Social media detectives put together an eye-catching video of the NFL refs making several calls that benefited the Kansas City Chiefs in their 16-14 victory over the Denver Broncos on Sunday afternoon.
Patrick Mahomes and the defending champions narrowly squeaked out a two-point victory to stay undefeated, thanks to a game-winning block on Wil Lutz’s 35-yard field goal attempt on the game’s final play. But this win did not come without some questionable calls by the NFL refs today.
The Chiefs have been on the right side of several game-changing officiating calls in 2024, and today was no different. The ML Football X/Twitter account shared a thread of Kansas City benefited from several botched calls by the officials, including an obvious holding penalty by the o-line that was missed:
🧵🧵🧵A THREAD…🚨
The #Broncos got screwed by the refs on multiple calls throughout today’s game against the #Chiefs.
1) Refs miss an obvious holding penalty and illegal man downfield
on a 3rd down play, allowing KC to score a touchdown the next play. pic.twitter.com/QhdVHiU727— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) November 10, 2024
Secondly, head official Brad Allen and the NFL refs called a head-scratching “illegal hands to the face” penalty on the Broncos that wiped out a game-changing sack on Mahomes:
2) An illegal hands to the face penalty was called on the Broncos, after the Chiefs were sacked quickly on a third down play.
The sack happened so quickly that it’s not really possible that Denver committed a penalty.
pic.twitter.com/J7KzW8JDxA— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) November 10, 2024
And finally, an uncalled offensive holding penalty that led to Travis Kelce’s touchdown, the only major Kansas City put up today:
3) An obvious holding call by the Chiefs tackle was not called, KC scored their only touchdown of the game on that drive.
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) November 10, 2024
3) An obvious holding call by the Chiefs tackle was not called, KC scored their only touchdown of the game on that drive.
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) November 10, 2024
Those were certainly some bad calls/non-calls by the officials, but it doesn’t determine the outcome of the game. The Broncos essentially had to kick an extra point to win the game, and their special teams couldn’t block for Wil Lutz.
NFL Refs Have Been A Top Storyline This Year…Again
It’s never a good thing when the NFL officials are featured in the news. It means they’re making too many mistakes at key points of the games.
That has been the case again in 2024, but there’s also no indicator that the league will do anything to try and improve the quality of officiating. So fans just have to live with it, whether they like it or not.
