One member of the Chiefs is accusing the Bills of pulling a petty move following Buffalo’s divisional-round playoff loss Sunday.
Kansas City offensive tackle Donovan Smith claimed the Bills turned off the Chiefs’ hot water within the visitors locker room after the reigning Super Bowl champions punched their ticket to the AFC Championship Game with a 27-24 victory on the road in Orchard Park, N.Y.
“Rattling caught a L and so they shut our hot water off… smh it’s all good we got that Dub today,” Smith wrote on X, adding the hashtag, “Chiefs Kingdom.”
As of Monday, it appears the Bills haven’t yet addressed the claim.
Elsewhere on social media, a fan suggested to Smith that the Bills’ recent weather conditions could have impacted the new water situation.
“To not be that guy, however the Bills could’ve been out of hot water lol,” one fan wrote on X, adding: “They did JUST get hit by a winter storm.”
Smith replied: “I just comprehend it was hot then it wasn’t.”
“The Bills must’ve reached their boiling point,” the official DraftKings Sportsbook account wrote on X, to which Smith replied with a bunch of crying-laughing emojis.
Sunday’s game wasn’t and not using a frosty conclusion as some Chiefs players were hit with snowballs by Bills fans as they exited the sector.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was seen getting pelted with a snowball as he ran toward the tunnel at Highmark Stadium.
“Never got hit wit so many snowballs in my life,” Chiefs defensive back Jaylen Watson wrote in a post on X. “Very classy GG tho.”
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The winter weather conditions were unforgiving in Buffalo throughout the playoffs.
The Bills-Chiefs game was played in below-freezing conditions after Buffalo faithful arrived on the stadium early to shovel snow for a second consecutive week.
The Bills sent out a press release asking fans 18 years of age or older to shovel for $20 per hour ahead of last Monday’s Bills-Steelers wild-card game.
The matchup was originally postponed from Sunday, Jan. 14, to Monday, Jan. 15, on account of a snowstorm and subsequent travel ban in Buffalo.
Smith continued Sunday’s victory lap on Instagram, calling the Chiefs “road warriors” in a post.
“With every thing and everybody stacked against us, we walked in that stadium and took over, pleased with this team and the group of men who went to work today and got here out victorious,” he wrote.
Smith won a Super Bowl alongside Tom Brady with the Buccaneers in February 2021, once they beat the Chiefs, 31-9, at Raymond James Stadium.
The Chiefs (11-6) will face the Ravens (13-4) in Baltimore within the AFC title game Sunday at 3 p.m.
