The Chiefs were originally the Dallas Texans, starting in Dallas in 1960 and moving to KC and becoming the Chiefs in 1963. Before the first Super Bowl after the 1966 season, the NFL and AFL had separate championship games and were fierce competitors for players coming out of college. Two weeks ago, the Chiefs won the AFC Championship game, winning the Lamar Hunt trophy, named after the founder of the Chiefs who was also one of the driving forces behind the formation of the AFL in 1960 as well as the NFL-AFL merger. For the first four Super Bowls, the two leagues hadn't formally changed into one league with two conferences, making the Chiefs the last AFL Champion. The Super Bowl started when the NFL merged with the American Football League, forming a larger league with two conferences, the NFC (National Football Conference) and the AFC (American Football Conference). The Kansas City Chiefs were in the first and fourth Super Bowls (although they weren't offically called 'Super Bowl' until the third one in 1969), losing the first to the Green Bay Packers under Coach Vince Lombardi, for whom the Super Bowl trophy is named, and winning the fourth one over the Minnesota Vikings.

This was the 100th year of the NFL, and the 54th Super Bowl. It is the National Football League's championship game.

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