KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Historical past awaits the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
Standing of their path? The mighty Philadelphia Eagles.
The Chiefs, seeking to develop into the primary NFL franchise to win three consecutive Tremendous Bowls, made it again to the league’s largest stage Sunday with a 32-29 win over the Buffalo Payments within the AFC championship recreation.
Patrick Mahomes ran for 2 touchdowns and threw for a 3rd. Harrison Butker made a 35-yard subject aim with 3 minutes, 33 seconds remaining to place the Chiefs up for good.
That’s when Kansas Metropolis’s protection took over, making use of heavy strain to Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen, whose backpedaling heave on fourth and 4 fell by the arms of diving tight finish Dalton Kincaid on the following possession.
From there, the Chiefs had been capable of run out the clock.
In two weeks, Kansas Metropolis will play Philadelphia, which soundly beat the NFC East rival Washington Commanders earlier Sunday within the NFC title recreation.
So, New Orleans will play host to a rematch of the Tremendous Bowl from two years in the past, when the Chiefs beat the Eagles, 38-35.
In that recreation, Mahomes threw a pair of landing passes within the fourth quarter as Kansas Metropolis overcame a 10-point halftime deficit.
The Chiefs protection saved the strain on Payments quarterback Josh Allen (17) throughout the AFC championship recreation.
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The rematch additionally units up a possible three-peat for Andy Reid, coach of the Chiefs and former coach of the Eagles. In reality, he’s the winningest NFL coach in each Kansas Metropolis and Philadelphia.
The Eagles crushed the Commanders 55-23 to win for the fifteenth time in 16 video games since beginning the season 2-2. As normal, they had been led by 2,000-yard rusher Saquon Barkley, who contributed three landing runs, together with a 60-yarder.
By beating the Payments, the Chiefs have already got made NFL historical past. Of the eight earlier groups to win back-to-back Tremendous Bowls, three made it to the convention championship recreation however misplaced. The Chiefs are the primary back-to-back winners to get again for a 3rd journey.
This was the seventh straight look in a convention championship for the Chiefs, second solely to the eight in a row reached by the New England Patriots throughout the wonderful period of quarterback Tom Brady and coach Invoice Belichick.
With the victory, which got here on a transparent night time at Arrowhead Stadium, the Mahomes-led Chiefs improved to 4-0 within the postseason in opposition to Allen and the Payments. That was particularly confounding for Buffalo, which has 4 regular-season victories over these Chiefs.
The Payments had an opportunity to make it again to the Tremendous Bowl for the primary time for the reason that 1993 season, once they misplaced their fourth of 4 consecutive appearances.
