2) Lamar Hunt, owner, Kansas City Chiefs: An owner on this list? Huh?! You're darn right. And you're lucky I didn't put him No. 1. Let's put it as succinctly as possible: The NFL -- as you know it, I know it and all the coaches and players know it -- doesn't exist without Hunt's heavy mark on the game. The man who created the AFL on a cocktail napkin in 1959, on a plane flight no less, should be given enormous credit for spearheading a professional football league that became viable enough in seven seasons to make a title game between the AFL and NFL a sexy proposition in the first place. Moreover, the AFC today is littered with the franchises Hunt scribbled on that napkin: the Bills, Broncos, Chargers, Chiefs, Jets, Patriots, Raiders and Titans (then Oilers). There are 11 Super Bowl champion teams from that group.