Chiefs still feel a void following death of their matriarch, Norma Hunt, this past offseason
For the first time since her husband Lamar Hunt coined the term “Super Bowl,” and their team promptly lost to the Green Bay Packers, the matriarch of the Kansas City Chiefs will not be at the big game Sunday
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — There is much that Clark Hunt will never forget about that night four years ago in Miami, when five decades of futility had finally ended, and the Kansas City Chiefs — the team his late father Lamar Hunt had founded — raised another Lombardi Trophy.
The most front-and-center memory, though, might have been watching his mother, Norma Hunt, who just a few years earlier had told him, jokingly or not: "Clark, it sure would be nice if we could play in this game while I'm still able to go.”
The Chiefs ultimately gave her two more title game trips in the next three years, and another ring to wear alongside ones from Super Bowls 4 and 54. And Norma Hunt kept alive her streak of attending every Super Bowl right up through last season, when she went for the 57th time and watched Kansas City beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Arizona.
There will be no 58th, though, when the Chiefs play the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. The franchise matriarch died this past summer at the age of 85, leaving a void still felt among the Chiefs and, in particular, her son Clark, the team's chairman.
