Bills Chiefs Bad Call

WATCH: Bills Fan compiles 5 minutes of sketchy ‘Chiefs-Friendly’ calls, and the majority of them are hard to ignore

Alright, we’ve all seen bad calls before, but these specific calls from the AFC Championship Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills are next level.

A Bills fan (with a surprisingly soothing voice) put together a five-minute video exposing just how many times the referees shorted Buffalo on ball spots in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game against the Chiefs.

This video is making the rounds, and somehow, Roger Goodell and the NFL hasn’t scrubbed it from the internet yet.

5 Minute Video of Controversial Calls from Chiefs-Bills Game:

Was It Really That Bad?

Look, I’ll call a spade a spade. Some of the clips run in real time, and in a few cases, the fan misreads the play. Some Twitter users even pushed back, pointing out that guys were down before the marker or that the yellow first-down line isn’t official.

Fine. Fair points.

But then… there’s that one angle.

CBS briefly showed it during a review, right before cutting to commercial. Never to be seen again. And it looked pretty damn clear that Josh Allen got the first down on a critical play.

And thanks to the magic of the internet, fans put together their own overlays and graphics—because apparently, a league that pulls in $55 billion in revenue can’t be bothered to do it themselves.

The verdict? Josh Allen got the first down.

Oh, and by the way? The Chiefs were lined up offsides to begin with but whatever. None of that seemed to matter and now Kansas City will play our Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX next weekend.

The NFL’s “Massaging” of the Chiefs Is Getting Hard to Ignore

Let’s be clear: Buffalo didn’t do themselves any favors in this game.

  • Sean McDermott is a clown show in big moments.
  • Joe Brady running a half-assed tush push and endless negative-yard screen passes was embarrassing.
  • The Bills had chances and didn’t take them.

But at the same time? The Chiefs appear to be getting an absurd amount of “help.”

As Bill Burr put it on The Rich Eisen Show—the NFL is blatantly “massaging” Kansas City into favorable situations. And the numbers don’t lie:

  • Chiefs have won 17 straight one-score games.
  • They’ve gotten 90% of the roughing the passer and unnecessary roughness calls in the playoffs over the last three years.

At a certain point, you have to raise an eyebrow. Then again, you could also look how teams continuously beat themselves against the Chiefs and make an easy case that the officiating really isn’t the main problem. I broke that down on the link below.

The Chiefs’ “Ref Advantage” is a myth so Eagles fans can stop complaining and hope the Birds play smarter in Super Bowl LIX

The Spot That Changed Everything

The Bills’ infamous 4th-and-1 call will go down in history, but what nobody is talking about is the garbage spot on 3rd down that forced them into that desperate situation in the first place.

Dalton Kincaid clearly got the first down, but the refs spotted it short, which led to the ill-fated 4th down that everyone will be talking about for years. That sequence changed the game. And if the refs had gotten it right on third down, we might be having a very different conversation today.

Final Take: Is This Just Bad Officiating, or Something More?

Nobody is saying the NFL rigs games, but at this point, the Chiefs’ ridiculous luck with officiating is impossible to ignore.

At the very least, officiating impacted the result of the AFC Championship game, right? Buffalo had plenty of chances, but the officiating absolutely played a role in the outcome—and it’s just another chapter in the NFL’s ongoing Kansas City favoritism saga.

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