Trent Dilfer believes history shows why 49ers will crush the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV
It’s said history repeats itself, but does that go for Super Bowl games as well?
Former Buccaneers/Seahawks quarterback Trent Dilfer believes so. And in his opinion, the 49ers’ past doesn’t bode well for the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV.
First a little history: the San Francisco 49ers thumped the Miami Dolphins 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX on Jan. 20, 1985. Five years after that, the 49ers routed the Denver Broncos 55-10 in Super Bowl XXIV.
Dilfer believes the 49ers will crush the Chiefs in similar fashion on Sunday.
“Go back to when the 49ers’ great teams played the Miami Dolphins and the Denver Broncos in those Super Bowls,” Dilfer said on Colin Cowherd’s show. “They were talking about (Dan) Marino and (John) Elway just like we’re talking about (Patrick) Mahomes. Those were teams — Marino’s Dolphins, Elway’s Broncos — that the 49ers smashed in those Super Bowls were quarterback-centric teams, only. They didn’t have the full depth of a football team. They weren’t whole. They were carried by one player or an assortment of superstar power. I think that’s the Chiefs.
“I like the Chiefs, I want it to be a great Super Bowl, but I’m looking at this thing on tape and the 49ers, this could be like those 49ers’ wins in Super Bowls against the Dolphins, against the Broncos, where it gets out of hand early, and it’s not really even a game.”
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It’s worth noting that those games were played a generation ago, and the last time the Chiefs lost a game by more than one score was Nov. 5, 2017: a 28-17 defeat at Dallas. That’s a span of 44 games.
Chiefs fans weren’t buying Dilfer’s logic:
This story was originally published January 29, 2020 at 6:02 AM.
