Ex-NFL Running Back Rips AFC Championship Officials with ‘Burrowhead’ Barb

The officiating within the Chiefs’ 23–20 victory over the Bengals within the AFC championship sport grew to become a hotly contested matter of debate on social media Sunday night time, with loads of members of the NFL world weighing in. Amongst them was former NFL working again Danny Woodhead, who managed to make a reasonably intelligent pun to offer his evaluation of the sport’s officers. 

A variety of calls got here into query through the rematch of final 12 months’s title tilt, together with a late hit out of bounds by Cincinnati defensive finish Joseph Ossai that put Kansas Metropolis in area aim vary for the game-winning kick. Earlier within the half, the Chiefs have been basically given a “do-over” on an unsuccessful third-down play after an official tried to cease the snap however was drowned out by the raucous crowd.

All in all, the shaky officiating led some members of the NFL world to consider that the calls have been clearly one-sided to Kansas Metropolis’s profit.

By the point the sport was winding down, Woodhead had seen sufficient. He took to Twitter and quipped that Arrowhead Stadium could be higher known as “Refereehead,” as a substitute of the “Burrowhead” moniker that the Bengals tried to have catch on all through the week main as much as the sport.

Cincinnati calling Kansas Metropolis’s beloved house stadium “Burrowhead” might have achieved nothing greater than give the Chiefs bulletin board materials for Sunday’s victory that may ship them again to the Tremendous Bowl for the third time in 4 years. Tight finish Travis Kelce already referred to as out those that used the nickname all through the week when he interrupted Patrick Mahomes’s postgame interview to say, “Burrowhead my a–.”

Suffice it to say, Kelce might have had an identical message for Woodhead or anybody else that instructed the AFC championship sport’s officers contributed to the Chiefs’ win.