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Peterson, in Philadelphia, and Schottenheimer, in Cleveland, faced similar problems in those cities when they took control there and it stood to reason they would face much the same difficulties in their new workplace.
Peterson had accompanied the messianic Dick Vermeil to Philadelphia, and later was his own man in leading the most successful franchise in the fledgling United States Football League, building a growing audience in a city that featured as many as four professional sports franchises and many more major college teams.
Schottenheimer, who had been raised in the rust belt of western Pennsylvania, knew what a losing franchise looked like, and he had helped turn fortunes around, competing in a division with the Super Bowl darlings, the Pittsburgh Steelers, reawakening thoughts in Cleveland that here was another Paul Brown. In Kansas City, it turned out once more to be a case of the quality of leadership, not the culture, an overused term too often bandied regarding in contemporary times.
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