Eight AFC championship games, five AFC championships, six Super Bowl appearances, four Super Bowl rings—all within the sixty-five year history of the Kansas City Chiefs. This long list of accomplishments is nothing but astonishing and, even more impressively, has been primarily celebrated since 2019, earning the modern-day Chiefs a reputation of “a good team that got lucky,” to a reigning dynasty.
Some famous faces behind this “dynasty” include Patrick Mahomes—the quick-to-rise star out of Texas Tech University—who rapidly grew to fame after becoming the youngest player ever to win both a league MVP and a Super Bowl title. Boldly led by head coach, Andy Reid, previous head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, and NFL coach of 34 years. Other strong contributors to the team’s success include Travis Kelce, Chris Jones, Harrison Butker, and Creed Humphrey.
Beyond the success on the field, the Chiefs have gained immense fame in the pop-culture world across the years. Travis Kelce, for example, is engaged to Taylor Swift—no description needed —and devised “New Heights” with his brother, Jason Kelce, which has become a highly popular podcast since its release. Along with personal ventures, the franchise has gained country-wide recognition in forms of cinema such as “The Kingdom” and “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story”—both shows depicting several iconic features of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Although thrilling for Chiefs fans everywhere, years of success are destined to end in a highly competitive space such as the NFL. To begin the 2025 season, Andy Reid and his team sit 1-2, with an 0-2 start, which hasn’t happened since 2014. Their only win was against the Giants, which has been, and continues to be, a struggling franchise. This unusual situation for the modern-day Chiefs, led by Patrick Mahomes, has resulted in the longest losing streak of his NFL career, with three games in a row. Luckily, this unfortunate streak has been snapped but leaves space for the question, is the Chiefs dynasty over?
As of now, there is no way to know. A beautiful thing about sports is there is no plan, prediction or clear-cut conclusion for how good or bad a team will perform, and truly, that’s the beauty of it. Sports are as unpredictable as gambling, which makes a conclusive answer impossible to appoint.
For now, Kansas City can rest, but the question remains: when will the kingdom collapse?
