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I have to assume the league doesn't explicitly tell the teams it's rigging games for that they're participating in rigged games because then you have dozens of co-conspirators. And, as we've seen, a lot of players are stupid enough that they'd immediately blab to their entourage so they could place suspicious wagers. The only ones who really need to know are the refs.
But that means the Chiefs also didn't know they were about to be served up like sacrificial lambs when the refs were instructed to shut it down for the owl. And that makes it so much funnier.
Imagine Mahomes dropping back, expecting to have his usual 47 seconds, only to get hit, and hit hard. And then he gets hit again, in the head, no flag. And this just happens all game. Everything they'd been led to believe they were entitled to all year just yanked away at the worst possible moment with no warning. They must have felt like Wile E. Coyote when he finally looks down and realizes there's no ground under his feet. No wonder they were crying. It wasn't just a beating, it was a betrayal. The red wedding of super bowls. And it was glorious. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of pricks.
