The STRANGEST COACHING CONTROVERSY in Kansas City Chiefs HISTORY

After a week 1 game to open up the 2000 NFL season between the Kansas City Chiefs and Indianapolis Colts, Chiefs head coach Gunther Cunningham announced to the team that he was contemplating resigning and stepping down as the team's head coach, even going as far as talking with his wife on the issue until 1 AM. And the end result was a bizarre saga that made no sense whatsoever that summed up Gunther Cunningham's disastrous tenure with the team quite well. This is the story behind the 2000 Chiefs, and what might be the dumbest coaching controversy they've had
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Members of the 2000 Chiefs:
Warren Moon
Todd Peterson
Todd Sauerbrun
Pete Stoyanovich
Elvis Grbac
Dante Hall
Jerome Woods
Carlton Gray
William Bartee
Greg Wesley
Bracy Walker
Donnell Bennett
Mike Cloud
Larry Atkins
Kimble Anders
James Hasty
Pat Dennis
Eric Warfield
Frank Moreau
Tony Richardson
Lewis Bush
Andre O’Neal
Marvcus Patton
Brian Waters
Ron George
Gary Stills
Mike Maslowski
Donnie Edwards
Donald Willis
Tim Grunhard
Victor Riley
Will Shields
Jeff Blackshear
Marcus Spears
Norris McCleary
Darnell Alford
Chester McGlockton
John Tait
Dave Szott
Larry Parker
Kevin Lockett
Derrick Alexander
Kendall Gammon
Sylvester Morris
Mikhael Ricks
Troy Drayton
Tony Gonzalez
Jason Dunn
Steve Martin
Dan Williams
John Browning
Derrick Ransom
Tyrone Williams
Ty Parten
Eric Hicks
Duane Clemons
Gunther Cunningham (head coach)

[@CTubeMan]

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about Bills Coach Jim Ringo quitting at halftime of a game in 1977.

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

What do you get when you combine Jim Ringo and Bart Starr? A Beatle

[@icetraydemartini3963]

I now use "before we get into this, we need to give it some context" whenever I am confronted by an angry girlfriend, friend, business associate, or govt official. It's a great way to have first ball in a confrontation. It's an advantage.

[@christopherengel7436]

Smart move

[@phillyfan-182]

Way to soften the blow

[@MilsurpMikeChannel]

How the Chiefs fired Gunther after the season was really crappy... he was in his office at Arrowhead when he saw on the internet the Chiefs hired Dick Vermeil to replace him... before the team actually told him.

[@bkjbearcat78]

I remember that. He came in the office around 4:30am or 5 and when he saw the reports he just cleaned up his office and went home. He later said he was the only person there at the time.

[@marcus813]

I know the loss was hard on Cunningham, but he didn't handle that situation well at all. He wasn't head coaching material.

[@benjaminfeige7986]

2000 was the first year without Derrick Thomas.

[@REfan2002]

Gunther was one of those coaches who was trying to live up to Marty and win a game for D.T.

[@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040]

This unofficial JG9 historian will remind everyone that as weak of a move as Cunningham made here, that's not even the most egregious lie that a Chiefs head coach told, as JG9 made a video about Frank Gansz being a pathological liar. And yeah, he went 8-22-1 and is not missed in the Chiefs community.

[@jetteroheller]

Those glasses…was he attacking the Death Star?

[@CTubeMan]

Marty Schottenheimer, Gunther Cunningham, Dick Vermeil. The Chiefs had a 17-year history of hiring coaches who could be emotional wrecks.

[@andrewschultz6608]

Agreed, and Frank Gansz was a trainwreck in his own way, if not an emotional wreck, as we saw from another JG9 video.

[@jasonfire3434]

Herm Edwards too

[@Nonsense1986]

What was wrong with Marty?

[@weegeemike]

Me and my pops love Vermeil but our nickname for him is "Crybaby Dick" and only refer to him as such.

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Marty (a real hero of mine, BTW) could be a bit explosive when things went wrong, and sometimes when things went right - remember Danielson throwing a half-blind touchdown pass, and Marty went APESHIT over it? - but emotional wreck? My vote is - close but no cigar.

[@David.M._1979]

He was fired and rehired years later as a coordinator.

[@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040]

And he actually did a decent job as a D-coordinator

[@David.M._1979]

@@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040 He's the only reason I watched Hard Knocks when the Chiefs were on.

[@stevenbauer4799]

was also schwartz's d coordinator with lions.

[@justinmaybach6388]

Gunther Cunningham feels obscure when compared with the other coaches in Chiefs franchise history and to me he feels like poor man’s Marty Schottenheimer since they both coached the defense. Chris Berman used a particular accent when mentioning his name on ESPN.

