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Everyone from Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott to comedian Bill Burr to former NFL referee Dean Blandino thinks there is something strange going on with how often the Kansas City Chiefs seem to be the beneficiaries of calls made by NFL officials at key points in important games.
McDermott told his team before the AFC Championship that they weren’t going to be getting any favorable calls in their game against the Chiefs.
Bill Burr told Rich Eisen after the AFC Championship, “I don’t think it’s fixed. I think it’s massaged. There’s definitely more back rubs on one side I just think – where is the money?”
Blandino, rules analysts for the NFL on Fox, admitted that he didn’t know why the ball was spotted short of the line to gain on a crucial fourth-down when at least one official had the ball spotted past the line, which, again was a huge call for the Chiefs during the AFC Championship.
Unfortunately, these complaints and observations are nothing new. The Chiefs have appeared to be the beneficiaries of calls for so long that some people want to boycott this year’s Super Bowl.
So, while people like Tavia Hunt, the wife of the owner of the Chiefs, claims God is the reason the Chiefs are so lucky, and not the refs, and Travis Kelce plays dumb, others, like Hall of Fame wide receiver Terrell Owens will continue to fuel the conspiracy theory that the NFL wants the Chiefs (and all the media attention that comes along with them) to win.
“It’s crazy, because I played the game and I’m watching the game and I’m looking at all these calls that they’re just, that’s benefiting the Kansas City Chiefs,” Owens said on the It Is What It Is podcast this week. “Look at the game before, against the Texans. Mahomes is smart, he’s dinking around, he’s causing the flag, you know what I mean? He’s getting the benefit. He didn’t even get hit. Fifteen-yard flag, the guy, Will Anderson, barely hit him. That can stop the momentum of the game. At that point in time, the Houston Texans were in the game. Those calls right there advances them, gives them extra downs. It changed the whole complexity of the game.
“You can even go back to the last couple of Super Bowls, even when the Niners played the Super Bowl. Look at all the holding calls. If you watched the tape, it was cra… they were getting clothes-lined and they were not calling it. It was blatant, blatant calls that were, like, obvious. It was blatant, it’s unreal. I never would’ve thought I would say that I thought games were rigged, but somebody got plays, but it is unreal at the amount of all calls that are not called against the Kansas City Chiefs that are called against everybody else.”
So, despite NFL commissioner Roger Goodell once again claiming that NFL officials are doing a wonderful job and are completely unbiased, there are...
