Chief Coach Stram Dies

[TexanBob]

NEW ORLEANS -- Hank Stram, who took the Kansas City Chiefs to two Super Bowls and was known for his inventive game plans, died Sunday at a hospital in suburban New Orleans, his son said. He was 82.

Stram had been in declining health for several years and his son attributed death to complications from diabetes. He died at St. Tammany Parish Hospital, near his home in Covington, across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans. He had built the home there during his two-year stint as head coach of the Saints.

[crazyhorse]

Aw man. :(

[TexanBob]

Stram's victory in Super Bowl IV was the final laugh of the old American Football League (not to mention the last time Kansas City won the big one). He was also an excellent color commentator with an uncanny knack of telling you what the play would be just before the snap. I think he paved the way for a lot of other head coaches in radio/tv commentary. He and Jack Buck made popular the practice of watching Monday Night Football with the tv sound turned off and the radio turned on.

[illbroncsfn]

I always enjoyed the NFL Video of Coach Stram in Super Bowl IV.

R.I.P. Coach Hank Stram...

[SoCalBronco]

RIP Coach.

Matriculate your way to the Heavens.

[Tredici]

Back in the day when you knew who the coach was because they were the best dressed guys on the sidelines. Always remember how buttoned down both Stram and Landry were. Stram always had the rolled up paper. Guess the great beyond just got someone with a new game plan.

[Garcia Bronco]

It's always interesting watching the SB4 highlights because of this guy. So long screwy...see ya in St. Louie.

[Kaylore]

I always enjoyed the NFL Video of Coach Stram in Super Bowl IV.

R.I.P. Coach Hank Stram...
Me too. He was a very colorful character. That's too bad.

[orinjkrush]

Pax vobiscum, Hank. You earned the respect of even your adversaries.

[The Snake]

His famous quote: "What the hell's going on around here?"

[Atlas]

Well, Chef fan can still look up to Len Dawsen.

[-Slap-]

RIP Coach.

[RunByDesign]

RIP Coach Stram. :USA:

[illbroncsfn]

I think it is safe to say that the greatest coach in Chief history has made his way to heaven- sorry Marty and Dickie...

[TexanBob]

< cackle > "65 toss power trap" < ha hawwwww! > "65 toss power trap!"

"Ya marked it good. Ya marked it good. You guys are doin' a helluva job."

[watermock]

An all time great. He helped bring the AFL into credibility. Yeah, it was mock's vikings that took it up the pooper in 69. I was so mad that day me and my buddy went outside to play a bit by the 4th quarter...he never knew what hit him...

I was a Chef fan when I was just a little kid, (I was born near Omaha), my earliest memories of football would be on Thanksgiving, Uncle Bob and me watching football while the women cackled and the men talked about cattle prices or whatever. Me and Bob watched football. Grandma had a killer color TV.

BTW, "What the hell is going on around here!" I believe was Lombardi, altho Stram probably used it as well. I think alot of people have.

[Nuggets4]

RIP Coach Stram.

[Bob's your Information Minister]

Chiefs should win the SB in heaven with Coach Stram and DT. :'(

[Kaylore]

< cackle > "65 toss power trap" < ha hawwwww! > "65 toss power trap!"

"Ya marked it good. Ya marked it good. You guys are doin' a helluva job."
"Awwwe, you lost your...place!" "Mr. Official, let me ask you something. How can all four of you miss a play like that? All four?!"

[wabbit]

I'm sorry to see Hank go...the man developed a football terminology that the world will never see again...MIT maybe, but never in a football huddle.

I remember an interview with Len Dawson in the 1970's when he told a reporter the plays included so many variations & were so lengthy that the hand signals resembled a 'disco dance'

[CHIEF4EVER]

I think it is really cool that folks from a rival team say such nice things about Coach Stram. Goes to show you that love of football trancends all rivalries. RIP Coach Stram, you will be missed.

[watermock]

Dick4Meal isn't really hated either. Excuse me...speak amongst yourselves...*sniff*

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

RIP Hank. Bill Curry had a nice tribute on ESPN radio this morning.

[FADERPROOF]

RIP Coach Hank Stram

[bendog]

"That's right. Wear em down with fieldgoals."

The minny superbowl win. Where he also did the matriculate down the field quote.

[broncosteven]

I worked 2nd shift for most of the 90's & still miss him & Buck covering the Monday night games on Westwood One Radio. He added to my love of the game.

[Hogan11]

So long Hank :(

[Meck77]

"Hey Mr. referee let me ask you a question..........Did they talk to you about being on the field coach?.........No......What?"

Disco and I watched the special of "In your own words last night" and laughed the whole time. Infact we were trying to figure out whether he was still alive or not.

RIP coach

[Old Dude]

RIP, Mr. Stram.

I still recall the quote about the Vikings defense in SB IV looking like a "Chinese Fire Drill." Politically incorrect, but what an image...

[ZachKC]

Well, Chef fan can still look up to Len Dawsen.
Dawson is a prick.

[clean]

Hank Stram is the only high profile personality that I can recall who picked the Broncos to beat the Packers in Superbowl 32.

[B-Love]

Hank Stram worked alot of games for CBS and did several games in Denver, when an NFC team visited Mile High.

He was very fond of Denver and the Phipps family in particular. "This Broncos team just has great fans and the organization is just filled with wonderful people."

Kansas City always kicked Denver's ass back in the early days but Stram always mentioned Denver's late 60's and early 70's Defensive lines as one of the very best ever.

[B-Love]

"65 Toss Power Trap Boys, ..... HA HA, I told you it would be there boys; ha ha 65 Toss Power Trap"

Before becoming a staple on MNF radio telecasts with Jack Buck, Stram had done some nice work with CBS and it was he and Vin Scully that earned the 1981 NFC Championship telecast over Pat Summerall and John Madden.

OK, the newly formed Madden Summerall team did get the subsequent Bengals 49ers SB, but Vin Scully and Hank Stram did call Dwight Clark's famous Catch in January of 1982, for CBS.

[B-Love]

May his toupee rest in peace!!!