The Chiefs and 49ers have met in two Super Bowls. In Super Bowl LIV four years ago, Kansas City was down 10 points with seven minutes to go, but they rallied for three touchdowns in a five-minute period to win 31-20.
Super Bowl records for the Chiefs are 3-2, including 2-1 under head coach Andy Reid. In an attempt to become the first club to do it since the 2003–2004 New England Patriots, Kansas City is looking to make history as the ninth team to repeat as Super Bowl champions. The NFL has never experienced a longer gap without a repeat champion.
Super Bowl Champions in a Row
Sixties–1967 Packers I, II
Dolphins VII, VIII, 1972–73
Steelers IX, X, 1974–75
Steelers XIII, XIV, 1978–1979
49ers XXIII, XXIV, 1988–1989
Cowboys XXVII, XXVIII, 1992–1993
Broncos XXXII and XXXIII, 1997–1998
Patriots XXXVIII, XXXIX, 2003–04
San Francisco’s Super Bowl record is 5-2. The 49ers would tie the Patriots and Steelers for the most victories overall with their sixth, their first since 1994. New England has won five Super Bowls, while Pittsburgh has lost two.
The Chiefs, along with the 2014–2018 Patriots and the 1990–1993 Buffalo Bills, are the third club in NFL history to play in four Super Bowls in a five-season period.
The 49ers are the seventh team to have played in at least eight Super Bowls:
11th New England Patriots
49ers from San Francisco 8 (including Sunday)
Dallas Cowboys 8
Pittsburgh Steelers 8
Denver Broncos 8
The fourth head coach duo to play each other in multiple Super Bowls will be Reid and Kyle Shanahan. In the rematches, the coach who won the first game is 3-0.
On Sunday, Patrick Mahomes of Kansas City, who is 28 years, 147 days old, will make NFL history by being the first quarterback to start four Super Bowls before reaching thirty. With ease, he will surpass the record held by Tom Brady, who began his fourth Super Bowl at the age of thirty-one year and 184 days.
The only quarterbacks who have started more Super Bowls than Mahomes are Hall of Famer John Elway (5) and Brady (ten). Mahomes will join Hall of Famers Peyton Manning, Joe Montana, Roger Staubach, Terry Bradshaw, and Jim Kelly as the sixth quarterback to record exactly four starts.
It would make Mahomes the seventh quarterback in Super Bowl history to win three or more. Brady (7), Terry Bradshaw (4), Troy Aikman (3), and Montana (4) are the other players. For the record of most Super Bowl wins by a starting quarterback under 30 years old, Mahomes can tie Brady and Aikman.
Mahomes has the opportunity to become the sixth quarterback to defeat one opponent in multiple Super Bowl victories. Bradshaw (against Dallas), Montana (against Cincinnati), Aikman (against Buffalo), Eli Manning (against New England), and Brady (against the St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams) would all be joined by him. Mahomes has a career record of 3-0 against the 49ers, including a Super Bowl victory.
Mahomes has a 14-3 record in the postseason as a starter. The Chiefs’ record in the playoffs before he took the starting job was 9–18.
With 14 postseason wins, which ties him for third place in NFL history with Peyton Manning, Elway, and Bradshaw, Mahomes leads all current quarterbacks. Brady (35), Joe Montana (16), and Patrick Mahomes (16) would be the only quarterbacks in history with 15 or more playoff victories if the Chiefs triumph on Sunday.
Mahomes has participated in every playoff game of the season. He’s completed 422-226, or 67.4% of his throws for 4,802 passing yards, 39 touchdowns, and just seven interceptions in 17 postseason games. A 106.3 quarterback rating is that.
Mahomes has thrown 11 touchdown passes and no interceptions in his last six playoff games, winning each one. Since at least 1950, he is the first quarterback to have made six straight starts in the playoffs without any interceptions.
On Sunday, Brock Purdy of San Francisco will turn 24 years and 46 days old, making him the third-youngest quarterback to start a Super Bowl. Ben Roethlisberger, who helped Pittsburgh defeat Seattle in Super Bowl XL, was 23 years, 340 days old, and Hall of Famer Dan Marino was 23 years, 127 days when he began for Miami in Super Bowl XIX (a loss to San Francisco).
Before turning 25, Purdy will be the ninth quarterback to start in a Super Bowl. Mahomes, David Woodley and Marino of Miami, Brady and Drew Bledsoe of New England, Roethlisberger, Jared Goff of the Rams, and Jalen Hurts of Philadelphia are also in the group.
The only quarterbacks under 25 who have won a Super Bowl are Mahomes, Brady, and Roethlisberger. Before turning 25, five quarterbacks—Marino, Woodley, Bledsoe, Goff, and Hurts—were unsuccessful in winning a Super Bowl. Nobody has come back to take one.
Purdy cannot assume that, even if he is not even 25, he will again hit this plateau. None of the previous eighteen quarterbacks to lose in their Super Bowl debut have returned to the game. Marino, who participated in the Super Bowl in his second season but never came back, is not included in that. Just five quarterbacks in the past—Len Dawson, Craig Morton, Fran Tarkenton, Bob Griese, Elway, and Kelly—have returned from their Super Bowl debut defeat.
In the 2022 NFL Draft, Purdy was chosen with the 262nd and final pick. He has the potential to surpass Brad Johnson, the 227th overall pick in the 1992 draft who guided Tampa Bay to victory against Oakland in Super Bowl XXXVII, to become the lowest-drafted starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl.
Purdy will become the only quarterback selected in the seventh round or later—including undrafted players—to win a Super Bowl, joining Johnson and Hall of Famers Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas, Kurt Warner, and Staubach.
After kicker Ryan Succop of Tampa Bay in Super Bowl LV and linebacker Marty Moore of New England in Super Bowl XXXI, Purdy will be the third “Mr. Irrelevant” to appear in a Super Bowl. The only victor was Succop, who defeated Kansas City.
To be “Mr. Irrelevant,” how irrelevant is that? With at least ten starts, Purdy has the greatest career record against first-round picks in the Super Bowl era (8-2,.800) against quarterbacks selected in the first round of the draft throughout his career.
Giants have won four Super Bowls. Of the 18 franchises that have participated in at least three Super Bowls, their winning % of.800 ties them for the highest with the Green Bay Packers. Six teams have won four or more Super Bowls, including the Giants. They are tied for the fourth-highest number of Super Bowl triumphs in the NFL with four. Six Super Bowls have been won by New England and Pittsburgh, five by Dallas and San Francisco (that number could rise on Sunday), and four by the Giants and Green Bay. The Giants scored 104 points and gave up 104 points in each of their five Super Bowl appearances.
The only head coaches in NFL history to win five Super Bowls are Bill Belichick (nine), Don Shula (6), and Reid (5). Reid is 2-2 in Super Bowls (2-1 with the Chiefs and 0-1 with Philadelphia).
Reid (25), Belichick (31) and the Chiefs defeated Baltimore in the AFC Championship Game to become the first coaches in NFL history to win more than 25 playoff games.
Isiah Pacheco, a running back for Kansas City, has scored a touchdown and gained more than 50 yards in four straight playoff games. The only players with longer streaks since 1970 are three Hall of Famers: Franco Harris (two separate 5-game streaks), Terrell Davis (7), and John Riggins (7).
