The Kansas City Chiefs are headed back to the Super Bowl for the fourth time in the last five years. They'll take on the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 58 on Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas (6:30 p.m. ET, CBS).
Coach Andy Reid is no stranger to postseason success. In his 11 seasons in Kansas City, the Chiefs have 10 playoff appearances, four AFC championships and two Super Bowl titles.
The Chiefs are led by their quarterback, two-time NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes, who – at the age of 28 – will be playing in his fourth Super Bowl. His favorite target is tight end Travis Kelce, whose 19-yard TD catch in the AFC championship game win over the Baltimore Ravens was the pair's 17th touchdown connection in the playoffs, an all-time record.
While the Chiefs went 11-6 during the regular season and won yet another AFC West division title, this team was much different from their previous versions. For starters, Kansas City's typically high-powered offense barely cracked the top 10 in total yards and ranked 15th in scoring at 21.8 points per game.
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The strength of the 2023 Chiefs was on the defensive side of the ball. They ranked second in yards allowed (289.8 per game) and second in scoring (17.3 points per game).
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is currently dating megastar singer/songwriter Taylor Swift. (You may have heard about that before.) She has been a regular at Chiefs games, both home and away, throughout the season.
USA TODAY Sports has been tracking Kelce's results both with and without Swift there in person. Here's how they break down:
With Taylor Swift
Without Taylor Swift
In winning the AFC title, the Chiefs had to go on the road for the first time in the Patrick Mahomes era. The Chiefs claimed the AFC West division title for the eighth consecutive year under coach Andy Reid – and sixth with Mahomes as the starting quarterback – but as the conference's No. 3 overall seed, they were only guaranteed one home playoff game.
Here's how they made it to Vegas:
This year marks the sixth time the Chiefs have played in the Super Bowl. Their previous results:
The Chiefs franchise boasts 25 members in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
The Chiefs were an original member of the American Football League, which was formed in 1960.
The franchise played its first three seasons as the Dallas Texans – winning the 1962 AFL championship – before team owner Lamar Hunt moved the team to Kansas City and renamed it the Chiefs in 1963.
Under Hall of Fame coach Hank Stram, the Chiefs won the AFL title and played in the first Super Bowl – then called the NFL-AFL Championship Game. They won their first Super Bowl three years later.
The Hunt family has owned the team for all of its 64 years in existence. Hunt died in 2006, with his ownership stake divided among his wife Norma and his four children. Their son, Clark Hunt, has served as chairman since 2005 and CEO since 2010.
The Chiefs franchise has been in existence for 64 years. Here are some of the top players in club history:
PASSING YARDS
PASSING TDS
RUSHING YARDS
RUSHING TDS
RECEPTIONS
RECEIVING YARDS
RECEIVING TDS
TOTAL TOUCHDOWNS
COACHING VICTORIES
All stats courtesy of Pro-Football-Reference.com
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