Last Sunday’s AFC Championship Game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs drew some historic ratings for the National Football League and CBS.
According to Puck’s John Ourand, the game averaged 57.7 million viewers, making it the most-watched AFC Championship Game since at least 1988. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs defeated Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, winning the game 32-29 to advance to a third consecutive Super Bowl.
Ourand noted that Chiefs vs. Bills was also the most-watched non-Super Bowl game since the Minnesota Vikings vs. New Orleans Saints NFC Championship Game during the 2009 season.
Additionally, this year’s AFC Championship Game viewership was up 4 percent from last year’s game between the Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens. Sunday marked the fourth time that Mahomes’ Chiefs and Allen’s Bills have met in the playoffs and the second time they clashed in the AFC Championship Game.
The Chiefs, who will face the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9, are the first team in NFL history to reach the Super Bowl on the heels of winning two in a row.
If they can beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl for the second time in three years, the Chiefs will be the first three-peat Super Bowl champions of all time.
