Much of the talk ahead of Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans has centered around whether the Kansas City Chiefs can become the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Super Bowls, which they can do by defeating the Philadelphia Eagles for the second time in three years.

How many teams have won consecutive Super Bowls?

Andy Reid’s team, led by Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, have built quite the dynasty of late. The Chiefs have now reached five of the last six Super Bowls and won four of the previous five.

They are one of eight franchises to have triumphed in back-to-back years (along with the Packers, the Dolphins, the 49ers, the Cowboys, the Broncos, the Patriots and the Steelers, who have done it twice).

Has any NFL ever won three straight Super Bowls?

If the Chiefs do defeat the Eagles in Louisiana, they will become the first team to win three straight Super Bowls since the concept was created in time for the 1966 season decider (played in January 1967).

That was three years before the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, and the first two editions were officially referred to as the “AFL-NFL World Championship Game,” before the term “Super Bowl” was retrospectively applied to them and used going forward.

Kansas City’s achievement wouldn’t, however, be completely unique, at least in terms of being crowned NFL champions three years running. One franchise has done it before, and on two occasions.

The Packers near Super Bowl ‘three-peat’

The Green Bay Packers are the team in question, although their victories between 1929 and 1931 bear little resemblance to what is required to win the championship these days. During those years, there were no playoffs and only one division of 10 to 12 teams. The Wisconsinites emerged triumphant after having the best win-loss record in what we might now call the “regular season”.

Fast forward more than 30 years and, in the last season before the Super Bowl era, the Packers won what was called the NFL Championship in January 1966. Green Bay qualified directly as the winners of the Western Conference, defeating Eastern Conference champions the Cleveland Browns to claim the trophy.

This time, there were 14 teams in the NFL, with eight other franchises competing in the AFL, a separate competition.

The format changed the following year, with the winners of the AFL and NFL meeting in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in the 1966 season, now considered to be Super Bowl I. The inaugural postseason took place, with the Packers defeating the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL Championship Game to reach the Super Bowl, where they saw off the Chiefs.

And Green Bay defended their title the following season, which saw the introduction of divisions within the Eastern and Western Conferences (there were two in each). This time, the Packers had to defeat the LA Rams and the Cowboys to make it to Super Bowl II, where they then comfortably beat the Oakland Raiders in Miami.

That secured a third victory in a row, although they were just a year too early as far as a Super Bowl ‘three-peat’ is concerned. The Chiefs, therefore, can make history against the Eagles, but only just.

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