NFL owners on Friday approved a resolution that allows the league to adjust the sites of the AFC championship game and a possible Baltimore Ravens-Cincinnati Bengals wild-card game.
The NFL approved a resolution to potentially move theto a neutral site after Thursday’s cancellation of the Week 17 matchup between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals to"mitigate a possible competitive inequity" in the AFC playoffs.
"For the 2022 season only, the AFC Championship Game will be played at a neutral site, to be determined by the Commissioner, if the participating teams played a different number of regular season games; and the lower seeded team in the Championship Game could have been the number one seed in the AFC if a full 17-game regular season had been played by all AFC clubs," the resolution stated in part.
"And further Resolved, that unless both participating clubs could have been the number one seed in the AFC and host the Championship Game had they played a full 17-game regular season, the game shall be played at the home stadium of the higher-seeded team." Quarterback Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals and his teammates walk to the locker room after their game against the Buffalo Bills was suspended due to an injury to Bills safety Damar Hamlin at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati on Monday.on Sunday and the two face off the following week in the wild-card round, the Ravens would still lose home-field advantage despite having two wins over a division opponent because the Bengals were awarded the AFC North title with the"no-contest" ruling.
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