Top five Kansas City Chiefs quarterbacks in team history

4. Joe Montana

Joe Montana was the very definition of a quarterback you wanted under center. He had the championship pedigree as a leading member of one of the greatest dynasties in the history of sports. That gave him swagger in droves, with which he consistently snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Players like Montana, with the leadership and charisma to lead a band of 53 men into battle, only come around every once in a while.

You might be asking yourself: why isn’t Montana higher on this list of all-time Chiefs quarterbacks then? He’s one of only three to lead the franchise to the AFC Championship game, which he did in 1993 in his first season with the team. Had he not been knocked out of that game against the Buffalo Bills, there’s a chance the Chiefs win that game. We might have been talking about a much shorter Super Bowl drought for the franchise had the fates seen fit to smile upon Chiefs Kingdom in 1993.

That wasn’t the case. Unfortunately, for Chiefs Kingdom and the Schottenheimer regime, Montana was in fact rattled in a game in the only way he could be: physically. He was knocked out of the game early in the second half and was unable to captain the squad to a Super Bowl.

Aside from that fact, he only played for the franchise for two seasons. He’s beloved for what he did in those two years, and rightfully so. The fact remains that when people sit around and talk about Joe Montana, outside of Chiefs Kingdom, most are talking about his exploits in a different hue of red and gold.

Nevertheless, he is one of the most talented quarterbacks to ever play for the Chiefs. He brought great joy to a generation of Chiefs fans who had lived through the doldrums of the 1970s and 1980s, in which the team lost a great deal more than it won. For these exploits, he rightfully earns a place on this list at number four.