Just hours after becoming world champions (again), the Kansas City Chiefs are already talking about winning another. A sports fan’s dream.
Their 25-22 overtime victory in Super Bowl 58 against the San Francisco 49ers was the first back-to-back championship win since the New England Patriots 2 decades ago. They now have the opportunity to be the first team in NFL history to be 3-peat champions.
Mahomes thinks it would be major.
“It [would be] legendary,” he said Monday. “No one’s ever done it, and we knew it’s legendary to win back-to-back. I think eight other teams have done it. We had heard it all week. We had talked to the guys [who had gone back-to-back] about it, and we felt like we had the best opportunity that we had ever had to go out there and do that. We’ve got to continue to play our best football. We’ll celebrate these next few weeks, and then we’ll get right back at it.”
Reid Sees the Challenge
It would be amazing to witness a NFL 3-peat. Head Coach Andy Reid is already aware of how challenging it will be.
“We’ve got a great competition in the AFC West, and we just had some hirings, coaching hirings, and these guys are good football coaches,” Reid said.
“So it’s not going to just be easy. That’s not how this thing rolls. We’ll have changeover on our team, which every team has, so you don’t know what’s there. There’s a whole lot of unexpected, and you got to keep battling through it, have a good off-season and then a good training camp, and then that ball’s shaped kind of funny. It’s got to bounce for you in the right direction.”
“The thing to do, you don’t really go there when you’re in this thing. You go back to your dark room and the film and the draft coming up and the combine, those things, that’s kind of where you go. You’re not talking three-peat.”
A Challenge that We’ll All Be Watching Unfold
The AFC West certainly packs a new punch. The LA Chargers have hired legendary coach Jim Harbaugh and the Raiders are now going steady with Antonio Pierce. Denver‘s got a Super Bowl-winning coach at the helm for his second year (Sean Payton); yes, it’s going to be difficult.
But, the Chiefs have given us every reason to believe they will make history once again.
