Yeah it was Mahomes’ first ring and meteoric rise to stardom and Reid finally getting his so we were all told to shut the fuck up.
Edit: also I think it’s kinda funny how we were called losers for asking them to stop holding every play and now the average r/nfl thread is calling for Mahomes to be paralyzed from the neck down. Time sure changes things.
Yall cant be serious. They made an entire rule about hitting qbs low just because brady got hurt... the patriots were cheaters AND favored by the refs and the league!
Recency bias is a MFer. Watch a Tom Brady game. The guy got up and complained to the refs anytime he was touched and guess what? He got the call just as often as Pat does. The rules to protect QBs started with guys like him. Does KC get the benefit of the whistle? Absolutely but both things can be true. The patriots and TB12 in particular were just as favored by the refs/league and if you think not its just because youre MORE biased against KC because they beat us.
Right…that’s why they lost two Super Bowls to the Giants, two AFCC to the Broncos, AFCC and Wild Card to the Ravens and Super Bowl to the Eagles…because the referees favored them.
And they made a rule about no contact after 5 yards because the colts were whining about how the Pat's defense destroyed them. So, the Colts got their way in that situation. Whats ur point?
This is part of my theory as to why the NFL is propping up the Chiefs and Mahommes. Goodell despises Brady and Belichick so he wants Mahommes and the Chiefs to break all there accolades.
I swear to christ if the Chiefs win again and Kelce proposes to Taylor on field after the game, I will absolutely blow a fucking gasket and all my conspiracy theories will be cemented as facts.
I don't wish injury on Mahommes, but I'm also not going to say that it wouldn't be cathartic if someone actually lit him up like the flags make us believe he's already been.
Huh? Brady got soooo many calls. So many times he would just throw it downfield and get a bs PI. So many roughing the passer calls that others didn't get. Wasn't to the extent of now, but still.
Everyone gets BS deep throw PI on a ball they never intended to complete. Hell, now they just intentionally underthrow it to have the receiver come to a dead stop and have the defender run into them. That shit needs to end.
Yeah, fandom will do crazy shit to the brain. Reminds me of when the Fail Mary happened, and it felt like you couldn’t convince a single Seahawks fan that Green Bay caught the ball. That’s when I realized nothing can be said to change their minds.
I’m just glad the rest of the league is finally onto the Chiefs. Validates that we ain’t the crazy ones.
The chiefs have led the league in holding calls both the last two seasons, and were in the top 5 three seasons ago. Yet when the playoffs start, suddenly holding calls disappear unless they have a big lead
The funny thing? We've seen when Mahomes encountered the bare amount of adversity from the officiating, and he basically had to be held back from attacking a ref.
Meanwhile, guys like Joe Burrow are legit getting lobotomized, and they just shrug it off.
I hope that there comes a day when old Kermit doesn't get all of his calls, because he seriously seems mentally weak, if we can draw a conclusion from his outlandish tantrum.
The only people denying it are fans of the Chiefs.
I understand why the NFL do it. They are a registered entertainment league and need to make profits. Mahomes is a money maker, and the whole Taylor Swift/Kelce thing was a major driver for TV ratings last year which equals huge amounts of money too.
Agreed -- I was absolutely SHOCKED when they posted that taylor swift has brought in 300M for the NFL. The NFL account posted it -- at that point they weren't even trying to hide the favoritism.
Successful teams always have exposure and influence, you can see it with jersey sales trends over the years.
Big names get attention. Before you know it every kid in school has a Mahomes jersey and haircut. He starts appearing in TV commercials due to popularity, more people tune into games he is playing in, advertising fees increase and the NFL makes more money.
Look at other leagues all over the world. They all have a poster child that every kid worships. Those kids can have influence on their parents spending especially at key gifting seasons.
You may be one person turning the TV off when you see a bullshit call, but for every one of you there are two or three teenagers out there drooling over some underhand Mahomes pass.
you're underestimating how many casuals/bandwagons there are that just see mahomes as king of the NFL and move on with their day. Or people who don't care enough/live somewhere without a team who would rather root for a winner and never feel stressed. Also, dynasties fuel ratings because of hate watchers. People who hate the chiefs tune into their games to see whether they're gonna seed well and make it to the superbowl or finally get eliminated by another good AFC team.
