Marty Schottenheimer Joins Chiefs Hall of Fame
Marty Schottenheimer will be officially announced this evening as the latest addition to the Chiefs Hall of Fame.
Schottenheimer’s honor was to be part of Saturday night’s 101 Banquet at the Westin Crown Center Hotel.
Over his 10 years as head coach of the Chiefs, the team had a 104-65-1 record. That’s second in victories only to Hank Stram’s and his 129 winning efforts over 15 seasons.
His career head coaching record of 205-139-1 ranks sixth all-time in the NFL behind only Don Shula, George Halas, Tom Landry, Curly Lambeau and Chuck Noll. The western Pennsylvania native was head coach of the Chiefs, Browns, Redskins and Chargers.
Schottenheimer will be honored at a game during the 2010 NFL season at Arrowhead Stadium.
Marty and his wife Pat, along with son Brian (offensive coordinator of the New York Jets) were in Kansas City for Saturday night’s announcement.
He is the 40th member of the Hall of Fame that began in 1970 and the second head coach along with Stram. In his 10 seasons as the top coach for the Chiefs, Schottenheimer directed his team to 101 victories and a .634 winning percentage. That’s the best percentage in Chiefs history, ahead of Stram’s 124-76-10 regular-season record and a .614 winning percentage.
In Schottenheimer’s 10 seasons, the Chiefs made seven trips to the playoffs and won three AFC West titles (1993-95-97). The team had only one losing season, his last in 1998 when they went 7-9. In the other nine seasons, the Chiefs were either first or second in the division.
Great choice, as he so well deserves to be on there. As with DT, they both left the Chiefs way too early. Well Done Marty!
Hats off to you Marty. We fondly remember the 90’s as the good old days in Chiefs Nation.
Your coaching style & success are sorely missed.
Congratulations.
Marty should have been our GM & by the way it’s looking , he still should be.Turn our chiefs over to a Parcell’s like job for Marty. The Hunt’s or us chiefs fans would never regret it. Just look at the talent Marty leaves behind everywhere he goes.Could I own the chiefs for 1 season please,if only. I would like to try…….well I could br full of it…….but would love the chance.
“left way too early”
“sorely missed”
“should be our GM”
Day after day, it’s amazing to see how the Chiefs’ fanbase so happily embraces mediocrity. Marty had some good teams, no doubt, but at the end of the day he won ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in 10 years with the Chiefs.
Yet he gets treated like he’s Vince Lombardi.
Geez Dave,
How old are you? Like 12.
It’s not always about a perfect world.
Marty brought life back to the KC franchise, albeit without a championship.
Yeah he made mistakes, but he did it with class & integrity.
As for your comment, the raiders are looking for a few tasteless fans. Bye.
Go Chiefs.
Hey Dave I would take the playoffs every year for what we have now.Mediocrity …..Ah…..that would be since he left….would’nt. I guess to be right I should look it up.Yep……that would be after Marty left.
Marty brought me happiness, as my football team was one of the best while
I was growing up. Marty in my mind is the best coach of all time….(IN MY MIND)
Had he won a superbowl with Cleveland, with Kansas City, and then San Diego(all three of which could easily have happenned he could ahve arguably been considered the best coach of all time.
He was very unlucky in the playoffs, but his arrival almost guarantee’s long term successful season’s. 1 out of 32 teams win a superbowl in a leauge where any team can be any other team on any given Sunday. The mark of success is consistency, which Marty brought throughout his entire campaign with the Chiefs….Much love to Marty!
And Dave, Marty was better than Lombardi. 10 straight seasons is far from mediocrity as well. 13-3 twice, with playoff berths for 7 straight years. Name 5 coaches with 7 straight playoff births coaching today……oh there aren’t any because that is rare……. Marty was awesome
Back to back AFC title games with the Browns, 14-2 with the Chargers, He turned a Redskins team around in the second part of a season, and gave the Chiefs their name and legacy, along with the 7 straight play off berths. How in the heck is that mediocrity?
