LAS VEGAS — Hours after the Kansas City Chiefs became the first team in 20 years to win back-to-back Super Bowls, they began aiming to become the first to win three straight championships.
“He [would be] “It's legendary,” quarterback Patrick Mahomes said Monday of a hat trick. “Nobody's ever done it, and we knew it's legendary to win back-to-back. I think eight other teams have done it. We'd heard it all week. We'd talked to the guys. [who had gone back-to-back] about it, and we felt like we had the best opportunity we'd ever had to go out and do it.
“We have to continue playing our best football. We will celebrate the next few weeks and then we will do it again.”
Andy Reid called the prospect of winning three in a row “pretty interesting.” But Reid, ever the football coach, was also looking more into the process of getting there.
“We have some great competition in the AFC West, and we had some hirings, coaching hirings, and these guys are good football coaches,” Reid said of the additions of Jim Harbaugh with the Los Angeles Chargers and Antonio Pierce as the full-time coach. of the Las Vegas Raiders. “So it's not going to be easy. That's not how this plays out. We will have changes in our team, which all teams have, so you don't know what's there. There are a lot of unexpected things, and you have to keep fighting, have a good offseason and then a good training camp, and then that ball is kind of weirdly shaped. It has to bounce in the right direction.
“The thing to do is you don't really go there when you're doing this. You go back to your dark room and the film and the draft coming up and the combine, that stuff, that's where you go. You're not talking about three times.” .
The Chiefs are the fourth franchise to win three Super Bowls in a five-year period, so they have already earned a prominent place in NFL history.
“It means a lot,” Mahomes said. “I know how hard these guys work. I know how hard they go after they make it. I know how hard the coaches work. I think we're the hardest working team in the NFL, and all that hard work has to be paid for.” “That's something we always preach: We believe we work for those moments, for those end-of-game moments, and we prepare for that. Being able to have our stamp on this great NFL story is something I will never take for granted.”
Most chiefs have avoided referring to themselves as a dynasty. But Reid, who just finished his 25th season as an NFL coach and is a student of the league's history, didn't dispute the suggestion when it was raised.
“It's history,” he said. “We haven't determined if it's a dynasty… but I would tell you it's the best group I've ever met, and I've been around [for 25 seasons and], I have been very lucky. We've been in great organizations, good teams, and this group here and the organization are tremendous.
“If someone said dynasty and mentioned us, I would be very proud of it.”
