Your Guide to This Weekend of Football

🏈 The AFC and NFC Championship Games take place this Sunday – and they’ve got some hype to live up to, coming on the heels of arguably the greatest football playoff weekend in NFL history.

Here’s what you need to know:

• The Bengals will face the Chiefs in Kansas City in the first game starting at 3 ET on Sunday, while the Rams play host to the 49ers at 6:30 ET.
• All four of last week’s games saw double-digit increases in viewership compared to the previous year, with the Chiefs-Bills OT thriller drawing 43 million average viewers (and a peak of 52 million). It was the most-watched US TV event since last year’s Super Bowl.
• The Rams have struggled with home attendance all year, and this Sunday looks to be no different. Only LA-area residents were allowed to purchase tickets through the team’s website or Ticketmaster in an effort to block SF fans from scooping them up.
• But no such restrictions have been enacted on secondary markets like StubHub or TickPick. Current projections show the stands will be 65% filled with 49ers fans, per the LA Times, despite a campaign from Rams players urging ticket holders not to re-sell.

+Long shot: Before the season started, the Bengals had the third-worst Super Bowl odds in the entire league (+15000; bet $100 to win $15K).

+Comeback kid: With Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs are 3-1 in the playoffs when their in-game win probability dips below 5%. The rest of the NFL is 1-38 over the same timeframe.