Bob Moore, who spent 35-plus years with the Kansas City Chiefs — first as the director of public relations and then as the team’s historian — is being honored by the Blair County Sports Hall of Fame.
Moore will receive the Hall of Fame’s 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award during the Hall’s 21st induction banquet on April 11, 2026 at the Blair County Convention Center.
The Chiefs hired Moore as their director of PR in 1989, and he remained in that capacity for 21 years.
During that span, he oversaw the club’s public and media relations efforts, working closely with Chiefs ownership, management, coaching staff and players while acting as the team’s official spokesperson.
In 2010, he was named the team historian, becoming the second historian to be employed by an NFL team (following the Green Bay Packers), which triggered a trend as there are now more than 20.
Moore continues to serve as the Chiefs’ historian emeritus and assists with special projects.
He was central to the development of the Chiefs Hall of Honor and the Founder’s Plaza at Arrowhead Stadium. He also oversaw the collection of Chiefs and American Football League artifacts and maintained the club’s archives and the papers of Lamar Hunt, the founder of the Chiefs and the AFL.
Moore is the author of several monographs on the history of the Chiefs and was the producer of “Games,” an NFL Films documentary on the life of Hunt. He followed that with a film on Hunt’s groundbreaking professional World Championship Tennis enterprise, “WCT: The Road to Open Tennis,” which premiered at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I., in 2014.
More recently, he was interviewed and featured on ESPN’s “The Kingdom,” a six-part series that chronicles the Chiefs’ historic legacy that premiered earlier this month.
A 1965 Altoona High School graduate, Moore got his start in sports information, working at Saint Francis (his alma mater), Mount Aloysius and Drexel University before landing in the United States Football League with the Philadelphia Stars and Baltimore Stars.
That’s where he connected with Carl Peterson, the future general manager of the Chiefs.
“Bob set a standard for professionalism and longevity among Blair County natives involved in sports at the highest level,” Hall of Fame president Neil Rudel said. “He’s an ideal fit for the Lifetime Achievement Award, and we look forward to honoring him.”
Moore also founded Saint Francis’ Golden Era of Men’s Basketball and was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2024.
He will be the fourth recipient of the Hall’s Lifetime Achievement Award, joining inaugural winner Jim Lane (2010), strength training champion and weightlifting pioneer Jake Webb (2018) and coaching legend Julie Roseborough (2022).
The 2026 class will include former women’s basketball standouts Kristi (Little) Kaack and Lori (McConnell) Elgin, the first official to be inducted in Cathy (Cronin) Beam, former long-time area high school football coach Dave Baker (Central, Williamsburg) and Tulane University football player George Geishauser.
Altoona Area High School’s girls basketball teams of 1995 and ’96, both PIAA champions, are the team inductees.
The 2026 banquet will be the 21st banquet since the first one was held in 1987, and will bring the total number of inductees to 110 and teams to 13. Pittsburgh sports media personality Bob Pompeani will return as the event’s emcee, and the guest speaker will be announced at a later date.
Tickets for the induction are priced at $100, and orders are now being taken and tickets will be mailed by March 20. Checks should be made out to the Blair County Sports Hall of Fame and mailed to P.O. Box 162, Altoona, Pa. 16603.
Questions can be directed to Kathy Millward at (814) 312-4753 or [email protected].
