NFL Rules Expert’s Brother Convinced League Is Rigged
By Cody McClure
Is the NFL rigged?
It’s a question that has been tossed around in football circles over the years.
Usually just a couple drunk guys at the bar, you know. Call doesn’t go your team’s way.
“RIGGED!!!”
But has the “rigged” movement picked up steam recently?
The Kansas City Chiefs are quite obviously the darling of the NFL.
They’re back in the Super Bowl for the fifth time in the last six seasons and have a chance to become the first team to ever threepeat.
The Chiefs are great. But sometimes it’s been hard not to notice when they benefit from a controversial call here or there.
And well, now FOX rules analyst and former NFL senior vice president of officiating Dean Blandino has said he believes the Buffalo Bills’ Josh Allen converted the key fourth down in the AFC Championship.
In case you missed the questionable play that went KC’s way:
There were some questionable calls in the Chiefs win over the Texans the week before, too.
So Blandino believes Allen got the first down.
But what’s more interesting is that Blandino’s own brother is convinced that the league is rigged.
Blandino’s own blood kin thinks he signed a non-disclosure agreement to not tell anybody the truth about the NFL.
Blandino denied it on a SiriusXM radio appearance, of course.
“I said, ‘Listen, there’s no conspiracy. The officials — there’s too many variables, there’s too much going on. To me, it’s the hardest sport. When you think about football, with seven different officials, to say, ‘OK, I’m gonna rig this game’ or ‘the game is rigged from the league office down.’ The officials are just trying to get it right.”
OK, so Blandino says the thing you’d think he would say here.
Obviously he can’t come right out and say it.
Maybe Blandino’s brother is just a conspiracy nut. Maybe he’s just joking around. Lighthearted, no big deal.
Or … perhaps he was told this by his brother in secret.
Sound whacky. But who knows.
Nonetheless, even if you don’t buy into conspiracies, it appears that Josh Allen got that first down.