Words of Wisdom

Think of Hank Stram and you can’t help but recall NFL films classic-footage of Super Bowl IV. A championship coach was wired for sound for the first time, and there was Stram, cackling and bragging to his “boys” that the “coach pumped it in there” after the Chiefs scored an important touchdown en route to their upset of the Minnesota Vikings, the AFL’s second Super Bowl victory. It’s hard to believe that only a few years earlier, Stram had considered giving up coaching to become a sporting goods salesman, until Lamar Hunt called to offer him a head coaching job in a new professional football league. Stram coached the Dallas Texans to the AFL’s third championship, then when the team moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs, he became the AFL’s first representative coach in Super Bowl I, and won it all three years later. He was blessed with the full backing of a