Talk:2024 AFC Championship Game

Ideas to improve page

Hello to all who are reading. I noticed that this page was recently created and wanted to expand on the information about this game, now that the season is over. I have been working on a draft of this page on one of my sandbox pages for a couple days now, and I was hoping for any suggestions on how to improve on the page here that is submitted. This may very well fall under Wikipedia:TOOSOON, but I have felt (like a few other users) that there was/has been enough controversy that it could qualify for its own page, considering how opinions have really varied, including outrage from fans much like what happened with the 2018 NFC Championship Game. Please let me know by replying on here for suggestions, or message me on my talk page. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. --James161723 (talk) 09:49, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Notability

I fail to see how this game is especially and singularly notable. Sure, it may have some notoriety in Bills lore because it's the fourth straight playoff loss to Kansas City, but, even then, the game can be easily explained as part of the wider Chiefs-Bills rivalry narrative. The accusations of the Chiefs getting favourable refereeing may also be a story from this game, but I don't recall any huge refereeing blunders or scandals coming from this game (like the Saints-Rams game with the pass interference no-call). Further, the 2002 Western Conference Final in the NBA between the Kings and the Lakers gained notoriety for seeming biased officiating for the Lakers, but there's no separate article for that controversy.

This really feels, lately, that people think just because the Chiefs did something, or when the Chiefs beat the Bills, or when the Bills collapse in the playoffs that we need an article for each instance. We don't. Many times, the incidents are better recorded as part of already existing articles.-RomeW (talk) 13:18, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Genuine question

Why is this game a Wikipedia article? There were zero iconic plays that will be replayed for decades, like the Immaculate Reception, Helmet Catch, the Mile High Miracle, the Minneapolis Miracle, the Commanders/Bears Hail Mary last year, etc. This game could not have been more ordinary, nothing notable or special happened in the slightest, unless Buffalo constantly running the Eagles’ tush push, just to turn it over on downs over and over again is significant. If I’m being honest, I feel like this page only exists because of the obsession over Kelce and Taylor swift. Hopefully this page gets deleted one day, because it’s kind of a waste of a page. MhcL947 (talk) 00:23, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Merge proposal

I feel this game should be merged into the 2024–25 NFL playoffs page, due to how the game doesn’t really carry that much notability (as raised by the above two topics).

In addition, other NFL playoff game pages that were considered to not be notable have been recently merged. Astronaut74539 (talk) 18:08, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Oppose - The game is intrinsically notable as the trophy-granting championship of the American Football Conference. The game/championship will continue to have ongoing WP:GNG-level coverage, despite the team not winning the Super Bowl. PK-WIKI (talk) 19:26, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Multiple AFC and NFC championship game pages created under the pretense of “it’s the conference title game, it decides who makes Super Bowl” have been recently merged. 2022 (both AFC and NFC) and 2023 (both AFC and NFC) were. In addition, the NFC page for 2024 was just merged as well. Astronaut74539 (talk) 20:08, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Those are bad merges, especially since the closing editor was involved in the voting. PK-WIKI (talk) 21:37, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Being involved doesn't necessarily make the close bad per WP:MERGECLOSE ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 13:07, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

In more unclear, controversial cases, the determination that a consensus to merge has or has not been achieved should be made by an editor who is neutral and not directly involved in the merge proposal or the discussion. PK-WIKI (talk) 17:46, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

My point was that you can't call them bad merges now way after the fact. It might have been fair to ask the closer to reconsider the close because of their involvement when they closed the discussion, but bringing it up again here in a different discussion is just re-litigating things imo. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 18:35, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

PK-WIKI, I don't see how that affects notability, let alone that it demonstrates this can't be covered as part of the overall playoffs article. At a minimum, it would at least help if you could demonstrate that sources cover it in a historically significant perspective beyond "it happened". Thebiguglyalien (talk) 04:44, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

For the same reason the annual Super Bowl is given its own article rather than folded into the overall playoffs article. These conference championship games receive ongoing significant coverage (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.) and represent the top accomplishments of every team, one tier below the Super Bowl. Conference champion banners in the stadium. Trophy on display. Ongoing significant coverage of the historical achievement. Two of the top ~5 national TV broadcasts each year, with 50 million+ Americans from across the country watching it at the same time. PK-WIKI (talk) 18:05, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Merge per WP:PAGEDECIDE and WP:MERGEREASON I think readers are better served by a merged article. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 13:04, 11 March 2026 (UTC)