The NFL's Secret Stadium Apartment - Arrowhead Stadium's Secret Apartment Built By Lamar Hunt
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- čas přidán 24. 10. 2021
- Arrowhead Stadium has a secret. A three floor and three bedroom secret to be exact. If you’ve seen my video on Arrowhead Stadium from a few months back you know what I’m talking about. When the stadium was being designed by architect Charles Deaton and team general manager Jack Steadman, Lamar Hunt had them include a very special owners suite.
An owner's suite is meant to be the utmost luxury for the owner of a team. Take Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for example. He is known for his extravagant stadium and training complex for the world famous Dallas Cowboys. Even he doesn’t have a three bedroom apartment built into AT&T stadium.
Going back to the Lamar Hunt apartment at Arrowhead Stadium, it was built for truly a different time. The suite when it was first constructed included a full kitchen, living room, and three bedrooms and additional bathrooms. The most surprising of the features included has to be the bedrooms. During the course of an NFL game as the owner I’m not sure when you would need a bedroom, let alone 3. Having a full kitchen and no doubt staff to make meals in it would definitely the pinnacle of luxury that I’m sure other stadiums may have.
Other features of the suite that we can gather from the limited photos that exist of it are a cigar store Indian standing next to a grand staircase, and some kind of trophy room that looks to contain awards associated with the Chiefs team. The windows facing the field look like more general stadium style seating found in other luxury boxes, although it appears a small dining room also shares in the incredible view. My favorite piece of the apartment has to be the stained glass window above what I assume is a bar. The window which looks to be original has a Chiefs player holding a football about to be tackled by an opposing team. To me it looks a lot like the Cardinals away jerseys but I’d love to hear your opinion on what team the opposing player is supposed to represent.
This secret apartment is from a bygone era where stadium luxury had a whole different meaning. You probably would never see anything like this in modern stadiums where they are mostly funded by taxpayers and every square foot is designed to get the most money out of fans. The Lamar Hunt apartment is perhaps my favorite unique stadium. - Sport
2:20 - the stain-glass window is Ed Podolak scoring the first touchdown in Arrowhead during an exhibition game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Stained Glass window area makes me think of a small chapel ! Kind of like the ones in a hospital ! 🙏 😊
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The Hunt family lives there. Back when the stadium was built Lamar Hunt and still to this day the Hunt family lived/lives in Dallas. The team moved to KC from Dallas and during the football season they would live in the apartment so they didn't have to travel so much back and forth. They still use the apartment to this day for the very reason. They maintain a home in the Dallas area and use the apartment during the season. Think of it as a vacation home. The apartment is pretty cool too. Yes they have a viewing area to sit and watch games and also invite people to join them. But it's not just an owners suite it is a full on family vacation home.
Exactly...hence the 70's style! today in modern looking completely different!
You mean even the hunt family finds the city of Kansas City boring and repulsive?
And the stained glass was the Kansas City Chiefs versus St Louis Cardinals. At that time there were two NFL teams in Missouri.
Lamar Hunt maintained his home in Dallas, so that is the most logical explanation.
Cool video! Yes, that’s a cardinal player in the stain glass. I would think an apartment in a stadium is very handy for late nights preparing for the next week. It doesn’t seem unusual at all. I’m suprised more stadiums don’t have something like that.
Strangely the Royals want a new stadium when Royals Stadium is still beautiful and was updated only a few years back.
Someone has a silly dream of a baseball team in downtown Kansas City. Kansas City is so spread out it makes no sense to have the stadium downtown with no parking just to have a couple bars and restaurants in the neighborhood is not a reason to move the stadium downtown
I think what they should do is invest in better public transportation to and from the complex (whether it be better bussing or a train/tram system) and then convert the parking section between the stadiums into commercial real estate.
I went to the First Chiefs game in Arrowhead in 1972. The Chiefs played the then St Louis Cardinals in a pre season game.
I worked for Mr Clark Hunt. It's a wonderful area.
Baker Mayfield lives where Browns play.
It’s no secret, we’ve known about this suite since the beginning. I use to work at the stadium as a part time job, only particular people could go into it for cleaning. So your news isn’t that much a secret.
The opposing player in that stained glass window looks like the Patriots possibly.. However the Cardinals sounds good too..
The "Flying Elvis" logo you're thinking of was first introduced in 1993; their logo at the time Arrowhead was built would've been Pat Patriot (the minuteman hiking the football).
Taxpayers pay for that stadium. Does the Hunt family pay rent?
The bed room is so he doesn’t have drive home drunk.
I think the player on the glass mural was a St.Louis Cardinal player. The symbolism could be that both teams represented the state of Missouri
with the Kansas City player being on the left representing the west side of the state where Kansas City is, and the Cardinal player being on the right representing St.Louis, which is on the eastern side of the state.
For years, Kansas City and the St.Louis Cardinals met each year in the preseason to play for the Governor's cup. After the Cardinals
left for Phoenix in 1988, the trophy was defunct until it was revived when the Rams moved to St.Louis in 1995.
Just a theory.
@@TheLAGopher I think you might be right on. I'll add that the first game ever played at Arrowhead was a preseason game between the Chiefs and the then St. Louis Cardinals. I'm sure the fact that the first game ever held there was against their cross state rivals was NOT an accident.
cheerleader "tryout" suite😉
You're thinking of Redskins/Commanders under Dan Snyder.
definitely cards dude
They lived in Dallas so this is where they would live while in KC.
St. Loser cardinals and Kansas City, both in Missouri, once upon a time.
What the fuck they used to ask the crowd to be quiet back in the day?
craziest thing I’ve ever seen!
It was an old NFL rule still in place at the time. If my NFL history serves me correctly, Lamar Hunt petitioned the NFL in the offseason and had the rule removed.
It’s crazy is Mark decides to move know how much time and money has been dedicated to the stadium 🏟️