Kansas City Chiefs' Travis Kelce uses Tyreek Hill as a cautionary tale for athletes looking to win a championship

It's not easy to become a dynasty. In fact, it's the hardest thing to do in sports, and yet only a few franchises in the history of the NFL can claim they have done it, and the Kansas City Chiefs are one of them. One of the hardest things about completing that dynasty is keeping everyone together and on the same page throughout its duration.

You have to keep everyone feeling important and happy, whether it be with how they are being used or the money they are getting. You also have to keep players from going to other teams, especially key players. The Chiefs have gone through some of that and have still been able to complete the dynasty run, even though it's still not over.

They won a Super Bowl in 2019, made it to one the next year, lost in the AFC Championship the year after, and then traded Tyreek Hill, their second or third-best player at the time, to the Miami Dolphins because he wanted to get paid. Those are the types of things that usually end dynasties - when certain players start to get greedy. The Chiefs did not let it ruin theirs and ended up winning the next two Super Bowls.

To go on a historic run and create a dynasty, you need guys who are unselfish and don't care as much about the money. That way, they can allocate it in other places to keep the team from getting worse and losing those key players who cannot afford to take a pay cut. In other words, you need guys like Travis Kelce, who has taken a pay cut the last few years, when you think about how good he is compared to how much he is getting paid.

"When I saw Tyreek Hill go and get $30 million a year, in the back of my head, I was like, man, that's two to three times what I'm making right now," Kelce said via Vanity Fair. "The free market looks like fun until you go somewhere and you don't win. I love winning. I love the situation I'm in."