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Old 08-14-2017, 02:47 PM  
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Len Dawson discussion
Len Dawson has announced his retirement from broadcast following this season.
After playing 19 seasons as a quarterback and doing NFL broadcast since 1978, this superbowl MVP, hall of fame quarterback is a worthwhile topic of discussion.

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl...166146567.html

A Hall of Fame quarterback who went on to become the living-room voice of the Chiefs on the radio is saying goodbye to the airwaves.

The Chiefs and Chiefs Radio Network announced on Tuesday that this will be Len Dawson’s final year as a broadcaster for the team.

Dawson, 82, is entering his 33rd year with the network. This season, he’ll contribute pre-produced segments and live pregame analysis leading up to kickoff.

Former Chiefs long snapper Kendall Gammon, who worked as an analyst for road games last year, will be the analyst for all Chiefs games.



“Looking back on my career, I’ve been blessed for what I had the opportunity to do,” Dawson said through the Chiefs.





Dawson’s broadcasting story is a unique one. His on-air career started in 1966, in the middle of his playing career, working for KMBC-TV Channel 9 as the station’s first sports anchor.

The television career took off. In 1978, three years after he retired after a 19-year playing career as the Chiefs greatest quarterback, Dawson became host of HBO’s Inside the NFL, the league’s first weekly highlights show and the first NFL-related program to appear on cable.

Dawson remained with the program until 2001, and also spent six years as a game anaylst for NBC Sports. In 1984, Dawson joined the Chiefs Radio Network as a color commentator, and two years later he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

“Next to my father, few people have had a more lasting impact on the Kansas City Chiefs than Len Dawson,” Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt said. “Over the course of his legendary career — first as a player and later as a broadcaster — Len has been a part of every major moment of franchise history.”

Dawson stepped down from his nightly duties at KMBC in 2009 but has continued to report for the station during the football season, and will continue in that role.



In 2012, Dawson won the Hall of Fame’s Pete Rozelle Award for “longtime exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football.”

He’s been with the Chiefs organization since 1962, the final year the team played in Dallas as the Texans. Dawson led that team to the AFL championship. He continued as starting quarterback when the team moved to Kansas City the next season and led the Chiefs to the AFL titles in 1966 and 1969.

Dawson was MVP of the Super Bowl victory over the Minnesota Vikings after the 1969 season, and he’s the franchise leader in career passing yards (28,507) and touchdowns (237).

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl...#storylink=cpy
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Old 08-14-2017, 05:29 PM   #16
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I feel as if I have known Len my entire life. Actually, I have. Born in 1964.
I became a Chiefs fan watching Lenny the cool throw the ball to Otis Taylor. I thought he was the "coolest" player in the NFL. Later on in life I met him on several occasions. Was as nice as he could be to me.
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Old 08-14-2017, 06:17 PM   #17
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Old 08-14-2017, 06:22 PM   #18
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I feel as if I have known Len my entire life. Actually, I have. Born in 1964.
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My cousin & I would take turns being Lenny to Otis.
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Old 08-14-2017, 06:24 PM   #19
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Old 08-14-2017, 06:59 PM   #20
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Football history severely underrates Lenny The Cool. The guy played until he was 40, and among quarterbacks who played before the passing rules were relaxed, only Otto Graham and Roger Staubach had higher quarterback ratings. At the time that he retired, he was ranked 9th all-time in passing yards. He was clearly one of the best quarterbacks of the pre-1977 era.
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Old 08-14-2017, 07:25 PM   #21
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Football history severely underrates Lenny The Cool. The guy played until he was 40, and among quarterbacks who played before the passing rules were relaxed, only Otto Graham and Roger Staubach had higher quarterback ratings. At the time that he retired, he was ranked 9th all-time in passing yards. He was clearly one of the best quarterbacks of the pre-1977 era.

That is also why Otis Taylor should be in the HOF.
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Old 08-14-2017, 07:33 PM   #22
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I love how he would call out the team on the radio if they weren't playing well; a nice contrast to Mitch's homerism.
Haven't listened to him in a long time, but he would always call out the QB play if it was mediocre. I imagine that it was pretty frustrating for him to see decades of putrid QB play.
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Old 08-14-2017, 09:17 PM   #23
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The most impressive part of #16s carreer and length of it isn't the 19 years...even though that is impressive by today's standards. Dawson did it at a time with dirty shots from shithead raiders, blows to the head, late hits and ankle diving broncos.

He did it during a time when a knee injury meant your career and they couldn't repair an ACL or an Achilles.

....and he brought a championship to the Chiefs....albeit before I was born.
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Old 08-14-2017, 11:06 PM   #24
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Didn't we just have this discussion in another thread last week?

Maybe my memory is shot as I get older.....

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=309227
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we al got different memories, is this causing you problems?
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I remember meeting Lenny doing an appearance at a grocery store in 1965. Players didn't make much money then.
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That is also why Otis Taylor should be in the HOF.
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This play happened right in front of me. I was in the Huddle Club in old Municipal Stadium in that end zone. It was an amazing catch. And yes, Otis should be in the HOF no doubt about it.
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