The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are an excellent soccer staff. You already know this.
The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are in search of their third Tremendous Bowl win in a row. I’d think about you have been conscious of this as nicely. And we now know that the highway to the Chiefs’ three-peat goes by the Philadelphia Eagles after their 55-23 dismantling of the Washington Commanders in Sunday’s NFC Championship Sport.
For nearly a complete yr now, if that’s not apparent, now we have been anticipating the Chiefs starting to make a run at historical past (as in the event that they haven’t made sufficient already). Kansas Metropolis has had an, um, distinctive season thus far in that they’ve been as inevitable as ever whereas wanting weaker than any previous model of themselves, a bizarre mixture of the Of Course nature that they’ve carried for over a half-decade now.
Regardless of not wanting constantly as dominant in 2024, Kansas Metropolis completed the season 14-2 and locked up the highest seed within the AFC and a Wild Card bye. A 23-14 win at house over the Texans acquired them to the AFC Championship vs. the Payments, and the Chiefs battled it out in a thriller in opposition to the Payments within the AFC Championship, squeaking to the Tremendous Bowl with a 32-29 win.
From a factual perspective, the Chiefs have received the final two Tremendous Bowls, received Tremendous Bowl LIV in Miami three years earlier than the primary consecutive win in 2023, and have performed in 4 of the final 5.
- Tremendous Bowl LIV, 2020: Kansas Metropolis Chiefs beat San Francisco 49ers
- Tremendous Bowl LV, 2021: Kansas Metropolis Chiefs lose to Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Tremendous Bowl LVI, 2022: Kansas Metropolis Chiefs not current
- Tremendous Bowl LVII, 2023: Kansas Metropolis Chiefs beat Philadelphia Eagles
- Tremendous Bowl LVIII 2024: Kansas Metropolis Chiefs beat San Francisco 49ers
It’s an insane run that they’re on and it’s historic as famous. Whereas they’ve completed a fantastic deal, one thing they haven’t performed is win three Tremendous Bowls in a row.
The factor about that’s… no one has performed that.
Throughout NFL historical past there have been eight different groups who have been looking for a 3rd title in a row.
- 1968 Inexperienced Bay Packers: Missed playoffs
- 1974 Miami Dolphins: Misplaced in Divisional Spherical
- 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers: Misplaced AFC Championship Sport
- 1980 Pittsburgh Steelers: Missed playoffs
- 1990 San Francisco 49ers: Misplaced NFC Championship Sport
- 1994 Dallas Cowboys: Misplaced NFC Championship Sport
- 1999 Denver Broncos: Missed playoffs
- 2005 New England Patriots: Misplaced in Divisional Spherical
Of the eight earlier cases there are three groups who missed the playoffs totally, and clearly that doesn’t apply to the one-seeded Chiefs who even had a bye by the Wild Card spherical.
Of the remaining 5, there have been two groups who received a playoff sport (apparently none of those misplaced within the Wild Card Spherical) however misplaced within the Divisional Spherical. The ultimate three who every got here the closest all fell one sport shy of historical past because the 1976 Steelers, 1990 49ers and 1994 Cowboys every misplaced their convention’s championship sport.
No staff in NFL historical past looking for three titles in a row has even made the Tremendous Bowl, so Kansas Metropolis could make historical past in the event that they just do that. Clearly although the Chiefs wish to take house that third title and because it has by no means occurred throughout 58 Tremendous Bowls so far it appears truthful to say that this may be one thing that will doubtless by no means be achieved ever once more.
Contemplate the final cases through which three consecutive titles have been received within the different main American sports activities leagues:
- NBA: 2000-2002 (Los Angeles Lakers)
- MLB: 19998-2000 (New York Yankees)
- NHL: 1980-1983 (New York Islanders)
There have been cases in every league of a staff profitable back-to-back titles since then, however none of a staff profitable three straight. Principally, the Chiefs can do one thing that has not solely by no means been performed in NFL historical past, however that hasn’t been performed in fashionable American sports activities historical past at giant in over 20 years.
We now have clearly recognized all of this from the second that the Chiefs lifted the Lombardi final February. All of it comes all the way down to Sunday, Feb. 9 in New Orleans.
Prepare.
