Good thing the Chiefs were unsuccessful in getting overtime rules changed in 2019

The Kansas City Chiefs benefited tremendously from the same overtime rules they tried to change three years ago.

After previously losing in heartbreaking fashion because of the NFL‘s silly overtime rule, the Kansas City Chiefs were the beneficiary of the rule they tried to change three offseasons ago.

Three postseasons ago, the Chiefs lost at home in the 2018 AFC Championship Game to Tom Brady’s New England Patriots because they did not win the coin toss in overtime. It is only fitting that three years later they got to see how the other half lives, as they won the coin toss over Josh Allen’s Buffalo Bills to advance to the 2021 AFC Championship Game vs. the Cincinnati Bengals.

Kansas City should be thanking its lucky stars that its proposition to get the rule changed to guarantee both teams having a position in overtime did not have enough support to get passed.

Kansas City Chiefs are lucky they the did not change the NFL’s overtime rules

Look. The Bills cost themselves dearly in this one by allowing Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense to march down the field in 13 seconds and hit a game-tying field goal as time expired. Though it is not fair that Allen and the Bills offense did not get a chance to get back onto the field in overtime, life is not fair. The Buffalo defense let all of Bills Mafia down in the final minutes.

However, the NFL does need to seriously look at fixing its overtime rule. Nobody seems to like it. While Chiefs fans will not have an issue with it throughout this week, keep in mind how soul-crushing life was three years ago. Sadly, the best overtime has been nixed because two-point conversion after two-point conversion is all the rage in college football now. It used to be great.

The rules are the rules, but some rules are meant to be broken, and this should be one of them.