Bills keep reliving nightmare sequel to playoff horror movie against Chiefs
Published 27 January 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — What’s worse than living a nightmare?
The sequel.
This is again a slice of reality for the Buffalo Bills, who have built one of the NFL’s most consistent winners but keep running into the same heartbreak.
It happened again on Sunday in the AFC championship game at Arrowhead Stadium. The Bills were thisclose to earning the franchise’s first Super Bowl berth in 31 years yet came up short, 32-29, against the same ole monsters.
Forget Freddy or Jason. The Bills are tormented by the Kansas City Chiefs, featuring Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid. And then some.
This is their horror flick: For the fourth time in five years, the Bills season ended with the will of the Chiefs, who are headed to their third consecutive Super Bowl.
"To be the champs, you have to beat the champs," Bills quarterback Josh Allen said.
Fair enough.
"And we didn’t do it," Allen added.
Allen, who has evolved into one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks, may wonder what it would take to ever win in the playoffs when matched against Mahomes.
The Chiefs star is an NFL version of Michael Jordan. This makes Allen the equivalent of Karl Malone or John Stockton – great NBA players with the Utah Jazz who could never win a championship because Jordan was standing in the way with his Chicago Bulls.