The highly anticipated launch of the Kansas City Chiefs’ sports documentary series is almost upon us.
Titled ‘The Kingdom’, this six-part ESPN Originals series showcases the Chiefs’ pursuit of an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl victory through the bigger-than-life characters who built their NFL dynasty.
This includes extensive interviews with superstars Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Chris Jones, along with many other key players on the roster, as well as head coach Andy Reid.
Also featured throughout the series are members of the Hunt family, whose father, the late Lamar Hunt, founded the team back in 1959, as well as the American Football League (AFL).
Mahomes – nicknamed the ‘energizer bunny’ by his mom – has spearheaded the Chiefs to five Super Bowl appearances in six seasons, winning three championships, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest NFL quarterbacks in history, despite still very much in his prime, having played just eight seasons in his career to date.
The 29-year-old enters the 2025 campaign as the No. 1 ranked quarterback in the NFL, based on ESPN’s annual poll, despite some believing he has lost his ‘fear factor’ as a result of a poor showing in Super Bowl LIX by his own, very high, standards.
The trip to SubTropolis, Kansas City
Episode one of the documentary showcases the history of one of the league’s most storied franchises and its players, as they kick off their pursuit for an unprecedented three-peat.
In one scene ahead of the 2024 campaign, it shows Reid, who has transformed the Chiefs from being in the pits of despair to serial Super Bowl winners – accelerated by Mahomes being drafted in 2017 – since he came aboard in 2013, taking some of his biggest stars underground.
Reid and Mahomes, along with all-time great tight end Kelce and outspoken defensive tackle Jones took a visit to the Chiefs’ archive room, which is located 150 feet underground in SubTropolis in Kansas City, Missouri – one of the world’s largest underground business complexes.
The documentary depicts the outer environment of the archive room to look exactly like what you’d expect of a cave, albeit with some brick walls surrounding the edges, and this wasn’t lost on the veterans.
“It’s a random entrance,” Mahomes pointed out. “I’ve been here for eight years, and never even knew this existed.”
“Wow, huh?” Reid responded. “We’re at one with the earth right here.”
The documentary series focuses on the Chiefs’ pursuit of a historic three-peatGetty Andy Reid took Mahomes , Kelce and Jones to the Chiefs archive, 150 feet undergroundGetty“Man, you see how far in the distance this is,” Kelce said. “This is crazy.”
Mahomes went on to detail how he felt he was on a movie set. “This feels like a James Bond, super-villain [setting] that you go on in there,” Mahomes said.
Kelce agreed, saying: “Hey you might be on to something. I’m with that – a little Indiana Jones.”
Inside the small room underground is filled to the brim with Chiefs memorabilia from all the way back to when they were initially known as the Dallas Texans.
There are boxes upon boxes of photographs, newspaper clippings, cleats, helmets and footballs that are all tagged and labelled by era, whilst an old 1970s/80s television set is playing black and white game footage from the Chiefs’ early days.
“Not very many teams have a collection like this,” Chiefs Historian Bob Moore said. “We’ve got a lot of artefacts. It’s perfect for telling the history of this franchise.”
Clark Hunt and his family currently hold full ownership of the ChiefsGetty The Chiefs are one of the most storied franchises in the NFLGettyChiefs owner Clark Hunt was on hand to help Moore show off the artefacts in the room, and provided some additional information and history on the team his father, Lamar, built: “The Chiefs archives is where we keep the history of the Kansas City Chiefs.”
There, Mahomes and co were shown handwritten playbooks from the 1960s, whilst they were also shown a framed game cheque dated from August 12, 1961 to wide receiver Christopher W. Burford III, who was paid exactly 48 dollars and 50 cents. “This is what he got paid for playing that game,” Moore told them.
“Back then that was like a million dollars, though, right?” Kelce asked, before the group broke out into laughter.
According to DollarTimes, when adjusted for inflation, $48.50 dollars in 1961 is equal to $513.65 dollars in 2025 – a far cry from the 13-year veteran’s $1 million prediction.
Moore also held up a pair of short shorts, which were worn by then-head coach Hank Stram in practice, who coached the Dallas Texans/Chiefs for 15 years between 1960-1974, leading his team to Super Bowl IV victory in 1970.
“I wouldn’t look good in that,” Reid stated.
“I’ve seen Coach Reid in a pair of them,” Kelce jokingly said in response.
Moore also directed the group’s attention to a photograph of the parade in light of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl IV victory over the Minnesota Vikings. “It’s a similar route to the one you’ve taken over the last couple of years,” he explained.
“I remember my dad saying that [the parade] was his favorite day of his life,” Hunt then told the group before being shown a handwritten document which is deemed to be the earliest document in the history of the AFL and of the Chiefs franchise, dated in 1959.
“My dad was really detail-oriented, and he loved to put everything down on paper,” Clark continued, before the episode dived into a detailed look at how that note was the catalyst for the iconic Chiefs franchise ever existing.
How the Chiefs became an NFL juggernaut
With the Hunt family making their fortune rooted from the lucrative oil industry, Lamar was dubbed as “the man born of riches but yet with a humble, common passion for all sports, but especially pro football.”
Growing up, Hunt “loved seeing a full stadium”, and his son Lamar, explained that his father never missed a Cotton Bowl game as he enjoyed the whole experience, such as the fans gathering before the game, the cheerleaders and the marching bands on the field.
After graduating from SMU with a degree in Geology, Lamar initially followed in his brothers’ footsteps of looking for oil, but his heart remained in football, which he played at college, according to his other son, Dan.
Essentially, Hunt wanted to bring an expansion team to Dallas, but the NFL wasn’t willing to do it, according to Clark.
“There’s no excuse for expansion in the National Football League,” said Bert Bell in a clip that surfaced from when he was the NFL commissioner between 1946-1959. “Expansion can only weaken the personnel.”
With his negotiations for an expansion team failing, Hunt persevered, and instead formed his own league (the AFL) along with other owners who were coined as ‘The Foolish Club.’
Hunt’s daughter, Sharron, further explained the meaning of that name, saying: “That was the name given to the eight owners of the AFL because people thought that the venture would not succeed.”
Hunt’s ideas for a team in Dallas, and the proposal for the AFL, were what was jotted down on that American Airlines notepad that was shown to Mahomes, Kelce, Jones and Reid in the underground archive room.
The NFL retaliated by bringing in the Dallas Cowboys – giving Dallas an expansion team after all – which made Hunt angry, yet ‘more tenacious’ that the AFL would work.
Following the arrival of the Cowboys, Hunt later moved the Texans to Kansas City and created the Chiefs as we know them today. There, he started attracting some of the best talents from the NFL to join the AFL, before the two leagues ultimately merged.
The legacy Lamar Hunt left on football, and its entertainment factor is still prevalent in 2025, with the things that have made the NFL the most popular sport in North America.
The likes of Super Bowl Halftime Show and commercials, the players having their names on the back of NFL jerseys, the painting of the endzone, how the playoffs are structured, two-point conversions and revenue sharing all stem from the vision of Hunt, where he was heavily involved in proposing and integrating all of those things into the sport as we know it now.
All six episodes of ‘The Kingdom’ will premiere on ESPN+ and Disney+ on August 14, while Episodes 1 & 2 will debut on ESPN beginning at 9pm ET.
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