Super Bowl Officating Crew is:
 

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F'n Carl. How?

Unreal

This will go over well.

Just in case the Bengals don't take care of business.

Soooo......does this mean the Chiefs are going to the SB?

So the NFL likes a flag fest in the Super Bowl?

LMAO

Can’t believe after the record number of flags he threw 2 years ago, that they thought it was a great idea to have him back. Almost don’t want to make the SB at this point cuz he will **** us again!

This is the reason people suspect that games are steered, when you have one of the worst ranked crews assigned to the biggest game.

****ing hell!

Pretty sure it's a mixed crew. Cheffers will be w/o his gang of hired mobster hitmen.

He needs to be Jimmy Hoffa-ed

"Anybody seen Carl? He was supposed to be here by now."

How does this piece of shit get this game?

That should be a good game to watch. /s

****ing unreal

And based on stats, Cheffers only rigs Chiefs games. So the only reason to put this guy in the SB is if the script writers decided the Chiefs will be in the SB.

So that's pretty awesome, right?

Well, there’s always next year.

Who is the 31st pick in the draft next year?

(Im not being serious)

But cheffers is a cuck, and he single handedly takes over games. **** him

You gotta be ****ing kidding me.

JFC. F that guy

Foot Locker is not going to like this.

JFC. How? Just...how?

If it's anything like the shitshow they pulled for Tampa a few years ago, I'd rather not.

Well that settles it, we are in the SB because this guy was brought in to **** us

Wtf? I mean, what the gat dam mfing hell shit ****? The most incompetent ref in the NFL somehow gets the SB ?

Holy shit...

Arrowhead made him cry like a bitch on national television.

Don't think he doesn't remember.

This, it looks like they try to pick their all star nfl ref squad right?

Can we send someone that has Covid to "visit" him a few days before the game?

Yeah. Pretty sure that's how they do every SB.

So instead of Carl Cheffers and The Riggy Kids, it's gonna be Carl Cheffers featuring:

Doesnt surprise me. No super bowl for the chiefs under any circumstances.

What I wouldnt do to find out what the Hunts did to piss off Goodell so much. It has to be a helluva story. Someone needs to write a book about it.

Maybe it’s as petty as the fact that in Cheffers first game the Chiefs injured Brady.

It's a very good problem to have if we beat the Bengals and care one bit about who's officiating the SB.

There’s your proof the NFL loves refball. Cheffers is the absolute worst at taking over the game.

This is how ROG can steer outcomes w/o ever coming out and saying anything incriminating. Cheffers knows what the league wants, he delivers, he’s rewarded for it, other refs see that.

The NFL obviously has no issue with how he calls games.

There's a meme for this
 

Goodell: Well, shit, the neutral site thing didn't work. Send in Cheffers!

Woman: SEND IN CHEFFERS!

On the bright side, if Mahomes beats the Bengals on a bum ankle and overcomes Cheffers in the Super Bowl, he will have cemented himself as the greatest athlete in history.

ROFL

Has there been a ref who’s had more controversial calls than Cheffers? Just proves the league loves controlling the games via refs.

Tom Brady has cashed in the Money in the Bank briefcase. The Super Bowl is now a Triple Threat Match!!!!!!

Cheffers is only the third NFL ref in history to officiate two SBs in a three-year span. Unbelievable

Sanks yous!

This is the most troubling bit of it.

I think they switch up crews, so the rest of the dudes/chicks aren't his normal dudes. So they could potentially not be as shitty, because only one dude will be throwing ****ery flags.

But the problem is they're rewarding this cum dumpster. With both notoriety and money.

Mother**** that shit.

This is unbelievable! Seriously.

The WORST Ref in the league somehow lands the Superbowl?

This is a middle finger to the incredible fan base of the NFL.

The suspicion surrounding this guy and the league in general, especially with the legalized gambling adding to it, you would think they would choose a squeaky clean guy!

Instead they say, we know what everyone thinks but **** you. We dont care.

WOW...

I don't get how a $10+ Billion industry can't get professional, full-time referees for all of their games.

