The Kansas City Chiefs will host the Cincinnati Bengals this upcoming Sunday for a chance to play in Super Bowl LVII.

It'll be the second straight year the two teams have met in Kansas City to play in the AFC Championship game.

The Bengals reached the AFC Championship game via their 27-10 win over the Buffalo Bills.

Cincinnati dominated the Bills and part of the reason is because they used a perceived slight as motivation.

If you listened to the comments coming out of the locker room after the Bengals' win, you heard a lot of talk about the tickets that were sold last week for a potential AFC Championship game in Atlanta between the Bills and the Chiefs.

[Sarcasm font] "They have to formulate plans…we keep screwing it up for everybody. I hate that. I'm sorry."

Zac Taylor on the NFL's handling of the playoff scenarios and the #Bengals mowing right through them. @fox19 pic.twitter.com/JfLoWScfoV

— Jeremy Rauch (@FOX19Jeremy) January 23, 2023

Cincinnati was insulted that those tickets went on sale. The Bengals took it as the NFL assuming they'd lose to Buffalo.

But that wasn't the case at all. This was simply Cincinnati creating something out of nothing. And the Chiefs should call the Bengals out this week for their false narrative.

Bengals players forgot to mention one important detail during their ranting and raving about the tickets in Atlanta — Cincinnati was doing the exact same thing this past week.

The Bengals were selling tickets for a potential AFC Championship game in Cincy against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Someone tell the Chiefs that the Bengals were selling tickets based on the idea that the Jaguars would beat the Chiefs yesterday. Clearly, the Bengals do not respect the Chiefs.

— Aaron Schatz ? (@ASchatzNFL) January 22, 2023

If the Jags would've defeated the Chiefs, they would've played the Bengals in Cincinnati in the AFC Championship game.

But because Kansas City beat Jacksonville, the Bengals have to send out some refunds for the tickets that were sold.

Maybe Chiefs players should get on the podium this week and talk about being disrespected because the Bengals sold those tickets.

I'm all for bulletin board material and using stuff like that as motivation. But it just doesn't make sense for the Bengals to be upset about the tickets in Atlanta when they were doing the EXACT same thing.

I guess all that matters is how motivated it makes the players in the locker room. And it clearly worked for Cincy. But I think the Chiefs would be remiss if they didn't call out the Bengals this week for their nonsense.

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