Kansas City Chiefs fans shouldn’t take Super Bowl appearance for granted
Sunday night marks the first time that a large majority of the Kansas City Chiefs fan base has seen their team play in the Super Bowl. While everything seems promising right now, don’t take this moment for granted, Chiefs fans.
The last time the Kansas City Chiefs were in the Super Bowl, my parents were 12 years old. That’s probably the case for a lot of you reading this (or maybe your parents weren’t even born yet) and while it likely won’t be another 50 years before the Chiefs reach this pinnacle again, hopefully fans are appreciating and enjoying this moment.
Everything seems to be going Kansas City’s way right now and all of us feel good about the Chiefs’ chances of getting back to the Super Bowl again in the near future. The only thing that scares me is the fact that no team’s window is open for as long as they might think it is.
Chiefs fans feel confident about this team for the next decade or so because of Patrick Mahomes, but how many times have we thought a quarterback would go to/win multiple Super Bowls and never lived up to that?
The easiest example that comes to mind is Dan Marino, who made it to the Super Bowl in the 1984 season, his second year as an NFL quarterback. The Dolphins got blown out and never made it back to the big game.
While I don’t see that happening to Mahomes (especially the blown out part), it gets tougher for teams to build a competitive roster after they’ve shelled out a boatload of cash to their franchise quarterback. Mahomes is going to get paid this offseason and once that happens, he won’t have as talented of a roster surrounding him.
Mahomes definitely deserves to get paid, but that moment coming in the 2020 offseason could impact this roster moving forward. They might not be able to keep Chris Jones, who is an anchor on that defensive line, and they’ll really have to bank on the draft in order to really keep their roster up to snuff.
Obviously the fact that we’re even having this conversation is a good thing because it means the Chiefs have potential to be right back in this same situation for years to come. On the other end of the spectrum, I’ve seen quarterbacks get to the Super Bowl and thought, “They’ll be back a bunch more times by the end of their career!” and that hasn’t happened.
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A somewhat recent example of this would be the Packers in the 2010 season, who won the Super Bowl, and have yet to be back, even with Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback.
The same could be said for Drew Brees and the Saints, who went in the 2009 season and haven’t made it back to the big stage since then either. Brees was 31 when he won while Mahomes is 24, but still. After the Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010, it really seemed like they were destined to go on a run, but last year was the closest they got to that pinnacle and they still fell short.
During their two decade dynasty, the Patriots made it look like getting to a Super Bowl every year was easy, but look at the NFC side of things. Not since the 2013-2014 Seahawks have we seen a back to back representative and the NFC is a more realistic vision of how a typical NFL season is supposed to be; It’s supposed to be two different teams in the final game every year.
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The hope is that the Chiefs win on Sunday and no one really cares if we go back again any time soon, but win or lose, making it back to the Super Bowl isn’t a guarantee for the Kansas City Chiefs – even with Patrick Mahomes on the roster, so don’t take this moment for granted, Chiefs fans.