CBS got Buffalo Bills fans' hopes up on Sunday after Josh Allen's incomplete pass to Dalton Kincaid, with the score bug signaling that a flag had been thrown on the play

“There is a flag,” CBS play-by-play standby Jim Nantz announced to the masses watching at home. Kevin Harlan, calling the game for Westwood One Radio, echoed the call. Except, no penalty had been called. The play would count. The Kansas City Chiefs were one clock-killing drive away from a third straight Super Bowl.

For a few seconds Sunday night, Jim Nantz — and the CBS scorebug — gave the Bills some hope during the fourth quarter of their AFC championship clash against the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium. Josh Allen’s final heave that went through the hands of a diving Dalton Kincaid had fallen incomplete.

Interestingly enough, Kevin Harlan and Devin McCourty, calling the game for Westwood One Radio, also said there was a flag on the play, with McCourty speculating that it was for Bills offensive lineman Dion Dawkins taking his helmet off.

The Kansas City Chiefs booked their place in a third consecutive Super Bowl appearance after defeating the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship Game

The final minutes of Sunday night's AFC Championship Game featured an atypical mistake from CBS play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz. On the Bills' final offensive snap, an incomplete pass on fourth down by Josh Allen with 1:54 remaining,