# @thekansascitystar on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/ChpseCylfNo
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19115855-thekansascitystar-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-08-24T17:58:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kansas City Star (@thekansascitystar) — https://gondola.cc/thekansascitystar

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During his nearly six decades playing and broadcasting for the Chiefs, Len Dawson left his mark on generations of Kansas Citians. 
 
After entering hospice care this month, Dawson has died at age 87, his family announced Wednesday morning. 
 
The Star asked our readers for some favorite memories of “Lenny The Cool,” and you delivered big time. 
 
We heard from more than 100 people detailing everything from Dawson’s calmness and composure on the field, his kindness and humility when meeting fans and one time when he read the questions to a driver’s exam aloud and had to be shushed and instructed that he wasn’t in the broadcast booth.
 
We learned that Super Bowl IV was a formative memory for a lot of you. One reader’s father purchased the family’s first color TV just to watch the game.
 
You told us that Dawson was the kind of guy who would introduce himself to the young man in the elevator after just leaving a doctor’s appointment. He’d call back the kid who wrote an essay about him for a school assignment and write back to the child who sent him a get well card when he was injured. He even picked one of you up when you were hitchhiking a ride home from school.
 
Read more about how Kansas City is reacting to Len Dawson’s death at the link in our bio. ✏️ Joseph Hernandez
 
#LenDawson #ChiefsKingdom #RIP #LennyTheCool #KansasCity

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