Evidently, the Kansas City Chiefs have benefited from biased officiating, according to a study conducted by a team from UTEP .

Research done at UTEP found evidence that the Chiefs benefited from slanted officiating from 2015 to 2023, when they were becoming one of the most popular teams in the league.

The results were published in the Financial Review, and claim it provides “one of the clearest empirical looks at how financial pressures can influence real-time rule enforcement,” the UTEP research team said.

“Our findings suggest that when the league’s financial health is at stake, rule enforcement may subtly shift to protect market appeal,” said Spencer Barnes, Ph.D., assistant professor of finance in UTEP’s Woody L. Hunt College of Business and the author of the study. “The fact

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