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DeepCMark58A

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As a Chiefs fan I would be highly pissed. Please Joe none of this is personal. Lamar Hunt moved his team from Dallas to KC because his AFL team could not compete with the NFL in Dallas. Kansas City offered the stars for Lamar to move his team to KC. Lamar was key in negotiating the AFL NFL merger, that was to save his investment. Now the Chiefs are going to the highest bidder that will offer the franchise the stars to relocate.
 
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DeepCMark58A said:
As a Chiefs fan I would be highly pissed. Please Joe none of this is personal. Lamar Hunt moved his team from Dallas to KC because his AFL team could not compete with the NFL in Dallas. Kansas City offered the stars for Lamar to move his team to KC. Lamar was key in negotiating the AFL NFL merger, that was to save his investment. Now the Chiefs are going to the highest bidder that will offer the franchise the stars to relocate.
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I get it, but that was a long time ago with a new team, in a new leage, that had a different concept of how football should be.

This is now and as a legacy team it should not be.

Lambeau, Soldier, Arrowhead, etc. Foundational things are by definition ...foundational. Foundations hold up the rest of the structure.

If it needed a teardown and rebuild, fine but the KC sports complex is and instituion. Ahead of its time then, and now.

I need booze.
 
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WIMUSKY said:
Didn't matter, but geeez.....
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I know that Refs sometimes miss things, but this was pretty blatant. (beer cans flying at the TV screen in disgust). Those 'Baltimore' refs are a tough bunch . . . :rolleyes:

The Patriots did good to brush it off and go onto win the game, which I think will be looked at as a pivotal win as a confidence builder going into the post-season.
 
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The refs seem especially bad this year in general. It seems like almost every play an offensive tackle is holding and edge rusher around the neck without any call. It doesn't seem to matter what game ... they are all the same ... until that one big play that happens and the refs throw a flag for the tackle holding the edge rusher.

OPI and DPI seem to be subjective to whatever time we are in the game. In the Steeler game Detroit fans complaining about the last 2 OPI calls in the game. They were penalties, although there were a lot worse one that happened throughout the game that were not called. However, they forget the 4th and 2 DPI call earlier in that drive that was called. Yes, it was DPI, but barely and there were worse calls throughout the game that were not called.

The DPI on the Ravens that WASN'T called in the Patriots game is another example of the missed calls that have been happening this year. It has been equally bad for all teams. It is a shame ... or is it the NFL's way of ushering in the calls "from the booth" so the on field refs don't have to do anything but what New York tells them to do? They could cut the officiating force down to one person with a headset ... hmmmmm
 
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I can see re-play video used more in officiating the penalties. Perhaps from an oversight perspective. I would imagine there are considerations on-going in professional sports . . . maybe using AI to identify or refute penalty calls.
 
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Found this . . .

"The NFL is actively exploring AI to assist officiating, primarily using technologies like Sony's Hawk-Eye for precise ball tracking (line-to-gain, out-of-bounds) and data analysis for consistency, with Commissioner Goodell emphasizing AI's role in supporting human judgment for accuracy, not full replacement, aiming for fairer, faster calls in areas like formations, passes, and penalties, balancing tech with tradition"
 
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Way too much of it. It’s just wrong when the referees decide the game on controversial calls throughout the game not only at the end. And the long winded conversations they have among themselves after a flag can also be seen as a sign of incompetence
 
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