Neutral-Site Conference Title Games May Be Deeply Unpopular

Twenty weeks ago, Joe Burrow sat down in front of a live mic on the Colin Cowherd Podcast and offered up a little more candor than most football players exhibit when they discuss the game many of them have dreamed about since they were children.

The Super Bowl, which his Bengals played in last season, felt like a dinner party. He said the event, in Los Angeles’s SoFi Stadium, didn’t feel like a playoff football game after what he had experienced the weeks before in Tennessee and Kansas City. Somehow, the conversation about neutral-site NFL playoff games has only been ratcheted up since then.

The location became the story in the AFC championship game, especially when Travis Kelce said to CBS's Tracy Wolfson in the postgame interview, "Burrowhead my ass."

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