Born: 2-Aug-1932
Birthplace: El Dorado, AR
Died: 13-Dec-2006
Location of death: Dallas, TX
Cause of death: Cancer - Prostate

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Football, Soccer, Tennis
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Founder of the American Football League

Lamar Hunt's father, Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, was the founder of Hunt Oil, and was worth about $2.5-billion when he died. Young Lamar was always a sports fan, and played second-string tight end at Southern Methodist University. In the 1950s, he approached the National Football League on several occasions, seeking to buy a franchise for his hometown of Dallas, but he was repeatedly rebuffed. Frustrated but fabulously rich, Hunt began calling other millionaires, and organized a rival pro football circuit, the American Football League, in 1960.

Hunt himself was owner of the AFL's Dallas Texans, but the NFL countered by adding an expansion team in Dallas in the same season, the NFL's Cowboys -- so Dallas, which had previously had no pro team, suddenly had two. For the first few years of the AFL, the established NFL had a better standard of play, and even though the Texans won more games, the city's affections were with the Cowboys. Coached by Hank Stram, the Dallas Texans won the AFL championship in 1962, and after moved his team to Kansas City in 1963, renaming them the Kansas City Chiefs, the team won two more AFL championships, in 1966 and 1969.

When the two leagues agreed to have their respective champions play each other, it was Hunt who came up with the catchy name for the game, "The Super Bowl". His Chiefs lost Super Bowl I to the NFL's Green Bay Packers, 35-10. The AFL and NFL merged in 1970, and with some rejiggering, the AFL teams became the American Football Conference, comprising half the combined NFL. The Chiefs won that season's Super Bowl IV, defeating the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 -- the team's last league championship to date. Hunt was for many years an advocate of adding the college and AFL's two-point conversion to the NFL game, a rule change which was finally enacted in 1994. The AFC championship trophy is named in his honor, and he was inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972.

Hunt also owned the Kansas City Wizards pro soccer team, until selling the club in 2006. Under his ownership, the Wizards won the Major League Soccer championship in 2000, defeating the Chicago Fire 1-0. Hunt was also involved in the formation of two now-defunct sports leagues, the North American Soccer League, a pro circuit from 1967-1984, and World Championship Tennis, a pro tennis tour that ran from 1967-1989. The United States Soccer Federation's championship trophy was re-named in Hunt's honor in 1999.

Beyond being a sports nut, Hunt owned Hunt Midwest Real Estate Development, which operates SubTropolis, a vast underground office complex in Kansas City carved out of limestone, and Hunt Martin Materials, which is, not coincidentally, a major supplier of limestone.

Hunt's son, Lamar Hunt Jr., was accused of raping his mentally disabled sister-in-law in 1997. He apologized in a handwritten apology titled "Confessions of a Sex Addict", but in a subsequent lawsuit he denied the accusations, before paying $2-million to settle a lawsuit over the matter in 2000.

Father: H. L. Hunt (oil millionaire, b. 1889, d. 1974)
Mother: Lyda Bunker Hunt (m. 26-Nov-1914, d. 1955)
Sister: Margaret Hunt Hill (philanthropist, b. 1916 with Bunker)
Brother: Haroldson Lafayette Hunt III ("Hassie", b. 1918 with Bunker, Hunt Petroleum executive)
Sister: Caroline Rose Hunt (CEO, Rosewood Hotels and Resort, b. 1923 with Bunker)
Brother: Nelson Bunker Hunt (b. 1926 with Bunker, tried to corner silver market)
Brother: William Herbert Hunt (b. 1929 with Bunker, tried to corner silver market)
Sister: Haroldina Franch Hunt (half-sister, b. in Hunt's father's bigamous marriage with Frania Tye Lee, d.)
Sister: Helen Lee Cartledge Hunt (half-sister, b. with Frania Tye Lee, d.)
Brother: Howard Lee Hunt (half-brother, b. with Frania Tye Lee, d.)
Brother: Hugh Hunt (half-brother, founder of Constructivist Foundation, b. 1932 with Frania Tye Lee, d. 2002)
Mother: Ruth Ray (stepmother, married Hunt's father in 1957)
Brother: Ray Lee Hunt (half-brother, CEO of Hunt Oil, b. 1943 with Ray)
Sister: June Hunt (half-sister, hosts Christian radio program, b. 1943 with Ray)
Sister: Helen LaKelly Hunt (half-sister, author-charity executive, b. 1949 with Ray)
Sister: Swanee Hunt (half-sister, former US Ambassador to Austia, b. 1950 with Ray)
Wife: Norma Hunt (three sons, one daughter)
Son: Lamar Hunt, Jr. (former private school headmaster)
Daughter: Sharron Hunt Munson
Son: Clark Hunt (Kansas City Chiefs executive)
Son: Daniel Hunt

    High School: The Hill School (1951)
    University: BS Geology, Southern Methodist University (1956)
    Administrator: Trustee, Southern Methodist University

    Freedom and Free Enterprise PAC
    Pro Football Hall of Fame 1972
    Texas Sports Hall of Fame 1984
    Missouri Sports Hall of Fame 1990
    International Tennis Hall of Fame 1993
    Risk Factors: Prostate Cancer,

    SPORTS FRANCHISE HISTORY
    Dallas Texans Founder, original Head Coach
    Kansas City Chiefs Founder, original Head Coach

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