About the Curator

I began building the “Chiefseum,” when I was eight-years old.  After the Kansas City Chiefs won super 4.  I received a Chiefs football that year on my birthday.  Ever since then, every Christmas and on my birthday my friends and family would buy me Chiefs memorabilia.

Over 50 years and more than 1,300 pieces of Kansas City Chiefs Related Memorabilia later I am holding my own spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The collection covers just about every wall and fills just about every shelf in the basement of my home and is enough to take just about anyone’s breath away, Chiefs fan or not.

A lot of times I’ll kind of think to myself, ‘okay, I’ve got enough, I need to slow down because I’m running out of space and I have to make more room.’   And then I’ll happen to be driving through a small town and there’s a little antique store. I’ll pull in and there will be three or four things in there that I just can’t live without.

Through antique-store adventures, bidding wars on eBay, efforts to get items signed by former Chiefs players and determination to keep items gifted to me by friends and family, I have built up quite the variety of items.

One wall is covered in items related to Chiefs Derrick Thomas, while other shelves are filled with signed jerseys, old newspaper clippings, posters, model cars, player figurines and much more.

Among the more valuable items in the collection is an old Christmas card signed by, among others, Lamar Hunt, former Chiefs owner and co-founder of the American Football League (now known as the American Football Conference).

The items in the “Chiefseum” also span much of the Kansas City Chief’s history, with one of the oldest items dating back to when the team was located in Dallas, Texas, and known as the Texans.

I have over 1,300 items in my collection now and growing.  I think it is important to distinguish that my collection does NOT include sports cards.  I do not think cards should qualify for this record, since they are cheap, easy to obtain and entire collection can be kept in a single book. 

All of my items are out and on display in the basement of my home.  I will never sell anything and will pass the collection on to my children

What I have are mostly vintage pieces and every single piece is photographed, inventoried, information entered into a database. 

Since my collection first started gaining interest by the new media, I have had people that have started sending me things, over 300 items in the last year.  I will get a box in the mail with something in it with a note that says “Hey, I saw your collection and thought this should be somewhere it is appreciated and people would be able to see it.” 

I have no doubles in the collection.  If I ever get a double, I will give it to a friend to help grow their collection.