Arrowhead Pride
Chiefs headlines for Thursday, January 30.
How the Kansas City Chiefs Dominated the AFC in the 2025 NFL Playoffs | SI.com
Ever since Mahomes took over the starting job in Kansas City back in 2018, the Chiefs have made it clear that they are the team to beat. Going to their third consecutive Super Bowl, the Chiefs have somehow perfected a winning formula in the NFL, one that doesn’t seem it’s going to be solved anytime soon.
Coming into the Playoffs with a first-round bye after going 15-2 in the regular season, Chiefs fans were confident going into the Divisional Round against the Houston Texans.
Houston had just blown out the Jim Harbaugh led Los Angeles Chargers 32-12 in the Wildcard Round a week prior. Although the Texans carried much momentum with them into their game at Arrowhead, they soon learned what the duo of Head Coach Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes can do with two weeks of rest.
Led by the trio of Mahomes, Kelce, and Kareem Hunt, the Chiefs bulldozed their way through the Texans, taking the lead in the first quarter and not relinquishing it until the final whistle blew with a final score of 23-14.
Not the same old Chiefs: Kansas City learned to love living on edge in Super Bowl run | USA Today
It was so fitting that in order for the Kansas City Chiefs to advance to Super Bowl 59 and seize the chance to make a special kind of history, they had to sweat it out at crunch time in the AFC title game. Been that way all season.
It’s the unmistakable M.O. of these Chiefs: Be clutch – or even blessed, fortunate, lucky, opportunistic, poised, resilient – when it matters most.
“For us to go through the season and win the games the way that we won them, I’m proud of the team,” Patrick Mahomes said, after the Chiefs became the first back-to-back champion to advance to a third consecutive Super Bowl. “We’re not to the ultimate goal yet. It’s going to be a great challenge for us with Philadelphia.”
To the victors go the spoils, which is something the Kansas City Chiefs know very well these days. It didn’t take long for the AFC to adopt another dynasty following the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era in New England. In fact, Kansas City’s rise to the top began just after Brady’s Patriots won it all for the sixth and final time.
The rest of the AFC may not like it, but the fact is that the Chiefs are the NFL’s new dynasty. That was made crystal clear this postseason when Kansas City punched its third consecutive trip to the Super Bowl and fifth trip since 2019. Kansas City is now one win away from becoming the first team...
