01-30-2023, 01:02 PM
(01-30-2023, 12:56 PM)Nepa Wrote: I don't believe the game is rigged. But I felt the officials last night became intimidated by the raucous crowd, who reacted to everything the officials did, and as the game progressed, they just stopped calling obvious penalties on the part of the Chiefs. In the end, the Chiefs had only 4 penalties all game, while the Bengals had 9. There were officials right there for the push on the back on the return and the hold on Mahomes run, but they swallowed their whistles.
That it was a very poorly officiated game was rather obvious -- many neutral analysts and talk show hosts pointed it out that it was one-sided -- but I don't buy into the rigged. i think more part-time officials, who have other jobs (middle school and high school jobs, etc.), who were intimidated by the fans or who let their own biases emerge.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this, but most refs are lawyers IIRC. For instance, Ron Torbert is a Harvard educated lawyer. They don't have middle/high school jobs.
I might be misunderstanding what you are trying to say, though.
