If Buffalo Bills fans can find any shred of hope after their team fell once again to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship game, it may come from a flag that CBS called out on the broadcast as Josh Allen heaved a final fourth down throw toward Dalton Kincaid.

Viewers were left confused when the "flag" graphic popped up on the screen following what became the Bills' final offensive play of the contest even though no penalty had been called.

“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.

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 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,