[@danhester4408]

I don't know... I feel like we've all had those kinds of moments.. Crises of confidence or faith. Obviously, Cunningham wasn't a great head coach, and maybe he didn't handle this well, but I can kind of feel for him here given the circumstances.

[@eugenedenbrook322]

I agree. That in no way goes against JG9's premise; I simply feel that letdown, that despair. No, he didn't seem to handle it right, but I've been there (not in NFL, of course)

[@recklssabndon]

Say what you will about Gunther - as a lifelong chiefs fan, we ALWAYS watched those painful games with Gunther just to lip read what he was screaming from the sidelines. I think that mad man did like ten lines of *COLA* and stuck a beehive in his pants before every game. Usually you didn’t even have to lip read with him, you could literally hear him in the background audio from the broadcaster box seats

[@tgfabthunderbird1]

Cunningham was a good defensive coordinator, but one of the many who just don't make good head coaches.

[@miketemple7686]

The Colts had Payton Manning, so there’s that.

[@ajk]

On this subject, here's an idea for a future video: Bobby Ross quitting on the Lions mid-season, due to being frustrated with the team's poor play.

[@Lonewolf026]

I agree

[@chrisrobinson8339]

I didn't know that's how Derrick Thomas died. RIP Derrick.

[@francisdasta8646]

He flipped his Suburban on the interstate during an ice storm and I think he was thrown from the vehicle. He ended up being paralyzed and had a blood clot that migrated from his legs to his lungs

[@jesuispain]

I'm sorry, but I'll be the opposing voice. He wanted to win very badly, not just for the normal reasons a head coach does, but to win for D. Thomas, and when it didn't happen...well...he's still a human. Not a robot. He probably DID break a bit. Maybe he could have handled it better, but I think all of that is rather understandable. Yup, this deserved a video, but I don't think it deserves any vitriol. There are other, better reasons why he didn't last. This shouldn't be one of them.

[@Skywalker_OG1]

Thanks for Rich Gannon Gunther!

[@RetroJR3379]

He couldve told KC that he dedicated that game to Derrick Thomas and failed I was thinking of leaving. If he was honest I bet you my Derrick Thomas Pro Set RC that the team would rallied behind him

[@Fireyninjadog]

Not For Long

[@aaronholcomb237]

I'll always think about Jerry Glanville when I see or hear that.

[@Yourmomgoestocolledge]

No no no, they didn't play the fckin Commanders. They played The Redskins. Lol I will NEVER call them The Commanders lol Go Jags

[@tomsmith5584]

This unofficial JG9 historian will remind you of the whole Urban Meyer saga at Jacksonville where he torpedoed his career almost before the first game.

[@juliuskurtz8143]

Chiefs went on a down spier after the 97 season the 99 & 00 chiefs was rebuilding mood

[@Joseph-cu8lg]

Then it back fired when the media comes in

[@christopherengel7436]

W'oh w'oh, easy JG9. Not a good "Head Coach" fine acceptable. He was a good D-Coordinator. Head coach the word good doesn't really come to mind. Rest in peace D. Thomas. Dave Kreig still dreams ("nightmares") of you.

[@quasimoto7662]

How about George Allen’s return to the Rams in 1978?

[@DolFan316]

You mean the one that didn't even last through preseason because there was a mass team revolt, revealing how both NFL players and society had changed drastically in just a decade after ten years earlier when Allen was fired from the Rams, his players threatened to quit if he wasn't brought back? That return?

[@quasimoto7662]

@@DolFan316 the very same

[@michaelholman517minKC]

Gunther was a classic case of a great coordinator who just was not head coach material.

[@patrickcombs3567]

Come on we had the worst QB in Elvis. Seems kc loves its former san francisco QBs. Gunther was a great defensive coach but it just goes too show that doesn't translate to head coach.

[@ebonyknight5]

He didn't have to worry as the Good Ole Boys Coaching Network brought him back to the Chiefs as DC for several years later on.

[@kevinshea5819]

oh...I get it. The race card..lmfao...What in God's name are you going to do when the vicimhood train pulls into the station? What will you do? No issues with the league being 80% black players but having all sorts of issues with the amount of black coaches? Act stuck, stay stuck. It's 2022...It really is.

[@jonniez62]

Derek Thomas's father was killed the first night of Linebacker II. That is when the B-52's went downtown and bombed Hanoi.

[@stevenbauer4799]

gunther went all lou saban the notorious quitter.

[@WichitaChiefSam]

R.I.P. DT58 R.I.P. Gunther Cunningham