All great teams get the calls, but with the Chiefs it’s egregious
My raw take on the upcoming Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles (Feb. 9) after the conference championship games: KC vs Philly is like Drago vs. Clubber Lang; Paul Orndorff vs. Roddy Rowdy Piper; Bob Probert vs. Tie Domi; the Yankees vs the Dodgers; Manchester vs. Manchester.
Commissioner Roger Goodall, the NFL’s version of the WWE’s Mr. McMahon, is hoping having two of the most hated teams and fan bases in the NFL play in the league’s showcase will bring ratings.
Or at least that’s one of my conspiracy theories that I put out there following the treasure trove of “evidence” being posted online to prove the NFL had pre-ordained (scripted) the Kansas City three-peat ahead of the season.
Since Sunday’s game at Arrowhead ended – scratch that . . . since the start of the NFL season, there have been several fans and even reporters pointing out the disparity in how Kansas City Chiefs games are officiated.
I know it goes back a bit further, but as soon as the three-peat talk started gaining steam in the pre-season, the anti-Mahomes, anti-Swift, anti-Chiefs rebel leaders came out firing.
After KC defeated Buffalo (for the fourth time in the playoffs in recent years), the conspiracy theorists were in full effect all over the inter-web.
I have dubbed the two plays being pointed to the most from Sunday’s game “the imaginary reception” and “the first down that wasn’t.”
My initial take after the two egregious calls that were 100 per cent in the Chiefs favour was that the NFL had devolved into the WWE with referees playing into the script to keep the heel as the champion and screw-jobbing the babyface fan favourite.
As my cousin Fab mentioned, it’s that the calls are so blatantly in favour of the Chiefs despite video evidence that is the real problem.
My buddy Manny also pointed out that all sports are corrupt, to which I replied, “it’s true, they all take their cues from the Vince McMahon handbook … either the most hated or most loved characters get to be champions because they bring ratings.”
It was amusing for me to jump on the bandwagon a bit, but in a slightly more logical sense. I’ve maintained the Chiefs get favourable calls for years, like other people who can see with their own two eyes what is actually happening.
But the real take I have on the situation is the same take I sent to my cousin Sylvia, a self-proclaimed Swifty/Chiefs bandwagoner, in our family group chat and then copied to my sports group chat where my buddy Kev was defending KC to my buddy Mike, who was calmly pointing out the disparities in calls for/against the Chiefs.
Okay, calmly is putting it very mildly.
I digress . . . this is what I sent them: they do get lots of 50-50 calls … more than Brady’s Pats ever did. And I think that’s why people say it’s the refs. But, Jordan’s Bulls got calls, Gretzky’s Oilers got calls, Messi’s Barcelona got calls, all the great teams get favourable calls.
When looking at it through our historical sports lens, we can agree that there seems to be a leniency/favouritism given by refs in any particular sport to the best teams with the best players; especially, when those teams win multiple championships.
I think that’s where the problem really lies. It’s human nature to favour winners over losers, champions over contenders, and stars over unknowns.
Until a new champion and new star emerges in the NFL – and there are several close to achieving these goals – the refs will continue to either consciously or subconsciously give the calls to the Chiefs.
And as long as the ratings continue to rise, the commissioner’s office will keep turning a blind eye.
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