The Dawson family made a declaration to KMBC, where Dawson became sports boss in 1966 (while he was meanwhile playing). Dawson consumed at least 40 years at the station, preceding moving in an opposite direction from the anchor workspace in 2009.

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“With life partner Linda close to him, it is with much difficulty that we enlighten you in regards to the passing of our dear Len Dawson. He was a grand mate, father, kin and buddy. Len was constantly grateful and normally destroyed by the endless securities he made during his football and broadcast callings. He valued Kansas City and paying little mind to where his developments took him, he couldn’t hold on to get back.

“Linda requirements to perceive and thank the sublime gathering of trained professionals, orderlies and care staff at KU Med who showed monster proportions of reverence and compassion for Len.”

Enrolled into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987, Dawson made just two starting points during his underlying five seasons in the NFL. He got his break in 1962 when he joined the Dallas Texans, an AFL club in its third year of presence. Dawson drove the Texans to an AFL title that season resulting to driving the relationship in completing rate and score passes.

One of virtuoso football’s best quarterbacks during the 1960s, Dawson drove the AFL in completing rate on various occasions in excess of an eight-year range. He in like manner paced the relationship in score spends on various occasions more than a five-year term. Dawson’s success implied wins for Kansas City, who moved metropolitan networks after the 1962 season. The Chiefs got the AFL title in 1966 while punching their pass to the chief Super Bowl. Dawson threw a first half score pass, but the Chiefs ultimately tumbled to Vince Lombardi’s Packers, who brought back five NFL titles during the decade. A picture taken of Dawson smoking a cigarette at halftime turned out to be maybe of the most famous picture in virtuoso football history.

Following three years, the Chiefs effectively got back to the Super Bowl resulting to conquering the beyond two AFL champions – – the New York Jets and Oakland Raiders – – toward the finish of the time games. Kansas City would face the overwhelmingly favored Vikings in the last game played before the AFL-NFL union. No matter what the Vikings’ significant protect and a messy landmark, Dawson completed practically 71% of his passes while throwing the game-getting score pass to Otis Taylor, who got Dawson’s rapid pass and ran 40 yards to bonanza. Dawson won MVP acclaims following Kansas City’s 23-7 victory.

Dawson continued to play at a supreme level following the solidification. He was named to his seventh Pro Bowl in 1971 while helping lead the Chiefs to a division with naming. On Christmas Day, 1971, he quarterbacked in the longest game in NFL history, as Kansas City tumbled to Don Shula’s Dolphins in a divisional round season finisher game that persevered through very nearly 83 minutes.

In 1975, the 40-year-old Dawson drove the NFL in fulfillment rate in what was his last season. During his 14 years with the Chiefs’ affiliation, Dawson went 98-59-3 as a starting quarterback. Dawson was significant for an exquisite Chiefs bunch that similarly featured Taylor, running back Mike Garrett, unfriendly linemen Jim Tyrer and Ed Budde, Hall of Famers Curley Culp, Bobby Bell, Willie Lanier, Emmitt Thomas, and kicker Jan Stenerud. The Chiefs were furthermore determined by Hall of Fame guide Hank Stram and Hall of Fame owner Lamar Hunt.

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A trailblazer off the turf as one of the fundamental player-broadcasters, Dawson participated in a lengthy telecom calling that consolidated a 24-year-run as the host of HBO’s Inside the NFL. Dawson moreover filled in as the Chiefs’ radio assortment master from 1985-2017. He got the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award for his dependable responsibilities as a games broadcaster in 2012.

“Recollecting my employment, I’ve been respected for what I had the expected opportunity to do,” Dawson said in 2017.