While Kansas City bosses continue prepared for the confrontation of Sunday’s Super Bowl with Philadelphia Eagles, consecutive champions cannot escape the talk about the NFL referees.
The debate about itself The bosses They have benefited from the favoritism of game officials has apparently triggered for months. Earlier this week, in New Orleans, the city of the Super Bowl Lix, the Commissioner of the League, Roger Goodell, dismissed the claims that the office teams are partial in favor of the Chiefs. Goodell described the accusations as “ridiculous.”
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The NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, on the left, talks to an arbitrator against a NFL card Wild playoff football match between the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota’s Vikings on Monday, January 13, 2025 in Glendale , Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
“That is a ridiculous theory for anyone who can take it seriously,” said Goodell on Monday. “It reflects the passion of many fans, and I think it is also a reminder for us how important arbitration is. And I think the men and women who officiate in the NFL are outstanding.”
The union that represents the NFL officials later issued a statement thanking Goodell and called the accusations that the officiating teams are biased in favor of the Chiefs or any other “insulting and absurd” team.
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“The comments of Commissioner Goodell that it is ‘ridiculous’ to assume that NFL officials are not doing everything possible to make the correct call in each play be successful,” Green said. “The officiating teams do not work with the same team more than double each regular season. It is insulting and absurd to listen to conspiracy theories that somehow 17 teams consisting of 138 officials are colluding to help a team.”
The referee Scott Green hopes that the game resumes during the Pro Bowl 2014 at the Aloha Stadium on January 26, 2014 in Honolulu. (Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)
The owner of the Chiefs, Clark Hunt, also shrunk the idea that the franchise has received a preferential treatment of the referees, saying that “he almost has to laugh at” the idea.
Returning late and arriving at the nearby victories seemed to have been a distinctive seal of the Chiefs season. In the victory of the AFC championship game over the Buffalo Bills, the controversy broke out shortly after the referees ruled Mariscal de Campo Josh Allen inches short of a first crucial attempt in the fourth quarter.
However, a deeper look at all sanctions that involve Kansas City does not show signs of systematic bias. The Chiefs have been penalized by 120 yards more than their opponents in the regular season and the playoffs since the beginning of the 2022 playoffs.
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Green tried to relieve fans’ concerns saying that the referees are committed to “doing everything possible” to obtain the right calls.
“There are many things that fans can worry during a 17 games season, such as training decisions, players injuries, weather and, even, even calls close to incredible plays made by incredible athletes,” Green said. “But it may be sure that in each Down, NFL officials, both in the field and in the repetition cabin, are doing everything possible to officiate each play correctly.”
Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles are at the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 9 at 6:30 pm et in Fox.
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