The NFL season of American football continues only for the top four teams. The reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs advanced to the conference finals with a thriller.
The last team to advance to the conference finals was decided in the NFL as the Kansas City Chiefs once again crushed the Buffalo Bills’ championship hopes. The reigning Super Bowl champion knocked off the Bills 27-24 in the AFC conference semifinals.
The Bills have never won an NFL championship, and the season couldn’t have ended more bitterly this year either. Buffalo’s final offensive shift no quarterback Josh Allen’s in the lead produced a touchdown, so a kicker was ordered onto the field Tyler Bass to tie the game with just under two minutes to go.
Bass’ 44-yard field goal attempt went wide right and the loss was assured.
– Wide. From the right. The two most feared words in Buffalo have come up again, the CBS channel explained the game Jim Nantz dramatize on air.
The veteran commentator referred to the 1991 Super Bowl, where the Bills Scott Norwood failed on a 47-yard field goal attempt. With the setback, the New York Giants won the championship. ABC announcer at the time Al Michaels said when he saw the kick “No good… wide right”. The term wide right survived and now refers to that entire Super Bowl game.
The Bills also lost a historic four consecutive Super Bowls in the early 1990s.
In recent years, Buffalo has been one of the top NFL teams and Allen has been one of the best quarterbacks in the world. In the playoffs, the journey has always ended in the conference finals at the latest. Of the four playoff losses in recent years, three have come against the Chiefs.
– Losing is deep. Losing to them or anyone else…deeply disappointed, Allen would say in a press conference after the game.
The sad Bass was naturally heavily in TV pictures after his failure. Allen did not blame the loss on the 26-year-old kicker. The quarterback hoped that Bass would not have had to go for the equalizer but that the team would have managed to score with a touchdown.
According to the quarterback, one situation does not define a season.
– We win and lose as a team. If we had implemented a couple of situations better, now there could be a different sound on the clock, Allen said.
The Chiefs, the successful team of recent years, have not been convincing this season. The team is still at least in the conference finals for the sixth time in a row, so the trick is a successful star quarterback by Patrick Mahomes in every season.
The team’s power duo Mahomes and winger Travis Kelce showed his almost seamless connection again against the Bills, which the team will need in the tough conference finals against the Baltimore Ravens.
The Buffalo Bills were also unable to reward their fans for contracting snow jobs. For the second week in a row, Buffalo had invited its supporters to work on the snow, so that the playoffs could be played for sure after the heavy snowfalls.
Based on social media, even hundreds of supporters arrived at the stadium with their snow shovels in the days before the game. According to NBC Bills paid the snowmen $20 an hour.
San Francisco avoided disaster
The Ravens were the best team throughout the regular season and were also unstoppable against the Houston Texans in the conference semifinals. In the end, a convincing 34–10 win made the team the biggest favorite for the championship. Playmaker by Lamar Jackson in the lead, the offense has scored more than 28 points per game this season and the defense has allowed the fewest points in the entire series.
In the semifinals of the NFC conference, the San Francisco 49ers came from a losing position to a 24-21 victory against the Green Bay Packers. The 49ers, the regular season number one in their conference, finally scored the decisive points with their running game. Central striker Christian McCaffrey scored two touchdowns in the second half of the game and the Packers, who entered the playoffs from seventh place, had to be disappointed.
The loss for the Packers, who were looking for a huge surprise, is made even more stinging by a missed field goal attempt just over six minutes before the end of the game. Anders Carlson A 41-yard attempt whizzed narrowly wide from the left. The goal would have given the away team a seven-point lead.
In the conference finals, San Fransisco will face the Detroit Lions, who beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-23. Before the current playoffs, the last time the Lions had won a playoff game was in 1991.
The current team has got the home supporters behind the quarterback Jared Goffin under. Against Tampa Bay, Goff received cheers from the home crowd for the second game in a row that bore his name.
The No. 1 prospect in the 2016 draft said Detroit fans are especially close to his heart.
– It’s great. I said last week that I probably won’t experience anything like that again and now I did again. Their support for me and the whole team is amazing, Goff expressed after the Tampa Bay victory.
The NFL conference finals will be played this coming weekend.
AFC Conference:
Wild Card Round:
Kansas City Chiefs – Miami Dolphins 26–7
Buffalo Bills – Pittsburgh Steelers 31–17
Houston Texans – Cleveland Browns 45–14
Conference semi-finals:
Buffalo Bills – Kansas City Chiefs 24–27
Baltimore Ravens – Houston Texans 34–10
In the conference finals, the Baltimore Ravens host the Kansas City Chiefs.
NFC Conference:
Wild Card Round:
Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Philadelphia Eagles 32–9
Detroit Lions – Los Angeles Rams 24–23
Dallas Cowboys – Green Bay Packers 32–48
Conference semi-finals:
Detroit Lions – Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31–23
San Francisco 49ers – Green Bay Packers 24–21
In the conference finals, the San Francisco 49ers host the Detroit Lions.
Super Bowl LVIII:
The winners of the conference finals will meet in the Super Bowl, which will be played at Allegiant Stadium in Vegas on the night before Monday, February 12, Finnish time.