When Will The Kansas City Chiefs Make The Super Bowl?
OK, we've seen the New York Giants twice in the last four years. The New England Patriots have won it three times in the last 10 years and they've been there five times.
So when do the Kansas City Chiefs make the Super Bowl?
The last appearance of course came when many of you (and me) weren't even born yet -- 1970. Even Old Man Thorman was a youngster at that time.
When do the Kansas City Chiefs get their time in the sun?
I've said this a few times but it's the only thing I think about around Super Bowl time -- I can not even imagine how I would feel if the Chiefs won the Super Bowl. I can't even imagine the scenario for them to be there. I don't know if I'd be speechless or if my heart would be racing or if I'd be jumping for joy (or if I'd be drop dead drunk). It's hard to even fathom it.
But at some point the Chiefs will be there. When will that be?
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I'm inclined to say "never"
I just can’t feel like all the chips will fall into place for this team, nor any of my teams. Cursed to never celebrate a championship for the teams I love. I truly believe that.
I'm so overrated, I'm underrated.
by RememberDelaney37 on Feb 6, 2012 12:04 PM CST via mobile reply actions
I'm with you.
At least I do get to see KU Basketball once in a while, when they’re not getting beat by some no-names
RonSkitzo FOR PREZ BRAH
My Clones are good this year...
Hopefully, you are not talking about ISU when you say “no-names”…
by AnkenyChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 12:09 PM CST up reply actions
he probably meant Mizzou-RAH!
those Jaychicken fans are often like that after a loss ;-)
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hi, Mo! 5 minutes!!!
actually,
I was talking about VCU, Bucknell, Bradley. I won’t get into what I thought about the MU game. LOL
RonSkitzo FOR PREZ BRAH
Nortern Iowa.
I think I can go on. But at least they have given me a couple of Championships to watch in my life
RonSkitzo FOR PREZ BRAH
My history isn't much better.
Bullets in ‘78, UNLV in ’90 and the Braves in ’95. My Blackhawks won a couple years ago, but I’m not enough of a hockey fan to get too excited over that.
I'm also a Thunder fan
and they just entered their championship window so hopefully I’ll get to see them win one. I’m starting to feel that the Chiefs may not ever win one with the current ownership. Maybe that’s just me feeling pessimistic this time of year.
When they are the Los Angeles(or another city) Chiefs
I kid I kid, or do I.
RonSkitzo FOR PREZ BRAH
As a die-hard Chiefs fan living in Los Angeles for most of my life
I don’t know how I would even react to that…. it would be strange and dirty feeling.
When you mess with Daboll, you get the horns.
never,
The world ends,this December
RonSkitzo FOR PREZ BRAH
The blog that dies with the most recs wins.
When you gotta go in the lion's den, you don't go quiet. You go in loud, kick the door down and say WHERE IS THE SONUVABITCH. -B. Billick
Someday, after we get a qb.
At least I can still hate the stinking Raiders!
by Chiefs1 on Feb 6, 2012 12:05 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Where is the option for
“At least not until Matt Cassel is not our QB”
56% say
5 years or less…gotta love the optimism of Chiefs Fans….
Get Manning…it will be one year….
by AnkenyChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 12:08 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Always one or two players away.
"Hater" is a term used by weak-minded people in the face of legitimate criticism.
With Manning
we’d be a BIG player closer….then just need a right tackle and either a guard or center….then depth…
by AnkenyChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 12:12 PM CST up reply actions
I believe with Manning
it would be SB or bust. The window is opening but I’m afraid it will be shut before we get a real QB.
Interesting.
Within 5 years is currently at 55%, which is a bit odd considering unpopular Pioli is here.
He's no Tom Coughlin.
"Give them nothing! But take from them everything!"
by GenericBrand on Feb 6, 2012 12:20 PM CST up reply actions
Is there a "not sure" option for this question?
"Give them nothing! But take from them everything!"
by GenericBrand on Feb 6, 2012 12:30 PM CST up reply actions
I believe so
After the philly debacle last year, and then how much they struggled this year. Certainly, the Giants win the award for peaking at the right time
We don't need a bunch of cats in here—"meeeooow!"—lookin' in the mirror. "I look gooooood, I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes"—Be a dog! We don't need no meows, we don't need no cats. We need more dogs.
by MarineChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 1:53 PM CST up reply actions
Depends on when we fire Pioli, and purge all of the Kansas City Patriots off the roster, and hire coaches based on their skills instead of what team they used to play on.
