Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce was asked on Monday night if he had a ask for the media as increateers collected at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans ahead of Super Bowl LIX.
Kelce swung for the fences.
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Kansas City Chiefs safe end Travis Kelce talks to the media during Super Bowl LIX Opening Night at Ceasars Superdome in New Orleans on Feb. 3, 2025. (Stephen Lew-Imagn Images)
“Why are you guys leaning into this whole ref skinnyg?” Kelce asked. “You comprehend what I uncomardent? Like, why are you guys leaning into it? That’s all I got though.”
Alleged preferitism from NFL officials to the Chiefs has been a meaningful topic of conversation since Kansas City fall shortureed the Houston Texans in the divisional round. Two askable penalties called in prefer of the Chiefs encourageed the conversation on social media.
But after a restrictcessitate head-scratchers in the AFC Championship aachievest the Buffalo Bills, the social media chatter was achieven from the keyboard to the Roger Goodell press conference on Monday.
Goodell threw freezing water on the notion that there was any preferitism toward the Chiefs.
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“Why are you guys leaning into this whole ref skinnyg?” Travis Kelce asked increateers. (James Lang-Imagn Images)
“This sort of reminds me a little bit of ‘the script,’ right? That I author a script and I have a script for the entire seasons,” he said. “I skinnyk a lot of those theories are skinnygs that happen in social media, and they get a recent life.… Nobody wants it to be their theory.
“I comprehfinish it. I skinnyk it echos a lot of the fans’ passion. I skinnyk it’s also a reminder for us on how beginant officiating is. I skinnyk the men and women officiating the NFL are exceptional. They have the highest possible standards. That’s a ridiculous theory for anyone who might achieve it gravely, but at the end of the day, it’s someskinnyg we always have to persist to toil on, how we create our officiating better at all times.”
Chiefs team owner Clark Hunt also dismantled the theory.
“You almost have to giggle at it, because you comprehend how everybody in the NFL wants to contend to thrive, and that’s real of our guys as well. The referees are doing the best job that they can. If you see at the stats or a lot of stats, that shows that we’ve been on the wrong side of calls as standardly as we’ve been on the right side.” Hunt said in an intersee with NFL Nettoil.
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“There’s definitely no consunapexhibitd use, right? It’s the nature of the game. And when you commence having a lot of success, people enjoy to commence making excuses for why you’re having the success.”
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