{"id":2749,"date":"2023-06-05T00:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T00:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/06\/05\/norma-hunt-the-wife-of-kansas-city-chiefs-founder-lamar-and-mother-of-owner-clark-dies\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T00:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T00:24:04","slug":"norma-hunt-the-wife-of-kansas-city-chiefs-founder-lamar-and-mother-of-owner-clark-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/norma-hunt-the-wife-of-kansas-city-chiefs-founder-lamar-and-mother-of-owner-clark-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Norma Hunt, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar and mother of owner Clark, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"js-article-text\" wp_automatic_readability=\"100.93754940711\">\n<h2>&#8216;First Lady of Football&#8217; Norma Hunt, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar and mother of owner Clark, dies &#8211; four months after attending her 57th and final Super Bowl to watch her beloved team win<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>&#8216;First Lady of Football&#8217; Norma Hunt\u00a0was only woman to attend every Super Bowl<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The cause of death of the Kansas City Chiefs matriarch is currently unknown<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/us\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\">DailyMail.com <\/a>provides all the latest international sports news<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-205\/isabel-baldwin.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"noopener\">Isabel Baldwin For Dailymail.Com<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"><span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-published\"> <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Published:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2023-06-05T00:59:34+0100\"> 19:59 EDT, 4 June 2023 <\/time> <\/span> | <span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated\"> <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Updated:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2023-06-05T01:16:51+0100\"> 20:16 EDT, 4 June 2023 <\/time> <\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <!-- ad: https:\/\/mads.dailymail.co.uk\/v8\/us\/sport\/nfl\/article\/other\/para_top.html --> <!-- CWV --><!--[if !IE]><!--> <link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/mol-fe\/static\/mol-fe-async-bundle\/6.52.3\/articleDefer.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <!--<![endif]--> <!--[if IE]>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/1.17.0\/registration--.css\" media=\"screen\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<![endif]--> <!--[if !IE]><!--> <link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/17.16.0\/registration--.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <!--<![endif]--><!--[if IE]>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/1.17.0\/all-ie8-9--.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/1.17.0\/all1-ie8-9--.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<![endif]--> <!--[if !IE]><!--> <link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/mol-fe\/static\/mol-fe-sync-bundle\/8.32.0\/desktop.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/17.16.0\/all--.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/><link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/17.16.0\/all1--.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <!--<![endif]--> <!--[if IE 8]>\n\n<![endif]--> <!--[if IE 9]>\n\n<![endif]--> <!--[if IE]>\n\n<![endif]--> <!--[if !IE]> -->  <!--<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p>   <!-- SiteCatalyst code version: H.20.3.\n    Copyright 1997-2009 Omniture, Inc. 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She was a wonderful mother and an extraordinary woman who will be dearly missed by all who knew her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kind, generous and unfailingly positive, mom was one of a kind. Her joy and zeal for life were infectious. She loved caring for others, and she always had an encouraging word. She was a loyal friend, the consummate hostess and she had a rare ability to make everyone she encountered feel valued and at ease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mom was steadfastly devoted to her family and fiercely passionate about her family&#8217;s sports teams. She was by our father Lamar&#8217;s side every step of the way \u2013 from the merger of the AFL and the NFL to the formation of Major League Soccer, World Championship Tennis, the North American Soccer League, and their founding investment in the Chicago Bulls. She was the only person we knew who rivaled his love of sports. The two of them found such joy together, whether at home, or in stadium stands around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;[&#8230;] Her quiet yet deep faith sustained her throughout her life, and we take great comfort knowing that she is home with the Lord. She will be greatly missed by our family, the extended Chiefs and FC Dallas families, and by everyone who knew her.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The NFL also honored the &#8216;First Lady of Football&#8217; with Commissioner Roger Goodell paying tribute to Norma in a statement released Sunday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u200b&#8217;The entire NFL family is deeply saddened by the passing of Norma Hunt, who was a significant presence in the NFL for the last seven decades,&#8217; Goodell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Norma&#8217;s role in football was highlighted recently in the documentary appropriately entitled &#8216;A Lifetime of Sundays.&#8217; Norma&#8217;s place in NFL history will forever be remembered by the Chiefs&#8217; organization and the entire league.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We extend our deepest condolences to Clark and the entire Hunt family, and the many people whose lives she impacted during her remarkable life.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Norma was working as a schoolteacher and hostess for the Dallas Texans when she met Lamar Hunt in 1964, five years after he and other members of &#8216;The Foolish Club&#8217; founded the AFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She and Lamar married later that year and went on to have two children &#8211; current Chiefs owner Clark and Daniel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lamar\u00a0moved the Texans to Kansas City and renamed them the Chiefs and the upstart league eventually merged with the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lamar , who died in 2006, also coined the term &#8216;Super Bowl&#8217; for the league&#8217;s championship game and has the AFC Championship trophy named after him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-bold\">More to follow.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <!-- ad: https:\/\/mads.dailymail.co.uk\/v8\/us\/sport\/nfl\/article\/other\/inread_player.html --><\/p>\n<div class=\"column-content cleared\">\n<div class=\"shareArticles\">\n<h3 class=\"social-links-title\">Share or comment on this article: <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>            <ad-slot position=\"smart_feed\"><\/ad-slot><\/p>\n<p>            <ad-slot position=\"after_article\"><\/ad-slot><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/nfl\/article-12158909\/Norma-Hunt-wife-Kansas-City-Chiefs-founder-Lamar-mother-owner-Clark-dies.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ns_campaign=1490&#038;ito=1490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;First Lady of Football&#8217; Norma Hunt, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar and mother of owner Clark, dies &#8211; four months after attending her 57th and final Super Bowl to watch her beloved team win &#8216;First Lady of Football&#8217; Norma Hunt\u00a0was only woman to attend every Super Bowl The cause of death of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1042,302,5536,465,5539,23,847,5537,2125,1006,1004,5538,254,1380,238,5535,1232,194,568],"acf":{"source_article":"","image_credit":""},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}