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Former Chiefs executive Carl Peterson selected for 2023 Missouri Sports Hall of Fame class

Former #Chiefs executive Carl Peterson was selected for the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame class of 2023 and will receive the President’s Award.

A former Kansas City Chiefs executive will headline the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame class of 2023 when they’re enshrined on April 23. Carl Peterson will receive the President’s Award in 2023, which is bestowed upon those who most champion sports in Missouri.

Peterson wore multiple hats for the Chiefs during his tenure with the team serving as president, CEO and general manager from 1989 through 2008. Legendary head coaches such as Marty Schottenheimer, Gunther Cunningham, Dick Vermeil and Herm Edwards were in Kansas City during Peterson’s stead as the team’s top executive. Under his watchful eye, the Chiefs had a great deal of success with a 176-141-1 overall record. The problem for Peterson’s teams in Kansas City always came down to the postseason, with just a 3-9 record in playoff games.

That, however, doesn’t take away from the job that Peterson did bringing relevance to Chiefs football again. His success came after 16 seasons where Kansas City hadn’t gone to but a single playoff game. 14 of those seasons the team was .500 or worse during the regular season.

Peterson will be joined in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame 2023 class by former Kansas City Royals center fielder Lorenzo Cain, former Sporting KC defender Matt Besler, and Olympian Muna Lee, among others. You can read about the entire 2023 class here.

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No Chiefs advanced as senior, coaching finalists for 2023 Hall of Fame

Former #Chiefs Otis Taylor, Carl Peterson, Marty Schottenheimer and Lloyd Wells will have to wait another year for their shot at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s 12-person committee has trimmed their list of senior, coaching and contributor candidates down to 24 finalists for the 2023 class. Unfortunately, no former Kansas City Chiefs advanced to the finalist round of voting.

Former Chiefs WR Otis Taylor, GM Carl Peterson, HC Marty Schottenheimer and scout Lloyd Wells each made it through to the semifinalist round, but they advanced no further. Ken Anderson, Maxie Baughan, Randy Gradishar, Chuck Howley, Cecil Isbell, Joe Klecko, Bob Kuechenberg, Eddie Meador, Tommy Nobis, Ken Riley, Sterling Sharpe and Everson Walls made it through for the senior category. Roone Arledge, Don Coryell, Mike Holmgren, Frank “Bucko” Kilroy, Robert Kraft, Art Modell, Buddy Parker, Dan Reeves, Art Rooney Jr., Mike Shanahan, Clark Shaughnessy and John Wooten made it through for the coaching/contributor category.

Many were hoping that this would be the year that Taylor became the 11th member of the Super Bowl IV team enshrined in the hallowed halls of Canton, Ohio. This year’s class was special because it gave Taylor his best chance yet, with up to three senior players being inducted.

As for the coaching/contributor class, Wells is long overdue for induction as the first full-time Black scout in professional football. His work bringing HBCU players into the fold in Kansas City helped the team to its early success.

There was also some support for the late Marty Schottenheimer to go in this year, but with such a backlog in the coaching/contributor category, it could be a long time before we see his induction.

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3 former Chiefs selected as 2023 coach/contributor Hall of Fame semifinalists

3 former #Chiefs have been chosen as coaching/contributor semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2023.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame has announced 29 semifinalists in the coaching/contributor category for the 2023 class. A total of three former members of the Kansas City Chiefs have made it through to the semifinalist round. It’s a diverse group with a head coach, general manager and a scout all up for enshrinement in this particular category. The coach/contributor committee will reconvene on July 27 to choose 12 finalist candidates from this group of 29 semifinalists.

Here’s a quick glance at each of the three former Chiefs that have made it to the semifinalist round:

Carl Peterson to present former Chiefs HC Dick Vermeil for Hall of Fame enshrinement

Dick Vermeil has chosen former #Chiefs president and GM Carl Peterson as his presenter for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Dick Vermeil was selected for the 2022 Pro Football Hall of Fame back in February. He’ll join Tony Boselli, Bryant Young, Richard Seymour, Sam Mills, LeRoy Butler, Cliff Branch and Art McNally for their enshrinement in Canton, Ohio on Saturday, Aug. 6.

Vermeil will also be joined on stage by a very special friend that he’s known throughout his football career, but also specifically during his tenure in Kansas City. He revealed on Wednesday that former Chiefs president and general manager Carl Peterson will be his presenter when he’s inducted.

Check it out:

“I’m very excited about announcing that Carl Peterson will introduce me as I’m inducted into the Hall of Fame class of 2022. Carl and I started all the way back in the early ’70s at UCLA when he was an assistant coach there and I took the head-coaching job, replacing Pepper Rodgers, and he was on the staff. I made the great decision to keep him with me, took him to Philadelphia with me as a tight end coach and an administrative assistant to me and then elevated him to personnel director and assistant GM. He later took over the USFL and turned it into a championship team. He went to Kansas City for 20 years as president and general manager. He hired me to come back into coaching and I coached there for five years. He’s part of our family, a great man, a great administrator, a great football guy and I’m really honored to have him present me.”

Peterson was president and general manager of the Chiefs from 1989 through 2008. The paths of Peterson and Vermeil overlapped in Kansas City from 2001 through 2005, a period during which the Chiefs went 44-36 with one of the most dominant rushing attacks in the AFC conference. Vermeil coached a total of 19 years in the NFL, winning a Super Bowl with the “Greatest Show on Turf” in 1999 with the St. Louis Rams. The 2005 NFL season, was his last as a coach in the NFL and in Kansas City.

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