No other franchise in the NFL has compiled a record of domestic violence quite as brutal as the Kansas City Chiefs.
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► Since 2015, the team also acquired at least three players who were kicked off of college teams for alleged domestic violence, most recently in April with the trade for defensive end Frank Clark. The other two are Hill and defensive back Justin Cox, who then was released by the team after another arrest.
Their goal is to stop it. In the case of the Chiefs, such issues go back decades, all under the ownership of Lamar and Clark Hunt. Extended familyThere has been a common denominator in all the Chiefs’ successes and failures, on and off the field, through six head coaches over the past 20 years. Since its first year of existence in 1960, the franchise has been owned by the descendants of the former richest man in America, H.L. Hunt, a Texas oil wildcatter and bigamist who sired 15 children with three wives before his death in 1974.
The extended Hunt family still has its own complicated history with domestic abuse — which has claimed about one in four women in the U.S. as victims, according to research cited by the National Domestic Violence Hotline. In Kansas City, Clark Hunt has taken a more corporate approach to the problem, similar to other NFL owners who have faced varying degrees of domestic cases. The difference with the Chiefs is the severity of recent incidents and their number of domestic cases, which is double the league average, according to the database.
Johnson, now 39 and retired, since has watched how the team has dealt with the cases of Kareem Hunt and Hill. Four days later, the Chiefs played the Pittsburgh Steelers in a playoff game at home. The team — and a judge — allowed Barnett to play despite his jail sentence, and he ended up catching a dramatic touchdown pass from quarterback Joe Montana in the fourth quarter to help force overtime and eventually win. It was the last time the Chiefs won a playoff game at home until this year, but it wasn’t a happy ending for Barnett.
"Without going through the specifics ... I would say confidently that we do as much, if not more, than any other team in the National Football League," Donovan told USA TODAY Sports. 'Scares the hell out of me’Gandy, the domestic violence expert, is particularly worried about two aspects in the case involving Tyreek Hill.
Two murder-suicides already haunt the franchise — the one that cost 31-year-old Jamie Kimble her life in September 2012 and the one that overshadowed it three months later. That’s when Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, before driving to the team training facility and killing himself. Police said then the team had been aware of the couple’s problems and provided counseling.
He likewise might never have been released by the Chiefs without TMZ airing the video of him at a hotel in February 2018. "It may hurt the bottom line, which is money ... but if you really care about this culture and this nation, you will listen to your values and say, 'He’s a great player, but do we really want him representing our team, to really put that message out there that it’s OK?' " Glenn said.
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