The Chiefs-Patriots AFC Championship Game is set, and some contrasts couldn’t be sharper.
New England might as well schedule these games. The Patriots are playing in the championship game for the 16th time in franchise history — the 13th time in the era of quarterback Tom Brady and coach Bill Belichick, including eight straight.
The 1993 season marked Kansas City’s previous trip to the AFC title game, the Chiefs’ only appearance there since the NFL and AFL merged in 1970.
Brady is the sport’s most successful postseason quarterback, with five Super Bowl rings and eight AFC titles.