Interlude - How Bad the Wicked NFLer Dominion Has Become Especially for a Team Like the Chiefs

Watch the Lions-Cowboys game last night? Because I try to avoid it all because it is all so rotten, the NFLer influence and all, I only tuned in to the last minute or so just so to see how it turned out and, I confess, enjoy something of a wild finish if it is close. There is no question NFL football is compelling viewing, it is, all other improprieties aside.

Turns out the Lions clobbered the Cowboys, 44-30. Huh. Interesting that this really should have been the score of the Chiefs win over the Cowboys game last Thursday, and considering the Chiefs blasted the Lions earlier in the season, well, you can draw your own conclusion knowing what truly happened in that Thanksgiving ugliness. Note, what truly happened, not what people bleat who are hypnotized by the NFLer Narrative about how things go out there.

I noticed a tease in my social media that said the game was controversial. Okay, let's look.

First, the news item said Lions got an obvious safety that was called not-a-safety, even though replays confirmed it was and the television referee even said it was a safety. Not. After all this is the Cowboys we are talking about.

Second, later in the game, an offensive pass interference penalty was called against the Cowboys keeping them from moving on to try to get a touchdown -- and I agree, it was questionable. Fine. My question is, why wasn't the world screeching about this kind of injustice in the Chiefs game on Thanksgiving like it was for this call in this game last night, when in the Chiefs game it was obviously much more egregious? When in the Chiefs game not only were the Cowboy receiver OPI'ing the Chiefs D-backs like crazy, but the Chiefs were being called for DPIs?

You know why. It is because, again, this is the Cowboys. The Chiefs don't matter.  - why was that such a big deal when no one said squat about them actually happening to the Chiefs?

Real quick, once again, for the 57th time, here's the solution: No touching of any kind, by either receiver or defender, in the process of route-running. Thuh end. Arms extended toward an opposing player? A flag. That'll end it quickly. Yes, there'll be lots of flags to start, to start getting these guys used to it -- and yes, game scores will be 78-74. But... so?

Out on my walk in the small downtown near where I live last night I was thinking of how glad I was November was over. It was pretty close to the worst sports result month for my teams ever. November ugliness: the Dodgers enjoying their ill-afforded advantages to win the World Series to start the month, then the NFLer-driven disadvantages afflicting the Chiefs so horrifically in the Buffalo, Denver, and Dallas games. ::Whew:: glad that's over. 

Shortly after that nice thought I walked past a restaurant window and inside their television was tuned to the opening coverage of that Thursday night game, and I saw commentary guys sitting with a chyron covering most of the screen that said something like "Three-Way Bet," something like that. It was a Draft Kings thing, or Fan Duels thing, or whatever... 

I don't even know what they were showing, it looked like some betting thing related to a player. I did note Cowboys WR George Pickens' name up there next to some gambling-oriented number. Still blows my mind that they are doing this shit, and it isn't hard to see how much this is seeping into every NFL game broadcast. You'll note the announcers say nothing about this stuff during a game, but they could.

I mean, why couldn't they talk about how much some player did this or that related to some betting prediction from earlier? Why don't they? They could, but they don't. Why? Simple...

It is because the NFL still does know it is all evil. 

It still does objectively compromise the integrity of the game. And yet, they are perfectly fine with allowing these gambling pukes to put up their ads and their takes and their numbers and I wonder when their ugly smelly feet will get so far into the doorway that all that filth will completely burst in and you'll start seeing much more of the gambling crap during game broadcasts. This is not to mention what it does to player, coach, and officials' behavior, game outcomes, and especially the whole fan environment out there related to how it affects the lives and livelihoods of people out there clobbered by those addicted to this stuff.

This is one of the reasons I've settled back and just accept and let it go. I pay no attention to any of it except the games and whatever news my mental radar picks up. I can still pray against the evil, and always hope sanity returns to these things that are in and of themselves kind of fun to enjoy. Maybe writing about it here will help -- it may be totally ridiculous for me to think it will, but I still try.

