NFL Hall of Famer drops a scorching hot take on beating the Chiefs: “You gotta beat the refs and Taylor Swift”
Andre Reed played in all four of the Buffalo Bills' infamous Super Bowl losses. He made some big claims about the Bills' loss to the Chiefs.
Facing the Kansas City Chiefs in the postseason is a daunting prospect for any team in the NFL. With the experience of Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Andy Reid to call upon, the Chiefs just know how to get it done in the crucial moments.
They stand just one win away from a historic three-peat triumph, taking on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX next weekend. The Eagles have a massive task on their hands to disrupt the Chiefs' march to another title.
That journey has not been without controversy. The Buffalo Bills will feel that they were on the wrong end of some questionable decisions in their Divisional round loss to the Chiefs, and some have argued that the defending champions benefit from some soft calls.
Hall of Fame WR Andre Reed played for the Bills in the early 1990s, featuring in all four Super Bowl losses for Buffalo. Speaking on The Jim Rome Show he claimed that the Chiefs have a lot going their way.
"When you go into Kansas City, 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."@Andre_Reed83 on The Ref Show in the AFC Championship pic.twitter.com/ZsD0xW7FEt
— Jim Rome (@jimrome) January 28, 2025
“The bottom line is you just gotta go out there and not play against the refs, but you kind of to a center point,” Reed said. “A lot of Chiefs are going to tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about. That might be the case. But when you go into Kansas City, 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.”
“If you just go out there and throw that all out the window and beat Kansas City at their own game, and beat them, that all is never gonna be said. Yesterday we didn’t do that.”
Despite the perception that the Chiefs have benefitted unfairly from calls, there is nothing to suggest that Kansas City has been deliberately favoured. The same is true across all sports, the better teams - the ones making the most plays - will often get the rub of the green because they are putting themselves in that position more frequently.
Speaking to TMZ Sports this week, former NFL head of officiating Dean Blandino poured cold water on claims that the Chiefs are benefitting from anything nefarious.
“Do teams get breaks at times?” Blandino said. “They do. And not every call is right. And sometimes that happens. I think it evens out over time. But me watching it, I don’t see these games and say, ‘Oh god, the Chiefs are getting all these calls.’ These are close, close plays and they happened to go in the Chiefs' favor on Sunday.”
He continued: “If there’s a room somewhere in the NFL offices where they were writing the script, they never invited me—and I was the head of officiating. I feel like I’d be a pretty important contributor to that.”
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