Super Bowl repeat or revenge? Whatever happens, history will be made
Patrick Mahomes can become the first quarterback to win four titles before turning 30 while Saquon Barkley has a shot at breaking the postseason rushing record
A spectre of inevitability hangs over New Orleans in the final run-up to America’s high holy day. The Kansas City Chiefs, having spent the past half-decade as the National Football League’s most dominant force, are on the verge of something never before seen: a third successive Super Bowl title.
Theirs is a kind of supremacy that feels almost unnatural in the modern NFL, an era defined by salary caps and roster churn and parity-by-design, where success is intended to be fleeting in the best interests of the revenue-sharing collective. Yet here they are again, winners of 17 games so far and one more from a three-peat no team in the six-decade Super Bowl era has even come within 60 minutes of accomplishing.
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