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After his playing career Anthony Hitchens Jersey , nity"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Kansas City Chiefs NewsOpen ThreadsFull ArchiveLibrary Community GuidelinesContact InformationOdds Shop About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub ✕Former Chiefs tight end and Kansas City Ambassador Walter White has diedNew,1commentAfter his playing career, White spent decades serving the Kansas City communityCDTShareTweetShareShareFormer Chiefs tight end and Kansas City Ambassador Walter White has diedFormer Kansas City Chiefs tight end Walter White — perhaps better known to modern Chiefs fans as a Kansas City Ambassador — has died at the age of 67.A native of Charlottesville, Virginia, White played his college football at Maryland, and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 1975 NFL draft. He was picked up by the Chiefs on waivers before the season began.White played in 63 games during his five-year Chiefs career, recording 2,396 yards and 16 touchdowns on 163 receptions.He was named the club’s Mack Lee Hill Award winner as the team’s top rookie after the 1975 season.Ten years after his playing career ended, White — along with other former Chiefs players and executives — became a founding member of the Kansas City Ambassadors, the only group of its kind in the NFL.The Ambassadors participate in community outreach events for the team.White was the inaugural President of the organization, and served in that capacity through 1998.Kansas City Ambassadors Walter White and Dave Lindstrom visit the students of Our Lady of Angels School in October 2012Marty Denzer/Key photoWhite also spent decades helping raise millions of dollars for charities across the country, with an emphasis on those for cancer patients and researchHe was employed at Commerce Bank in Kansas City for 22 years, and most recently served as Vice President of Commerce Bank’s Investment Group.He was also well-known in the Kansas City area as a blues musician.“My family and I are saddened by the passing of Walter,” Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt said in a statement on Thursday. “The Ambassadors are an integral part of the Chiefs family and the Kansas City community Chad Henne Jersey , and Walter was a vital part of the group’s development. It would be hard to find someone who embraced the values and work of the Ambassadors more than Walter did. We will never be able to thank him enough for everything that he did for the organization both on the field and in the community after his playing days concluded. Our deepest sympathies go out to his family during this difficult time.”White is survived by his wife Jeri and three children: Jason, Adam and Whitney. There are times that Dolphins coach Adam Gase hears about a cool play that happened somewhere else in the NFL, or something unique that a rival might be doing, and he makes a note to himself to check it out once his day-to-day work is complete.Then there are times he flips on the TV for pure entertainment."Sometimes," Gase said, "when you watch Kansas City, you sit back and watch because it just seems like they're out there playing 7-on-7. It's impressive to watch."Patrick Mahomes and Co. has certainly captured the attention of the league.The Chiefs lead the NFL in scoring at more than 36 points per game. They have its reigning rushing champion in Kareem Hunt, the league's fastest wide receiver in Tyreek Hill, the most versatile tight end in Travis Kelce and plenty of depth behind all of them.Then there's Mahomes, who can break Andrew Luck's single-season NFL record with his ninth straight 300-yard passing game Sunday against Arizona. The first-year starter has thrown 29 touchdown passes, two shy of Len Dawson's 54-year-old franchise record, and he leads the league in most meaningful statistical categories: yards, TD passes, touchdown-to-interception ratio."He's a baller Kendall Fuller Jersey , like I've been saying," said Dolphins wide receiver Albert Wilson, who spent last season with the Chiefs. "He thinks he can make every throw. He has a great group of guys around him to do good things with the football. I'm not surprised at all."Wilson has reason to watch Kansas City, considering he has so many friends still on the roster. But it still speaks volumes that in the midst of his own preparation he finds time to tune in.Then again, it's hard for his coach to complain when Gase is doing the same thing.Alex Smith also has plenty of friends on the Chiefs, including Mahomes, who stepped into his job when Kansas City traded him to the Redskins last offseason. The veteran Smith helped to mentor the Texas Tech standout when he was a wide-eyed rookie, and he takes pride in the young quarterback's success.When the Chiefs rallied in the fourth quarter for a Monday night win at Denver earlier in the season, and Mahomes took on a starring role in primetime, Smith was watching from his home near Washington, D.C."I mean, record-setting start for them, for him, for the offense 鈥?lighting the world on fire right now Eric Murray Jersey ," Smith said. "Fun to watch, obviously a ton of friends on that team, including Pat, and to see what they are doing is crazy. They are on fire right now."That game against Denver was the most-watched Monday night game that didn't involve the Cowboys since Week 16 of the 2016 season. When the Chiefs played the Patriots on Sunday night a few weeks ago, it earned a 12.3 rating and 21.1 million viewers for NBC, an increase of 31 percent from last year.In the Kansas City market, about half the TVs are tuned into the Chiefs whenever they are playing."It's been a lot of fun, frankly, for me and I think everybody who is a Chiefs fan to see all the interest in the Chiefs," team owner Clark Hunt said."That's a credit to the success we've had. That interest is not only here locally but it's really nationally. It seems like everybody who went to Texas Tech is all of a sudden now a Chiefs fan, which is great."You mentioned the TV ratings 鈥?the ratings were among the highest in a number of years for that Patriots game on Sunday night. Our local ratings are also higher than they've been in many, many years," Hunt added. "Our local ratings are always very good, but clearly Andy (Reid) Terrance Smith Jersey , Patrick and the offense and the victories that we're getting has taken that to a higher level."The Chiefs will get plenty of more exposure this season, too.After facing the lowly Cardinals on Sunday, the Chiefs head to Mexico City to face the high-flying Los Angeles Rams on Monday night. They also have a Thursday night showdown with the surging Los Angeles Chargers and a Sunday night trip to Seattle two days before Christmas.Regardless of whether anyone tunes in, Mahomes plans to keep the party going."Just being able to learn every day from Coach Reid, be able to get out here with all these guys, we literally have fun every single day," he said. "We love coming to work and getting to just play this game that we've loved since we were little kids and winning a lot of games."Notes: Safety Eric Berry (heel), LB Anthony Hitchens (ribs), C Mitch Morse (concussion), WR Sammy Watkins (foot) and OL Cam Erving (illness) did not practice Wednesday. ... FS Daniel Sorensen could make his season debut Sunday. He was activated from IR this week after breaking his leg in training camp.AP Sports Writers Howard Fendrich and Steven Wine contributed to this report.