12 Facts About Gunther Cunningham

Gunther Cunningham was an American football head coach.

Gunther Cunningham served as the Kansas City Chiefs head coach for two seasons.

Gunther Cunningham had two stints as the Chiefs' defensive coordinator.

Gunther Cunningham served as an assistant coach for five other National Football League teams and four college teams.

Gunther Cunningham coached football for 47 consecutive seasons without taking any years off.

Gunther Cunningham attended the University of Oregon, where he played linebacker and placekicker before embarking on a coaching career that spanned almost fifty years.

In 1995, Gunther Cunningham was hired by the Chiefs as the defensive coordinator after spending the previous four seasons as a coach with the Los Angeles Raiders.

The move was controversial at the time as Gunther Cunningham claimed he was never informed by management that he was to be fired and only found out about it after discovering the article regarding his termination on the Chiefs website after he showed up to work one morning.

Gunther Cunningham went on to become a successful linebackers coach for the Tennessee Titans.

Gunther Cunningham was hired again in 2004 to revitalize a defense that had finished near or at the bottom of the overall rankings since Schottenheimer and Gunther Cunningham departed.

Gunther Cunningham was hired as the Detroit Lions defensive coordinator on January 21,2009, about a week after the Lions hired new head coach Jim Schwartz, who he worked with on the Titans from 2001 to 2003.

Gunther Cunningham became a naturalized US citizen on April 6,2010.