Former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Dick Vermeil was selected for the 2022 Pro Football Hall of Fame back in February. He’ll join Tony Boselli, Bryant Young, Richard Seymour, Sam Mills, LeRoy Butler, Cliff Branch and Art McNally for their enshrinement in Canton, Ohio on Saturday, Aug. 6.
Vermeil will also be joined on stage by a very special friend that he’s known throughout his football career, but also specifically during his tenure in Kansas City. He revealed on Wednesday that former Chiefs president and general manager Carl Peterson will be his presenter when he’s inducted.
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Dick Vermeil has announced who will be his presenter when he's inducted this August.
It's Carl Peterson. #PFHOF22 pic.twitter.com/jMUWAm9xII
— Pro Football Hall of Fame (@ProFootballHOF) April 6, 2022
“I’m very excited about announcing that Carl Peterson will introduce me as I’m inducted into the Hall of Fame class of 2022. Carl and I started all the way back in the early ’70s at UCLA when he was an assistant coach there and I took the head-coaching job, replacing Pepper Rodgers, and he was on the staff. I made the great decision to keep him with me, took him to Philadelphia with me as a tight end coach and an administrative assistant to me and then elevated him to personnel director and assistant GM. He later took over the USFL and turned it into a championship team. He went to Kansas City for 20 years as president and general manager. He hired me to come back into coaching and I coached there for five years. He’s part of our family, a great man, a great administrator, a great football guy and I’m really honored to have him present me.”
Peterson was president and general manager of the Chiefs from 1989 through 2008. The paths of Peterson and Vermeil overlapped in Kansas City from 2001 through 2005, a period during which the Chiefs went 44-36 with one of the most dominant rushing attacks in the AFC conference. Vermeil coached a total of 19 years in the NFL, winning a Super Bowl with the “Greatest Show on Turf” in 1999 with the St. Louis Rams. The 2005 NFL season, was his last as a coach in the NFL and in Kansas City.
