For review, here is what I knew from yesterday's game during the time I was at an all-day family event:
1. We had a very bad interception.
2. We had a very bad fumble.
3. We had a very bad final score.
That's it.
Thing is, while still avoiding looking at any of it at all, I discovered three other things, only from catching it on my Twitter feed when I looked at it at the very end of the day.
1. At a very critical time at the end of the game we had to experience a horrifically bad ref call and a horrifically bad ref non-call, one right after the other -- the first of which definitely cost us the game.
2. Patrick Mahomes had an uncharacteristically bad meltdown about it.
3. Patrick Mahomes came back, however, to display extraordinary graciousness in his post-game presser appearance while still showing tremendous disappointment in what the NFL is doing by not, in his words, just plain letting them play.
He's right.
Thing is you could see the abject exasperation in his eyes and hear it in his voice about just how phenomenally shitty the officiating was in these instances.
Again the reason I saw all this without looking for any of it was it was all over my Twitter feed, and I actually have a grand total of zero followings related to anything Chiefs. I do know Twitter may put up posts from people they think I may like, but I don't see how that many posts could have come up just from what the program may think I like about the Chiefs.
Indeed from what I gather, this topic was trending pretty viciously.
For good reason.
One of the tweets I saw related to the fact that offensive off-sides like the one they called on us is never called. And it seems he is correct. I have shared this before, it is legion the number of times I see an offensive player, particularly an end trying to line up exactly correct, being clearly off-sides.
Whenever I see it I think, "Okay, let's see if they throw a flag on him. Ummm, okay, they didn't, which means it is yet another justification for the NFL to extend a most bodacious apology to Dee Ford and the Chiefs."
Yes, sorry, I think that every single time I see it. Every - single - time. Again, I don't mind that they don't call it, it is just too close to throw the flag. I agree. As Patrick said, essentially, "Just let the game go. No player is trying to gain any advantage by being half-a-foot off-sides. Let us play and do our jobs as we should..."
He's right, and it is good to see a number of people, even hifalutin NFL pundits and people like that saying the same thing.
The next step is clear. Let's face it -- and yes this was a bit intimated in even the little that I saw from the punditsphere --
Let's just plain acknowledge that as the Scorecasting truths have plainly uncovered --
The NFLers do not want the Chiefs to win.
There just isn't enough money or whatever other good-things for the powers-that-be to have the Chiefs continue to ride through the postseason as they have.
It is the same thing in other sports, and for the 87-millionth time, distinct advantages are given to the big-market media-darling teams. It'll be nice for more smart principled people with some measure of media reach to further acknowledge the obvious truth that not only is this all deceitfully criminal through the deliberate distortion of competitive integrity in major professional sports, but also for the most part everyone is perfectly okay with it because those teams regularly winning is good for everyone even if they don't win all the time.
I emphasize that again because of what we all know happened with the Shohei Ohtani free agent signing. He is very likely the greatest baseball player ever, and before Saturday everyone was wondering where he would decide to go to play for the next ten years for some 900 gazillion dollars.
Thing is on Saturday around mid-day I was out driving and heard the guy on the radio say all Angels and Dodgers fans should be disappointed (I live in the Los Angeles area), because Ohtani had decided to sign with the Toronto Blue Jays. The radio guy sounded sure about this, so I took it as ironclad news. Thing is, this was a music station dude sharing this news story, so, yeah...
Anyway, the whole point of all this was right after hearing this I thought exactly what anyone with a single brain cell in their head thought.
Guhhh?
Why on earth would he sign with Toronto? This isn't to diss Toronto or any other major league franchise.
It is just that we all know.
We all know, no matter how much we try to convince ourselves it is indeed all on the up-and-up, that it's all even-steven, that it is all really a level playing field, that because the Yankees and Dodgers don't win all the time it all must be ever-so wholesome so there...
No matter how much we try to replay in our minds at 78-speed these ridiculous fantasies about the integrity of major professional sports in North America --
We know.
What happened was apparently some rumor went out that he'd signed with Toronto and it got legs. The music station radio caught it -- of course he sounded like some young-ish guy who sees a lot of stuff on social media that just ain't so, and shared what he saw or heard with the rest of us.
Turns out my perfectly reasonable incredulity forced me to check with my very good into-baseball friend, and sure enough...
Ohtani signed with the Dodgers.
We all know why. It just isn't hard at all. In fact the Blue Jays or any other team could've offered Ohtani 57 million billion trillion trazillionillion splazhillionillionillionillion dollars to play for them and he'd still go play for the Dodgers.
It is made to be that way.
And if you're a fan of those Blue Jays or any other team besides the Yankees or Dodgers you can be a good 'ol fan and be proud of your team and sport the insignia in the trendiest outfit and that's a lot of fun, but know you are at a distinct disadvantage every single time you hand over your 400 clams to see a ball game because your fan base and all that comes with it can never ever match the Dodger fan base and all that all of major league baseball wants to get from it.
Same thing with the Chiefs.
It is a bit harder in the NFL to manipulate things the way the majors and the Dodgers do, but again if you look at the Scorecasting truths you'll see it can happen with the officiating. And sure enough, it did happen last night, in bright, brilliant colors.
Maybe this won't be a bad thing, in that Patrick will still be able to rally the troops with that extra motivation for a fine end-of-the-regular-season run. It's very possible.
Probable? Uhh. Now I don't think it is necessarily unlikely because we do have some very good things about our team.
But that receiver situation.
Again, I don't know a thing about the game other than what I've shared here, nothing. We did score two touchdowns -- I have no idea what happened. Indeed maybe there was some good play especially by any of those receivers that is reason for genuine hope.
Because again, we can screech about the ugly duplicity of the NFLers in what happens with that officiating until we can't breathe, but let's face the reality of what is happening with this team. Please.
How did we get down 20-17 late so we'd have to struggle just to try to tie the game? Why did our offense muster only 17 points for the first 59 minutes of the game, against what I've heard is a pretty average Bills defense? How come with a Patrick Mahomes at quarterback we are only putting up a measly 17 points just about every single game?
What is with our offense for the umpteenth time?
And yeah, did you see? Denver is a scant single game back right now and they are feeling it. And they do have excellent receivers led by that Courtland Sutton who is a total stud. ::Sighhh...::
Gone are the days we can win the AFC West by October. Four games left to see if we can overcome the NFLers antagonism, we'll see -- it's really tough to do...
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