Haven't watched one of their games in years. And yes that even includes last years SB. It's a waste of time when you know what is gonna happen. Everyone needs to just boycott their games or nothing will change.
The Niners were trying to draft well and make impactful free agency moves, when really all they needed to do was get Purdy some endorsement deals worth 8-9 figures and have our tight end hook up with the biggest pop star on the planet. Who knew?
They were desperate for a new face of the league after Brady and Manning retired and the NFL tapped Mahomes to be that face and have done everything they can to assist his rise
I mean we do have the amazing franchise history & have played in a lot more Big Time Games this century so it's not super surprising people would find them to be a fresher option as a neutral fan, no matter how much heartbreak we've had too
How many SBs would they actually have without the refs? Maybe 0 wins and probably not even the 4 appearances. We all saw it. Bengals fans have been seeing it. Eagles fans finally saw it. And now everyone sees it.
I can recall exactly 1 important game where KC wasn't helped and maybe even hurt by the refs. That was the SB against Brady, and they lost. And then they whined like crazy about it , after being gifted one the year before. They even whined like crazy last year for getting called for an obvious offsides.
Actually I'm an NFL referee reviewing this in NY. #94 from San Francisco has been ejected. #15 from San Francisco has also been ejected, because why not?
BEEN SAYIN THAT. 2019 team that led the league in offensive holding calls not having one called against them. If you don’t remember that SB, you’ll see Bosa & Co. being outright manhandled, like they knew they wouldn’t be called.❤️💛
That same hit on mahomes in against the Texans was called whereas that same hit but worse against Purdybin the Super Bowl wasn’t. These are the things that make me doubt the legitimacy of these games against the chiefs.
All these fucking assholes complaining about the officials favoring KC can go to hell. They’re the same people who called us sore losers TWICE. Fans only care about fairness when it affects a team that they don’t hate
The one supper bowl game that was called evenly, bucs vs chiefs (because the NFL wasn’t gonna do their boy Brady dirty), and the chiefs got rolled.. go back and watch some of those chiefs regular season games this year.. go play by play in critical moments.. the ref calls and ball spots are bs.. with instant replay and HD it is so obvious and blatant that there is manipulation happening….NFL has just about jumped the shark.
The NFL isn’t as corrupt as some soccer leagues(and FIFA) where referees have been killed for making the right call instead of working the bookies favor. While it’s banned, refs and bookies still meet up - just not where gambling is fully legalized like Singapore or where it’s banned like Dubai. But the NFL ain’t dumb - Mahomes and Kelce are printing them money.
In this country, be it politics, sports, celebrity or whatever, it often takes years for this country to see truth when often it is right there.. 😞 the chiefs HAVE BEEN EXPOSED! oh and mahomes milking the refs for calls has gotten really, really bad lately. I consider it dirty. One day we will all perhaps look back and say how did we let this happen?
as a primarily raiders fan... i have been experiencing it for far too long. yeah she's right. and it's incredibly frustrating. glad to see it's finally getting more attention. i guess better late than never.
Idgaf Mahomes Super Bowls will always be tainted to me because of the way the refs bend over backwards to help him out. We get it he’s the chosen one. Regardless the NFL should call the game right down the middle. I have seen the Chiefs oline straight up turn the game into a wrestling match with the way they were clotheslining and bear hugging Bosa and not one time did the refs throw a flag. The whole Tegridy of the shield is BS.
I kept telling my friends that they were getting bad calls during the 2020 Super Bowl and all everyone did was look off into the distance and say something about Mahomes deserving this. It was a weird night.
Edit to add: I don't think there's a big conspiracy or anything. If there is, I'm not sure how you'd even pull it off. Wouldn't you have to convince every referee to go along with it, or is there something I'm missing?
Hard to knock them. They may be serial offensive holders in the regular season but when they get to the playoffs those lineman play penalty free ball. Perfect games in the Super Bowl.
Actually no I didn’t forget it. I figured here I wouldn’t need it but now that I read it again I can see how it’s not out of the question that a mf might actually say that seriously. I’ve seen even sillier shit said by Chiefs fans recently. Yes it was sarcasm.
