We Asked Our NFL Fans About Refs Allegedly Helping the Chiefs: 57% Say It’s Gone Too Far Fans weigh in on claims that NFL refs favor the Chiefs, with 57% believing officiating bias toward Mahomes has

A recent report from three University of Texas finance professors, Spencer C. Barnes, Brandon Mendez, and Ted Dischman, has reignited one of the league’s oldest debates: Do the Chiefs get more help from the officials than anyone else?

After analyzing more than 13,000 penalty calls from 2015 to 2023, the researchers found that postseason officiating strongly favored Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs . The paper, published in the Financial Review , concluded that playoff penalties “consistently favored one franchise,” suggesting that the league’s financial interests might subtly influence real-time rule enforcement.

Soon after the report surfaced, we at EssentiallySports ran a poll on our NFL Huddle newsletter to see what fans really thought. Out of 1009 fans