While the Kansas City chiefs continue the preparations for the Sunday Super Bowl match with the Philadelphia Eagles, the consecutive champions cannot seem to escape the chatter on NFL referees.
The debate on the question of whether the chiefs have benefited from the favoritism of the game managers who have apparently raged for months. Earlier this week in New Orleans, the host city of the Super Bowl Lix, the league commissioner Roger Goodell, rejected the allegations according to which the officiating teams are biased in favor of the chiefs. Goodell described allegations as “ridiculous”.
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The NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, on the left, speaks with a referee before a football match of the NFL Wild Card between the Rams of Los Angeles and the Vikings of Minnesota on Monday January 13, 2025 in Glendale, in Arizona. (AP photo / Ross D. Franklin)
“This is a ridiculous theory for anyone could take it seriously,” said Goodell on Monday. “It reflects a large part of the passion of fans, and I think it is also a reminder for us how important it is.
The union representing NFL officials later published a statement thanking Goodell and described allegations according to which 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 do not do everything possible to make the right call for each game,” said Green. “The officiating crews do not work the same team more than twice each regular season. It is insulting and absurd to hear conspiracy theories according to which 17 official teams composed of 138 civil servants are collusion to help a team.”
The referee Scott Green is waiting for the game to resume during the 2014 Pro Bowl in Aloha Stadium on January 26, 2014 in Honolulu. (Scott Cunningham / Getty Images)
The owner of the chiefs, Clark Hunt, also increased the shoulders of the idea that the franchise received a preferential treatment of the referees, saying that you “must almost laugh” the idea.
Returning late and making victories closely seemed to have been a characteristic of the chiefing season. In the victory of the AFC championship match over the Buffalo Bills, the controversy broke out shortly after the referees led the quarter-Arrière Josh Allen Pouces Court of a first crucial drop in the fourth quarter.
However, a more in -depth overview of all the penalties involving Kansas City shows no systematic bias sign. The chiefs were penalized for 120 more yards than their opponents in the regular season and in playoffs since the start of the 2022 qualifying series.
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Green tried to relieve the concerns of fans by saying that the referees have committed to “do everything humanly possible” to obtain correct calls.
“There are many things that fans can worry about a season of 17 games, such as coach decisions, injuries to players, weather and, yes, even calls on incredible games made By incredible athletes, “said Green. “But you can be assured that each descent, NFL officials, both in the field and in the rereading cabin, do everything that is humanly possible to officer each game correctly.”
The Chiefs and the Eagles of Philadelphia meet in the Super Bowl on Sunday February 9 at 6.30 pm He on Fox.
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