After another loss to the Chiefs, the Bills are still closer than they seem

Sunday’s AFC championship game was an all too familiar sight for Buffalo Bills fans: Their favorite team walking off the field dejected in defeat, while the Kansas City Chiefs celebrated moving on in the playoffs.

Sunday’s AFC championship game was an all too familiar sight for Buffalo Bills fans: Their favorite team walking off the field dejected in defeat, while the Kansas City Chiefs celebrated moving on in the playoffs.

Four times in the last five years, the Bills’ postseason has ended at the hands of the Chiefs. Kansas City also beat Buffalo in the AFC championship in the 2020 season, and in the divisional round of the 2021 and 2023 seasons.

“To be the champs, you’ve got to beat the champs,” Bills quarterback Josh Allen said after his team’s latest defeat Sunday. “And we didn’t do that tonight.”

Allen, despite throwing for 237 yards and two touchdowns, rushing for 39 yards and having no turnovers Sunday, is now the owner of an ignominious record: the most losses to a single quarterback in NFL playoff history, as he’s 0-4 against Patrick Mahomes in the postseason.

This is especially troubling for Buffalo fans of a certain age: those old enough to remember when the Bills lost four — four! — Super Bowls in a row from 1990 to 1993. Is Buffalo simply destined to lose over and over when it’s on the precipice of ultimate success?

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