KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kyle Orton’s brief time with the Kansas City Chiefs was most curious. He was their starting quarterback for only three games at the end of the 2011 season but packed a lot into such a short time. He led the Chiefs to a couple of memorable victories over the Green Bay Packers and Denver Broncos, came within a whisper of taking a most improbable team to the playoffs and got interim head coach Romeo Crennel the permanent job.

Then he was gone, mostly disappearing from public view as the second-stringer for the Dallas Cowboys until surfacing this year as the starting quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. The Chiefs will meet up with him again Sunday when they face the Bills in Buffalo.

“He was a good guy, great quarterback," said wide receiver Dwayne Bowe, one of the few remaining Chiefs who played with Orton. “He gave me some chances. He trusted in me. We had fun together."

Orton doesn’t remember his time in Kansas City as fondly. He joined the Chiefs off waivers late in the season and, since he was in the final year of his contract, knew he wasn’t going to be around long.

His time with the Chiefs never had the look of permanence. He didn’t find himself a place to stay while with the Chiefs. Instead he kept a room at a local hotel.

He didn’t get close to any of his Chiefs teammates and said he wouldn’t necessarily look to say hello to any of them on Sunday. He crossed paths with Crennel, now the defensive coordinator for the Texans, earlier this season when the Bills played in Houston.

He didn’t bother exchanging pleasantries with his old coach, who has credited Orton’s play for getting him the promotion to the permanent job. Orton acknowledged he didn’t even want to play for the Chiefs after being placed on waivers late that season by the Broncos.

“When you go to waivers, it’s kind of out of your hands," he said.

Asked Wednesday what he remembered about his time with the Chiefs, Orton responded that he liked being so close to his childhood home in Iowa and to his parents, who still lived there.

There obviously won’t be much sentiment for Sunday’s reunion, at least on Orton’s part.