The Chiefs got their controversial name from a Kansas City mayor who went by 'Chief' and insisted on the team being named after himself

12:39pm PST - January 23rd, 2020    super bowl 2020 time - Business Insider

A recent Twitter thread and article from Native journalist Vincent Schilling shed light on the problematic origin story of the Kansas City Chiefs' name. Schilling wrote that the Chiefs' moniker came from former Kansas City mayor Harold Roe Bartle, a white man…