WASHINGTON — And then there were four.
For the first time since the NFL/AFL merger, Championship Sunday will feature the league’s four highest-scoring teams — and, ironically, they’re all rematches of some of the highest scoring games of the regular season.
In the AFC, the Kansas City Chiefs host the New England Patriots in a rematch of the prime time shootout the Pats won at home, 43-40 in Week 6. The NFC title game will be a repeat of the Week 9 game in New Orleans, where the Saints beat the Los Angeles Rams 45-35.
Let’s recap the divisional round, shall we?
Saints 20 It took a , some  and a  but New Orleans found the right formula to vanquish the Nick Foles magic once and for all and spoil his . Speaking of reunions … don’t expect the Rams’ return to the Big Easy to be, well, easy. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
AP Photo/Butch Dill
Patriots 41 Death, taxes and Tom Brady beating Philip Rivers. The G.O.A.T. is now 8-0 against Rivers all-time, and 9-0 in Foxborough this season even though the run game was really the catalyst on both sides: Sony Michel’s 129-yard, 3-TD game carried the offense while the defense held Melvin Gordon to just 15 yards on nine attempts. The Patriots enter their eighth straight AFC title game appearance , and looking ready to parlay a rematch with the Chiefs into a third straight trip to the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
AP Photo/Elise Amendola
Rams 30 In their NFL-record ninth postseason meeting that , the Rams took the lead in the all-time series thanks to a dominant 273-yard rushing effort and a defense that atoned for an underwhelming regular season by completely shutting down Ezekiel Elliott. L.A. has another shot at the Saints (one ), but they won’t get the benefit of a QB getting Ìý²¹²µ²¹¾±²Ô. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images
Chiefs 31 Kansas City won their first home playoff game in 25 years to host the AFC championship game for the first time — and everything we previously believed to be fact changed because of it. Andy Reid’s clock management is , Adam Vinatieri is , and the Chiefs’ much maligned defense might actually be pretty good. If KC’s D can play like this two more times, this could be a repeat of the 2006 Colts team that won it all despite . (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
AP Photo/Ed Zurga
