I will continue them. “Three-peat” he lives for Kansas City Chiefs after narrowly defeating the Buffalo Bills in the AFC championship game on Sunday to potentially set up a historic Super Bowl matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles.
The final Super Bowl appearance two years ago in New Orleans on February 9th, which was won 38-35 by the Chiefs after doing fairly well against spirited but slightly inferior opponents, thanks in large part to the inspirational play of QB Patrick. Muhammad. The Bills know all too well what it’s like to be on the receiving end of that harrowing experience.
Josh Allen is too good to be the next man on the team, but the Bills star is once again the second best in the NFL’s most compelling competition. This was the fourth playoff meeting between Allen and Mahomes. Kansas City has already won everything.
Buffalo often ran the ball, even in the fourth quarter, with Allen trying to break his way over the top of the scrum rushers in a great performance that was as much about asserting psychological dominance as it was about gaining a valuable extra yard or two.
Already without injured starting safety Taylor Rapp, the Bills lost key cornerback Christian Benford in the first quarter after a scuffle with teammate Damar Hamlin while making a tackle. Benford was pushed back in a cart after suffering his second concussion in a week. But the visitors didn’t doubt their resilience when they came from behind three times to take a one-point lead in the third quarter when James Cook planted and extended his right arm like Indiana Jones reaching for his fedora. They give Buffalo a 22-21 lead with the ball in the end zone.
Kansas City, though, absorbed Buffalo’s best and continued to respond, trading touchdowns for the teams. Sean McDermott erased the team’s seven-point deficit in the fourth, tying the score at 29-29 with just over six minutes left to play.
Then Harrison Butker’s field goal gave Kansas City a three-point lead with three minutes and 33 seconds to go. It was Allen’s chance to drive his team down the field for the winning touchdown, enhance his superstar status and orchestrate a victory that would send the Bills back to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1994, when they lost their fourth title game. in order In the fourth quarter, however, he lay back and produced a desperate long throw on the slipping Dalton Kincaid. And no different afterwards.
The Bills lead the Chiefs 4-1 in their regular season meetings since 2020. They beat them two months ago. But everything is not seen in the field. The chief excellence of the leaders is the importance of meeting and learning under the leader of Muhammad, who is eighteen yards twenty-eight and twenty paces. The responses are more than ruthless, adapting as the level of pressure requires, responding to challenges with an efficiency that almost feels broad, but is really a function of Muhammad’s unfathomable character and the shrewd astuteness of head coach, Andy Reid.
Even when, like Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium, a player of Travis Kelce’s caliber was less involved. No question: rookie wide receiver Xavier Worthy, selected with the 28th pick in the 2024 draft after the Chiefs traded runners with the Bills, stood up and played.
No team has won three consecutive Super Bowls. But the history-making leaders earned their seventh consecutive AFC championship in style, a buzzer-beating victory that puts them on the cusp of greater glory.