NFL owners will consider in a special league meeting on Friday a resolution that could result in a neutral-site AFC Championship Game and a coin flip deciding the site of a playoff game.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has recommended the adoption of the resolution, which was approved on Thursday night by the league’s Competition Committee.

The measures are being proposed after the cancellation of Monday night’s Buffalo Bills-Cincinnati Bengals game left the league with “potential competitive inequities” because two of the top teams in the AFC will end the regular season on Sunday having played one fewer game than their competitors.

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The resolution has two parts.

One calls for the AFC Championship Game to be played at a neutral site, instead of the home field of the higher-seeded participant, if the two teams played an unequal number of regular-season games and both could have been the No. 1 seed if both had played the full 17-game schedule.

That would involve Buffalo or Cincinnati qualifying to play the Kansas City Chiefs for the AFC crown.

The Chiefs hold the No. 1 seed in the AFC at 13-3 entering their regular-season finale on Saturday against the Las Vegas Raiders. At 12-3, Buffalo would be the No. 1 seed, though, if it had beaten Cincinnati on Monday night. The Bills hold a tiebreaker over Kansas City by virtue of a 24-20 victory over the Chiefs on Oct. 16. Buffalo plays the New England Patriots on Sunday.

Cincinnati has an 11-4 record but still was in the running for the No. 1 seed had it beaten Buffalo on Monday night, then defeated the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday while Kansas City lost its finale.

What happens on the final weekend of the regular season will affect if a neutral-site conference championship game could be needed:

· If the Bills and Chiefs both win this weekend, then a Bills-Chiefs title game would be at a neutral site.

· If the Bills, Chiefs and Bengals all lose, then a Bills-Chiefs title game would be at a neutral site.

· If the Bengals win and the Bills and Chiefs lose, a Buffalo or Cincinnati championship game against Kansas City would be at a neutral site.

The other part of the resolution could be put into action if the Ravens beat the Bengals on Sunday. That result would leave Baltimore with an 11-6 record – one-half game behind 11-5 Cincinnati. And if the Bengals had lost to Buffalo on Monday night, Baltimore and Cincinnati would have finished tied at the top of the AFC North in that circumstance, with the Ravens having swept the season series.

The resolution calls for a coin toss to determine the site of their game if the Ravens beat the Bengals on Sunday and then the teams are matched in the first round of the AFC playoffs. If Cincinnati wins on Sunday or the teams aren’t opponents in the wild-card round, then this part of the resolution won’t be needed.

“As we considered the football schedule, our principles have been to limit disruption across the league and minimize competitive inequities,” Goodell said in a statement released by the NFL. “I recognize that there is no perfect solution. The proposal we are asking the ownership to consider, however, addresses the most significant potential equitable issues created by the difficult, but necessary, decision not to play the game under these extraordinary circumstances.”

On Monday night, Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest in the first quarter of the Bills’ game against Cincinnati. CPR on the field saved Hamlin’s life before he was transported to University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

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With Hamlin’s teammates and opponents in shock after the frightening scene, the NFL decided not to resume the game, as it always had previously after injuries, and on Friday, the league announced that it would not be completed.

A league release said the decision not to reschedule the game was made because:

· Failure to play the game to a conclusion had no bearing on which teams qualified for the postseason.

· Rescheduling the game would require postponing the start of the playoffs for one week.

· Resolution allows all the teams to know the playoff possibilities before the final weekend of the regular season.

“This has been a very difficult week,” Goodell said. “We continue to focus on the recovery of Damar Hamlin and are encouraged by the improvements in his condition as well as the tremendous outpouring of support and care for Damar and his family from across the country. We are also incredibly appreciative of the amazing work of the medical personnel and commend each and every one of them.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.