Hunt was so enthusiastic about the outcome that he pushed Steadman to schedule two NFL opponents to play in Kansas City the next preseason and include them as part of the team's season ticket package.
He wanted NFL teams in this order, if Steadman could get them: Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins, and Philadelphia Eagles.
Well-known and long-time National Football League teams every fan would recognize.
"My theory is that the infusion of these teams, which are among the great team names in professional sports, will help build pro football in Kansas City. I feel the fan, basically, wants to see class, and these teams represent a history of class."
It's interesting that if the Los Angeles Rams were agreeable, Hunt was willing to have the game played on the west coast, "which is preferable," he wrote. It would mark a return to where the Chiefs had lost Super Bowl I, and also the place where the Rams had beaten the Chiefs in the preseason the year before after the team's blowout of the Bears.
Of course, any matchup with the Dallas Cowboys wherever was a preference, but Hunt had serious "doubts that they will be willing to play us."
All these inter-league games helped to build interest not only for Kansas City but for other soon-to-be merged American Football League clubs.
Hunt's "spread-the-news" of the AFL in the preseason was well established by this time. He continued to look at the possibility of a preseason game at the University of Nebraska, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in Jackson, Mississippi. All had good stadiums, and he thought a game versus the Dolphins in the Tampa Bay-Ft. Lauderdale area would build interest in Florida.
A new era in professional football was just getting started.
**_SOURCES: "Hunt correspondence 1967," Cabinet 16, Drawer E. Lamar Hunt to Jack Steadman, September 19, 1967_**