"Inside the Stacks: Exploring important documents in Chiefs history" is a series of columns based on never-before-seen documents and correspondence from the Lamar Hunt archives, including many from the founding and early days of the American Football League, the merger with the National Football League, and other historic moments up until the time of Hunt's death.

Lamar Hunt's plans for the building of a new stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs, now known as GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, went well beyond constructing a home for his team.

Quite the contrary, he had hopes that it would be host for any number of college games and possibly an entertainment venue. In time, it would host an annual Missouri-Kansas college game, the Big 12 championship game, international soccer, and various concerts from major entertainers.

He even went so far as to envision Arrowhead hosting the annual Army-Navy game. The game had traditionally been played in Philadelphia and later in Baltimore and, on a few occasions, in Chicago, Pasadena and New York.

Hunt always appreciated the history of games and events, and he likely saw the Army-Navy game from that perspective - "truly a National Game in every sense of the word, unique in its historic traditions," he wrote in a memorandum to the Chiefs' general manager.

The Army-Navy game has a history that goes back decades, and while it does not hold the attention and status among the nation's public as it once did, it is still featured and celebrated as part of the annual television schedule.

Hunt saw this as a one-time event — "an exceptional onetime plum for Kansas City," he called it.

He was always a big thinker, so to speak, but he was realistic that he could never get Army vs. Navy "more than once every 20 years or so, [still] a dream that we should not dismiss."

Interestingly, he said he would work on it personally to get it to Kansas City "in 2023!"

Why Arrowhead? To Hunt, it was "becoming a more famous place, and with the acquisition of this game, it would be a huge plus for Kansas City and for the image of the stadium."

Just how the Cadets and Midshipmen would be transported to Kansas City and housed, he believed, "would be the most formidable task."

SOURCES: "Lamar Hunt Correspondence Chiefs/NFL 2000", Cabinet 17, 3-ringed binder, Lamar Hunt to Carl Peterson, November 29, 2000.