Where do Chiefs Rank Among Best Sports Teams of All Time Ahead of Super Bowl 2025?

The Kansas City Chiefs are the betting favorites to beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 2025, and they can become the first NFL team to complete a three-peat in the Super Bowl era.
A Super Bowl 59 victory on Sunday, Feb. 9, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans (6:30 p.m., FOX) would mark Kansas City's fourth Lombardi Trophy in six seasons. So, where would the Chiefs dynasty rank among the best teams of all time if they pull off the unprecedented feat?
And how much will their dynastic stock plummet if the Eagles reign supreme as underdogs by the Super Bowl odds in the year's most highly anticipated sports spectacle?
Ranking best sports teams of all time: What constitutes a dynasty?
Before highlighting the best 10 dynasties, I'll clarify a few things. First and foremost, it's one of the more subjective topics, open to interpretation. While various facets define a dynasty, the most important is winning championships - without them, there is no dynasty.
Don't remind Buffalo Bills fans of that painful tidbit.
Staying power also bears weight. While the 1999-2014 San Antonio Spurs didn't quite make the top 10, they came within a buzzer-beater of doing so. That's primarily due to the longevity of their prominence atop the NBA. They won five championships over 16 years but never won consecutive titles and only appeared in back-to-back NBA Finals once.
Another defining characteristic of most dynasties is boasting elite talent, often headlined by one or two generational players. Finally, most dynastic runs are shepherded by coaches who, like the teams they coached, will go down as an all-time great.
So basically: winning, winning for a long time, and winning thanks to a few superhuman studs via a legendary coach's stewardship.
Got it? Good.
I have one more stipulation. Fair or not, I can't have any teams in the top 10 that competed against a handful of teams. Sorry, Montreal Canadiens fans, but winning 100 Stanley Cups against a few backyard-brawling teams doesn't constitute a dynasty, at least not compared to the modern era where 30 teams are in contention in the NBA and MLB and 32 in the NFL and NHL.
Plus, we'd be here forever if I dove into the best dynasties since the advent of the motor vehicle. Instead, here are the 10 best modern dynasties and where the Chiefs would rank among them based on the result of Super Bowl 59:
Ranking top 10 sports dynasties in modern era
10. 1974-1979 Pittsburgh Steelers
- Championships: 4
- Super Bowl appearances: 4
Two separate back-to-back Super Bowl championships in six seasons is enough to sneak the Terrible Towels into the top 10. While the dynasty was led by Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, and Jack Lambert on offense, their "Steel Curtain" defense takes most of the plaudits for the dominant six-year span.
That unit accomplished what nowadays would constitute fantasy. In 1976, it recorded five shutouts, three of which were in consecutive games. Excluding those six seasons, the Steelers have won just two Super Bowls in 53 seasons.
9. 2000-2010 Los Angeles Lakers

- Championships: 5
- NBA Finals appearances: 7
It doesn't hurt to have one of the best dynamic duos captaining the ship. Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal were the headline acts when the Lakers won three straight NBA championships from 2000-02. Led by legendary coach Phil Jackson, who won 11 NBA championships with two teams, the Lakers were an elite team for a decade.
At the tail end of the dynasty, the Lakers won consecutive titles in 2009 and 2010. That made it five championships and seven NBA Finals appearances over 11 seasons. Bryant secured each of his five rings during that storied dynastic run.
8. 1981-1989 San Francisco 49ers
- Championships: 4
- Super Bowl appearances: 4
The 49ers made four Super Bowls in nine years. They won all four, with the last two in consecutive seasons (1989, 1990) at the tail end of Joe Montana's career. Speaking of dynamic duos in dynastic runs, Jerry Rice joined the party in 1985 and was around for the final two championships, plus the 1995-winning campaign.
Their record in the four regular seasons en route to their Super Bowl triumphs was a sensational 52-12.
Bill Walsh was at the helm of the first three titles, while George Seifert led the team to the Promised Land in 1990. The 49ers also won the Super Bowl under Seifert's tutelage in 1995.
7. 1984-1990 Edmonton Oilers
- Championships: 5
- Stanley Cup Final appearances: 6
Wayne Gretzky was the man with the plan in Edmonton. The Great One, however, had help. With one of the best supporting casts, the Oilers formed what is still the NHL's greatest dynasty to this day. They even won one Cup without the Great One, who had moved on to La La Land before Edmonton beat the Boston Bruins in 1990.
With Gretzky, the Oilers won four Cups in five years from 1984 to 1988. Mind-bogglingly, Gretzky won the Hart Trophy in eight straight seasons (1980-87) during Edmonton's dynastic run, three of which culminated in Stanley Cups. During these golden years, the Oilers' Stanley Cup odds would have been shorter than Danny DeVito.
6. 2015-2022 Golden State Warriors

