Greetings on Otis Taylor’s birthday, Chiefs legend 🎉

Greetings on Otis Taylor’s birthday, Chiefs legend 🎉

According to the AP and ESPN, veteran wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs Otis Taylor passed away on Thursday at the age of 80 from a variety of illnesses, including dementia and Parkinson’s disease.

Taylor will always be regarded as a legend in the history of the Chiefs, as he and Len Dawson forged a remarkable tandem. The Chiefs honored Taylor with a post on their Twitter page.

After Dawson’s death last year, Taylor also dies away. The former Chiefs wide receiver played for the team for ten years, finishing with two seasons over 1,000 yards and 7,306 receiving yards with 57 touchdown catches.

In the 1956 AFL Draft, Otis Taylor was selected in the fourth round as a Prairie View A&M player.

According to the Chiefs’ official website, a statement was made upon the passing by CEO and chairman Clark Hunt.

The loss of Otis Taylor is deeply felt by the Kansas City Chiefs organization. In light of Otis’s demise, my family and I would like to send our deepest sympathies to his wife Regina, his sister Odell, and the whole Taylor family. Otis spent his whole 11-year career as a Chief, and he was crucial to our team’s early success. With his iconic score in Super Bowl IV, he cemented himself as a Kansas City icon and helped the Chiefs win our first-ever Lombardi Trophy. He revolutionized the position and was one of the most explosive receivers of his day. He was a good man and devoted to his community off the field. We are praying and thinking of his family. Otis’s legacy endures.

Otis Taylor is still third in all-time receiving yards in franchise history behind Tony Gonzalez and Travis Kelce, and his memories will live on forever in Kansas City.