Nor do I understand how they award the biggest show to the biggest clown.

Cheffers has led the league in penalties 2 years running. He was 2nd the year before that. https://www.nflpenalties.com/all-referees.php?year=2022

https://www.reddit.com/r/KansasCityC...e_chiefs_at_a/

Cheffers led the league in flags thrown/season and per game. Next closest ref was Hoculi, 20 less per season. Tha idiot Bleetman threw nearly 30 less flags. Torbert 40 less.

Cheffers is a shit ref, but the NFL isn't rigged in any way.

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." ~ Unknown

I think Triplette was the worst, but Cheffers is right up there.

I posted this in another thread, but why would the NFL intentionally choose a referee who is most likely to make the game controversial by calling numerous penalties that other refs don't call? Even if you don't buy the "Cheffers hates the Chiefs" or "Cheffers is owned by brady" arguments, you have to believe that the NFL shouldn't want a referee on the field who calls a disproportionately large number of penalties.

This is horrible. We're going to see a bunch of penalties called that disrupt the game.

#investigatecarlcheffers


Hopefully he learned his lesson last time he was at Arrowhead

Exactly.

Let's set aside for the moment the fact that Cheffers seems to rat-**** us at every turn. We'll turn off the 'conspiracy' stuff for the sake of conversation.

Cheffers simply does more than any other official out there to determine outcomes.

Every single season Cheffers leads the league in flags and penalty yards. Like clockwork. He absolutely refuses to let the teams play and ruins the flow of these games. You rarely see a Cheffers game that he doesn't have a direct impact on.

He's absolutely the worst possible official for the Super Bowl because he's GOING to involve the zebras in it. He's going to create controversy.

And the league simply doesn't give a shit.

****ing hell that's irritating.

Yeah just pure random chance that the guy who set a Super Bowl record for penalties in a half against the Chiefs 2 years ago, the guy who always keeps underdogs in the game, the guy whose crew throws by far the most penalties, winds up becoming only the 3rd NFL ref ever to work 2 Super Bowls in 3 years.

Just pure derp derp, league is incompetent. Definitely not the league trying to make sure the game is close and exciting, and has plenty controversial calls, which they also seem to love because no publicity is bad publicity.

Bring it on.

Mahomes will overcome the high ankle injury, the Bungholes and Carl Shitface Cheffers to win the Super Bowl.

I think they like the controversy. They want people going nuts over the calls. It drives engagement.

But mostly they want a close game. They want a ref that completely gifts the trailing team a drive, exactly like Cheffers did with Houston a few weeks ago. Compare some of the ticky tack calls that saved that Texans drive on multiple 3rd downs, with the way the playoff games have been called so far. You pretty much have to tackle a receiver to get a DPI in the postseason *usually*.

It was the same way in the 2020 playoffs. The refs totally swallowed their whistles. Then we got to the Super Bowl and any touch was a penalty, and sometimes we didn't even touch them. Anything that even looked like it could possibly be defensive holding or illegal contact was called in that first half.

They should have fired Cheffers after that Super Bowl. Instead they gave him the biggest accolade an NFL ref can get - another Super Bowl 2 years later. That tells you everything.

This is really disheartening. I thought for sure after the TB Super Bowl that at least Cheffers would be punished and not ref another SB for a long time, if ever. Instead it's exactly the opposite. You know every other ref sees this and realizes what the league wants, if they want to ref a Super Bowl.

You need to post more suzzer. You're dominating this thread.

Close and exciting, like the SB between Tampa and KC? Yeah, what a nail-biter that was.

Muffalo losing to the Bengals should've been the end of the "NFL is rigged" nonsense, but here we are.

I'm hopeful the rest of the crew (which I think [hope] isn't the same crew as his normal one) will call a better game and it will just be Cheffers being a ****lehead.

I don't mind a lot of flags. There is a LOT of blatant shit that they let go in every game, and the really big ones, sure throw the flag, I won't bitch. But what really grinds my ****ing gears are 2 things.

1. Not calling it for both sides. How the **** can this be a thing?

2. Call ticky tack shit while letting blatant shit, out in the open, ****ing go.

GOD that shit pisses me the **** off.

