On September 15th, the Cincinnati Bengals and the Kansas City Chiefs faced off in an early season match-up. The game started off slow; the first quarter ended and there had only been 6 points scored in the game.
As the first half came to a close, though, it was the Bengals that were ahead.
The real drama came in the fourth quarter, as Cincinnati had a 22-17 lead going into it. Less than 20 seconds into the 4th quarter, Chiefs Chamarri Conner brought a fumble back for a touchdown to give the Chiefs a 23-22 lead. The Bengals answered back 5 minutes later with a field goal to give Cincinnati the lead, 25-23. The next drive for both teams ended in a punt, which gave Kansas City the ball with only 2:35 remaining. The drive for the chiefs stalls out and leads to a 4th & 6, when they get a 10-yard penalty that brings them back to make it 4th & 16.
On this play, Patrick Mahomes throws it to Rashee Rice, where it goes incomplete; then just as the Bengals thought that they had won the game, the referees threw a penalty flag and call Defensive Pass Interference, which means
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that the ball gets placed at the spot of the foul and its an automatic 1st down. Butker kicked the game winning field goal as time expires, and the Chiefs won the game.
This 4th & 16 penalty call is what makes people of all fanbases around the NFL outraged. A lot of people believe that this was in fact not pass interference, and that the refs made that call so that the Chiefs won the game. Meanwhile the refs, chiefs fans, and the league insist that the call was correct.
This game had dropped the Benagals record down to 0-2, and are now tied for last in the AFC North with the Ravens , while the Chiefs are now 2-0 after the game, and are tied with the Chargers for first in their division with a 2-0 record.
