“There’s a time when we will look back and say… how lucky were we?” Those are the words that Jim Nantz uses to punctuate an incredible intro video for Sunday’s AFC Championship Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills.
The script for the game writes itself. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are looking to become the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Super Bowls. Josh Allen and the Bills are looking to reach the Super Bowl for the first time since the snakebitten teams of the early 90’s that reached four big games in a row and losing them all.
The modern Bills have seemingly been equally as perplexed by the Chiefs. Buffalo has lost to Kansas City three times in the last five years in the postseason.
And Jim Nantz’s video published by the NFL on CBS laid out all the stakes in dramatic fashion.
Jim Nantz gets you ready for the Bills-Chiefs AFC Championship Game on CBS. 🏈🎙️🎥 #NFL pic.twitter.com/qe2LKUMBeq
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) January 26, 2025
While calling this the true Super Bowl would be a disservice to the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders, there’s no doubt that Bills-Chiefs is the money matchup in the NFL at the moment. And on Sunday either the Chiefs will move on for the chance to complete a historic three-peat or the Bills will finally break Kansas City’s stranglehold over them and break the glass ceiling to make the Super Bowl.
Let’s just hope that whatever happens in the AFC Championship game, we’re talking about the players on the field deciding it and not some kind of strange officiating controversy.
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