On August 31, 2006, Patterson and five other individuals purchased the Kansas City Wizards(Sporting Kansas City), a Major League Soccer team, from Lamar Hunt.
After watching his children play with a Super Ball, Lamar Hunt, founder of the American Football League, coined the term Super Bowl.
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He was the only candidate put forward for the job by a six-owner search committee (Wellington Mara, Lamar Hunt, Art Modell, Robert Parins, Dan Rooney, and Ralph Wilson), however, a group of eleven newer owners who wanted more of a voice in the selection process abstained from voting, preventing Finks from receiving the nineteen votes necessary to become Commissioner.