Championship Sunday Recap — Chiefs outlast Bengals, Eagles knock off 49ers, Super Bowl LVII is set
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🗓️ 30 January 2023
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The Eagles and Chiefs have been the two best teams in the league all season. After both took care of business on Sunday, they'll meet in Super Bowl LVII. Robert Mays and Nate Tice recap the NFC and AFC Championship Games on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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2:31 Chiefs beat Bengals in AFC Championship Game
27:16 What's next for the Bengals?
37:40 Eagles beat 49ers, win NFC
57:47 Big questions ahead for San Francisco
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:50.6 | Joining me tonight. |
| 0:51.5 | It's my good friend Nate Tyson. |
| 0:52.6 | How you doing, buddy? |
| 0:53.8 | I'm doing very well. I think we. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing very well. |
| 0:55.2 | I think we will not have to like take too much time to figure out if we have any |
| 0:59.9 | John Wick Revenge scale, uh, games for the Super Bowl because I think Andy Reid might get |
| 1:05.3 | up there, might break the scale or it might be up there on the scale. |
| 1:08.2 | But wow, that was a weird, uh, championship Sunday. Unbelievably weird. I mean, the first game we'll get to. That, I mean, one of the weirdest games I've ever seen. Yeah. We were like barely through the first quarter and it was like this, that NFC championship game was like, okay, this is, this is going to be a strange one. Anytime you got Josh Johnson appearance, you know, you're in for a strange one. That was like the fourth weirdest thing that happened in the first quarter. And then we got into, yeah, an awesome, awesome night game. And what I think is becoming one of the best robberies in the NFL. It's fantastic. It's not a grandiose statement saying that, and the players are acting like that, and I think |
| 1:46.5 | that's awesome. And that's what happens when they both win, both teams win divisions. You get these repeat matchups, and we're in for a couple more next year. So what a great, great AFC championship game to cap it off with a lot happening in that game, too. We'll talk about the bizarre ass |
| 1:41.4 | NFC championship game a little bit later, |
| 1:42.7 | but let's start with the game we just watched |
| 1:44.4 | and let's start with the final play. |
| 1:46.4 | The first thing |
| 2:05.5 | I want to say, I feel awful for Joseph Asai. Yeah. I feel awful for him. I understand that you can't do that. |
| 2:14.7 | You just, you cannot do that. But he knows that. He knows he can't do that. |
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