Fifteen regular-season wins and two playoff victories – including a nailbiter in the AFC Championship Game – later, the Chiefs are once again conference champions and heading back to the Super Bowl.

To some, it might be old hat. Kansas City has represented the AFC in each of the last two Super Bowls and will do so again in New Orleans on Feb. 9. But this time, history is on the line.

As winners of the last two Super Bowls, the Chiefs have a chance to become the first team to three-peat in NFL history. The gravity of the opportunity is not lost on any of them. After taking down the Buffalo Bills, 32-29, in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday, many of their responses ended with the same statement of a shared goal: Make history.

  • FlashMobOfOneOP
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    In fact, they’ve already made history, as the first team with back-to-back Super Bowls to reach the Super Bowl for a third-straight time. (All the others lost in the conference championships.) Fortunately, the Chiefs absolutely own the Bills in the Arrowhead Invitational AFC Championship game.

    For my part, I will never forget parking cars for three hours in the cold as a kid in the 90’s to watch the kicker who shall not be named piss away my team’s chance at a Super Bowl against the Colts in 1996. Back then you couldn’t get a seat, so the only way for a poor kid to get into the stadium was parking cars. They paid you with an SRO ticket, and it was pretty cool, given that this was the time when Neil Smith and Derrick Thomas were wrecking QB’s.