No one can say the Kansas City Chiefs are taking the easy road to NFL immortality.
With a 32-29 victory over Buffalo on Sunday, the Chiefs have now conquered Josh Allen’s Bills, Lamar Jackson’s Baltimore Ravens and Joe Burrow’s Cincinnati Bengals in consecutive AFC Championship Games.
Arrowhead Stadium is where opponent legacies go to die.
The two-time defending Super Bowl champs can claim (slight) superiority over the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers in the dynastic hierarchy if they can beat the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans on Feb. 9 (more on that to come).
It’s a lot to process.
The Pick Six column for this championship weekend puts into perspective this run of Chiefs excellence while making sense of Kansas City’s propensity for winning close games. The chances for a team as good as the Chiefs to win 17 consecutive one-possession games, as they have now done, is about one-tenth of 1 percent, but here we are, feeling as though these Kansas City close-call victories are automatic.
The full menu:
- Chiefs-Bills from all the angles
- What about the officiating?
- Eagles upset coach-QB paradigm
- About the Cowboys’ coaching hire
- Lions-Jaguars were tracking
- Two-minute drill: HC hiring cycle
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The Chiefs’ reach for immortality, Bills, Eagles (and refs) be damned: Sando’s Pick Six