The Kansas City Chiefs enter Super Bowl 59 with the chance to make NFL history.
In the Super Bowl era, with now spans nearly six full decades, there has never been a three-peat champion. Last year, the Chiefs joined the 1966-67 Green Bay Packers, 1972-73 Miami Dolphins, 1974-75 and 1978-79 Pittsburgh Steelers, 1989-90 San Francisco 49ers, 1992-93 Dallas Cowboys, 1997-98 Denver Broncos and 2003-04 New England Patriots as repeat champions. None of those teams even reached the big game again as back-to-back champs, so Kansas City has already broken ground just by winning the AFC this year.
On Sunday, the Chiefs arrived in New Orleans for their third straight trip to the Super Bowl and fourth in the last five seasons.
Footage of the team stepping off the plane is going viral on social media.
The Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City’s NFC opponent, also arrived in the Big Easy this afternoon. These two teams actually met in the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona two years ago, with the Chiefs winning a 38-35 thriller.
“I think the only time I’ve heard (Andy Reid) say [three-peat] is to the media whenever you all ask him about it,” said Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs’ superstar quarterback. “He’s very locked in on just, ‘How can we be great with our cadence today at practice?’ so that’s just the stuff that Coach Reid focuses on.”
With a three-peat, Mahomes will be in a class of his own as a quarterback, while joining legends who accomplished the feat in other sports like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Derek Jeter and Guy LaFleur.
“I think more than anything is you see the competitors that they are (Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan),” Mahomes said. “They’re going to do whatever it takes to win. That’s what you have to be in order to have success in professional sports is a competitor. Someone that’s going to put in the work every single week, and watching them and listening to the things that they talk about, that’s helped shape my career on how I have to work.”
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – JANUARY 26: Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrates after the Chiefs defeated the Buffalo Bills 32-29 to win the AFC Championship Game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on January 26, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
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Super Bowl 59 will kick off at just after 6:30 p.m. ET next Sunday on FOX.
Tom Brady and Kevin Burkhardt will call the action. The Chiefs are going for the fifth Super Bowl in franchise history, while Philadelphia is aiming for its second.
Should be a great one.
