Charles Barkley makes his Super Bowl picks while talking to George Kittle: "I think my Eagles will be fine"

While we’re still more than a month away from the start of the NBA season, Charles Barkley took his time to talk a little bit about the NFL, which kicked off their season this past week.

He was a guest on the San Francisco 49ers’ superstar tight end George Kittle’s podcast, where he mostly talked about his favorite team, the Philadelphia Eagles.

“I’m a big Birds [Eagles] fan, so last year I had the [Buffalo] Bills beating my Eagles in the Super Bowl, I came real close [to predicting correctly]. And people got mad at me last year because I said, ‘Not only are the Eagles going to beat the [Kansas City] Chiefs in the Super Bowl, they’re going to blow them out,'” he stated.

And Chuck was correct as the Eagles won 40-22 and the game was never really close from the start.

Barkley’s Super Bowl pick

This year, he understands it’s going to be a little tougher for his favorite team, but he still has the Eagles going to the Super Bowl.

“If you gave me a choice right now, I would take the Bills against my Eagles [in the Super Bowl]. Saquon [Barkley] has been a godsend coming to Philly. Jalen [Hurts], he just got to get it to AJ [Brown] and Devonta [Smith]… But you know, the hardest thing is to repeat. I think my Eagles will be fine, but the AFC. The Bills are going to be great, Baltimore [Ravens] is going to be great. The [Cincinnati] Bengals man, if they can fix their defense,” Barkley explained.

In the NFL, it’s even harder to become a back-to-back champion than in the NBA because the Playoffs in football are single-elimination games. One bad night, one bad call, or an unlucky bounce of football can destroy all the work you’ve done during the 17-game season.

In reality, it’s even worse than that because NFL teams start their preparations during the OTAs that happen during the spring, so while 17 games is not a long regular season calendar-wise, teams have done a lot of preparation months before.

The Chiefs missed out on history last season

It’s a completely different ball game in the NBA where the regular season lasts 82 games and you have to win four games in a series to advance further in the Playoffs.

So, in the NFL, just to win the championship once, you have to have a lot of things go your way, let alone two years in a row.

The last team that won back-to-back was the Chiefs, who won in 2023 and 2024 and, as Barkley mentioned, played against his Eagles at the beginning of 2025.

They had a historic chance to become the first franchise ever to win three Super Bowls in a row. So, Chuck’s Eagles, while winning a second title in their franchise history, stopped some history from happening in the process.

There was a team that won three titles in a row, but it didn’t happen in the modern era. The Green Bay Packers three-peated from 1966 to 1968, but there is a caveat here.

The first one was the NFL title, the last of the pre-Super Bowl era, before they won Super Bowls I and II.

The Chiefs were just the eighth team in NFL history to win back-to-back titles, so it’s fair to say Philly will have a tough time becoming another team on that list.

Even though they are a very good football team, as Barkley accurately explained.

This story was originally reported by Basketball Network on Sep 10, 2025, where it first appeared in the Latest News section. Add Basketball Network as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

Charles Barkley makes his Super Bowl picks while talking to George Kittle: “I think my Eagles will be fine”

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