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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?

That "narrative" is sent to them from the NFL headquarters. That's why every sports show on every channel says the same things and has the same exact arguments at the same exact time. They get talking point memos. We were driving to win at the beginning of the 4th. It felt just like the Chiefs game earlier this year at Highmark. Up a point or two, ready to go up two scores and put the game away. The team was flowing, we know exactly what to do on short yardage plays. But what do you know..... "Outcoached"

The truth is McD has maxed out the team's performance every year since 2017.

Especially when Mahomes did maybe 90-95% of things right.

Agree with everything you said, but we should ask ourselves very closely about who or what makes a GOAT before we use that word too loosely around the Chiefs. Especially after the stats you read off about Allen.

It’s not about getting a fine. They can ruin your career. You don’t get against the Shield.

We could’ve won the Super Bowl 2020-2024. What we need is the refs to start favoring us.

Torrence blew both blocks. That 4th and 5 was way worse than anything Mahomes deals with. The fans have no answers. So they just try to blame the leaders. The game was won when we were up 1 and driving in the 4th quarter to take an 8 point lead. I know this team and I know we would’ve scored that TD and started to put the game away. Then the refs and NFL screwed us.

It’s the stare of a man who gave everything he had, felt he did enough to win, and doesn’t understand why he didn’t win. He's going to do what he always does which is find a way to somehow get even better and give it all again next year.

What really sketches me out about it was that THIS was the game that our tush push was figured out. The game that everything was wrongly called short of a 1st down. What a coincidence. Just like 2020 AFC Championship happened to be the game that the refs stopped calling defensive holding. How fortunate for the Chiefs! How lucky! I’ve seen games where Reid ignores refs and Mahomes bumps into their shoulders as he walks off the field. I’ve seen Chiefs WRs taunt to the crowd behind a ref as the ref is staring at him two feet away. There’s a strange disrespect of the officials if you look closely. The way you would dismiss a subordinate.

They know fans are fans and will tune in regardless. They want the Chiefs to win because the only place left to expand the NFL in the USA is with the female audience. That's what Taylor Swift brings. Female attention. They want merchandise sales, and for the next generation, they want female flag football leagues. However, I'm sensing that the Chiefs were a 10-7 team this year they had to "overrig" for, and the NFL might be a little surprised at the blowback from fans. They covered up Spygate and Deflategate very well, they figured the Chiefs would be a breeze. Remember, 10 years ago if you were to post on a forum about cheating, you would get hit with the tin foil hat memes and "flat-earth" accusations. You don't get that anymore. The worst you get is that you're a "crybaby" or that the "Bills have no excuses!" Overall, very good developments that fans are waking up. And makes you question how far back it goes. Should Allen have 3 Super Bowls already? Is Jim Kelly the greatest QB of all time with 4 straight SB wins? How much of our reality was rigged to manufacture fake champions? How much of Buffalo sports history is a lie?