<P> Bartle called to his office 20 business leaders and called upon them to form an association later known as "The Gold Coats", whose sole objective was to sell and take down payments on the 35,000 season tickets required . "The Gold Coats" had to sell season tickets to people without knowing the team name, where it was coming from, who the owner was, which football league they would play in, who the players or coaches were, when the team would play its first game in Kansas City, or where it would play . Hunt gave Bartle a four - month deadline to accomplish the sales . Bartle and "The Gold Coats" made good in only 8 weeks . Later, Hunt admitted he was really only hoping for 20,000, for which he still would have moved the franchise . On May 22, Hunt announced he was moving the franchise to Kansas City, Missouri . </P> <P> Hunt, with a roster replete with players who had played college football in Texas, wanted to maintain a lineage to the team's roots and wanted to name the club the Kansas City Texans . "The Lakers stayed the Lakers when they moved from Minnesota to California", he reasoned . "But Jack Steadman convinced me that wasn't too smart . It wouldn't sell ." The team was renamed the Kansas City Chiefs--one of the most popular suggestions Hunt received in a name - the - team contest . Lamar Hunt sent letters dated June 21, 1963 to all the contest entrants who selected the name CHIEFS in the "Rename the Texans" contest of whom Mrs. Joan Feuerborn was one of those entrants, and along with their respective guesses as to the number of season tickets sold by May 1st . The actual total was 10,808, and based on this the car winner was Mr. E.L. Diemler of Kansas City, Missouri . Another name also considered at the time for the team was the Kansas City Mules . </P> <P> The name, "Chiefs" is not only derived from a fan contest, but also from Mayor Bartle, who 35 years prior, founded the Native American - based honor society known as The Tribe of Mic - O - Say within the Boy Scouts of America organization, which earned him the nickname, "The Chief ." </P> <P> The Chiefs moved into Municipal Stadium, located at 22nd and Brooklyn, which opened in 1923 and had 49,002 seats . The Chiefs shared the facilities with the Kansas City Athletics of Major League Baseball . The first appearance of the Chiefs in Municipal Stadium attracted just 5,721 fans for a 17--13 pre-season victory against Buffalo on August 9 . </P>

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