I don't mind a lot of calls, if they're competent.

They clearly made defensive holding a point of emphasis for that Super Bowl, just like they did for the Chiefs/Rams Monday night game where the assigned ref crew was mysteriously replaced right before the game. The new crew came out and called multiple phantom defensive holding calls on the Rams' first drive, which resulted in a crazy offensive shootout and exciting near comeback by Mahomes.

The plan didn't work in the Super Bowl because of Eric Fisher's achilles.

There's a difference between a shadowy conspiracy rigging games and the league rewarding refs who steer the kind of games they want. They never have to say anything. It works the same way in big corporations. Your boss always has ways of communicating what they want, even if they can't come right out and say it for some reason (plausible deniability usually).

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Could be a make up call for us. We got!

The NFL doesn't need officials to "steer" games in order to get the result they want. The league has done everything it can to increase parity, and that's how we get so many close/exciting games.

this just means i get to photoshop rocky mahomes knocking out cheffer lang

MAHOMES CHEFFERS III: FO DA RING

This is what I don't get. Madness. Just a horrible, horrible decision.

The problem I have is when flags start flying out of proportion to norms.

The odds of two teams playing 18+ games in a season where they clearly demonstrate HOW they play and then suddenly in the playoffs becoming some undisciplined shit-show is just so damn remote.

They're going to play how they played all year. And if all season that yielded 7 flags a game then in the SB it yields 12...man, **** that. That's not a team that was committing more penalties, it's just a referee that's throwing more flags.

And yes, that's bad for the game.

These teams are what they are at this point. What 'could' be called but wasn't all season should have largely normalized over large numbers. And if suddenly all those 'could have been called but weren't' flags are being thrown, then the league has effectively altered the field on the fly. It simply creates bad football and an awful product.

Cheffers and a career ending ****ed up field

Before I clicked on this tread I was thinking 'Please don't let it be Cheffers, please, please, please.' Then :doh!:

hahaha not even hiding it, instead throws up the middle finger. Enjoy your product consoom

That's the part that I see. We see it in game threads all the time. The fewer flags that are thrown on either side, the better we like it. I suspect we've had times where we lost to the opponent on the penalty ledger, but we didn't complain because the penalty flags weren't constantly disrupting the game.

It's also a simple fact that the more flags you throw, the more likely it is that they'll be game-changing and/or controversial. The Cheffers crew doesn't understand that, and apparently the NFL doesn't either.

Why is anybody torn up about this? We gotta make it to the Super Bowl before it's even a factor.

Quoting your post so it gets that many more views. That is EXACTLY how Tim Donaghy describes the real world rigging. You are 100% on point.

Bergman. He's going to be like Reggie Jackson in Naked Gun: "I must kill the Chiefs."

Whoever will be our Enrico Palazzo?

F*** you in your face Roger.

Happens anytime Brady is in one anyway...

So it doesn’t click in your brain when you type that? Why would they pick the worst crew to do the SB?

It’s because they aren’t the worst crew in the NFL’s eyes, they are clearly one of their favorites. What does that tell you?

Utterly mind boggling that there are still some people who can’t understand this.

Two Super Bowls in 4 years for this turd. “BuT hE’s thE wOrsT, tHey aRe sO dUmB!”

No they’re not, but they think YOU are.

Steered you moron

Malice or subconscious bias - the 'why' of it is immaterial to me at this point.

The bottom line is that the trends around Cheffers and the Chiefs should make one take pause and have often directly impacted the outcome.

He's a problem. He's a problem writ large bit a worse problem for Kansas City.

Mere incompetence is Blakeman. Seemingly targeted incompetence, thy name is Carl Cheffers.

Don't expect people to not be pissed off about that.

Great...so the Super Bowl story wants the story to be about the referees...not the players and teams on the field. Because that's why I watch football.

Because whether KC is in the game or not, the fact remains that the league has selected the most flag-happy ref in the game to officiate its crown jewel.

That says something about how they want to see these games managed and it ain't good.