By AP/KWMU
Kansas City, MO – The owner and founder of the Kansas City Chiefs owner, Lamar Hunt, has been under sedation in a Dallas hospital since last week, after doctors discovered that his cancer has returned.
Hunt, 74, has battled cancer for several years and went into the hospital the day before Thanksgiving with a partially collapsed lung.
Chiefs president Carl Peterson says Hunt is putting up a courageous fight and his family and friends are hoping for a miracle.
Hunt persuaded several other wealthy sportsmen to form the American Football League in the 1950s, to compete with the NFL.
His Dallas Texans moved to Kansas City in 1963 and became the Chiefs. Several years later the NFL was forced to merge with the AFL, and the modern league was born.
Hunt and his family also have been active in professional soccer, and he is a minority owner of the NBA's Chicago Bulls.