This seems contradictory. But I dunno, maybe it's just me.
purge all of the Kansas City Patriots off the roster
hire coaches based on their skills instead of what team they used to play on
When you gotta go in the lion's den, you don't go quiet. You go in loud, kick the door down and say WHERE IS THE SONUVABITCH. -B. Billick
Hopefully, before I die.
My earliest Chiefs memories are watching guys named Dawson, Podolak, Taylor, Thomas, Bell, and Buchanan. So, yeah...I'm kind of an old fart.
what happened to then
we passed then.
When?
Just now
Oh man that part is epic!
by MidMo Chiefs Fan on Feb 6, 2012 1:09 PM CST up reply actions
We could've gone this year.
A blocked FG or a Dwayne Bowe drop away from the playoffs and the Giants proved that once you’re in anything can happen especially with a defense peaking at the right time, like ours was as well.
"Give them nothing! But take from them everything!"
by GenericBrand on Feb 6, 2012 12:19 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Or and interception thrown in the end zone...
just sayin
We don't need a bunch of cats in here—"meeeooow!"—lookin' in the mirror. "I look gooooood, I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes"—Be a dog! We don't need no meows, we don't need no cats. We need more dogs.
by MarineChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 1:55 PM CST up reply actions
or a wide open baldwin missed
will the chiefs ever draft a Qb in the first round, not since todd blackledge in 83. and the chiefs could of had marino. OH well atleast 65 toss power trap worked for KC, it should be wide open red. Hank stram still the man.
by niageriannit1 on Feb 6, 2012 2:02 PM CST up reply actions
The Chiefs are 50-1 to win the SB next year
In case anyone is curious.
I’m no optimist, but there is some solid value here, imo.
So you're saying there's a chance
"We couldn't beat the Chiefs, but we damn near killed their horse"
John Madden 1975 Chiefs-42 Raiders-10
Better then the Chiefs chances of winning the SB in the next 5 years?
"Give them nothing! But take from them everything!"
by GenericBrand on Feb 6, 2012 12:31 PM CST up reply actions
50-1
Just read a story about a guy who won $50,000 off of that play
by Chiefs fan in ST Louis on Feb 6, 2012 12:32 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
50-1 was the worst it was posted at
Some places it was up to 100-1.
A typical sucker bet that in this case came through big time. Killed the books.
Yeah...
The guy that threw down $1000 on it, I’m sure has given back FAR more…hell, decent chance he lost money on the SB, even with that bet. Who knows what other absurd bets he made.
Mitt Romney
Never argue with an Idiot...... they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
sometimes I wonder how they would do that chalk outline, if you pushed someone into a tree chipper.
by Hoochdawg on Feb 6, 2012 2:06 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
My friend won $300 on a bet
because Kelly Clarkson wore a dress when she sung the National Anthem
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Hammerfisting my own balls since 2006
I have no idea
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Hammerfisting my own balls since 2006
yeah
We don't need a bunch of cats in here—"meeeooow!"—lookin' in the mirror. "I look gooooood, I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes"—Be a dog! We don't need no meows, we don't need no cats. We need more dogs.
by MarineChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 1:55 PM CST up reply actions
Get Peyton and we will be there next season or the year after. Window is open now, just need a real bonafide QB. It will be really interesting to see what they do with this so call qb competition, cuz there is absolutely no reason not to after manning, none! We have the money and Peyton says hes open to a flexible deal. No excuse other than our owner is full of shit.
by Chiefsallday25 on Feb 6, 2012 12:24 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Every "Get Peyton" post should be followed with an asterisk and some legalese
*The post only valid if Peyton Manning returns and plays at his pre-2011 level. The AP-Member responsible for this post in no way assumes responsibility for the content of this post in the case that Peyton Manning is unable to start at least 14 full games in each of the above-mentioned years. Failure to play at pre-2011 level will consist of, but is not explicitly limited to, failure to maintain an overall QB rating of 95 or higher, failure to average more than 300 yards passing, failure make seemingly prescient pre-snap adjustments, failure to move any apendage due to re-injury of the neck, or failure to make dozens of over-played TV commericals per year.
Todd Haley lost 7 of his last 15 games by 20 or more points. It was time for him to go.
by joplin chiefs fan on Feb 6, 2012 12:43 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
Peyton
said he is willing to sign a contract based on incentives….
http://www.lfpress.com/sports/football/2012/02/05/19341116.html
That would be a good move for the Chiefs…
by AnkenyChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 12:47 PM CST up reply actions
I'd be more interested in that
but I’m not sure how that’d work with the current cap rules. If his contract has a ton of incentives, how would that fit in the cap. If he plays like crap we’d be way under the cap. If he plays well, we’d be way over. Both of which are, of course, against the rules. Anyone know how this would work?
