Super Bowl champion hopes fans appreciate Chiefs' greatness, not hate on it

The Kansas City Chiefs are aiming to e the first team in the Super Bowl era to three-peat. Craig Carton, Danny Parkins, and Mark Schlereth ask if this could be a distraction for the Chiefs.

The Kansas City Chiefs haterade is being served triple this year after reaching their third consecutive Super Bowl.

The back-to-back reigning champions are one win away from becoming the first team to ever three-peat, and despite putting their name among the greatest dynasties in sports, a large majority of football fans can't wait for it to end.

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However, one former NFL great has no issues with the Chiefs' success, knowing how difficult it is to do what the Chiefs have been doing.

Clay Matthews, left, and Patrick Mahomes (IMAGN)

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Clay Matthews, who won a Super Bowl, says it's easier for him, as opposed to the average fan, to appreciate the Chiefs' greatness rather than hate on it.

"I don't think people understand how difficult it is. Unlike maybe in some other sports where there's no salary cap, and certain teams dominate football, because of the salary cap, because of the parody within the league, it’s so difficult to stay on top," Matthews told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "And for [Tom] Brady to do that for so long, and now [Patrick] Mahomes to do that within his first seven years, it's remarkable.

"So I look at it as just enjoy the show, and I hope everybody is as well."

Matthews knows how difficult it really is, and how grateful the Chiefs should be, considering fans in the early 2010s thought the Aaron Rodgers-led Packers would be the next great dynasty. Matthews called Rodgers "arguably the greatest talent" at