Would be great to do it during the Chargers game! You talk about screwing someone over…the chargers owner is a a big dick in my book. marty deserved much better and norv owes marty a HUGE thanks!
In total, Schottenheimer’s clubs advanced to the playoffs 13 times during his illustrious head coaching career, trailing only Shula (20) and Landry (18). Schottenheimer is one of five coaches to lead three different clubs to the playoffs, joining Chuck Knox, Bill Parcells, Dan Reeves and Dick Vermeil as the only other head coaches in NFL history to accomplish that feat.
Mediocrity my tail!!! Any Chiefs fan who doesn’t love Marty is a TERRORIST!
In fact as far as mediocrity goes, Dave sounds like a mediocre fan.
M*A*R*T*Y R*U*L*E*S
Marty is a Chief. Period. Congrats, Coach.
Hang on, guys, I’ve got some more stats for you.
Marty’s Super Bowl appearances: ZERO
Marty’s Super bowl wins: ZERO
You may now resume worshiping at the alter of mediocrity.
Dave, I respect your point of view but it surely seems a little shortsighted. Granted, Marty did not won the big game but again, that’s not the issue. For more than a decade (from 1974 to 1988) KC’s football side was all but dead until Coach Schottenheimer’s arrival and that marked the revival of a passionate gridiron town; that alone is a monumental task when you’re immersed in true futility. It’s safe to say that the presence of Marty (whether mediocre or not in your eyes) injected life in an otherwise dormant fan base, and that laid the grounds for the interest that the Chiefs have spawned to this very day. I celebrate how high you have set your standards and I’ll concede that Marty’s place in NFL history can be very well debated, but once again, I think – and hopefully we’ll agree – that his efforts are worthy of induction to the TEAM’s Hall of Fame – which is really the subject of discussion (and celebration). Dan Marino, Barry Sanders, and even our own Derrick Thomas never won the big game and that didn’t preclude them from receiving Hall of Fame honors. Just saying.
Didn’t marty have sex with one of his players wives?
After Hank Stram, what other coach is there with the Chiefs? I give carl the points for hiring him but I credit Marty with filing my section at the stadium, before he came it was mostly empty with different people every game. After Marty did his magic, it was almost better than family events, every sunday, all the football I needed. For what it is worth Vermeil was like eating cake every meal for the time he was here, just did not satisfy. I just liked Marty, OMG, how he hated the Raiders, that says a lot for an ole wolf pack guy.
Your comments kill me. Dave, are you as good at your job as Marty was at his. I bet you aren’t. And as far as Marty being the second coming of the football Gods … I think not.
Even though Marty was a fabulous coach. And his teams were always strong and fundamentally sound(They took the fight to everyone they played). As testified by the lack of trophy’s, they were never great.
Doe’s he deserve to be in the Chiefs Hall of Fame? Absolutely he does. He did what no other coach since Hank could do. He won consistently. Teams were afraid of “Our Team”. He made the team and town proud again.
Kudos Marty. You DO deserve it.
Glad you came to KC !!!
While Marty may have fell short of his ultimate glory, I certainly would not consider his career mediocre. Marty’s reign as head coach was defined by the fans that his winning teams put in the seats. Wouldn’t it be nice to see that again…the roaring croud, the tomahawk chop, the false starts on third and short for our opponents…we won’t see it again until someone can repeat Marty’s “mediocrity”
bob, we need to talk, I was wondering if you heard anything regarding the name change on the special teams coach of the year award….please, if you know anyone…ask…evidently prior to this superbowl, the past 3 ST coaches that won were trying to do it for coach G. please, if you could ask if the hall of fake said yes, I would greatly appreciate it.
As a STH since ‘78 I can verify that Marty’s years were the high water mark for Arrowhead.
We love and miss Marty. I look forward to honoring him hopefully vs. Chargers!