Despite the Chiefs eliminating the Bengals by losing in Week 18, Travis Kelce wanted Cincinnati in the playoffs, he says.
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is making it clear that there's no truth to the rumors his team intentionally lost its game in Week 18 to shut the Cincinnati Bengals out from the NFL playoffs. The idea popped up on social media last weekend, largely from Bengals fans who believed the Chiefs were afraid to face them in the playoffs.
Despite superstar quarterback Joe Burrow having an historically good passing season, the Cincinnati Bengals surprisingly missed out on a spot in the NFL
Top-seeded Kansas City sitting its starters against Denver didn't prevent plenty of skeptics from suggesting the Chiefs surrendered in order to prevent the Bengals from making the playoffs. Travis Kelce scoffed at such a thought.
Kansas City Chiefs' star tight end Travis Kelce angrily dismisses talk that his team purposefully lost a game to avoid playing the Cincinnati Bengals in the playoffs.
Bengals fans, you think the two-time defending Super Bowl champs are worried about a team that couldn't even control their own playoff fate?
Travis Kelce scoffed at the notion that the Chiefs rested their starters in order to keep the Bengals out of the playoffs.
Tight end Travis Kelce talked about Cincinnati fans saying the Chiefs threw the season finale to block the Bengals from the postseason.
Bengals cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt then caught wind of that and sent a reply during his Instagram stories: It’s all silly noise, really. But if nothing else, it shows that this rivalry is alive and well, no questions asked. Read all the best Bengals coverage at Cincinnati.com and Bengals Wire.
There were a lot of tin-foil hat wearers in the NFL in Week 18. With the Cincinnati Bengals needing the Denver Broncos to lose to the Kansas City Chiefs, some NFL fans thought that the Chiefs deliberately tanked their Week 18 game to eliminate
The Cincinnati Bengals needed a scapegoat. They found one in Lou Anarumo. As the Bengals' franchise struggled to put together a solid explanation for having mis