The Kansas City Chiefs will square off against the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl to return to the big game for the first time in 50 years.
The Chiefs became the second AFL to defeat an NFL team in an AFL-NFL World Championship Game in 1970, taking down the Minnesota Vikings 23–7 in Super Bowl IV. Kansas City hadn't been back to the Super Bowl since.
"The Chiefs' lines—on both offense and defense—gave the Purple People Eaters a world-champion case of indigestion," Sports Illustrated's Tex Maule wrote about the game in the Jan.