Kansas City Chiefs have a chance to become all-time team
The Kansas City Chiefs are one win away from consecutive titles, something become more rare by the day in the NFL.
One more win. This is the refrain from Kansas City as the Chiefs — who before last season hadn’t won or appeared in a Super Bowl for 50 years — are a victory away from consecutive championships.
If Patrick Mahomes and Co. best Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Chiefs become the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowls since the 2003-04 New England Patriots … also led by Brady. In fact, Kansas City would become the ninth team to ever turn the trick in the Super Bowl era.
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Most of the others are all-time, iconic teams. We’re talking about Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Steel Curtain of the ’70s (twice), the dynastic San Francisco 49ers of the ’80s with Joe Montana, the ’90s Dallas Cowboys with the famed triplets, and then the aforementioned Patriots.
Of the teams not mentioned to do it? The ’70s Miami Dolphins, who went unbeaten in 1972, and the late-’90s Denver Broncos with John Elway and Terrell Davis. When you talk about the great teams in league history, it’s impossible to do so without evoking the memories of these giants.
If Kansas City wins its 17th game of the year on Sunday, it joins said ranks.
The Chiefs are already one of the more memorable one-time champs in history. They have Mahomes. They have Andy Reid. They have Travis Kelce, Tyreek Hill, Chris Jones, Tyrann Mathieu. All of those men are either a sure-thing or likely for Canton when their careers are over. Few teams, especially in the salary cap era, are going to have a half-dozen Hall of Famers.
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And yet so much remains on the line for Sunday. Kansas City can beat Brady in the Super Bowl, giving Mahomes a real chance to eventually be the greatest of all time. The Chiefs can also set themselves up for a potential three-peat, which no team has done in the Super Bowl era. If they somehow pulled it off, they’d be widely considered the greatest team ever.
However, we’re getting ahead of ourselves. The Chiefs are the three-point favorite and deservedly so next weekend, but there is a tough game to be played.
If they lose? A great run continues come September with a renewed purpose. If they win? Immortality.
