Chiefs seek to seal spot among greatest dynasties in professional sports
NEW ORLEANS, La. (KMIZ)
The Chiefs are ready to make one last push at league history.
Kansas City (15-2) is primed for a showdown with the Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) at Super Bowl LIX, hunting for one more win in the final game of the 2024-25 NFL season to clinch the league's first three-peat.
The franchise has already gotten closer than any NFL team to achieving that unconquered feat. Of the league's nine back-to-back Super Bowl champions, the Chiefs are the only franchise to get within one win of three consecutive world titles. While Kansas City is just one win away from rewriting history, the team does not view Super Bowl LIX as any more important than its last two trips to the biggest stage in football. Instead, they are just appreciating the journey it took to get there.
"I think you always want to leave a legacy and kind of make your imprint on history, but more than anything, you just want to accomplish a goal that you have with your teammates. When you start in St. Joe your goal is to win the Super Bowl. We know that’s a hard process, we know it’s a hard week-in and week-out, but I’m proud of how our guys have kind of went about that process," quarterback Patrick Mahomes said. "We know it’s not going to be easy, this team we’re playing is a really good football team, but we’re going to go out there and put our best effort out there and play as a team and hopefully that’s enough to get a win.”
However, there's also professional sports history at stake on Sunday, Feb. 9 in New Orleans. With a victory in Super Bowl LIX, the Chiefs would become the 15th team in all of professional sports to achieve a three-peat and just the ninth group to accomplish that feat since 1970.
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers were the most recent franchise to achieve it, winning three straight NBA Championships from 2000-02. Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to two separate three-peats from 1991-93 an 1996-98. Now, Mahomes is hearing his name being compared to both those legends, professional athletes that he modeled his game after.
“I think more than anything is you see the competitors that they are. 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," Mahomes said. "Obviously, it’s a long way still for me to go to be mentioned with those guys, but I’ll try to do whatever I can to be close enough as I can be.”
Kickoff at the Caesars Superdome is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on FOX 22.
