The Kansas City Chiefs were founded in 1959 and were originally based in Texas as the Dallas Texans. In 1963 the team moved to Kansas City and took the name the Chiefs as a homage to former Kansas City mayor H. Roe Bartle, who helped the city get a pro football team.
The Chiefs have won two Super Bowls in 1969 and 2019, they have made the playoffs on 22 occasions and have been division champions a total of 12 times. The Chiefs can boast that they are one of the best-attended teams in the NFL, having the second-highest attendance in the last decade.
The Kansas City Chiefs soccer-inspired jersey takes elements from the distinctive arrowhead logo, which was created when team owner Lamar Hunt drew it on a napkin, and the away jersey is inspired by the Kansas City Chiefs mascot K.C. Wolf one of the most popular mascots of the entire NFL.
Kansas City Chiefs Arrowhead home kit
The home jersey has a tribal like design, using elements of the Kansas City Chiefs' primary logo and colors to cover most of the kit with these patterns. As noted earlier Lamar Hunt, founding owner of the team, sketched the logo on a napkin on a plane trip from Dallas to Kansas City. The “KC” was interlocked within a design that looked like an arrowhead with thick chipped looking borders.
While the name of the Chiefs has come under scrutiny, it’s how they got their name that raises eyebrows, H. Roe Bartle was the mayor of Kansas City and worked with Hunt to get the team to the city. He claimed to be Native American and he claimed that he was "inducted into a local tribute of the Arapaho people," and was called "Lone Bear," and went by the name Chief Lone Bear. The team was baptized the Chiefs and the name has been with them ever since.
The Kansas City Chiefs soccer crest maintains the arrowhead shape, but incorporates the “KC” as more of a shield, like many soccer teams around the world. The team's foundation year is on the crest like many German Bundesliga teams have to maintain an old European soccer crest tradition.
The K.C. Wolf away kits
The away kits have a wolf in tribal design running all over the jersey. The K.C. Wolf is one of the most popular mascots in all of the NFL, he was first introduced in 1989 and he was named after the “Wolfpack” a group of Chiefs fans who sat in the bleachers at Municipal Stadium. He was also the first mascot to be inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame.
The wolf is designed as a type of spiritual element on the jersey, on the neck, the team’s interlocking “KC” is present to make sure that everyone knows that the Chiefs are playing and wearing these jerseys. On the sleeve, the team's traditional colors run along them to bridge the traditional Football look with the new updated Soccer look.
What do you think of our Kansas City Arrowhead kits? Did we capture the unique elements that make up the Chiefs?
