The 2020s are shaping up to become arguably the greatest era in Kansas City Chiefs history. Never before has a K.C. roster in years past ever been as successful nor accomplish as much as the guys that are on this year’s team.
But for guys like defensive tackle Chris Jones, winning just one Super Bowl ring just isn’t enough.
In roughly six days, K.C.’s star defensive tackle will be lining up just a few feet from 43-year old quarterback Tom Brady, who is entering his 10th Super Bowl appearance and his first as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
When Jones was asked how much it would mean to defeat Brady to win back-to-back Super Bowls, he summed it up to one word: Everything.
“When you win a ring, that changes the perspective of things. It makes you feel like you’ve achieved something in the game, other than personal stats,” he said on Monday.
“This is why you play the game,” Jones continued. “When I retire, I want to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and I want to retire with like six or seven rings,” he said.
The Chiefs have been huge favorites to return to the Super Bowl throughout the 2020 season and even before it started. Now, as expected, they are one of the last two teams left standing in a campaign that will be left unprecedented due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
While Jones aspires to win as many as seven championships, he believes that Super Bowl victory this season would reign supreme considering the setting.
“It’ll make the run well worth it,” Jones said. “Getting your nose swabbed every day, having to adjust to the type of conditions in order to play the game. I think that’s a huge step right there, as players, that we had to adjust to. Actually winning the Lombardi Trophy, I mean, that would be remarkable and that would be unexplainable, especially during this time in America. If we were able to win it and pull this off, I think it’d be up on the ladder for highest achievement,” he explained.
No team in the NFL has ever won back-to-back Super Bowls since New England accomplished the feat during the 2003 and 2004 campaigns. To become the first team since then, to win two consecutive Lombardi trophies, Kansas City will have to beat the man that led the Patriots to those championship victories, who is Tom Brady.
Shortly after Kansas City won their first Super Bowl over the San Francisco 49ers, Jones and the Chiefs agreed upon a four-year extension, with a plan that the team wasn’t going to wait another five decades before they won another one.
Regardless of how many rings Jones has when he finally decides to hang up the cleats, he certainly isn’t going to stop at just one, or even two, but he also understands how improbable such a triumph would be and what it’ll take to make it happen.
