Getty Images KANSAS CITY — Think of a crazier, more dramatic game day in your years watching the NFL. I can’t, and I’ve covered the league since 1984. Two championship games decided in sudden death, after only five conference title games had gone to overtime since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. The first time in those 48 years that both one seeds lost on Championship Sunday. One huge officiating gaffe, admitted by the league, that quite possibly kept the Saints from making the Super Bowl. And the Patriots, so admired, so reviled, so incredibly good for so long, making their ninth Super Bowl in 18 years … and surviving this phenom Patrick Mahomes and his 24-point fourth quarter. A zebra-made heartbreak for the Saints. A Brady-made heartbreak for the Chiefs. I sat with Tom Brady at his locker for seven minutes after the Patriots’ 37-31 AFC Championship Game victory, and I can tell you he was dazed. Slightly dazed. Three really crazy things happened in this game that he was trying to process, still, about 50 minutes after his ninth championship game victory. “We’ll remember this one forever,” Brady said, equal parts incredulous and grateful as he sat on a wooden… Read full this story
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