Kansas City Chiefs Mascot History

Kansas city chiefs owner clark hunt bangs the drum before a game.

Kansas city chiefs mascot history.

Warpaint is a pinto horse that is the mascot for the kansas city chiefs national football league nfl team. The kansas city chiefs have used a wolf named kc wolf as their mascot since 1989. The current mascot is the third to hold the position. The horse is associated with the chiefs glory days at municipal stadium when the team won two american football league afl championships and the horse led the team s victory parade after its win in super bowl iv.

Wolf is the official mascot of the national football league s kansas city chiefs. He was first introduced in 1989 as a successor to warpaint a horse ridden by a man wearing a full indian chief headdress from the mid 1980s. While the kansas city chiefs have had a somewhat spotty history with certain positions including quarterback until recently a position at which they have a long lineage of great players is. According to the chiefs media guide the chiefs moniker was selected in honor of bartle who helped convince lamar hunt to move the dallas texans to kansas city as part of a name the team contest.