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A Super Bowl trip is long overdue for Chiefs, Andy Reid

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Maybe too much time has passed for there to be any kind of kinship any longer. Maybe the Chiefs are just another football team now in the eyes of the folks who live and die with the Jets, just another franchise that presently sits in a place Jets fans covet so ravenously — on the precipice of a Super Bowl trip.

But the Chiefs’ journey has been remarkably similar to that of the Jets. Fifty years ago this month, the Chiefs were 13-point underdogs to the Vikings in Super Bowl IV. The Chiefs were an AFL power at a time when the AFL, still, was considered by many to be a Quadruple-A pro league.