Kansas City Chiefs first team in 20 years to achieve key feat, where this Super Bowl ranks against the others

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The Kansas City Chiefs have done what no NFL team has since the 2004 New England Patriots, winning consecutive Super Bowls on Sunday.

It took an outstanding defensive performance and some big fourth-quarter and overtime drives, but the Chiefs, against all odds, climbed back to the top of the mountain.

While we can now call the Chiefs a dynasty, there will be questions about where this victory ranks in KC’s Super Bowl history.

How many teams have won consecutive Super Bowls

Experts will debate for years to come whether the 2023 Super Bowl-winning Chiefs are among the greatest world champions.

That being said, few franchises have achieved what KC did this season.

With this Super Bowl victory, the Chiefs are only the eighth team in NFL history to win the title on consecutive occasions.

They are only the second one this century to retain their title.

It also means they’ll have a chance to do something no NFL team has ever done before: win three consecutive Lombardi trophies.

No reigning two-time champion has ever made it to the Super Bowl in their quest for a three-peat.

The 1990 San Francisco 49ers and 1995 Dallas Cowboys came closest, each losing in the NFC Championship Game in year three.

Where this Chiefs victory ranks

If you evaluate this season as a whole, it’d be hard to argue this may be their worst Super Bowl-winning team.

The offense didn’t perform well for long stretches of the season; the team sometimes looked out of sync, took unnecessary penalties and struggled to find consistency.

It isn’t easy to compare this team to the ones with Tyreek Hill in his prime and a younger and healthier Travis Kelce.

However not many would argue with Travis Kelce’s statement earlier in the year that Steve Spagnuolo‘s 2023 defense is the best we’ve seen from KC in the Andy Reid era.

Furthermore, Harrison Butker was money throughout the campaign, making nine successive field goals beyond 50 yards, connecting on a Super Bowl record 57-yarder in the third quarter on Sunday.

On paper though, they had fewer Pro Bowlers (five) and All-Pros (three) than in any of their previous two Super Bowl triumphs.

They also lost more regular season contests in 2023 (six) than in any of their other world championships this century.

The tough road to get to the Super Bowl

The other side to the Chief’s story in 2023 is that they had to overcome more odds than in any of their previous seasons in the Patrick Mahomes era.

They went to Buffalo in that hostile environment and won despite Josh Allen’s field day on the ground.

KC won in the bone-chilling conditions against the #1 offense during the regular season in the Miami Dolphins, who’d trampled teams throughout the campaign.

They shut down Lamar Jackson and easily the most balanced team in the NFL this season in Baltimore.

Then they overcame a 10-point deficit in the Super Bowl and got the job done in a dramatic overtime session.

So, given who they had to beat and where they came from, there’s an argument to be made for this being their most impressive Super Bowl victory.