Andy Reid and his staff went back to the Bills' blowout loss to the Baltimore Ravens earlier this season and found a play by the Ravens that Buffalo couldn't stop. The Chiefs then popped it into their game plan last Sunday, the Bills couldn't stop it twice, and now Kansas City is heading back to the Super Bowl for a third straight year.

This new record for the most-watched AFC Championship game was nearly 58 million, which is an increase of 2 million compared to last year's AFC title game, which previously held the viewership record. It also slightly surpassed last year's NFC Championship, which aired later in the day — typically a time slot that performs better overall.

The game, which began at 6:30 p.m. ET, was the seventh straight appearance for the Chiefs in the AFC title game and the second time since 2020 that it featured the Chiefs and Bill