Todd Haley lost 7 of his last 15 games by 20 or more points. It was time for him to go.
by joplin chiefs fan on Feb 6, 2012 12:51 PM CST up reply actions
Think of it like a sales job
If you hit this goal, you get this bonus. The higher the goal, the more the bonus. That’s why Calvin Johnson’s contract is $20 million against the cap for the Lions.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Hammerfisting my own balls since 2006
Being under isn't against the rules...
I would guess you would have to count his incentives against the cap, but if they did not materialize you wouldn’t have to pay them…
by AnkenyChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 1:36 PM CST up reply actions
Peyton at 80%
is better than Cassel
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Hammerfisting my own balls since 2006
That was awesome.
When you gotta go in the lion's den, you don't go quiet. You go in loud, kick the door down and say WHERE IS THE SONUVABITCH. -B. Billick
Or when we get Manning...
whichever comes first…
by AnkenyChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 12:40 PM CST up reply actions
Snatch em up and sign em
We can use all the help we can get…
by AnkenyChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 1:41 PM CST up reply actions
I'd like a video, please
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hi, Mo! 5 minutes!!!
I'm old enough
to have seen the Texans AFL championship.The 1st SB,The 4th when we beat the vikings.I can say with absolute honesty that the feeling NEVER goes away.It just makes it harder when they take this long & still not reach one.I bought ( & still have) the album that covered the year & the playoffs.I still will break it out & put on the phonograph. :) It still gives me the goosebumps when I hear it.
John Soellner
I'm kind of agree with Delaney's comment above
Not sure if I will ever see the Chiefs win or go to the Super Bowl. I love this team and had you asked me when Schottenheimer was up and running I would have probably said differently but for the most part our franchise has become what most think of the 90’s Lions, Browns, 70-80’s Bucs, Bengals for last 20 years and all the other terribly run franchises out there.
We haven’t been to the Super Bowl in 40 years. We haven’t won a playoff game in nearly 20. Since our last playoff win every team in the AFC west, including the former member Seattle, have gone to the Super Bowl. In the last decade we have set records in team lows. Worst point differential in a season, worst loss, most blowout losses in a season, some of the worst defenses in franchise history (Vermeil), this year was the worst offense since I stopped looking which was 1980 at only 13.2 ppg. We still don’t spend to the salary cap, even worse we are in the bottom 2-3 in salary every year lately. We don’t sign free agents to fill holes. There is a ton of drama regarding our HC and front office. We have had like 9 starting QB’s since our last playoff win. We have had 6 HC’s in that time. Our last 2 HC have at best been dismal failures.
So, I don’t know if this team will ever make a Super Bowl as long as the Hunt family is in charge. They went from wanting to win in the early years to what we are now, which is closer to being a joke of a franchise than to the Steelers, Patriots, Giants, Niners of old, or even the Cowboys. I hope they prove me wrong. It seemed like Hunt wanted to win when he brought in Pioli but over the last 2 years we have spent a total of about 60mil under the salary cap. How many good players or quality depth could we have gotten for that money? I hope they prove me wrong. They are my team and I will always root for them, but they sure don’t make it easy to believe in them.
Insert witty yet thought provoking phrase here.
Part of your post is accurate but not all of your post is factual proof!
We have one some playoff games in the last 20 years, but you said we have not!
In 1997, we went to the last game before the super bowl but lost to Denver!
It was the Gerbac and Gannon drama with QB!
Most every time we make the playoffs we loose which your right there. But we have been to many playoffs since 1990, and won the AFC west several times! Only 1997 and maybe a few other Joe Montana era did we win a playoff game.
We have set many bad records, but we also set some good ones.
Actually our defense was awesome in the 90s, and okay under vermil!
I agree with you, we do not spend money like we should, however I will tell you the Hunts are good owners, Its not them thats the problem! It was peterson and our management!
I agree we have too many QB and Carl Peterson is what screwed us up starting in 1997 and we went down hill quick after that.
I agree that since Pilo we have spent the money on wrong talent!
by Jeremiah Farris on Feb 7, 2012 4:01 AM CST up reply actions
Not sure I follow you but I'll try
We didn’t win in 1997. That was the year we lost to the Broncos, at home, in the first round after going 13-3 and I believe getting home field advantage. It was the Grbac/Gannon game that most people thought we should start Gannon but Schottenheimer started Grbac instead.
