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Unanimous public backlash. #rigged was trending after the Bills game. Even the normies believed it for once.
They spent the entire season dragging that hilariously overrated team to the #1 seed because they had clearly predetermined the outcome but a full season of blatant rigging was like five steps too far. No team has ever been as despised as the Chiefs were going into the owl and it wasn't really even the Chiefs everyone hated. They were the extension of a corrupt league and it was that corruption everyone truly hated. They were unironically ruining the sport for the sake of one manufactured threepeat and a Taylor Swift tie-in. It was an insult to the intelligence of fans everywhere. The contempt was palpable.
And although they eventually realized their mistake and backed off we should never, ever forget what they were intending to do or the fact that aside from the one final game they did, in fact, implement the plan. It was the most fake the league has ever been and everything they do from this point forward is suspect. Constant, neverending cynicism and outrage at the slightest whiff of bullshit is necessary or they'll just try again, although most likely with a different team