There is no conspiracy, the NFL absolutely influences games. Is it rigged like WWE? No, but they absolutely use the refs to influence the outcome of games. Why wouldn't they? Just think about it - how much money would the league lose if the Super Bowl was Desmond Ritter vs Ryan Tannehill instead of Patrick Mahomes (and Taylor Swift) vs Jalen Hurts. Advertising money would plummet, merch sales would be down, viewership down, views on social media down. All of that costing the league tens of millions of dollars. Do you think all these owners got to the place they're at by leaving revenue to chance? Nope.
Truth is, the Miami Dolphins becoming a great team hurts their chances of having the darling Chiefs or Bills (who are doing a fine job keeping themselves out of the Super Bowl) in the limelight. In order for the Fins to make it all the way they'll have to take on darling teams and the refs on a weekly basis. Well, that or get one of their players to bang Taylor Swift or a Kardashian which I'm sure a few would be up to the task.
Last night was just the worst I've ever seen it though. Usually the refs will throw in a few meaningless flags here and there to at least make it look kinda fair on the final stats. We didn't even see that though. Holdings, false starts, PIs, and facemasks were all ignored right in front of the refs - then the exact same thing was called on the very next series on the Fins. It's insane, and honestly it really takes a lot of my passion away from the sport. But the NFL doesn't care about me. I'm not buying up crazy amounts of merch or posting Fins stuff on social. I'm just a guy who loves the competitiveness of the game, and that's no longer their target demographic.