Can Kansas Metropolis Chiefs be part of the three-peat membership? They don’t seem to be alone within the chase

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs start the third a part of a historic quest on Thursday night time, as they open the 2024 NFL season with the prospect to three-peat.

[Related:Why Travis Kelce is the only Chiefs player talking of a three-peat]

However the back-to-back Tremendous Bowl champions aren’t the one program with such a possibility in entrance of them.

The UConn Huskies, led by head coach Dan Hurley — who turned down a proposal from the Los Angeles Lakers to remain in Storrs — are the back-to-back males’s faculty basketball champions. Elsewhere, the Las Vegas Aces are at present pursuing a WNBA three-peat of their very own.

For perspective on the problem that comes with three-peating, 9 NFL groups (eight franchises) have repeated as Tremendous Bowl champions, however all of them did not even make it again to the championship sport the following season, in accordance with FOX Sports activities analysis.

With all that in thoughts, let’s check out some groups who have managed to tug it off.

Listed below are among the groups which have three-peated throughout a plethora of sports activities — each professionally and collegiately — in reverse chronological order.

Proper now, it is Manchester Metropolis’s world, and your complete Premier League is simply dwelling in it. Winners of six of the final seven Premier League championships, Man Metropolis has been a runaway freight prepare, headlined by the assault of Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland.

School Softball: Oklahoma (2021-24)

The Sooners have misplaced simply 15 video games over the previous 4 years and have proven no indicators of letting up underneath coach Patty Gasso. Oklahoma has overwhelmed Texas and Florida State twice apiece to win its titles.

The one they name Ronaldo helped Actual Madrid three-peat within the mid-2010s, together with the likes of Karim Benzema and Alvaro Morata (for one season within the three-peat stretch). Ronaldo’s ultimate season with Actual Madrid got here within the ultimate season of the crew’s three-peat.

The sport of basketball has handled the UConn trustworthy properly over the previous decade. Dropping a whopping 5 video games over 4 years (151-5), the Huskies had been the unstoppable drive of ladies’s faculty basketball, boat-racing groups up and down the ground. Breanna Stewart, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Morgan Tuck had been a part of what was arguably the golden age of UConn hoops.

Johnson drove laps round everybody within the latter half of the 2000s, profitable 35 races from 2006-10 and 6 Cup Collection championships in eight years. He ended his profession with seven championships, tied with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Jr. for probably the most in NASCAR historical past.

Phil Jackson retired following the 1998 season with the Chicago Bulls — till, after all, he grew to become the top coach of the Lakers in 1999. Led by the star energy of Shaquille O’Neal and an rising famous person by the identify of Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles received three straight titles, whereas Jackson really claimed his sixth consecutive title as a coach, as he received in every of his ultimate three seasons on the helm in Chicago with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.

In what was the final true Yankees dynasty, the crew received 4 titles in 5 years — with the wins within the three-peat coming in convincing style. Sweeping the San Diego Padres in 1998 and the Atlanta Braves in 1999 after which beating the New York Mets within the 2000 Subway Collection, the likes of Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte cemented their respective locations in Yankees historical past.

WNBA: Houston Comets (1997-2000)

The primary 4 seasons of the WNBA had been managed by the Houston Comets, who received every of the primary 4 league titles. Because the Comets dominated the game, Cynthia Cooper received two WNBA MVPs. Cooper and Tina Thompson every went on to have Corridor of Fame careers, however the Comets disbanded as a franchise following the 2008 season.

The pleasure of Lengthy Island received its first Stanley Cup in what was the Islanders’ eighth season within the sport. A run that featured Corridor of Famers Bryan Trottier, Mike Bossy, Clark Gillies and goalkeeper Billy Smith noticed the Islanders sweep the Stanley Cup in 1982 and 1983 and keep away from a Recreation 7 in every of the 4 seasons. This run got here straight after the Montreal Canadians additionally four-peated.

School Baseball: USC Trojans (1970-74)

The Trojans baseball program was a behemoth underneath supervisor Rod Dedeaux, profitable 5 consecutive World Collection because of the contributions of George Milke and Russ McQueen, amongst many others. To this point, the five-peat stays an NCAA Baseball document, with two being probably the most consecutive titles by another crew.

Thought among the aforementioned runs had been spectacular? These do not maintain a candle to John Wood’s UCLA groups of the late Nineteen Sixties and early Seventies. A interval that noticed the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Invoice Walton and Curtis Rowe, amongst many others, placed on the Bruins uniform noticed UCLA win titles in 9 of 10 seasons.

No NFL crew has three-peated within the Tremendous Bowl period (1966-present), however the Packers did three-peat, as they received the ultimate NFL championship in 1965 after which the primary two Tremendous Bowls in 1966 and 1967. Close to the tip of Vince Lombardi’s reign as head coach, Bart Starr, Jim Taylor and Willie Davis helped lead Inexperienced Bay to a few consecutive titles, together with a pair of blowouts in Tremendous Bowl I and Tremendous Bowl II. The Packers additionally three-peated from 1929-31.

The Golden Gophers misplaced one sport over their three-peat span (25-1) underneath head coach Bernie Bierman. Minnesota received two extra titles underneath Bierman in 1940 and 1941. The top coach was ordered to report back to the Marines throughout WWII, with him returning as Minnesota’s head coach in 1945.

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