Suspicious details emerge about Chiefs-Bills official who made game-changing Josh Allen decision

Internet sleuths person uncovered fishy details astir NFL down justice Patrick Holt aft helium controversially denied Josh Allen a archetypal down successful the Bills' decision to the Chiefs.

Early successful the 4th fourth of Sunday's AFC Championship game, Allen tried sneaking up the mediate connected a Buffalo tush-push to unafraid what would person been a important fourth-and-inches conversion with his squad clinging onto a one-point lead.

Yet to the dismay of CBS commentators and fans watching astatine home, Holt ruled the Bills backmost abbreviated of the archetypal down, a determination which allowed the Chiefs to regain possession.

The arguable telephone sparked outrage connected Sunday night, with Barstool Sports laminitis Dave Portnoy accusing NFL officials of 'cheating', portion CBS rules expert Gene Steratore said helium felt Allen had made the archetypal down by 'a 3rd of the football'.

After getting the shot back, Kansas City went connected to snatch a 32-29 triumph and beforehand to their 3rd consecutive Super Bowl, yet Holt's ruling connected Allen did small to dispel fears that the 2024 play is being 'rigged' successful favour of Patrick Mahomes and Co.

And to marque matters worse, 1 idiosyncratic connected X has discovered that the NFL authoritative appears to person household ties successful Kansas City, portion helium is besides a die-hard instrumentality of the Baltimore Ravens - the squad Buffalo dumped retired successful the Divisional circular of the playoffs.

A fig of Holt's suspicious Facebook posts were unearthed by @tailgate_beers, specified arsenic a radical photograph from April 2015 which includes the caption: 'Family comes to MD connected Good Friday!!!!! Representing Kansas City, Charlotte, and Fayetteville.'

Holt, who is from Maryland, has besides confessed his emotion for the Ravens connected predominant occasions connected Facebook.

One station from January 2010 shows the down justice wearing a beanie chapeau with the team's logo emblazoned crossed the front, on with the caption: 'Fear the Purple & Black!'

He besides shared a meme successful January 2011 mocking the Pittsburgh Steelers, which included a bid of insults astir Baltimore's rivals.

The Bills ended the Ravens' Super Bowl hopes earlier this period successful Buffalo, wherever Lamar Jackson was incapable to animate Baltimore to different AFC Championship crippled aft being outplayed by opposite-number Allen.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to the NFL for comment. 

The Chiefs, who volition go the archetypal squad successful past to triumph 3 consecutive Super Bowls if they bushed the Philadelphia Eagles connected February 9, person benefited from a big of arguable decisions connected their latest tally to the NFL showpiece.

In the Divisional round, fans were besides near fuming erstwhile the Houston Texans were penalized for 2 arguable roughing calls connected Mahomes.

Texans caput manager DeMeco Ryans claimed his squad were against 'everybody' connected the nighttime arsenic they crashed retired of the postseason astatine Arrowhead, portion antiaircraft end Will Anderson Jr insisted it was 'us against the refs'.

The back-to-back Super Bowl champions past faced caller scrutiny aft Buffalo was denied a important archetypal down astatine the commencement of the 4th fourth of Sunday's game.

One of galore near seething implicit that determination was Portnoy, who revealed earlier the crippled that helium had stake $1million connected the Bills to triumph the Super Bowl. 

He shared a photograph of the arguable tush-push infinitesimal and said: 'Insane. #nflrigged'.