- Championships: 4
- NBA Finals appearances: 6
The Warriors came close to winning four straight Larry O'Brien Trophies but were thwarted by LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016. That seven-game thrilling NBA Finals defeat slightly damaged the status of the Warriors' dynasty, dropping them several positions compared to if they had capped off that 73-win season with a 'chip.
The Warriors advanced to five straight NBA Finals, winning three. The Steph Curry-led Warriors didn't go down without adding one final feather to their fully adorned cap by beating the Boston Celtics in the 2022 Finals, which made it four championships over eight seasons.
5. 1996-2003 New York Yankees
- Championships: 4
- World Series appearances: 6
The Pinstripes covered themselves in glory in the late 1990s and at the turn of the millennium, winning four World Series in five seasons, including three straight from 1998 to 2000.
That highlight-riddled eight years featured six World Series appearances and was led by the Core Four, with Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter as two of the headline acts. The Bronx Bombers have won just one World Series (2009) since that dynastic run after losing last year to the Los Angeles Dodgers, who enter this year as the World Series odds favorites.
4. 1980-1984 New York Islanders
- Championships: 4
- Stanley Cup Final appearances: 5
The New York Islanders are on this list due to winning four straight Stanley Cups while making five consecutive finals. In 1979, the year before their first Cup triumph, the NHL expanded to 21 teams, rendering the feat all the more impressive. The Mike Bossy-led Islanders made a fifth straight final but lost to the Oilers in 1984, ending their dynastic run while concurrently passing the torch to their Canadian successor.
3. 2001-2018 New England Patriots

- Championships: 6
- Super Bowl appearances: 9
Discuss Patrick Mahomes vs. Tom Brady for as long as you like. The latter is the GOAT, and the dynastic run he was at the helm of showcases precisely why.
With New England, he won six Lombardi Trophies and made it to nine Super Bowls over 18 seasons. As if the six Super Bowls aren't impressive enough, he and head coach Bill Belichick maintained prominence, even superiority, over almost two decades.
And don't let the fact that Belichick wasn't snapped up by another team after leaving the Patriots muddy the waters. With proof splattered all over this particular pudding, he is the best coach of all time.
2. 1980-89 Los Angeles Lakers
- Championships: 5
- NBA Finals appearances: 8
How do eight NBA Finals appearances in 10 seasons sound?
The Lakers represented the billboard team throughout the 1980s, winning five NBA titles in nine years, including back-to-back championships in 1987 and 1988. The decade had only two NBA Finals that didn't include the Lakers, 1981 and 1986, both of which featured the Celtics facing the Houston Rockets.
Imagine how short the Lakers' NBA championship odds would have been entering each season.
Led by one of history's best set-up men, Magic Johnson, and the prolific play of former all-time scoring leader Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Lakers rose to the top of an ultra-competitive NBA landscape. Pat Riley was at the helm of four championships, with the other under Paul Westhead's direction.
1. 1991-98 Chicago Bulls

- Championships: 6
- NBA Finals appearances: 6
Was there ever any doubt? I mean, come on. The Bulls won two three-peats over eight seasons. No other team has won separate three-peats in the modern era. Yes, the Toronto Maple Leafs, Canadiens, and Green Bay Packers matched the astonishing feat, but their three-peats occurred in a bygone era against far fewer teams.
The Yankees are the only sports franchise to win three three-peats. But their first two happened from 1936-39 (four in a row) and 1949-53 (five in a row).
Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen formed the bedrock of the best dynasty, with the world's best dynastic duo going six-for-six in NBA Finals appearances.
Where do Chiefs rank among best teams of all time?

- Championships: 3
- Super Bowl appearances: 6
There are two scenarios: the "right now" and the "what could be" when the dust settles on Super Bowl 59. If the Chiefs beat the Eagles on Sunday, they'll be the new runners-up, nestling in behind the Bulls.
Hold on, hold on. Hear me out.
Securing the three-peat is the key variable, amplified because no team in the Super Bowl era has accomplished the feat. It would place them in the most rarified air, and they should get their just desserts for the unprecedented accomplishment. That would also make it four Super Bowl triumphs and five Big Game appearances in six seasons.
And like all of the best dynasties, they have an otherworldly dynamic duo, one of the best Super Bowl coaches not named Belichick ever to patrol the sideline, and the second-best quarterback of all-time (who may yet become the best).
If they lose, they'll take their place at No. 8 behind the Oilers. Securing the three-peat bears that much weight on where the Chiefs rank among the best dynasties.
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Chiefs vs. Eagles odds
Super Bowl 2025 info
- Date: Sunday, Feb. 9
- Time: 6:30 p.m. ET
- Location: Caesars Superdome (New Orleans)
- Favorite: Chiefs -1.5 (-110 via FanDuel)
- TV: FOX, Fubo (streaming)
- Halftime show: Kendrick Lamar
- Anthem: Jon Batiste
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