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Green: Stram’s Chiefs sent the AFL out an unequivocal winner in Super Bowl IV

Miami — Henry Stram was a preening, proud fashion plate of a pro football coach. He was a bantam man who paraded along the sidelines in sports jackets flavored with stunning waistcoats, quite often bright red.

He devised revolutionary offensive schemes and was never reluctant to boast about them. So it was, he arrived for the countdown to Super Bowl IV with the Kansas City Chiefs — just 50 years ago — still burning about the putdown he’d received three years earlier by Vince Lombardi.