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Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin
I wouldn’t say the NFL ‘rigs games’, per say.
I would say there was a LOT of questionable officiating at the end of that game (all which seemed to work in the Bengals favor) and also the ‘hold’ on the Pringle return that had nothing to do with the play. Yeah, it was technically a hold, but you could call a hold like that literally on every play. The refs usually swallow their whistle their and this time they chose not to and I honestly believe it was because they were trying to keep the game ‘close’ going into the second half. NFL didn’t want a blowout in the first half, which is what it would have been had that TD counted.
So ‘rigged’ ? No. Outcome ‘influenced’ heavily by officials? Most definitely.
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How often do refs really decide to "swallow their whistle" on Chiefs kick returns? We get flagged frequently on those.