Football season is here!!!

[sensei8]

Amongst a thing or two, my pick is still with the Chiefs against the Eagles. One thing the Chiefs need to do is but the bag on Barkley. Otherwise, there will be no 3-Peat for the Chiefs at all. 

What the Eagles did to the Commanders, fluke or not, is a fact. Chiefs had better study that particular game with intense interest or they might face a similar outcome.

Mahomes can carve Philly defense up. SB59 is in a dome; no weather issues. Hurts a turnover machine.

GO CHIEFS!!

Edited Monday at 05:24 PM by sensei8

[bushido_man96]

17 hours ago, KarateKen said:

Chiefs hold on to beat the Bills 32-29, the Chiefs and Eagles will meet in the Super Bowl for the second time in three seasons.  This is five times in six years the Chiefs have won the AFC.  Will the Eagles get payback, or do the Chiefs win three in a row?  We have to wait two weeks to find out.  Super Bowl 59 is set. 

Yeah baby!!!! CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

[sensei8]

2 hours ago, bushido_man96 said:

Yeah baby!!!! CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

I was on the edge of my seat the entire game; I’m too old for that type of tension.

[KarateKen]

4 hours ago, sensei8 said:

I was on the edge of my seat the entire game; I’m too old for that type of tension.

You two have fun with this game, I don't have any interest. 

[KarateKen]

Whether it was deflated footballs, a player getting arrested the night before the Super Bowl, a "wardrobe malfunction," or going all the way back to Joe Namath's guarantee, it wouldn't be the NFL playoffs without some controversy.  This year it appears to be questions about if the games are legit.  All you have to do is go on Google and type in "NFL is rigged" and story after story will pop up where fans are claiming that the league has been compromised through bad officiating in order the assist the Chiefs back to the Super Bowl.  While fans being upset with officials and using bad calls as an excuse for their team losing is nothing new, nor is claiming that the game is fixed, this year it seems to be at new heights.  Over the last two games many fans argue that the Chiefs have been the beneficiary of several bad calls, including two person fouls against the Texans, and a 4th down spot against the Bills, where fans claim Josh Allen picked it up.  Did Allen get a first down? Perhaps. If the call was different, would it have changed who won? We will never know, but a lot of fans seem to think so, and are saying that the combination of bad calls and the NFL being in business with sports betting makes the outcome of some games suspicious.  Others go as far as to say the entire league is now rigged and they are going to boycott the Super Bowl.  Then there are those who think it is "sour grapes" and point to mistakes by the Bills and Texans that were the real reason for the outcome.  Legit or not, more and more fans are expressing their frustrations about how they think the league has turned into WWE. 

It's Super Bowl week; drama is the norm. 

[bushido_man96]

Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are being treated the same way Tom Brady and the Patriots were.  I know it, I lived it.  I hated watching the Pats win.  I heard a stat on a sports podcast about penalties called on the Chiefs in the last either 2 or 4 minutes of games and those called on the teams they played.  It was 48-47 or 48-49, or some such very close stat.  KC doesn't get preferential treatment.  People just want to hate on it because it's not their team.  If one chooses to sit down and watch games without any bias towards any team, it's easy to find any number of questionable and head-scratching calls being made for this team or that.  I'm not above admitting if I think the Chiefs got away with a call from time to time.  Because every team gets away with a call from time to time.

If the league was rigged, I'd hold that the Dallas Cowboys would be the ultimate beneficiaries of it.  They are the richest and most popular franchise in the league.  The Dallas Cowboys get ratings, no matter how bad they are, and it's even better when they are making good postseason runs.  I don't believe the rigging stories for a second.

Nor do I think the ratings numbers are going to drop for the NFL anytime soon.  Fans have threatened to boycott before, and the league has not suffered from it.  Salary cap keeps going up, TV deals and streaming deals keep getting made.  Since it's inception, social media has been very good at being negative about things.  I don't need that much negativity in my life, so I typically avoid things like that on Facebook or the internet in general.