EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- During the past eight or nine years, many football fans have wondered: Is the NFL favoring the Kansas City Chiefs? Why do Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs always seem to get bailed out with a penatly flag against the other team?

No, you are not being paranoid or a delusional. Actually, science and research suggest you might be on to something.

Research done by a team at UTEP presents evidence that the Chiefs have benefited from slanted officiating from 2015 to 2023, a time that coincided with their rise as one of the NFL's most marketable franchises.

Published in the journal Financial Review, the study provides "one of the clearest empirical looks at how financial pressures can influence real-time rule enforcement," the UTEP research team said.

“Our findings sugg

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