Bills-Chiefs becomes most-watched AFC Championship with unbelievable ratings
The AFC Championship game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs drew ratings the game hasn’t seen in nearly 40 years. Per John Ourand of Puck, the conference title game played on Sunday averaged 57.7 million viewers making it the “most-watched AFC Championship game dating back at least 1988.”
Ourand also mentioned the Bills-Chiefs match is the “NFL’s second most-watched non-Super Bowl game behind the 2009-10 Minnesota Vikings-New Orleans Saints game on Fox.” The viewership of the game is a four percent increase from last year’s AFC Championship between the Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens.
Fans saw one of the best games of the playoffs as the Chiefs defeated the Bills 32-29. Both teams scored four touchdowns and punted just twice. The Bills and Chiefs had the same amount of yards (Bills with 374 and Chiefs with 368), and the Chiefs committed the game’s only turnover.
With the win, the Chiefs will take on the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Feb. 9. They will now attempt to be the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Super Bowls.
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“I don’t think any of us really could have dreamed about it being like this and having the success that we’ve had – winning five Lamar Hunt trophies in the last six years, going back to the Super Bowl,” Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt told reporters after the game on Sunday, per Chiefs Wire. “I think he would love it because, at his heart, he was a fan; he and my mom were fans first and foremost, so I know he would love that aspect of it. I also know he would love it for our fans, because that was always a focus of his.”
The Chiefs eliminated the Bills in the playoffs in four of the last five seasons. After the game, Bills quarterback Josh Allen spoke to reporters about how they can beat Kansas City in the playoffs.
“We worked extremely hard to get to where we got,” Allen shared, per Bills’ official website. “We’re constantly knocking at the door and you’re playing a team like the Chiefs, who have done it so well for so long. You got to not just knock, you got to kick the door down, and we didn’t do that.”