ORCHARD PARK - One reason why the Buffalo Bills are playing the Kansas City Chiefs in the last NFL divisional round playoff game of the weekend Sunday night was due to the Bills having just played their wild-card game the previous Monday.

That, of course, was due to the blizzard that engulfed the Buffalo region and made it impossible for the Bills to play the Steelers in their original 1 p.m. Sunday window. The NFL recognized that scheduling the Bills any earlier in the divisional round would have been a little unfair, especially since the Chiefs played their wild-card game last Saturday and already had a rest advantage.

However, even if Bills-Steelers hadn’t been pushed back a day, Bill-Chiefs still would have been placed into the cleanup spot this weekend because their matchup is without question the juiciest of the four games.

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Texans at Ravens, Packers at 49ers, and Buccaneers at Lions are obviously important games, but they simply do not come close to Chiefs at Bills, Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen, given all the recent history between these two teams.

“Exciting, exhilarating, fun, most-watched game, however you want to put it and sum it up,” Bills defensive tackle Ed Oliver said. “When the Bills and the Chiefs play, everybody just seems to be watching.”

Buffalo and Kansas City have forged a rivalry that is nearly as intense as if they were division antagonists. And really, they’ve played almost as often as division rivals would have since 2020.

The Bills have played fellow AFC East inhabitants New York and New England eight times since 2020, and this will be their seventh showdown with the Chiefs - three in the playoffs where the Chiefs so far won both, and four in the regular season with the Bills winning three.

If this was the World Series or a Stanley Cup playoff series, Sunday’s game would be for all the marbles, Game 7 if you will, and for just the second time in this recent epoch, it’s being played in Buffalo.

“It feels like we’ve played each other 100 times over the last like (four) years,” Mahomes said. “The Bills are a great challenge, I think everybody understands that. They’ve gotten my number a lot of times. We’ve been lucky enough to get them in the playoffs, but they beat us earlier this year, so we understand that we’re going to have to play our best football to win the game, especially at their place.”

Here’s the broadcast and betting information for Bills vs. Chiefs:

When is the Bills vs Chiefs game?

• Date: Sunday, Jan. 21

• Time: 6:30 p.m.

• Place: Highmark Stadium

Who is favored to win Bills vs. Chiefs game?

• Betting line (as of Thursday morning): Bills -3

• Over-under: 45.5

• Money line: Bills minus-145 (bet $145 to win $100) and Chiefs plus-125 (bet $100 to win $125).

Who is announcing the Buffalo Bills game this weekend?

• Play-by-play: Jim Nantz

• Analyst: Tony Romo

• Sideline reporter: Tracy Wolfson

How to watch Buffalo Bills vs Kansas City Chiefs game on TV, streaming

● Cable/Network TV: CBS. The game will be available locally via the following stations: WROC (Channel 8, Rochester), WIVB (Buffalo area), WTVH (Syracuse area), WKTV (Utica area), WENY (Elmira area), WRGB (Albany area), and WBNG (Binghamton area).

● Online streaming services: You can watch games on NFL.com and the NFL mobile app, and you can subscribe to NFL+, the league’s own streaming service, though you can’t cast the games to your TV - you must watch on your phone or tablet.

● TV streaming: You can also stream games if you have subscriptions to Spectrum, DirecTV, fuboTV, Sling, Vidgo, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, and Paramount+.

On the radio: How to listen to the Bills vs Chiefs game

You can listen on SiriusXM satellite radio on Sirius channel 81 and XM channel 227 (Bills feed) and Sirius channel 82 and XM channel 225 (Chiefs feed), and on traditional radio, the Bills Radio Network has stations all across the state. Chris Brown has the play-by-play, Eric Wood is the analyst, and Sal Capaccio is the sideline reporter. The network includes:

• Rochester (WCMF 96.5 and WROC 950 AM)

• Buffalo (WGR550, 550 AM)

• Syracuse (WTKW 99.5/WTKV 105.5)

• Binghamton (WDRE 100.5FM)

• Ithaca (WIII 99.9/100.3 FM)

• Bath (WVIN 98.3 FM)

• Newark (WACK 1420 AM)

• Dansville (WDNY 93.9 FM)

• Elmira (WNGZ 1490 AM)

• Auburn (WAUB 98.1 FM/1590 AM)

• Geneva (WGVA 95.9 FM, 1240 AM)

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