{"id":19970,"date":"2025-01-28T03:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T03:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=19970"},"modified":"2025-01-28T03:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T03:42:03","slug":"nfl-makes-official-decision-on-referees-from-afc-championship-game-following-controversial-game-changing-call-that-sent-the-chiefs-to-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=19970","title":{"rendered":"NFL Makes Official Decision On Referees From AFC Championship Game Following Controversial Game-Changing Call That Sent The Chiefs To The Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NFL has made a decision on the referees who took charge of Sunday\u2019s AFC Championship Game between the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buffalo Bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs are through to another\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/super-bowl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Super Bowl<\/a>\u00a0after a marginal 32-29 win that, unsurprisingly, was not free of controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The refs have come under scrutiny for a questionable call after ruling that\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/josh-allen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Allen<\/a>\u00a0did not get a first down after the Bills decided to go for it with a quarterback sneak in the fourth quarter, although replays appeared to show that the QB did get the ball past the line.<\/p>\n<p>NFL fans have been calling for the officials to be fired, with Barstool Sports owner suggesting that they should go to prison. However, the NFL appears to be backing lead referee Clete Blakeman and his crew.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/there-was-no-pool-report-for-controversial-fourth-down-stop-in-chiefs-bills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pro Football Talk<\/a>, the league didn\u2019t even make a head official available to a pool reporter following the contest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Chiefs&#8217; defense stops them on fourth down!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BUFvsKC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BUFvsKC<\/a> on CBS<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcf1: Stream on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLPlus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NFLPlus<\/a> and Paramount+ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VwGmEZ3IrW\">pic.twitter.com\/VwGmEZ3IrW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1883699421512356149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-afc-championship-game-decision-suggests-nfl-agrees-with-officials\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">AFC Championship Game Decision Suggests NFL Agrees With Officials<\/h2>\n<p>Referees speaking to reporters after games isn\u2019t automatic, but it\u2019s still strange that none of them were available to the press after the game, which indicates that the league is standing behind the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The surprising call may have cost the Bills a trip to the Super Bowl as they had the momentum up until that point. The turnover on downs was a costly one, given that the Chiefs took the lead shortly after and never looked back, while Buffalo also failed on another fourth-down attempt later in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Mahomes, who rushed for the go-ahead TD, is now 4-0 against Allen in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-sm-content-width\" data-content-name=\"mai-video-player\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The NFL has made a decision on the referees who took charge of Sunday\u2019s AFC Championship Game between the\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0and\u00a0Buffalo Bills. The Chiefs are through to another\u00a0Super &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19972,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970\/revisions\/19972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}