Who is the best Super Bowl team of the 2020s? Thankfully we still have a few more years to crown the winner. There have been so many great Chiefs teams, the opponents that have been able to overcome them, and more. What we can crown is the best teams that came before them. Here are the best Super Bowl teams of the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.
1990s: 1992 Dallas Cowboys
Some will say that great 1996 Packers team, others will look at the 1991 Washington Redskins, but the Cowboys dominated this decade, and this team was easily the best. They were ranked second in offense and fifth in defense. They had to get through the San Francisco 49ers in what was considered the real Super Bowl in the playoffs and then beat the brakes off the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl. Their roster had five Hall of Fame players and three came on the offensive side with Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irvin which to this day might be the greatest QB, RB, WR combination in the NFL history. Those three fueled one of the greatest teams of all time and made Dallas a dynasty. Runner-up: 1991 Washington Redskins
2000s: 2004 New England Patriots
This was the first great Tom Brady team and the team that made them a dynasty. Their scoring margin was +177 and they crushed both the Colts and the Steelers as they headed to the Super Bowl to defeat the Eagles. From 2003 to 2004, the Patriots won games like it was nobody’s business. In fact, they won 21 straight games from 2003 to the middle of 2004 which was unprecedented at the time in the National Football League and still is. Brady was playing at the top of his game while his defense was causing turnovers and getting after their opponents. They went 7-1 against winning teams that year and never really gave any indication that they would cave. Runner-up: 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
2010s: 2016 New England Patriots
Many Patriots teams can rest their laurels on the fact that they had Tom Brady as their quarterback. But for this New England team, they had to get through a four-game stretch at the beginning of the year without Brady, being held up by Jacoby Brissett and Jimmy Garoppolo. What did they do? They began their season 3-1. The Pats were a team that could win no matter what during this season and that’s what made them so impressive to me. Rob Gronkowski got hurt, they still won. They trailed six times in the fourth quarter, yet they won every single game. This was a team that found themselves down 28-3 in the Super Bowl and instead of folding, they pulled off the greatest and most dramatic comeback in Super Bowl history. Runner-Up: 2013 Seattle Seahawks