After winning a third championship in five seasons, Patrick Mahomes doesn’t seem to think his Kansas City Chiefs are a “dynasty.” (OK, he does, but not necessarily for the reason you’d expect.)
No matter what happens next, these Chiefs have cemented themselves in NFL lore as a legendary team. They have thrived so much in January and February that they’ve made winning in single-elimination football seem almost impossibly routine. This is definitively their era, their titanic reign sitting on the sport’s biggest throne.
But where do the Mahomes Chiefs rank all time in NFL history? That answer might not be so simple because they’re not the first team to completely envelop half a decade or more.
Let’s take a look at some of the best NFL dynasties ever and where the Chiefs slot in. For what it’s worth, I decided to mainly keep this to the modern Super Bowl era because rewarding teams like the pre-World War II Chicago Bears and post-war Cleveland Browns feels a little silly, considering the league was a literal shell of what it is now.
