Most of the football-watching world only sees what happens for a three-hour block of time on Sunday afternoons in the fall, but the truth is there’s a slew of people behind the scenes that help bring a product to the field that’s consumed like no other sport in the country.
For the Kansas City Chiefs, one of those people behind the scenes that makes it all possible is head equipment manager Allen Wright, who has been with the organization since 1983 and was named the fourth equipment manager in franchise history back in 2011.
Wright, who has given the Chiefs more than three decades of his life, was recently given something in return, as he was recently named the 2017 winner of the “Innovation in Safety Award” by the Maxwell Football Club, and co-sponsor, VICIS, developer of high tech football helmets.