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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill celebrates tight end Travis Kelce\u00d5s game-winning touchdown in overtime of the AFC Divisional Playoff game between the Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on Dec. 23, 2022. The Chiefs beat the Bills 42-36.<\/p>\n
Jill Toyoshiba<\/p>\n
The Kansas City Star<\/p>\n
The Chiefs gave their fans an abundance of great memories in that 7-5-3 run* during quarterback Patrick Mahomes\u2019 first seven seasons as a starter.<\/p>\n
*Seven AFC Championship Game appearances, five Super Bowl appearances and three Super Bowl championships<\/p>\n
The \u201cDee Ford Game\u201d doesn\u2019t rank high among Chiefs fans, but the fourth quarter of that AFC Championship Game in 2019 was bonkers. After trailing 17-7 through three quarters, the Chiefs scored 24 points in the final period.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs lost 37-31 in overtime to the Patriots. But the Chiefs forced overtime after getting the ball on their own 31-yard line with 32 seconds to play. Mahomes drove the Chiefs to the Patriots\u2019 21 in just 16 seconds and Harrison Butker kicked a game-tying field goal.<\/p>\n
New England won the overtime coin toss and scored a touchdown that decided the game. The dual overtime possession rule wasn\u2019t yet in place, which was probabaly good for the Patriots.<\/p>\n
Fast forward three years, and the NFL adopted that OT rule after the Bills lost to the Chiefs 42-36 in an AFC Divisional Game.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the \u201c13 seconds game\u201d that haunts Bills fans to this day. And current and former Bills players are still asked about that game.<\/p>\n
Former center Mitch Morse, who played his first four NFL seasons with the Chiefs before signing with Buffalo, was on the Caps Off podcast and talked about that loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n The memory of the Chiefs\u2019 AFC Championship Game loss to the Patriots was on Morse\u2019s mind after Buffalo took the lead with 13 seconds left in regulation.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I remember is sitting there still having a pretty uneasy feeling because the clock had not hit zero,\u201d said Morse, the former Mizzou star. \u201cAnd three years before, I had been in the AFC Championship Game on the other sideline against Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, those sons of bitches, and the Chiefs had to go down with 18 seconds left or something to kick a field goal to send it to overtime. I\u2019m like, it\u2019s not zero, fellas. And of course, the guys are really fired up on the sideline, because any other team with any other coach, quarterback duo, who doesn\u2019t have Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelce, this is probably in the bag.\u201d<\/p>\n Mahomes threw passes to Hill and Kelce and got the Chiefs in position for Harrison Butker to kick a game-tying field goal on the final play of regulation. The Chiefs won the toss and drove for a game-winning touchdown.<\/p>\n Morse recalled watching Kelce, who caught the TD pass in overtime.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd they go down there and they do it, man,\u201d Morse said. \u201cI\u2019m just seeing my friend across the way, Travis do his thing. I\u2019m like, \u2019Oh no.\u2019 You know, no one was screaming or anything, but you could just feel the life just kind of (sucked out). And then those boys go down and they score (a touchdown) first possession.\u201d<\/p>\n As bad as that loss stung, Morse said it hurt more to come back home. That\u2019s because he was still living in Kansas City during the offseason.<\/p>\n Morse said what made that defeat even harder to take was seeing the Chiefs lose to the Bengals a week later in the AFC Championship Game.<\/p>\n \u201cThe thing is, I lived in Kansas City, and so that\u2019s where we called home base in the offseason,\u201d Morse said. \u201cOf course, we had to fly back do exit interviews, and I\u2019m coming straight back to Kansas City, in my neighborhood with my neighbors, who are all huge Chiefs fans. But it still sucked the first week you came back, and it was still the Chiefs were still in it.<\/p>\n \u201cThe thing that makes it the worst, in my opinion, is that they ended up losing to the Cincinnati Bengals. I mean, objectively, you take a step back, it\u2019s one of the greatest games. But man did it not suck the soul out of you.\u201d<\/p>\n This story was originally published March 27, 2026 at 9:04 AM.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Kansas City Star<\/p>\n