Chiefs: Super Bowl Championship Repeatability

Chiefs: Super Bowl Championship Repeatability – no team has won the Super Bowl three straight years in a row. We should get that out of the way up front. However, if you go back to the 1965 NFL (NFC) Championship, the Green Bay Packers won that year and then followed that up by winning the first two Super Bowls. The Pack beat the Cleveland Browns 23-12 which kept the Jim Brown led Browns from repeating as they had beaten the Johnny Unitas led Colts the previous season 27-0. On the AFL side, the Dallas Texans (eventually to become the Chiefs) —  beat the Houston Oilers 20-17 for the 1962 Championship and won again in 1965 to face the Packers in the first Super Bowl and then of course won it all following the 1969 season.

Could the Chiefs be in position to win three titles again over a 7 year span? Right now, more fans may want to know if the Chiefs can repeat? Win back-to-back Lombardi trophies? To do so, the Chiefs would become the 9^th team in the Super Bowl era to do so. Here’s a list of the teams who managed to win back-to-back Lombardi trophies:

1. 1. 1966 and 1967 Green Bay Packers
   2. 1972 and 1973 Miami Dolphins
   3. 1974 and 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers
   4. 1978 and 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers
   5. 1988 and 1989 San Francisco 49ers
   6. 1992 and 1993 Dallas Cowboys
   7. 1997 and 1998 Denver Broncos
   8. 2003 and 2004 New England Patriots

It’s been 16 years since any NFL team has been able to repeat as Super Bowl Champions. The only team to repeat with having a different coach each time was the 1988 and 1989 San Francisco 49ers who moved on from Bill Walsh following his retirement and promoted George Seifert.

So, that may be the first rule for repeating: keeping your head coach.

The Chiefs also have a stable four in place: the Owner, the GM, the Head Coach and the Quarterback. All other teams who have repeated have had the “stable four.” However, it should be noted that the Miami Dolphins had Earl Morrall play QB for a large part of the Dolphins season in 1972 while Bob Griese was hurt.

So, that may be rule number two: maintain a stable four.

The Seattle Seahawks came within a hair’s width — and a Malcolm Butler INT – of winning back-to-back Super Bowl rings for 2014 (February of 2015). RB Marshawn Lynch wasn’t called upon to apply the last blow on the ground which he Seahawks had been able to do all game long. So, no one really knows what got into HC Pete Carroll’s mind when he decided to throw the ball near the goal line instead of running it in, which was nearly an assured winning TD. So, to win back-to-back Super Bowls, your head coach has to be willing to dance with the one that got him to the dance.

So, that may be rule number three: having a HC who will stick to his team’s strengths.

Adam Schein of CBS Sports has recently stated, and stated boldly,

“Here’s the deal, we’re just getting started. Andy Reid, is going to win multiple championships. He can should, and will win at least two more, with this special quarterback and unreal core. And now that the proverbial monkey is off his back… That’s going to help things, for Reid, and for Kansas City. The Reid-Mahomes chemistry is amazing. The weapons are second to none…. A Championship changes the Andy Reid conversation forever. I don’t have to yell it… I don’t have to give you numbers to back it up.”

So, that may be number four: keeping the core of your Championship team together.

There’s a chance that both WR Sammy Watkins and DT Chris Jones will not be around for the 2020 season… but beyond those two, the rest of the core is in tact.

 In a piece called, “Can the Chiefs repeat?” by Bryan DeArdo, he sites that the 2010 New Orleans Saints were poised to go back-to-back winners of the Super Bowl with their offense and defense maintaining their respective NFL rankings (or in the case of the defense, improving), but,

“The main reason for the Saints’ offensive decline was their red zone woes, as the Saints went from 6th to 20th in the league in that department.”

So, that may be number five: make sure you stay effective in red zone scoring.

With the Chief returning such a high percentage of their roster in 2020, it appears that familiarity with each other will pay off. If this younger core group of player can grow and improve together, there’s no reason to believe they can’t repeat as Super Bowl champions in Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, on February 7, 2021.

Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne

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