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Originally Posted by NWTF
If they are trying to manufacture Oakland into a winner they are doing an excellent job of hiding it with penalties. They may have gotten some missed calls (houston game) along the way but overall they look like an up and coming team that has gotten better whether you like it or not.
They set the record for penalties against the Bucs and lead the league overall.
If the Chiefs dont get the 2 seed back its their own damn fault by blowing it, not some conspiracy to screw them over.
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Beat me to it. The idea that one of the most penalized, if not the most penalized team since they came into existence, is suddenly getting help from the refs in the same season they got flagged for 200+ yards in one game is truly head-up-ass material.
The alleged spider-wire incident of a few weeks ago is a mathematical proof by comparison.
For a penalty to be decisive, the beneficiary has to not only do something with it; they already had to have been in a position to do something with it.
As for fixing, it does the NFL zero good. Something like a Raiders-Cowboys Superbowl would indeed draw huge ratings. But a fixing scandal following it would bury the NFL; there might be a Superbowl the year after, but it would be held at a fairly large high school with the appropriate halftime entertainment of 9th graders butchering Stars and Stripes Forever while grandma shot video and posted in on Youtube.