Where will AFC championship game be play

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With the NFL , the league pa sed a proposal trying to combat potential inequities between the Nos. 1, 2, and 3 seeds in the playoffs should they arise.Because the Bengals and  Louis Lipps Jersey Bills no longer had a 17th game, the Bengals lost their shot at the No. 1 seed whereas the Bills just had to win and have the Chiefs lose (they could have clinched it outright with two wins to end the season).According to the proposal ratified by NFL owners Friday, the league's solution is to play the AFC championship at a neutral site if it ends up being Bills vs. Chiefs. The way Week 18 shook out, because the Bills and Chiefs both won, neither technically "earned" home field advantage in the postseason.Despite the Bengals  Franco Harris Jersey also winning in Week 18, the Bills and Chiefs winning kept them away from the No. 1 seed. So if they make the AFC Championship, the game will be  Robert Golden Jersey treated as normal seeding.On Thursday, the NFL announced where it will be playing in the event of a Bills vs. Chiefs AFC Championship: Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium.MORE: The big question of where the AFC Championship game would be played in the event of a Bills vs. Chiefs showdown was answered Thursday.Detroit wasn't in the picture from the start. The Lions were eliminated in Week 18, but Detroit had previous plans to  Tyson Alualu Jersey resurface Ford Field to replace the slit film turf with monofilament field turf, .With that, Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis was discu sed as the next best solution. Indianapolis has, of course, hosted major events in its downtown center before (Final Four), and it would have be a  Stephon Tuitt Jersey truly neutral site between Buffalo and Kansas City. the NFL had yet to talk to the Colts about the po sibility on Thursday. But as the league formalizes its plans under a new set of circumstances, they will need to soon designate a neutral site should those scenarios come to pa s.Some people have raised the po sibility of Lucas Oil  James Conner Jersey Stadium being a potential neutral site for the AFC championship game. But there is a national volleyball tournament there that weekend, so Indianapolis is out. Sam Farmer (@LATimesfarmer)  The Washington Post'sThe NFL has been working on determining the neutral site for a potential Bills-Chiefs meeting in the AFC championship game. It's po sible that decision could come this week. MarkMaske (@MarkMaske) Its likely Atlanta is going to be the AFC Title Game neutral site. How ATL was picked as the likely site is a wild story. Ill share it tomorrow  L.C. Greenwood Jersey morning on  Bob Fescoe (@bobfescoe) Atlanta is a sensible location considering that it is a similar distance away from Buffalo and Kansas City. It also is a domed stadium, something that the NFL is looking for if the game is held at a neutral site."As part of standard NFL contingency planning, Atlanta was designated a  Pittsburgh Steelers Jersey po sible backup host site for postseason games prior to the start of the 2022 season and is almost equidistant from both potential participating teams' cities," the league said in a release.