The NFL has its newest dynasty
Add the Kansas City Chiefs to the short list of NFL dynasties.
1960s Green Bay Packers.
1970s Pittsburgh Steelers.
1980s San Francisco 49ers.
1990s Dallas Cowboys.
2000s (and 2010s) New England Patriots.
2020s Kansas City Chiefs.
With their thrilling overtime win over the San Francisco 49ers, The Andy Reid- and Patrick Mahomes-led Chiefs won a third Super Bowl in five seasons to cement their status as the NFL's latest dynasty.
The Chiefs are the NFL's first repeat Super Bowl winner since the Patriots pulled off that feat 20 years ago.
Mahomes now has earned game MVP honors in each of those three Super Bowl wins. His third Super Bowl win puts him in rare company among quarterbacks. While Mahomes matched Troy Aikman's Super Bowl win total, only Tom Brady (seven), Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw (four apiece) have more.
Winners of one Super Bowl in the first 53 years of the league's championship game, the Chiefs now are tied with the Packers and New York Giants with four all-time Super Bowl wins. That only trails the 49ers and Cowboys (five apiece), and Patriots and Steelers (six apiece) for the most ever.
How much further can Mahomes and the Chiefs climb up those all-time lists? At just 28 years of age and with plenty of prime playing seasons ahead of him, it seems Mahomes certainly is capable to reaching even loftier stratospheres.
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How Chiefs pulled off overtime win
After the 49ers got a field goal on the first possession of overtime, Patrick Mahomes led the Chiefs on a 13-play, 75-yard drive to Super Bowl glory. It was Kansas City's longest drive of the game, and it ended with a Mahomes-to-Mecole Hardman touchdown in the final seconds of the first overtime period.
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49ers coach relives Super Bowl nightmare
Kyle Shanahan with a 10-point lead in a Super Bowl? Given the history, this is not what the casinos on The Strip would call playing with house money. Uh-oh. It happened again.
The 49ers not only fell to the Chiefs in an overtime thriller in Super Bowl 58, but they did it the hard way, blowing a double-digit lead.
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