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[QUOTE="longislandcuse, post: 1221384, member: 937"]
I've always had ref conspiracies with the Bills, just we usually suck so it doesn't matter.  This year we're actually good enough for me to get mad about it.  I don't think it's a conspiracy against the Bills, I think it's two things:
 
1)  Buffalo has the best defense this side of Seattle.  Hits the QB, hits everyone else and has caused a bunch of injuries to other teams.  The NFL doesn't want dominant rough defenses unless you're one they can market a la Seattle.  Until Buffalo gets good enough to become a prime time caliber team, the defense will not get benefit of the doubt.  The announcers in the game, after multiple bad calls against the defense, remarked on air how they just don't know how your supposed to play defense in the NFL nowadays.
 
2) The league, on some level, protects their cash cows.  Buffalo was never given an opportunity to go into Denver and win.  It was a 4 o'clock regional game.  Noone aside from those watching the game or hardcore followers on the NFL are going to know or care about the calls made in that game.
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