{"id":432717,"date":"2026-01-25T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432717\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:59:07","slug":"how-patriots-would-make-nfl-history-with-afc-championship-game-win-vs-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432717\/","title":{"rendered":"How Patriots Would Make NFL History With AFC Championship Game Win Vs. Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots can make history with two more wins, as they\u2019d break their tie with the Pittsburgh Steelers for most Super Bowl wins at six.<\/p>\n<p>First things first, as Drake Maye, Mike Vrabel and the Patriots need to defeat the host Denver Broncos in <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/insider-identifies-patriots-biggest-fear-for-afc-championship-game-vs-broncos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sunday\u2019s AFC Championship Game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sunday\u2019s AFC Championship Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>New England would make NFL history with a win over Denver too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Patriots have won four road conference championship games since the NFL-AFL merger, which ties with the Cowboys for the most in the NFL. A win Sunday in Denver would break the tie,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47707100\/new-england-patriots-mike-vrabel-sean-payton-afc-championship-denver-broncos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN\u2019s Mike Reiss;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN\u2019s Mike Reiss<\/a> wrote on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots captured their first road AFC title victory on Jan. 12, 1986, when they defeated the Miami Dolphins in South Beach, 31-14. New England then fell to the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XX.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The team then stunned the host Steelers on Jan. 27, 2002, by a score of 24-17, one week before earning their first Super Bowl title vs. the then-St. Louis Rams.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots again eliminated Pittsburgh on the road on Jan. 23, 2005, by a 41-27 count on their way to a win in Super Bowl XXXIX over the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>New England\u2019s most recent AFC Championship Game road triumph came vs. the Kansas City Chiefs on Jan. 20, 2019, with a 37-31 win in overtime. The Patriots then defeated the Los Angeles Rams, 13-3, in Super Bowl LIII.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/nick-wright-jumps-off-patriots-bandwagon-to-pick-broncos\/\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nick Wright Jumps Off Patriots Bandwagon To Pick Broncos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">  Nick Wright Jumps Off Patriots Bandwagon To Pick Broncos <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots can make history with two more wins, as they\u2019d break their tie with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[175597,49,48,1735,1743,2221,1727,1749,1720,180033,23065,19260,1718,514,1747,949,82,180034],"class_list":["post-432717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-afc-championship-game","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-bears","tag-denver-broncos","tag-drake-maye","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-mike-reiss","tag-mike-vrabel","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports","tag-super-bowl-xxxix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}