By Miguel Rapetti
03 Sep 2024, 22:31 PM EDT
The reigning NFL champions, Kansas City Chiefs, are looking to become the first team in league history to win the Vince Lombardi Trophy three times in a row, which is awarded to the winner of the Super Bowl.
As happened in 2022 and 2023, the Chiefs are the favorites, led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, to lift the trophy that will be played for on February 9, 2025 at the Saints’ home, the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
The current form of the Kansas City team, which has played in four of the last five Super Bowls, makes them the favourites once again due to the competitive team they have, which includes stars such as Travis Kelce, Isiah Pacheco and Harrison Butker.
In fact, the only team to have defeated Kansas City at this stage was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, led by Tom Brady, the most successful Super Bowl winner with seven, who beat the Chiefs 31-9 in the LV edition of the 2020 campaign.
Despite this defeat, the team led by Andy Reid has confirmed itself as the most dominant dynasty of the last five years thanks to winning three Lombardi trophies: LIV, LVII and LVII.
Kansas City’s reign includes four AFC Championships in five consecutive playoffs and eight consecutive AFC West titles.
Achievements that would not have been possible without Patrick Mahomes at the controls, who at 28 years old has three championship rings and three Super Bowl Most Valuable Player (MVP) designations.
Achievements that put him in line with Tom Brady at the same age, although the player considered the best in NFL history finished his career with seven Super Bowl wins and five MVPs in those games.
A third straight Super Bowl would overshadow the achievements of historic dynasties like the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s, who won four Super Bowls in those 10 years, but did so with a pair of back-to-back championships.
Or the San Francisco 49ers of the 80s, also four-time champion in that decade, but without achieving three in a row.
To find the only three-time consecutive champion team, you have to go back before the merger between the old American Football League and the National Football League that occurred in 1970 to form what is known today as the NFL, with the Green Bay Packers having twice linked three consecutive titles.
The first time they won the National Championship in 1929, 1930 and 1931 and the second time they went on to win the National Championship in 1965 and in Super Bowls I and II in the 1966 and 1967 seasons.
Three titles in a row, although the first occurred before the two leagues decided to play an annual championship game between their champions, which the Packers claimed in those first two editions.
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