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Pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Reed lamented the Buffalo Bills’ loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship, calling it difficult to defeat the Chiefs at their home stadium. Reed, a seven-time Pro Bowler and star wide receiver for the Bills, expressed frustration with the officiating, which he believes favored the Chiefs.
Reed appeared on “The Jim Rome Show” to discuss the game, saying, “The bottom line is you just gotta go out there and not play against the refs, but you gotta beat a lot of people. You gotta beat the team, you gotta beat the fans, you gotta beat the refs, you gotta beat Taylor Swift. You gotta beat everybody.”
Reed also referenced two crucial plays in the game, including a disputed catch by Xavier Worthy that was ruled complete, and a successful 4th-and-1 conversion by Josh Allen, which he isn’t sure would have changed the outcome of the game.
Former NFL official Dean Blandino, who served as the league’s head of officiating, disputed claims of favoritism toward the Chiefs, saying, “I don’t see these games and say the Chiefs are getting all these calls. These are close, close plays, and they happened to go in the Chiefs’ favor on Sunday.”
Blandino also dismissed the notion of a conspiracy to favor the Chiefs, saying, “Someone somewhere would slip up, and it would get out. If there was a room in the NFL office where they were writing the script, they never invited me, and I was the head of officiating.”