The last playoff win we had was in 1993. It was the year we went to the conference championship game with Joe Montana and lost to the Buffalo Bills. The win was the week before against the Houston Oilers in Houston. So it has been like 18 years since we have won a playoff game, I said 20 but was just rounding up. I think the only team that has had a longer drought than us is Detroit but I would have to double check that. Last time I looked there were only 2 teams that had a longer time between playoff wins than us. Detroit was one.
Since our last playoff win we have gone 13-3, 3 times, lost in the first round each time. 1995 to Indi, 1997 to Denver, and 2003 to Indi. Otherwise in that time we have only been in the playoffs 3 other times, 1994, 2006, and 2010, lost first round in each.
When I said we had some of the worst defenses in our team history, I meant under Vermeil, thats why I put his name next to that comment. You say it was ok under Vermeil and if thats the case then I can only assume you are Greg Robinson or Vermeil because no one else would ever say that. We were horrendous on defense those years. As evidenced by our playoff loss where we couldn’t force a single punt.
As for the good records, not sure what ones you are talking about. We did set some offensive records under Vermeil but since Edwards took over, and under Haley, all we have done is set bad records, terrible records, ones that make me cry and die a little on the inside (ok, that may be an overstatement but they are bad).
Insert witty yet thought provoking phrase here.
I think this sums it up...

The Super Bowl’ll come
Next Year
So ya gotta hang on
‘Til Next Year
Come what may
Next Year! Next Year!
I love ya Next Year!
You’re always
A Year
A way!
Always a year away
Literally…always a year away…next year will come, but then…
When you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail.
Jamaal above all. #25 ftw.
CHIEFS WILL!
if peyton manning comes to kc,I like our chances to get to the super bowl under peyton manning watch.
I will go to vegas and put some big money on the chiefs to win the super bowl. I’ve been a chiefs fan for along time, gone through alot of shit with this team. The most important reason why i think the chiefs will get to the super bowl under manning, is it will be the first time I can actually say that the chiefs can and will be dominate on both sides of the ball. Its always been one or the other on this team, its never been both, and the closest thing to it was when montana or dawson played.
will the chiefs ever draft a Qb in the first round, not since todd blackledge in 83. and the chiefs could of had marino. OH well atleast 65 toss power trap worked for KC, it should be wide open red. Hank stram still the man.
And think
of the lousy receivers Montana had when he was here. Now imagine Montana throwing slants to Breaston and McC and Moeaki, and throwing the deep ball to Bowe and Baldwin. And imagine him audibling at the line and just handing it off to Charles for a draw when they go prevent…how fricking fun will that be?
by AnkenyChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 1:40 PM CST up reply actions
yeap
will the chiefs ever draft a Qb in the first round, not since todd blackledge in 83. and the chiefs could of had marino. OH well atleast 65 toss power trap worked for KC, it should be wide open red. Hank stram still the man.
by niageriannit1 on Feb 6, 2012 2:06 PM CST up reply actions
Never Say Never
Not only am I old enough to remember that championship game of 1970…I was there! Man, did that ever ruin Christmas (that very day). I also remember going to WIlliam Jewell College for the opening of training camp every summer until they move to Wis. Also attended WJC where I had the pleasure of lifting weights with Art Still (dude was a stud!). Also lived never door from WIlbur Young as a kid! I have 3 autographed footballs of the Chiefs (1970, 1971 and 1972) and I will never give up hope. In fact, I think that the Chiefs win a Super Bowl under Romeo! Would never but one of those footballs on it, but I will bet you a pack of gum!
by FrozenFan on Feb 6, 2012 1:46 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Wow. Debbie Downer day.
Seriously, this team has improve exponentially in the last few years. We were 2-14 three years ago, people. Now we’ve been in the hunt for the playoffs for the last two. Come on!
by bossmanham on Feb 6, 2012 1:58 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
and will be in the hunt for the playoffs again next year
even with Cassel at QB.
It is time to anoint the Stanzi. He is The One.
if we get RG3 within 5 years
if not maybe within 10 years
by kcchiefs2782 on Feb 6, 2012 2:18 PM CST via Android app reply actions
Right here
(or if I’d be drop dead drunk)
If we ever make the SB I will take off work for the next week. I’ll either be celebrating my ass off or drowning my sorrows. Either way, I’m taking a few years off my life.
