This new record for the most-watched AFC Championship game was nearly 58 million, which is an increase of 2 million compared to last year's AFC title game, which previously held the viewership record. It also slightly surpassed last year's NFC Championship, which aired later in the day — typically a time slot that performs better overall.

If you were watching the AFC Championship game on CBS over the weekend, then give yourself a pat on the back, because you were part of television history. The game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills had an average audience of 57.

Andy Reid and his staff went back to the Bills' blowout loss to the Baltimore Ravens earlier this season and found a play by the Ravens that Buffalo couldn't stop. The Chiefs then popped it into their game plan last Sunday, the Bills couldn't stop it twice, and now Kansas City is heading back to the Super Bowl for a third straight year.