It's bad luck.

ROFL

Ref for the game is Shawn Smith.

Fourth-year NFL referee Shawn Smith and an all-star crew have been assigned as the officials for the Kansas City Chiefs’ wild-card playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night according to Football Zebras.


This marks Smith’s sixth assignment during postseason play and his fourth time officiating a wild-card game as either an umpire or a referee. It also marks the third time this season that Smith will have officiated a game for Kansas City.

He was assigned to the Chiefs-Packers game in Week 9. During that game, Smith’s crew called their fourth-fewest penalties of the season (10) with six against Kansas City and four against Green Bay. He was also assigned to the Chiefs-Chargers game on “Thursday Night Football” in Week 15. During that game, Smith’s crew called the third-fewest penalties of the season (9) with five penalties on the Los Angeles and four on Kansas City.


During the NFL’s regular season, Smith’s crew called false starts (34), offensive holding (24), defensive pass interference (21) and offensive pass interference (10) at the highest rates. The pass interference penalties are ones to watch with the amount of YOLO passes that Ben Roethlisberger threw against K.C. back in Week 16.

Home teams have a 7-9 record with Smith’s crew this season. The Steelers have a 3-3 record when Smith officiates their games, while the Chiefs have a 3-0 all-time record. Obviously, things will be a little different this time around with an all-star crew comprised of members from Tony Corrente, Brad Rogers, Clete Blakeman, Bill Vinovich, Shawn Hochuli and Alex Kemp’s crews. Generally speaking, officiating tends to ease up in the playoffs and only the most blatant of calls are flagged.

According to league circles this year’s Tennessee team is as fraudulent as the last time you were the #1 seed… in 2008 when you crashed and burned in the Divisional Round.

Idk if it’s already been covered, but what’s the weather supposed to be like tomorrow night?

2008 was one of those games. Those titans had no business losing to the ratbirds. A few fumbles in the red zone done us in along with my extremely conservative approach to close games. It should have never been so close

If it takes the media's comments to motivate you then you should not be playing pro sports.

This does not help KC at all

So it is, indeed, going to take interference from the refs for the Stealers to win.

Of course you’d be nervous, not only are you a huge pussy (according to CP circles), but as a Tits fan you have no idea what it’s like to have an elite quarterback on your team. Leads to pussies being nervous about playoff games, cuz they know what happens when Tanny has to beat you....

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Steelers-Chiefs wild-card game draws referee Shawn Smith and an all-star crew. Home teams went 7-9 with Smith this season with road teams winning 6 of the last 7 games. The Steelers are 3-3 all-time with Smith (1-0 in 2021). KC is 3-0 all time with Smith (2-0 in 2021).</p>&mdash; Rick Gosselin (@RickGosselin9) <a href="https://twitter.com/RickGosselin9/status/1481025196039487491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

LOL, it's really sad that we have to keep tabs on the officials to see if they skew a game.

This crew averages 10 calls per game. That is not bad, esp in comparison to other crews.

They did a good job in both the Green Bay and LAC games. IIRC I even commented on how well they did... not really a factor, which is what you want out of a ref crew. The ones to look out for are the ones who like to see themselves on TV (cough, Clete Blakeman & his shitass crew, cough)

huehuehue

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