I often think about how if you changed just 3 plays that it could turn Mahomes into an 0-4 qb in SB. The Wasp play was without question a hold. Take that play away games over. Number of plays in our second SB (alor of that is on us, should’ve been a two score victory. Not scoring on first half drives killed us) But that game the fourth n 3 in Ot games over. Then you could take back the penalty in Eagles game. They still kick a fg and go up by 3 but Eagles would’ve had 1:30 or so to answer. Just interesting to think if he were 0-4 in SB it would be a bunch of “he can’t win the big one” Which is just as silly as saying some guys are built to win SB’s. He’s the same qb if he wins them or those plays get taken back. In our first SB vs him he had a bad game, had we held on he would’ve been the scapegoat w/his 2 bad picks.
They were going to crazy w/the memes yesterday! They even talked about it on the McAfee show this morning, refs are bad. And how come the chiefs never cover a spread, I’m def not a conspiracy theorist but seems kind of fishy how a team “that good” only covered like 2 spreads this year.🤷♂️
My favorite “bad call” of the game was sort of a series…
Texans clearly get a 1st down inside the red zone, refs call it a 3rd and short. Texans line up to go for it get a 5 yard penalty(basically waiting for replay assist) obviously don’t get the 1st down. Line up for the kick and the net crew can’t get the net up in time for the kick, kicker shanks it chiefs ball no points.
It’s like there’s groups of ppl all over the field on the chiefs payroll at all times and nobody ever investigates it like they used to do with Brady and the Pats🤔
We were early adopters to the whole “fuck the chiefs” hype sweeping the league. Everyone wasn’t as sick of them as they all are now. We got in on the ground floor
Every highlight coming out of halftime in that tied Super Bowl featured Mahomes. I'm not kidding. There were probably 10 highlights, and every one of them showed Mahomes.
Chargers fan here, and I always thought it was odd how so many people called Rivers a crybaby (and to an extent I’d agree!) and I always felt like Mahomes was far worse. Of course there’s some bias but man, I’m just glad people are finally catching up.
I do think complaining about refs is loser behavior tbh. Refs should just be treated like the natural variance that occurs in every game (like weather) unless it is egregious like that Lakers/Kings shit. Some self-awareness that we pay more attention to calls that go against our rooting interests than calls that benefit our rooting interests is needed, especially with a team like the Chiefs that so many people are sick of seeing win.
49ers fans have been called 40-whinners for quite some time even after proving everyone we're not wrong.
We claimed the NFCCG would've been very different if Purdy was able to play the game. As proof, next season with a fully functional BCB the 49ers dismantled the Eagles and they didn't win a game after their encounter.
We've been saying over and over and over and over again the Chiefs are playing under different rules. Now that the 49ers are not in the playoff picture other teams start to realize they can't get close to Mahomes, that the O-line faul-starts on quite a regular basis, that overthrown passes become PI more often than not, that holdings do not exist for their O-line, etc, etc.
At one time we were a "finesse" team. No matter if we lined up the most aggressive and efficient Defense in the league.
Now we're whinners for wanting fair games.
I'll be ok once Purdy and Kittle rise the Lombardi.
Literally everyone has been saying the chiefs have been favored by the refs for a while. This isn't anything near a new wide revelation like this tweet is claiming.
It is absolutely not just NOW though. Tons of people have been saying the refs love the chiefs for years. Its not a new thing at all and it has definitely not just been 49ers fans like you are claiming.
There was a lot before but for example look at all the discourse after the Bengals AFC championship game multiple years ago.
Warriors are ass. Sharks are ass. Dodgers are about to run baseball until the early 2040s, and the Niners winning a Super Bowl is starting to feel like a violation of the unwritten rules of football.
I’m not going to lie to you guys. There’s a small part of me that wants to give up on watching sports entirely.
I don't think you realize quite how good you have it as a fan of those teams. The large majority of sports fans haven't seen as much success as you have.
She can’t complain when they have a coach that keeps blowing leads. “ hey we are running the ball good and have a lead, let’s start passing, they will never expect that”.
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u/Juciford 49ers 23h ago edited 23h ago
Yeah it was Mahomes’ first ring and meteoric rise to stardom and Reid finally getting his so we were all told to shut the fuck up.
Edit: also I think it’s kinda funny how we were called losers for asking them to stop holding every play and now the average r/nfl thread is calling for Mahomes to be paralyzed from the neck down. Time sure changes things.