History is on the side of the Cincinnati Bengals and the AFC taking down the Kansas City Chiefs in 2024
The Cincinnati Bengals and 14 other AFC clubs know the mission. The path to Super Bowl 59 goes through one team and one team only: the Kansas City Chiefs. While the Bengals watched the playoffs from home for the first time in three years, the Chiefs raised a Lombardi Trophy over their heads for the […]
The Cincinnati Bengals and 14 other AFC clubs know the mission. The path to Super Bowl 59 goes through one team and one team only: the Kansas City Chiefs.
While the Bengals watched the playoffs from home for the first time in three years, the Chiefs raised a Lombardi Trophy over their heads for the second consecutive postseason, not to mention the third time in five years.
All the talk in Kansas City revolves around going for a three-peat. Cincinnati will be glad to know how unlikely that is.
In his latest Football Morning in America piece, NBC's Peter King laid out the history of back-to-back Super Bowl champions.
Not only have none of them been able to pull off a Super Bowl three-peat, none of them have even played in the following Super Bowl. There hasn't even been a three-peat champion in major American sports in over 20 years.
"Eight teams in the 58-year Super Bowl era have won back-to-back championships. None of the eight made the Super Bowl the following season. … So if Kansas City wins again in the 2024 season, it would be not only the first team to do it in the Super Bowl era, but also the first team in any major American sport to do it since 2002." – Peter King
As resilient as the Chiefs proved to be this past year, breaking this curse is going to be an extremely tall task.
On the flip side, this is Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes we're talking about here. They'll take any sense of doubt and turn it into motivation.
The Bengals will have their own path to conquer as well. They'll be looking to go from worst to first in the AFC North after injuries to Joe Burrow tanked their 2023 chances.
With Burrow healthy, there may not be a team better equipped to stop the Chiefs from achieving the impossible. Having history on their side should only make it more interesting.
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