Chiefs-Bills AFC Championship Game would be in Atlanta

[stevegroganfan]

Originally Posted by Razaele

BS. The league already had rules for this situation. The Bills were already being given an unprecedented level of deference by not making them continue the game.

The Bills should have been told to make up the game that week or forfeit.

The rules didn't anticipate the modern day player reaction of a player possibly dying on the field.

After the suspension of the game which both teams agreed too and the NFL was fine with, the earliest it could have realistically been made up while giving fans an opportunity to go to the game again is on a Tuesday and it would have been a PR nightmare for the NFL to play the game so soon after so much national concern for the Bills player.

Another option was delaying most of the playoffs by a week and then just having 1 game before the Super Bowl but for a whole bunch of reasons I doubt the NFL wanted to do that.

Fans/players are used to players leaving the game in ambulances but the Bills/Cincy game was different since it is truly rare for CPR to be needed to revive a player.