KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs played a postseason classic Sunday night – a never-say-die showdown between two of the NFL’s top teams, as well as two of its bright young quarterbacks.
It was decided by one of them calling tails and the other making him pay for it.
Josh Allen’s decision on the coin toss before overtime was his only mistake all night.
Patrick Mahomes promptly followed it by marching Kansas City downfield against the league’s top-ranked but exhausted defense, then finding Travis Kelce in the corner of the end zone from 8 yards, giving the Chiefs a memorable 42-36 victory – and never giving his burgeoning rival an opportunity with the ball.
“It worked out well for us this time,” said Mahomes, who has the second-seeded Chiefs in the AFC title game for the fourth consecutive year. “When you have two teams going back and forth, it stinks when you don’t get to see the other guy go. But all you can do is play the rules the way the rules are explained, and that’s what we did.”