Saturday, February 03, 2007

Super Bowl I Connection


I once had a very brief, vague connection with a non-Packer Super Bowl I player. In January of 1992, my wife and I got engaged in Kansas City, MO (it's a long story). Earlier in the evening prior to the actual engagement, we ate with her parents at the Hereford House restaurant (a famous K.C. steakhouse). At the next table was Bobby Bell, former Kansas City Chiefs Linebacker and pro football Hall of Famer.

Bell played for the Chiefs, first in the American Football League from 1963 through 1969, and then in the NFL from 1970 through 1974. Bell was an AFL All-Star for six consecutive years, 1964 through 1969, and then an NFL Pro Bowler for three straight years (1970-1972). He was on two AFL Championship teams and a World Championship team. He was named to the All-Time All-AFL Team in 1970. He was inducted into the Chiefs Hall of Fame in 1980, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1983.