As for the game this week I've heard we have a weakened O-line facing a blistering pass rush. Great. We could overcome it, I know, but I don't care anymore. I love that we always have Patrick Mahomes and a group of other really talented players that will play their tails off no matter what. 

But I just accept our fate because I know, unless more people start calling out that NFLer Narrative, we will struggle.

Again, that NFLer Narrative, as it relates to the Chiefs: "The Chiefs are just doing stupid things and shooting themselves in the foot, losing these close games as they have. There is no officiating slant that destroys their chances, if anything the officiating favors the Chiefs!"  The underlying purpose is to make sure the Chiefs stop being so successful.

Many will claim that looking at the penalty numbers will indicate that the Chiefs get no more or fewer calls than the opponent. Sorry, but just comparing numbers does no good to identify how the Chiefs are being hosed -- you must look at each penalty call or non-call individually and then examine the impact any given call has on the outcome of the game. I'm happy to match up every single penalty call or should-be-penalty call in any game any time to compare. Let's get to the truth about this thing.

A terrific example is that ticky-tack lining-up on the line of scrimmage call against Jawaan Taylor in the Denver game that wiped a major gain on a Kareem Hunt catch and run. The Chiefs not getting a chance at a very likely touchdown did indeed cost us the game. Please, again, do not blame Jawaan Taylor for that. It is just foolish to do so.

One may say that by the strict interpretation of the rule it should be called a penalty. That's fine, as long as it is consistently called. The Chiefs are getting unduly scrutinized for those things that are simply not called as often for other teams. That lining-up thing? Do you know how many times I see receivers illegally covered or not covered or offensive linemen who are not exactly where they should be and it simply is not called? All the time. Yet the Chiefs are the ones who get hammered the most by officials costing us games, or as was the case last year, making games so much closer when they should be Chiefs blowouts.

I've even heard some people saying the Chiefs are getting calls against them so much this year because the officials must make up for all the calls they got before. Oh my. Not only is this also phenomenally unjust, but it only shows how powerful the Narrative is in people's minds, that again the Chiefs have always gotten away with so many favorable calls. Igghck.

About the gross inconsistency, I saw on my social media some guy referring to the infamous Kadarius Toney offsides call in that Buffalo game a couple years ago, remember that? Few Chiefs fans can forget it. This dude then brought up Miami's Jalen Waddles being offsides in exactly the same way in a subsequent game sometime, and it was exactly the same thing not-called. Really, it was the same thing with doubly infamous Dee Ford offsides in that AFC Championship game loss! Another of the many ticky-tack calls that are so inconsistently called against us, that, and here's the key, have a much greater impact on our success than it does on other teams.

We are simply too good for our own good, really. 

Sorry but the Chiefs should be 10-2 this year. The Buffalo, Denver, Jacksonville, and Dallas games were officiating jokes, especially the latter two.

Yes, I do let it get to me, yeah, here I am venting for the therapy. But then I also don't let it get to me. I avoid paying attention to it. I'll watch the games, that's mostly it. I'll get some news I can't help but pick up, like us being down two tackles for the Texans game up next. There is probably a lot more going on with my team and its preparation, but I just don't know about it. 

The fact is we are 6-6, and we can absorb a loss this week at 8-4, but not 6-6, unless of course some miracles happen to get us in the playoffs at something like 9-8. The Chiefs have also won out late in the season, so we can do it again. 

Yeah, here I am writing as if I still think this is all on the up-and-up and all that. The crazy thing is I still think our team is good enough to overcome the NFLers' debilitation, so I do stay attentive to the extent that I do. Is it foolish to do so? Maybe, but, yeah, I still like to cheer on my team -- maybe a good part of that is just to see them win and as such stick it to the Narrative. If they lose, I know why.

I do also know we do have issues on both the O-line with its injuries and D-line with its weak pass rush. But sorry, this team is so good we should be overcoming them. This is a reasonable 12-5 team, 11-6 at least, if it weren't for the Narrative.

Good thing our team will play lights out no matter what. There is that, and that is the one thing I can appreciate about these guys.

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