1963 Kansas City Chiefs season 1963 Kansas City Chiefs season The 1963 Kansas City Chiefs season was the inaugural season of Kansas City's new football franchise. Despite winning the AFL championship game the previous year, the Chiefs were 5–7–2 in 1963, third in the four-team Western division. The Chiefs were winless for two months in the middle of the season and were eliminated from the postseason in mid-November after ten games; they finished the season with three consecutive wins at home, with diminished attendance. For the previous three seasons, the team was known as the Dallas Texans. Owner and founder Lamar Hunt moved the team
History of the Kansas City Chiefs with the Chiefs. Tragedy struck the club when rookie running back Stone Johnson, who was a sprinter in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, suffered a fractured vertebra in his neck in a pre-season game against Oakland on August 30 in Wichita, Kansas. He died 10 days later on September 8 and his jersey number 33 was subsequently retired. The Chiefs finished their first season in Kansas City with a 5–7–2 record and failed to reappear in the AFL Championship game for a consecutive year. In 1964, the Chiefs began the year with a 2–1 mark before dropping three consecutive