Bills at Chiefs - AFC Divisional Playoff Game

Well there you go. The Chiefs will now play in, and host at Arrowhead, a fourth straight AFC Championship Game next week. That has never been done in NFL history, understandably. That kind of thing is beaucoup near-impossible.

It is funny. In one of my standard weepy postseason rants, you know, a post after we'd just lost another stupid first playoff game, on a day just BP, you know, BP: Before Patrick, I'd pointed out that Arrowhead had never hosted an AFC Championship Game, even though -- I looked it up and I'm pretty sure -- every other team had hosted at least one, at least teams that have been around for a while.

But now? No AFC team but the Chiefs has hosted an AFC Championship game since, oh, since, oh... what is something that happened four years ago that seemed like forever ago? Anyway, it was in New England (why not?) and they were playing, yes, the Jacksonville Jaguars. Otherwise, next week the conference title game will be yet again -- in Kansas City.

Too sweet.

Now to the game itself. 

Oh my. 

First of all, what a terrific game by both teams. The Chiefs pass rush simply could not take down Bills QB Josh Allen. He was everything we thought he was. And the intensity and the drama of the last couple of minutes of game time. I think they said, what, 25 points were scored in the last two minutes, something like that?

But when you have Patrick Mahomes, I mean. There were times when I thought we were done. Late in the game we'd let the Bills go ahead, and Mahomes fires a strike to Tyreek who houses it. With 13 seconds left of regulation and down three, Mahomes matriculates the ball so well that we give Butker a chance to tie it, which he does. 

We then win the toss in overtime and that was when I thought, we've got this. 

Postseason Patrick is going to get this done.

Before he got the ball back with the 13 seconds left, I was stunned that our defense let the Bills carve us up to go ahead. I was certainly thinking, whupp, there's the stupid thing that does us in. Cornerback Mike Hughes slipped on a 4th-&-13 play allowing Allen to throw the go-ahead touchdown strike to Gabriel Davis who'd already caught three of the Bills touchdowns.

But then, Patrick.

Enough said.

Well, more to be said, just for the record. We'd won the toss to begin OT, marched down the field, and this baby was capped by a beautiful corner-of-the-end-zone back-shoulder strike to Travis Kelce who hauled it in, stuck the two-feet-in landing, and that was it.

Now on to revenge against a Cincinnati team we should have taken down a few weeks ago. Maybe this time we'll cover Ja'Marr Chase just a liiiiittle more closely.

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The Mahomes image is from Andrew Mather at the official Chiefs site. The Kelce image is from Sam Lutz at that site. Thank you.

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