There is an 18-year age gap, a record for starting quarterbacks in the playoffs, between the Patriots' 41-year-old Tom Brady, left, and the Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes. What’s next: Super Bowl LIII. The Blakeman factor: Clete Blakeman, one of the officials who measured the footballs that figured in the Deflategate investigation, will referee his second straight AFC championship game. The Patriots, of course, won last year’s title game to advance to the Super Bowl. New England is playing in its eighth straight AFC championship game and its 13th in the last 18 seasons.

Source: Washington Post January 20, 2019 15:00 UTC