The Kansas City Chiefs dominated the AFL and won a Super Bowl with Hall of Fame talent on offense, defense and special teams.

Now it’s time to add their coach to the list.

“We had great people, and you just can’t win if you don’t have great people,” said Hank Stram, who will be inducted Sunday into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

“You can’t win if you don’t have a great attitude, great discipline. I always thought that attitude was more important than intellect. That’s the way our team was.”

The franchise’s first coach, Stram took over the expansion Dallas Texans of the upstart AFL in 1960 and guided them through 1974 — 11 years after the team moved to Kansas City and was renamed the Chiefs.

The gregarious, stocky and blazer-wearing Stram — carrying a rolled up game plan in his hand — led the Chiefs to AFL titles in ’62, ’66 and ’69 and appearances in Super Bowls I and IV.

Stram later coached two seasons in New Orleans and had a successful career on CBS and Monday Night Football radio as a color commentator.

But it was Stram’s success in Kansas City — and his ability to find and develop talent — that led him to the hall.

“I don’t think people know what a great quarterback coach he was,” said Hall of Famer Len Dawson, once a Stram waiver pickup. “He knew more about the quarterback position than any coach I ever had.”

Kansas City coach Hank Stram is carried off the field after the Chiefs beat Minnesota in Super Bowl IV. Stram will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Sunday in Canton, Ohio.

Five players on Stram’s Chiefs teams — Bobby Bell, Buck Buchanan, Dawson, Willie Lanier and Jan Stenerud — became Hall of Famers, and countless others were standouts.

Stram designed a moving pocket to utilize Dawson’s ability to throw on the move and deceive defenses with play-action passes; he devised the two tight end offense that provided an extra blocker; and his stack defense packed so many bodies near the line of scrimmage that other teams couldn’t run the ball.

Dawson believes Stram, who coached his final NFL game 26 years ago, should’ve been made a Hall of Famer years ago.

“I think it was long overdue, but I’m prejudiced,” said Dawson, one of Stram’s closest friends and his Hall of Fame presenter.

The 80-year-old Stram is this year’s senior enshrinee. Also being inducted: Marcus Allen, Elvin Bethea, Joe DeLamielleure and James Lofton.

Stram was a University of Miami assistant in 1959 when Lamar Hunt, now the Chiefs’ owner, offered him a head-coaching job that had been rejected by Bud Wilkinson and Tom Landry.

Former Chiefs coach Hank Stram shows off his trophies in this file photo. Stram will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Sunday in Canton, Ohio.

“It was a very lucky selection on my part,” said Hunt, also a Hall of Famer. “I would like to think the best record in the AFL, the most championships, would have been rewarded earlier.”

No other player has formed a tighter bond with Stram than Dawson, the MVP of the Chiefs’ 23-7 win over Minnesota in Super Bowl IV.

Dawson wallowed on the bench in Pittsburgh and Cleveland for five seasons before asking Browns coach Paul Brown for his release. The Texans won the AFL title in the quarterback’s first season in 1962.

“I look at my career, if it hadn’t been for Hank I wouldn’t have had one,” Dawson said. “I had gotten very rusty in five years. … Hank stayed with me. He thought he knew something about me.”

Stram had a 124-76-10 regular-season record — plus 5-3 in the playoffs — in 15 seasons at Dallas-Kansas City, but he refuses to feel slighted about his long Hall of Fame wait.

“I don’t look at it that way,” he said. “I think I was very, very fortunate to be able to coach in so many great places with so many great people. It’s a great opportunity and I look forward to it with great anticipation.”