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Martin Rogers
FOX Sports Insider
Patrick Mahomes stopped talking about it months ago. Andy Reid told us he wouldn’t be thinking about it, and he’s stayed true to his word. Defensive tackle Chris Jones basically refused to acknowledge that there is even a room, let alone an elephant stationed within it.
Only Travis Kelce, for whom embracing hype ranks just as highly as collecting titles and subbing in as a backup dancer, has truly seized upon the glaringly obvious fact that the Kansas City Chiefs have a shot at NFL immortality this season.
With a three-peat.
No team has ever managed to win three straight Super Bowls, though it must be noted that the old school Green Bay Packers twice won a trio of NFL championships, the latter of which straddled the pre-Super Bowl and Super Bowl eras.
With their victory over the San Francisco 49ers in February, the Chiefs are breathing rare air. When the 2024 campaign begins on Thursday with their home clash against the Baltimore Ravens, they will officially begin the task of what eight previous back-to-back Super Bowl champs have tried, and failed, to do.
A collection of three Super Bowl triumphs is such an unthinkable thing that it has put the NFL world in a bit of a spin. The Chiefs have every right to call themselves the best team in the league, with irrefutable evidence as to why they are so insanely difficult to beat in playoff time. And yet, for many, there is a sense that at some point enough breaks are going to fall against them to crack the streak.
After all, even Tom Brady at the height of his Patriots pomp couldn’t do three in a row, which pretty much says everything about the feat’s difficulty level. Brady, who makes his formal NFL commentary debut on FOX this Sunday with the Dallas Cowboys/Cleveland Browns matchup (4:25 p.m. ET on FOX), himself weighed in on the topic earlier this summer, in an appearance on “The Herd” with Colin Cowherd.
“To win one is extremely…
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Publish date : 2024-09-03 23:21:27
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