This is a team they’ll keep talking about for as long as they’ve been playing this game, and as long as there’s been a frosty debate about the best team, a team good enough to be talked about as a dynasty.
The Lombardi Packers won five championships, but their memorable singular moment was when Bart Starr came out from behind Jerry Kramer to beat the Cowboys late in the Ice Bowl. In this game, the Lombardi Packers had every reason to lose except one, and that was a loss. No one on the Green Bay sidelines could fathom that they would do something like this. will do lose.
Tom Brady vs. Bill Belichick The Patriots have won six championships, and they’re all beloved like $1,000 wine in New England. But two of his stand out: against Seattle in Super Bowl 18 and against the Falcons in Super Bowl 11. One required a last-minute interception, the other required an eternal reversal. Perhaps both seemed miraculous, but by that time the Patriots simply knew how to win such games better than anyone in the sport.
A true dynasty, that’s what unites them. That’s what connects them. And now we can officially weave Patrick Mahomes vs. Andy Reid Chiefs into that tapestry. They spent most of the 2024 Super Bowl looking completely behind, having to come back 10-0 early in the fourth, 19-16 in the second half, and then finally trailing 22-19 in overtime. .
“It was amazing,” Mahomes said after Mecole Hardman’s 3-yard touchdown pass with three seconds left in overtime gave the Chiefs their second straight victory over the 49ers, 25-22. . Lombardi Trophy and third victory in five years.
“It was legendary,” Mahomes said.
it was. that’s right. The Chiefs were able to score like a pinball machine a few years ago, and because Mahomes played the game and the quarterback position played at a level known only to a select few, National Football It sparked my consciousness. As they continued to win, they also entered the world of pop culture, but that was before the world’s most famous singer was inducted into the Chiefs Nation Hall of Fame.
But one thing is clear about the Chiefs. If you have a chance of defeating them, you should defeat them. This applies to his September in Kansas City and his November in Denver, but most applies to his January and his February.
In each of the three times the Chiefs have won the Super Bowl, they have trailed in the fourth quarter, and this time they lost a three-point lead to the 49ers in overtime. This is a team that once came back from a 24-0 deficit to win a playoff game and somehow tied a playoff game with Buffalo in just 13 seconds. Since 2019, the Chiefs are 5-1 when trailing by 10 points or more at any point in the playoffs. The rest of the league games in that period are 6 wins and 48 losses.
And over the past five weeks, they’ve won four games in a row, the last three of which were underdogs.
“The whole game was our whole season,” Mahomes said. “The defense kept us there and the offense made plays when it mattered. I’m proud of them, they kept believing.”
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Then he smiled.
“The Kansas City Chiefs are by no means underdogs,” he said. “That’s all you need to know.”
When the Packers, Pats, Chuck Noll Steelers, and Joe Montana 49ers were at their best, I always bet on them at my own risk. That didn’t mean they won every week. We don’t win every year. But they were going to make you bleed and get into a brawl first before shaking hands in defeat.
Great teams do it. The Chiefs will do it. Great teams are about stars, sure, but they’re also about players like Hardman. Hardman spent the first half of the season in witness protection as a member of the Jets, and he would eventually return to Kansas City and become a permanent member of the team. Because he crossed the finish line Sunday, giving the Chiefs another title and bringing them one step closer to eternity.
“I blacked out when I caught the ball,” Hardman admitted.
He knew what was at stake. They all did, and it helped make them more noteworthy than ever. They now have a chance to do something no team has been able to do in the Super Bowl era: win three games in a row. Next year won’t be so easy, but this year hasn’t been easy either. They belong from now on to a special shelf of gaming history. It’s still young enough that it can continue to scale up further.
And Mahomes is right. The Kansas City Chiefs are never an underdog until proven otherwise.
