The most controversial offsides call of the year has reached the top of the NFL, quite literally.
League commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday he thinks that the officiating crew working this past Sunday’s Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills game got it right when they called Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney offsides on the Travis Kelce lateral touchdown play.
It’s perhaps the most talked-about sequence of the year, one that got both Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and coach Andy Reid irate with the decision that undoubtedly cost Kansas City the game.
However, it’s all moot now, and Goodell saying it was the right call feels like it’s being put to bed … unless the Chiefs and Bills play again in the playoffs.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell weighs in on the KC-BUF offsides call: “There was no question about that foul. … It was absolutely the correct call.”
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) December 13, 2023
Kansas City fans can’t turn back time and get Toney to scoot back an inch or two, nor can they change the referees’ minds in the moment.
Goodell thinks it was a good call, and he runs the league. It’s all pretty much over at this point, except for the inevitable Chiefs revenge mini-tour to the Super Bowl on the wings of an offsides call.
