No one can say the Kansas City Chiefs are taking the easy road to NFL immortality.
With a 32-29 victory over Buffalo on Sunday, the Chiefs have now conquered Josh Allen’s Bills, Lamar Jackson’s Baltimore Ravens and Joe Burrow’s Cincinnati Bengals in consecutive AFC Championship Games.
Arrowhead Stadium is where opponent legacies go to die.
The two-time defending Super Bowl champs can claim (slight) superiority over the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers in the dynastic hierarchy if they can beat the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans on Feb. 9 (more on that to come).