Norma Hunt, who as the wife of the late Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt attended all 57 Super Bowl games, has died, the Hunt family announced in a statement released by the team.

She was 85 years old. No cause of death was given.

Lamar Hunt, founder of the American Football League, professional sports promoter, and founder and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs who was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972, the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1982, and the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1993.

Hunt was one of six children born to Harold Lafayette “June” Hunt, Jr., an oil executive, and Lyda Bunker Hunt, a homemaker. The family moved to Tyler, Texas, in late 1933 and in 1938 relocated to Dallas, Texas, where Hunt’s father established the offices of the Hunt Oil Company.

As a youngster Hunt and his older brother Bunker Hunt read the newspaper and digested the sports page by discussing the box scores and attendance numbers of various sporting events. Lamar Hunt received his high school education at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he played halfback and served as captain of the varsity team during his senior year.

The newly created league and team faced stiff competition from the National Football League, which also established a Dallas franchise. In May 1963 Hunt moved the Dallas Texans to Kansas City, where no other professional football team operated, and the Dallas Texans became the Kansas City Chiefs.

A year later Hunt married Norma Lynn Knobel. They had four children. The two football conferences continued to battle each other for supremacy, and finally in the spring of 1966 the two leagues merged. Hunt, who figured prominently in the merger negotiations, served as the AFL representative in talks with the Dallas Cowboy owner Tex Schramm and the NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle.

Hunt was also instrumental in negotiating the first football television contract for the AFL teams. In 1970 Hunt’s Kansas City Chiefs captured a Super Bowl victory for their owner.