9 Dec 1996: Head Coach Marty Schottenheimer of the Kansas City Chiefs argues with a referee in the second half of the Raiders v Chiefs game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California. Mandatory Credit: Jed Jacobsohn/ALLSPORT
The Kansas City Chiefs lost a valuable member of the family on Tuesday with the news that former head coach Marty Schottenheimer, a most beloved member of Chiefs Kingdom, passed away “peacefully” at the age of 77.
Schottenheimer was one of the most successful head coaches in franchise history, giving the team a full decade of consistent and successful leadership throughout most of the ’90s—from 1989 when he was first hired to ’98.