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Because the MVP is their Super Bowl. The trophies cover for the playoff choking. They can pretend Lamar isn’t a 9 Wonderlic run/pass option QB who only throws over the middle

Because darkness hates the light. Whenever you see irrational hate, it’s because the darkness hates the light.

It’s the Ravens fans. All year the Bills fans have said “Lamar is great but Allen should win.” The Ravens fans instead have an attitude of “Lamar smoked Allen in week 4. Allen sucks. Lamar all the way.” They’re dumb, macho, ignorant, and in my opinion racist. They deserve to lose the game and this award.

You watched that incredibly classy speech (compared to the 3 hour mess before it) and came away wondering why Allen didn’t thank the fans? Talk about crabs in a bucket.

You know this entire thing is a joke when Kay Adams has a vote. Like she’s not being told who to vote for by her producers. I feel good in that our NFL overlords decided to reward Allen tonight. Hopefully that’s a sign of things to come.

Yeah I’m sure there’s no influence there in anyway whatsoever.

Hamlin not winning Comeback Player this year or last year is a big fumble by the NFL.

EVERY mainstream sports writer working for a big outlet writes in this template when discussing “conspiracies”. Title: “Are the Chiefs benefiting from favorable calls?” “It sure seems like it! Of course after further review this is not the case.” It’s so consistent, it’s almost like they are told to write it this way by their editors. Pull the suspicious reader in, then plant seeds of doubt in their head.

Exactly my point. But people don’t understand why refs wouldn’t talk.

You’re creating an extreme straw man to not allow the moderate view to enter. La Nova is owned by he who shall not be named. Yet they’re all over the Bills and Sabres. Why won’t anybody spill the beans? Because institutions are complex.

I think it’s a mix of having more control and having “higher goals”. For example, having the narrative of their choice every year avoids a dreaded NFL situation where we have a boring Vikings/Darnold vs Texans/Stroud Super Bowl that would get lower ratings. Look at the NBA, they just forced a Luka Doncic trade to the Lakers so we’re not stuck with another weak Western Conference Mavs team vs a boring 3 point shooting Celtics team or God forbid the Cavs with no household names. It raises the floor for ratings. The other concept leads to bigger ideas. Have you been listening to Goodell this year? All he talks about is 18 games and expanding outside the USA. Nobody wants this, but it’s all he talks about. Refs get brought up and he mentions how great they’re doing. Completely tone deaf. Player safety? Ha! Well what does Taylor Swift really bring? Young female attention. Go on espn.com and count how many Women Sports articles there are on the homepage vs Men’s. Far more than there is actual interest. What they’re doing is building a new and massive market. Men are maxed out. If you don’t like sports as a man, you never will. But women are an untapped market. Start young, get them playing sports, get them playing flag football, get them dreaming about sports. Look at the “Roll Tide” commercials where the women is the knowledgeable fan dressed in baggy clothes with undone hair, correcting the man on sports knowledge. Runs perfect with feminist ideas. “Why can’t a women play sports? Why wouldn’t men watch women play sports? Why can’t a girl break gender norms and dream of being an athlete?” NFL headquarters loves that line of thinking. Let’s capitalize on it! They are “priming” the market, as advertisers are taught to do. So it’s beyond TV ratings in 2025 and about merchandise and TV ratings in 2030 and beyond. That’s why Kelce and Swift. That’s why she just has to come on the field for photo ops when they win. Does Haile Stanfield and Allen do that nonsense? No, because that’s a real relationship that respects privacy and isn’t tacky. Swift and Kelce is perfect corporate synergy. Who hugs their boyfriend’s mother as much as she does? Give me a break.

I’m hearing rugby has the tech already and it’s good. The attitude should be “we’ll do whatever we can to figure out the tech.” Instead the attitude is very “ahhh it’s so hard, it sounds easy, but there’s so many impossibilities.” Blah blah.

51 is elderly.

Frankly, if things are this rigged, why would we say we were out coached? What if they knew our plays and audibles? What if the reason Allen was so shook on the 1st drive was because the Chiefs knew our script? Who’s to say it begins and ends with the refs?

What in the world are people talking about. McD fringe top 10?