The Lamar Hunt Trophy, synonymous with the AFC championship, honors the AFL's founder Lamar Hunt. Introduced in the 1984-85 season, it was redesigned

Discover the history, design, cost, and significance of the Lamar Hunt Trophy, awarded to the AFC champion in the NFL each year.

Football fans poked fun at the robotic way Chiefs owner Clark Hunt delivered his victory speech on Sunday after Kansas City defeated the Bills in the AFC championship game.

Gracie Hunt’s NFL ties go beyond her father. As she pointed out, the AFC Championship trophy is named after her grandfather, Lamar Hunt, who passed away in 2006. Lamar Hunt played a key role in creating the American Football League, which later became the AFC after merging with the NFL.

So, in 1959, Hunt founded the AFL, later merging it with the NFL in 1966, reshaping the sport’s history. He brought his Dallas Texans to Kansas City in 1963, where they became the Chiefs, a centerpiece of the city’s sports identity. The team won its first Super Bowl in 1970.

Two days before the biggest game of the Kansas City Chiefs’ season, the team’s chairman and chief executive, Clark Hunt, sat in the witness stand of a Brooklyn federal courthouse, some 1,200 miles away from Arrowhead Stadium, where he prepared to talk about a different kind of football.

The Kansas City Chiefs punched their ticket to the Big Game for the fifth time in the last six seasons, beating the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship Game.

It wasn't too long ago that the Kansas City Chiefs even sniffing the AFC championship game seemed like a pipe dream. Since the beginning of the Patrick Mahomes era as a full-time starter, however, it's all the team has known in even the worst of seasons.

Hunt was asked about pregame superstitions he might have, but he said those days are gone. But there is one sweet pregame tradition. It was started by his father, Lamar, who founded the Chiefs. Lamar Hunt, for whom the AFC Championship Game trophy is named, died in 2006.

The Super Bowl began using Roman numerals in 1971 with Super Bowl V, introduced by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt for added prestige. Roman numer

Taylor Swift looked excited while exiting Arrowhead Stadium through the tunnel with Travis Kelce after the Chiefs defeated the Bills to make it to the Super Bowl on Sunday, Jan. 26.

Gracie Hunt is the daughter of Kansas City Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt. She is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and fashion influencer deeply immersed in the world of football.