The Philadelphia Eagles aren’t the only Super Bowl rematch that the Kansas City Chiefs have to look forward to during the 2023 NFL season.
The Chiefs have played in five Super Bowls during the illustrious history of the franchise with a 3-2 overall record. The first two teams they ever faced in the big game also happen to be on the regular-season schedule as Kansas City faces the NFC North this season.
Our friend Mark Lane at Touchdown Wire scoured the upcoming NFL schedule to find all of the historical Super Bowl rematches, with Kansas City having three total, including their Super Bowl LVII rematch against Philadelphia in Week 11. The only Super Bowl rematches missing for the Chiefs are Super Bowl LIV against the San Francisco 49ers and Super Bowl LV against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
In Week 5, Kansas City will head to U.S. Bank Stadium to face the Minnesota Vikings on the road. This will be a rematch of Super Bowl IV, the Chiefs’ earliest Super Bowl win. They stamped their name on the AFL era with a 23-7 win over the Vikings with a team that included franchise greats such as Len Dawson, Bobby Bell and Willie Lanier.
Of course, they’ll also get a Super Bowl I rematch against the Green Bay Packers in Week 13. Back then, the big game was still known as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The Packers, of course, emerged victorious with a 35-10 win over Kansas City.
The #Chiefs have lost a member of their Super Bowl IV team with LB Jim Lynch passing away at 76 years old.
The Kansas City Chiefs have lost a member of their Super Bowl IV team.
According to Talk of Fame Network’s Rick Gosselin, former Chiefs LB Jim Lynch has died. He was 76 years old. Lynch was a former second-round draft pick out of Notre Dame in 1967, where as a senior he was a defensive co-captain on the National Championship-winning team. He also won the Maxwell Award that year, anointing him as the best player in college football.
Lynch (6-1, 235 pounds) was one-third of the Super Bowl IV-winning linebacker corps, playing alongside Pro Football Hall of Famers Willie Lanier and Bobby Bell. Lynch played in 151 career games for the Chiefs from 1967 through 1977, including making appearances in 148 consecutive games. He played his entire 11-year NFL career with the Chiefs, where he recorded 17 interceptions, 18 sacks, and 14 fumble recoveries (tied for sixth-most in franchise history). He was an AFL All-Star and was awarded two second-team All-AFL honors during the course of his career.
RIP Jim Lynch, former Notre Dame All-America LB who became a Pro Bowler with KC Chiefs & starter on defense that won Super Bowl IV. Got to know Jim in my years covering the Chiefs in the 1970s. Class act on and off the field. He understood there was more to life than football.
In 1990, Lynch was inducted into the Chiefs Hall of Honor (aka Ring of Honor and Hall of Fame). In 1992, he was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.
It worked out perfectly that the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl to conclude the NFL’s 100th season and Clark Hunt explains why.
There was a bit of symmetry between Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt’s Super Bowl LIV trophy speech and the one his father Lamar Hunt gave in Super Bowl IV.
During the team’s Super Bowl watch party on Wednesday, Hunt was asked about the similarities between the two speeches by team reporter Matt McMullen. In Hunt’s eyes, it only could have worked during this specific year celebrating the NFL’s 100th season. Had it happened during any other season, he wouldn’t have been able to have the call back to his father’s speech which commemorated the 10th season of the AFL.
“It’s something that had always been in the back of my mind,” Hunt explained. “That clip you’re referring to was when my dad (Lamar Hunt) received the trophy after Super Bowl IV and he more or less said, ‘It’s a beautiful trophy and I can’t think of a better conclusion to the 10 years of the American Football League.’ Now, it’s hard to come up with something that actually replicated that. Last year (2018) we were approaching the Super Bowl and playing in the AFC Championship Game, I had the thought about using it if I had the opportunity but it really wouldn’t have fit. This year, of course, with it being the 100th season of the National Football League, it gave me the perfect launching point to really do the same thing. So I said something like, ‘It’s a beautiful trophy and I can’t think of a better conclusion to the NFL’s 100th season.’ You must be a real fan to have picked that up, an aficionado to have gone back and seen what we did in Super Bowl IV.”
If you happened to pick up on this moment in Hunt’s trophy acceptance speech, consider yourself an owner-approved Chiefs aficionado. 50 years was certainly a long time to wait between Super Bowl titles and I’m certain Hunt would have gladly given a speech earlier. However, it has to be pretty special to have the opportunity to imitate the words of his father, who accepted the first Super Bowl trophy in franchise history.
Richardson was a seventh-round draft pick out of Jackson State College by the AFL’s Dallas Texans in 1965. He spent multiple years with the practice roster and didn’t get his first chance with the team until the 1967 season. A year before the merger, he had his best season yet. He started 11 games in 1968, accumulating nearly 500 yards and six touchdowns.
The Greenville, Mississippi native would go on to play with the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV. On his way to becoming a Super Bowl champion, he’d catch a single 19-yard touchdown reception to help the Chiefs defeat the New York Jets in the first round of the playoffs. That was the only pass he caught during the 1969 postseason. He was known for his role in Super Bowl IV’s infamous 65 toss power trap play that led to a 5-yard score by RB Mike Garrett. Gloster delivered the play call from the sideline to QB Len Dawson in the huddle.
Richardson would later be traded to the Dallas Cowboys in 1971 in a player-for-player trade. He spent his time with the Cowboys as a reserve player and ultimately would go on to win Super Bowl VI with the team. He’d finish his career with the Cleveland Browns as a reserve player before calling it quits after the 1974 season. He’d catch a total of 92 passes for over 1,600 yards and 18 touchdowns during his career.
