Repeating as Super Bowl champions hasn’t been easy lately

The Kansas City Chiefs look to end a long drought for defending Super Bowl champions.

On Sunday at Raymond James Stadium and for the 14th time, the defending Super Bowl champion is headed back to the “Big Game” and looks to hoist the Lombardi Trophy for a second straight year.

In 2019, the Kansas City Chiefs rallied in the fourth quarter to defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 31-20, in South Florida. Now head coach Andy Reid, quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the reigning champions head back to the Sunshine State for a Super Bowl LV clash with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Reid and company look to become the first league franchise to win back-to-back Super Bowls since current Buccaneers’ quarterback Tom Brady led the New England Patriots to titles in 2003 (XXXVIII) and 2004 (XXXIX).

So if the Chiefs are to repeat as NFL champions, they will have to knock off the Bucs for the second time this year. For what it’s worth, when a team defeats another club during the regular season and then they clash on Super Sunday, the winner during the regular season is 6-7 in the Super Bowl.

So what about those previous 13 occasions in which a team went back to the “Big Game” in hopes of repeating? Here’s a historical look (in chronological order).

Green Bay Packers: Won Super Bowls I and II

Vince Lombardi’s squad captured league titles in 1961, 1962 and 1965. They would face the AFL’s Kansas City Chiefs in the first “AFL-NFL World Championship Game.” Green Bay made a statement in handling Hank Stram’s club, 35-10.

A year later, the Pack finished 9-4-1 but made it two straight wins on Super Sunday with a 33-14 conquest of the Oakland Raiders at the Orange Bowl in what proved to be Lombardi’s final game as the franchise’s head coach.