Artifacts located in the Chiefs Hall of Honor or stored in the team's offices inside the caves of SubTropolis represent powerful tools that bring the team's and the American Football League's history to life. They forge an emotional connection that crosses time and space, bringing fans closer to the past in a way that words alone often cannot do. Over the coming year, look as we identify a team artifact and tell you its story.

In the early days of professional football, many of the league's teams played their games in converted baseball stadiums, a practice which continued well into the 1970s and afterwards as new construction provided for the play of both sports in the same stadium.

Kansas City's Municipal Stadium was the home of minor league and Negro League baseball, the Kansas City A's of Major League Baseball, and of the Chiefs, and later when the A's moved to Oakland, a new baseball expansion team, the Kansas City Royals.

Given it was originally intended for baseball and rebuilt in the 1950s for a major league team, the A's, the seating replicated what you would find in older-aged baseball stadiums throughout the country. Slat-backed and made of iron and wood, as time passed and they aged further, the seats took on the look of a lost era. Fans would often lean back, and an entire portion of the row might move with them as the bolts holding the seats down rusted and came out.

When the Chiefs moved to their new home at Arrowhead Stadium, they took with them a few sections of the cast iron and wood seats to remember those days at Municipal.

For anyone who still visits Fenway Park in Boston, these seats will look familiar – a backward glance to a different time and place, and to what fans accepted then for comfort, and what they want now.

A section of Municipal seating may be found on display in the Hall of Honor at Arrowhead Stadium today.