Later, Richardson would return to football as a receivers coach at Mississippi Valley State University, coaching Pro Football Hall of Fame WR Jerry Rice during his final two seasons of college football.
Travis Kelce, the team’s star tight end, says they won’t have to wait nearly as long for another Lombardi Trophy.
The Kansas City Chiefs had to wait 50 years to get back to the NFL’s biggest stage after winning Super Bowl IV in 1970.
But Travis Kelce, the team’s star tight end, says they won’t have to wait nearly as long for another Lombardi Trophy.
“The dynasty is just starting, baby,’’ he told reporters after the Chiefs’ 31-20 win over the 49ers in Miami. “It’s just starting. Motivated to do it again, for sure.’’
That may feel like a bold promise to make after just one Super Bowl title in recent history, but several of Kelce’s teammates spoke of a budding dynasty after the win, including defensive tackle Chris Jones and wide receiver Tyreek Hill.
Chris Jones says this is a dynasty in the making, and that he plans to drink some alcohol tonight to celebrate the occasion: pic.twitter.com/z0aU4IX5n0
Patrick Mahomes tried to slow down the dynasty talk in his post-game press conference:
“For me, it’s about taking it one year at a time. We came up short last year. We understood how hard of a challenge it was to get in this position again, and we found a way to do it. … We have to take it one year at a time, one day at a time, and try to put together great years. And then, at the end of it all, we’ll have no regrets of where we’re at.”
The Kansas City Chiefs are going back to the Super Bowl. They last played in the championship game on Jan. 11, 1970.
It has been a long time between Super Bowl drinks for the Kansas City Chiefs. They will be playing either the San Francisco 49ers or Green Bay Packers on Feb. 2, 2020, after downing the Tennessee Titans, 35-24, Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium.
How long, you ask? How about 18,270 days since Jan. 11, 1970, and Super Bowl IV when the Chiefs became the second AFL team in a row to win the Super Bowl, following the New York Jets. It is 800 regular and post-season games for Kansas City since winning IV.
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The Minnesota Vikings and Chiefs met at Tulane Stadium that Sunday. Hank Stram coached KC to a 23-7 victory in New Orleans. The Chiefs came into the game as double-digit underdogs yet throttled the Vikings, who have yet to win a Super Bowl.
The MVP of the game was KC QB Len Dawson, who He completed 12-of-17 passes for 142 yards and one touchdown, with one interception. The great Jan Stenerud kicked three field goals to give the Chiefs a 9-0 lead.
Viking quarterback Joe Kapp was 16-of-25 for 183 yards with two picks. John Henderson had seven catches for 111 yards in the losing cause.
Len Dawson: “C’mon Lenny! Pump it in there, baby! Just keep matriculating the ball down the field, boys!”
Observing the confusion in the Vikings’ defense: “Kassulke (Viking SS Karl Kassulke) was running around there like it was a Chinese fire drill. They didn’t know where Mike (Garrett) was. Didn’t know where he was! They look like they’re flat as hell.”
Before the Chiefs’ first touchdown, he sent in the play “65 toss power trap.” When the Chiefs scored on the play, Stram laughed while yelling to his players on the bench, “Was it there, boys? Was that there, rats? Nice going, baby! Haaa-haaa-haaa-ha-ha-ha! Haaa! The mentor! 65 toss power trap! Yaaa-haaa-haaa-ha-ha! Yaaa-ha-ha! I tell ya that thing was there, yes sir boys! Haa-ha-ha-ha-ha! Wooo!!”
As the referees were spotting the ball before a measurement to determine if the Vikings got a first down, Stram yelled to the officials, “Make sure you mark it right! Oh, you lost your place! Measure it, take the chains out there! Oh, they didn’t make it! My God, they made that by an inch! He definitely gave them an extra foot. Bad! Very bad!”
Another time, the refs overruled what looked like a Minnesota fumble. Stram: “Mr. Official, let me ask you something. How can six of you miss a play like that? Huh? All six of you! When the ball jumped out of there as soon as we made contact?… No. What??”
After Frank Pitts gained on the reverse in the third quarter, when the chains were stretched and the Chiefs indeed had the first down, Stram was then heard saying to the refs, “Ya did good, you marked it good. You did a helluva job, nice going!”
On Otis Taylor’s touchdown reception that clinched the game, Stram is heard yelling and laughing.
The anthem was played by Doc Severinsen, of “Tonight Show” fame.
CBS had the TV rights to the game and it was called by Jack Buck and Pat Summerall. Buck’s son, Joe, will be on the call Feb. 2, with Troy Aikman when FOX broadcasts Super Bowl LIV from Miami.
To give you an idea of how long it has been, Patrick Mahomes Sr., father of Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes, was not born at the time the Chiefs beat the Vikings. The elder Mahomes, who went on to pitch in MLB, was born on Aug. 9, 1970.
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The NFL Draft in 1970 saw the Pittsburgh Steelers choose Terry Bradshaw with the No. 1 overall pick. The New York Knicks defeated the Los Angeles Lakers for the NBA title, with Game 7 being the famed “Willis Reed” contest. The World Series was won by the Baltimore Orioles, who rebounded from being stunned by the New York Mets in ’69, to down the Cincinnati Reds in five games.
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Richard Nixon was the President of the United States. Jimi Hendrix died on Sept. 18 at the age of 27. Janis Joplin passed away on Oct. 4. Former heavyweight champ Sonny Liston died on Dec. 30.
