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Chicago Sun-Times
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Tim Dahlberg | Associated Press

Improbable run has Bengals saying, ‘Why not us?’

Joe Burrow, who grew up only a few hours outside Cincinnati, made the Chiefs pay for every mistake they made in the AFC Championship Game. | Jamie Squire/Getty Images

Money Mac was going to deliver, just as Joe Burrow did a few moments earlier and the Bengals’ defense did for the entire second half and more. They had come too far down this improbable road not to finish things off, even if history and the wrong end of a coin flip threatened to derail their best-laid plans.

Evan McPherson — aka Money Mac — was as good with his game-winner as a handful of $100 bills, not to anyone’s surprise. This was a kicker, you might remember, who told teammates last week that they were going to the AFC championship game even before he hit the winning field goal to beat Tennessee.

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