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GAME DAY INACTIVES
October 11th – 10:34 AM

CHIEFS

15 Matt Gutierrez - 3rd QB
14 WR Quinten Lawrence
23 CB Mike Richardson
29 RB Dantrell Savage
60 G/T Ikechuku Ndukwe
84 WR Bobby Engram
85 TE Jake O’Connell
97 LB Pierre Walters

COWBOYS
7 Stephen McGee - 3rd QB
11 WR Roy Williams
28 RB Felix Jones
36 S Michael Hamlin
43 S Gerald Sensabaugh
64 G Montrae Holland
77 T Pat McQuistan
98 LB Curtis Johnson

WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT
October 10th – 6:54 PM

This weekend truly is about honoring the past at Arrowhead. The Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Texans alumni are forever appreciated and truly beloved by both the fan base and the organization. It’s very fitting that the weekend of “The Game That Never Was” is also Alumni Weekend in Kansas City.

Things got started this morning as the Chiefs alumni had an opportunity to give back to the community by serving lunch to residents at reStart, the benefactor of the Hall of Fame Golf Classic proceeds. Alumni served roughly 150-200 individuals (including single men and women, children and families) from 11:30 am – 1 pm.

Currently, at the Arrowhead Pavilion, the Chiefs organization is celebrating 50 years of Chiefs football with alumni. The entire Hunt family is on hand, as well as Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli to honor the numerous former Chiefs in attendance.

The casual event began with socializing, followed by dinner and a brief program honoring K Nick Lowery and the anniversary of Super Bowl IV. All alumni in attendance were recognized and heard a short presentation on the New Arrowhead’s Hall of Honor paying tribute to the team’s great past and its great players.

Tomorrow, however, is where the action begins with the Chiefs Sea of Red loud and proud behind KC’s alumni.

Prior to kickoff, RB Priest Holmes will be recognized on field for his retirement. All alumni will be introduced on the field at halftime with special recognition of the 40^th Anniversary of Super Bowl IV followed by a special presentation to the newest member of the Chiefs Hall of Fame, Nick Lowery. Alumni will also be signing autographs during pre-game, so get to Arrowhead early!

A fly-over is also scheduled and, in addition to the Chiefs alumni in attendance, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and former Chiefs head coach Dick Vermeil will be taking in the sights and sounds of alumni weekend.

See you in the morning!

DALLAS ROSTER UPDATE
October 10th – 12:04 PM

UPDATE: Both wide receiver Roy Williams (ribs) and running back Felix Jones (knee) have been ruled out for Sunday’s game at Kansas City and did not accompany the team on the charter. 

The Dallas Cowboys released center Duke Preston today. The team signed running back Chauncey Washington from their practice squad to the 53-man roster.  Washington made his Cowboys debut last week at Denver (10/4) recording a special teams tackle.

ROLLBACK THE THROWBACK
October 10th – 7:24 AM

It’s time to rollback the throwbacks! Arrowhead is going vintage this weekend and we’re gonna party AFL style!

The year was 1962 and the rival National Football League had just deemed the grabbing of facemasks an illegal act, the City Beer Company unleashed the first cans able to be opened by tab, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth and the Kansas City Chiefs were the Dallas Texans.

There were two professional football teams gracing the city of Dallas. One was Lamar Hunt’s upstart American Football League Texans and the other was the NFL’s Cowboys – an upstart team of their own with the sole purpose to compete directly with Hunt squad.

1962 was the final year that Kansas City was without professional football. Hunt moved the Texans to Kansas City the following year after co-existing with the Cowboys for three seasons. There was no love lost when Hunt moved his team from Dallas despite their far superior record, but there was no way the city could support two professional teams. Something had to give.

An excerpt from the book COTTON BOWL DAYS explains the lay of the land:
• Improbably…Dallas had two professional football teams. Hunt predicted the city would not support both, and suggested the Cowboys would have to leave because the Texans were determined to stay. The Cowboys responded that Dallas would just have two teams if Hunt was staying, because the Cowboys were also staying. The war of Dallas had begun. As badly as the NFL wanted the Cowboys to carry its flag and crush the Texans, its fathers were not overly eager.

