Joe Montana: ‘We should have won a Super Bowl’ with Chiefs
By Matt Conner
NFL legend Joe Montana recently apologized to Chiefs Kingdom for not delivering a Super Bowl in a recent interview with Arrowhead Addict.
For a couple of memorable seasons, legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana stood under center for the Kansas City Chiefs and provided a generation of fans the single brightest ray of light they’d ever experienced while cheering for their favorite team. Yet for Montana, the light didn’t shine as bright as it could have.
Montana joined the Chiefs for his final two seasons in the NFL, a player as decorated as any at the time who had four Super Bowl rings of his own. He brought instant credibility to Kansas City and, together with running back Marcus Allen, delivered an exciting offensive package for fans to experience in 1993 and 1994.
In Montana’s first year, the Chiefs went all the way to the AFC Conference Championship game after having gone 11-5 during the regular season. The Chiefs would lose to the Buffalo Bills in that title game by a score of 30-13, but for Montana, it wasn’t far enough—at least not for a team he believed had the talent to go all the way.
In a recent interview with Arrowhead Addict from media row from Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona, Montana sat down and discussed the positive memories of his time in Kansas City. However, he also offered up an apology to Chiefs Kingdom.
“It was a great organization and a great team,” said Montana. “We should have won a Super Bowl and I apologize that we didn’t, because when we played in Buffalo that year, I couldn’t throw the ball from here to that camera. [Laughs] We did the dumbest thing by losing the game later in the year that cost us home-field advantage. We’d already beaten Buffalo once earlier in the year, and even as bad as it was when I was playing in that game, we still had a chance to tie the game at halftime and still turn things around.”
Montana’s memory is correct that the Chiefs had already taken out the Bills during the regular season by quite a bit in a 23-7 victory at Arrowhead in Week 13. That said, Montana gave plenty to the Chiefs in those two seasons, and for most fans of that generation coming up rooting for the team, those years were the most exciting. In other words, as fun as a Super Bowl would have been, Montana shouldn’t feel bad for what he didn’t deliver given all that he did.