When I think abou the Chiefs in the SB...
I get excited for a few seconds thinking about what it might be like… And then I catch myself, think about the kicker who shall not be named, Greg Robinson, Steve Bono, Elvis Grbac, etc. and then get depressed. Then I realize there’s a slim chance that they might go in my lifetime. I try not to think about it.
FIVE YEARS????!?!!!!??
Apparently there are over 700 blind fans that read that question. Are you kidding me??? Five years, in NFL terms, means you’re right on the cusp. You guys must have a lot more faith in this regime than I do.
Eric Berry + Brandon Flowers = a pissed off Phillip Rivers
Hey Joel
You should have put in a never option because this team hasn’t tried since Vermiel left. The front office , hell the whole orginization is the laughing stock of the league, no good free agents want to come here and even if they did we wouldn’t put the money out there. I just get so peed come Superbowl time cause since ive been a fan we only came close one time in 93. It makes me sick.
MIZ-DGB
by mu-chief-stl.cards fan on Feb 6, 2012 5:24 PM CST reply actions
It'd be nice to think they'll be there within 5 years
but I don’t think we’ll have the quarterback to get us there in that time frame.
by Chief Willie Wildcat on Feb 6, 2012 6:49 PM CST reply actions
I'd Say...
it all depends on the want, need and desire of the front office. You hear them talking a good game BUT will they back it up with putting the product on the field to achieve the goals they speak about? We as Chiefs fans don’t have a real trust in the front office because they have indoctrinated us with just being happy to win regular season games. Until they prove something, the skepticism will continue.
WAR Kansas City Chiefs KINGDOM!!!
by Jason Drue Keith on Feb 6, 2012 7:58 PM CST reply actions
Issues and room to improve
Here is the deal, people say to me I am inclined to negativity! But I simply tell people I am a realist who just tells it how it is. I tell the facts of the truth of the reality! I really really want t0o be positive, but it’s hard to continue to watch the Chief’s organization makes so many dumb mistakes. Bottom line, in my 27 years of being life, I have seen 1 chief’s super bowl. I have seen only 1 year they ever got close to 1 game away and that was in 1997, but stupid coaching and management led to our dismiss, or we would have beat Denver Broncos hands down! Chiefs as a fact are far from the super bowl right now! THe hiring of Scott Poli was a good move and firing Carl Peterson. But the hiring of Todd Haley was a mistake and also with his lack of experience in head coaching he made bad decisions on QB! Granted we had many injuries which hurt the season, because we have talent in Tony Miwake, Erik Berry, Jamal Charles and so forth! But we have a major QB problem, and I think it was a mistake bring Cassel to kc! He is a good guy but hes only as good as backup and he’s not elite and a quarterback who can carry us into the future! We also hired some pretty pittiful Offensive Cordinators! So chiefs are heading in the right direction with Scott Pioli, be has to start making better choices with Clark Hunt, and stop playing crazy games! Orton throws way too many Interceptions, which is 1 reason Denver let him go, they were smart to, and Chief’s should have never brought him in, yes he play 3 great games at the end of the season, but he’s not consistant with protecting the ball, that will bite a team in the butt hard 4 yrs to come!
Bottom line chiefs have alot of changes to make and long ways to go, and until things are done right we will never reach the Big Game, and ever since Pioli and Haley has come I have only seen little progress!
THats the bottom line!
This team
just destroyed the scenario that could have helped build that SB winning team. How long will it take to get there again? It could take one year or one hundred. The sorry thing here is that no matter what the Chiefs have tried, success remains elusive. I felt like rebuilding from the ground up with players and coaches was going somewhere. Unfortunately for the fans, there were two egos that could not coexist and find a way to overcome their differences. Whether Scott Pioli did his best to destroy Todd Haley in the eyes of Clark Hunt out of a petty fear that he would lose power to a strong willed HC, or Todd Haley was a crazy, risk taking, idiot that forced Pioli’s hand by not listening to his advice—the end game doesn’t change. The Chiefs and it’s fans are once again worse for the wear and tear. It really is a sad sack organization that just keeps tripping over it’s own unit.
"You gonna pull them pistols...or whistle Dixie?"
" I believe you have to be a glass half full person in this league, you really do."--Todd Haley
I voted the last choice.
The fact of the matter is it has already been over 40 years. I don’t see what this team is doing now to change anything in the near future. Sure we’ve got some good core players, but until we are willing to gamble to get that one piece of the puzzle (a QB) we need, it ain’t happening ever again.
Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens...

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