began working on “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2,” before he was just about anything else, he remembers being “a card-carrying member of the Chiefs Huddle Club.”
As such, the Warrensburg, Mo., native was one of the kids who’d be pestering Chiefs players for wrist bands or towels or autographs after scrimmages or games.
Then when Curtis was 11, Chiefs running back Joe Delaney died trying to save three drowning boys in his home state of Louisiana — a shocking death made all the more piercing by the fact that Delaney couldn’t swim.