Ultimately it was indeed the Texans who moved cities in 1963. What was Dallas’ loss was truly Kansas City’s gain.

Ironically, just three years after refusing Hunt’s offers to settle the score on the field, Cowboys owner Tex Schramm began a series of secret meetings with Hunt at Dallas’ Love Field Airport. By 1970, Hunt and Schramm had successfully set the stage for the AFL to merge with the NFL, creating professional football as we know it today.

This weekend, the final chapter in Hunt’s AFL story gets written as “The Game That Never Was” will finally be played. On Sunday, the Chiefs will transform into the 1962 AFL Champion Dallas Texans, while the Cowboys will wear vintage uniforms of their own from their 1960 season. The two teams have played each other eight times before, but never in the fashion that Hunt envisioned. That all ends tomorrow.

With weather conditions calling for cold and rainy conditions, Sunday’s game may actually resemble the style of play associated with the early 1960’s. But instead of having to stop the rushing tandem of Don Perkins and Amos Marsh, the Chiefs will be responsible for controlling Marion “The Barbarian” Barber and Tashard Choice (Felix Jones isn’t expected to play).

The Cowboys feature an old-school rushing attack that churns out an average of over 160 yards per contest. They lead the league in explosive runs of 20 or more yards and rank second in the league of run consisting of 10 or more yards. The key to beating the Cowboys, just like in the early 1960s, is stopping their rushing attack.

“Again, I think they lead in explosive runs and have some weapons,” Chiefs head coach Hank Stram, err Todd Haley said. “It sounds like a broken record. But I was with Marion (Barber) for three years and I know what he is. He’s bringing it every down. You had better be ready to tackle him. He can bounce it; he can cut it back. He’s a whirling Dervish.”

Through the air, Cowboys QB Don Meredith – I mean Tony Romo – has been labeled as inconsistent, passing for only four TDs this season. Romo has struggled to put points on the board as of late, leading his club to TDs on just two of their last 22 offensive possessions. But, at the end of the day this is a team that averages over 400-yards of total offense per ballgame – a mark that rank among the top five in the league. I think Romo will trade “inconsistent” slams any day for 400 yards of offensive production on Sunday.

In 1962 RB Abner Haynes became the franchise’s first-ever 1,000-yard rusher, concluding the year with a franchise single-season record 1,049 rushing yards and 13 TDs. Today, the Chiefs ground attack is led by Larry Johnson, a man who currently owns the franchise’s single-season rushing mark of 1,789 yards, which he set back in 2006.

But Johnson has gotten out of the gates slow this season, averaging nearly two yards under his career average mark per carry of 4.5 yards. To be successful on Sunday for this version of the Texans, LJ will need to turn in a physical game along with his teammates up front. It would also benefit the club to get a boost from one of Johnson’s backups, much like Haynes got from rookie RB Curtis McClinton back in 1962.

“I think that trying to be physical this week is going to be the game plan,” Johnson said. “We know that we have to use the weapons that we have on this team to the fullest extent to even have a chance. Dallas has a lot of athletes that are very good at their position, so we have to be a lot more physical than we’ve been the last couple of weeks.”

That version of the Texans didn’t lose their first game until October as they finished with an 11-3 regular season record en route to a 20-17 double overtime victory in the AFL Championship Game over the Houston Oilers. The Chiefs hope to channel some of those good vibes from the past on Sunday. Maybe the throwbacks will do the trick.

So, won’t you sing this actual Texans jingle with me? (or listen)

Cheer the ZING team of Pro Football,

The Dazzling Dallas Texans.

Join the YELL for the AFL,

And the roarin’, scorin’ Texans.

All the spine-tingling, ring-a-ding-a-ling,

Leather-popping play has SEEN!

DALLAS. TEXANS. BIG D’s TEAM!

Rack ‘em, Texans! (Sing!)

The Dallas Texans!