Son of the reported wealthiest man in the nation, Texan Lamar Hunt had dreamed since his prep school days of owning a professional football team only to be turned away.
He had met with NFL commissioner Bert Bell repeated times and he had offered him nothing but discouragement. There would be no league expansion, indeed, the committee to entertain such matters had never met and if it had, it needed unanimous agreement from all the owners to expand. Moreover, the league’s previous foray years before into Dallas — Hunt’s hometown — had been a disaster and the team gone.